
Managing Commercial Construction Projects
An Introduction for Owners, Representatives and Project Managers Starting a Construction CareerBy Adaeze NwachukwuLength14h 50m
About this audiobook
A practical introduction to commercial construction project delivery for owners' representatives, new project managers, and design professionals moving into construction.
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GenreTechnology, Business and Economics
Length14 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Managing Commercial Construction Projects
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Important Safety Notice
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6Chapter 1: How a Commercial Project Comes Together
71.1 The Project Life Cycle from Pro Forma to Occupancy
81.2 The Owner’s Decisions and the Decision Calendar
91.3 The Documents That Carry a Project
101.4 Stakeholders, Roles and Reporting Lines
111.5 How the Phases Overlap and Where Projects Slip
121.6 Reading a Project from the Owner’s Side
13Chapter 2: Delivery Methods and Contract Structures
142.1 What a Delivery Method Actually Decides
152.2 Design-Bid-Build
162.3 Construction Manager at Risk
172.4 Design-Build and Progressive Design-Build
182.5 Integrated and Multi-Party Delivery
192.6 Choosing a Method and Holding Contingency
20Chapter 3: The Owner’s Representative and the Project Team
213.1 What the Owner’s Representative Owns
223.2 Authority, Delegation and the Limits of the Role
233.3 The Contractor’s Team and What Each Person Does
243.4 Design Team Coordination and the Design Consultant Agreements
253.5 Communication Rhythm: Meetings, Reports and Escalation
263.6 Where the Representative’s Duties Differ from the Contractor’s
27Chapter 4: Preconstruction: Takeoff, Estimating and Budget Control
284.1 Quantity Takeoff by Trade Division
294.2 Unit-Cost and Parametric Estimating
304.3 Assembling the Budget: Hard Costs, Soft Costs and Contingency
314.4 Allowances, Alternates and Unit Prices
324.5 Value Engineering Without Losing the Program
334.6 Cost Loading, Escalation and Budget Baseline
34Chapter 5: Scheduling with the Critical Path Method
355.1 Activities, Logic and Durations
365.2 Forward and Backward Pass: Early and Late Dates
375.3 Total Float, Free Float and the Critical Path
385.4 Milestones, Constraints and Calendar Effects
395.5 Resource Loading and Leveling
405.6 Short-Interval Look-Ahead Planning
41Chapter 6: Procurement, Bid Leveling and Subcontracts
426.1 Scope Sheets and Bid Packages
436.2 Bid Leveling: Apples to Apples
446.3 Bid Tabulation, Qualification and Award Recommendation
456.4 Subcontract Documents and Exhibits
466.5 Buyout Log and Long-Lead Procurement
47Chapter 7: Permits, Entitlements and Inspections
487.1 Entitlements and Approvals Before Construction Documents
497.2 Plan Review and the Permit Set
507.3 Inspections, Special Inspections and the Authority Having Jurisdiction