Collaborative Risk Mitigation Through Construction Planning and Scheduling: Risk Doesn't have to be a Four Letter Word

by Lana Kay Coble

Overview

In the complex, cash-strapped, high pressure world of modern construction, what do you do when something goes wrong? This work looks beyond the best-case scenario to give project managers, contractors, architects and engineers the tools to prepare effectively for the unexpected. 

Based on the author’s more than thirty-five years of construction management experience, the book shows how to proactively mitigate a schedule. It opens with case studies of real life construction mitigation, and goes on to examine the conceptual aspects of anticipating risks and making contingency plans, technical aspects of scheduling, and essential role of communication in change management. 

Working on the principle that no major project can ever quite go to plan and that “it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” Collaborative Risk Mitigation is the ideal complement to traditional scheduling textbooks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787431485
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	11/13/2018
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lana Kay Coble CPC has over thirty-eight years of construction management experience, including positions as an Owner’s Representative, as Executive Manager in multiple construction companies and as a Professor in a major university construction management programme. She has dedicated her career to the advancement of construction methods, education of future and existing professionals, and promotion of diversity within the industry workforce. Lana has published research in the American Institute of Constructors journal.

Table of Contents

Purpose of This Book
Introduction
1. Has It Ever Gone As Planned?
2. Who Benefits from Planning and How?
3. Real Construction Mitigation Case Studies
4. Risk Management Matrix
5. Communicating the Project Schedule & Change Management
6. Contingency Planning
7. Implementing Mitigation measures Through Technological Application of the Computer Scheduling Software
8. Did Your Planning Meet the Desired Deadline?

Editorial Reviews

Lana Coble is one of those rare technical talents that can explain concepts but also mentor folks in how to pull them off successfully. Read this book several times. It’s like a good novel, you will learn something new each time.

Wayne O'Neill

For readers who are already familiar with the fundamentals of project scheduling and know how to use the appropriate software, Coble offers real-world strategy and implementation measures to avoid risk in the construction project schedule. She covers whether a project has ever gone as planned, who benefits from planning and how, real construction mitigation case studies, risk management matrix, communicating the project schedule and change management, contingency planning, implementing mitigation measures through technological application of the computing scheduling software, and whether the planning met the desired deadline.

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Lana’s depth of experience makes her extremely qualified to walk the reader through the challenges of large capital projects. She brings case-study experience to illuminate her concepts and assist the reader to better comprehend the ideas she wishes to share.

Sidney J Sanders

For readers who are already familiar with the fundamentals of project scheduling and know how to use the appropriate software, Coble offers real-world strategy and implementation measures to avoid risk in the construction project schedule. She covers whether a project has ever gone as planned, who benefits from planning and how, real construction mitigation case studies, risk management matrix, communicating the project schedule and change management, contingency planning, implementing mitigation measures through technological application of the computing scheduling software, and whether the planning met the desired deadline.

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