Construction project administration

by Edward R. Fisk, Wayne D. Reynolds

The principal objective of Construction project administration is to provide those of us who are active in the construction industry with a single source of information that will help address the responsibilities and risks that we are likely to encounter.

Construction project administration not only introduces students, design professionals, project managers, and owners to the special problems of construction, but also serves as a ready reference to experienced contract administrators and construction engineers.

The first edition was addressed to students of construction management, on-site representatives, engineers, and inspectors to provide them with a ready source of information in preparing for the responsibilities they could expect to confront on modern construction projects.

However, during the many seminars held by the authors throughout the United States, Venezuela, Guam, Canada, Jamaica, and Mexico, and in the courses, they have taught for the University of California, Berkeley,

Institute of Transportation Studies; University of Washington, Seattle, Engineering Professional Programs; Eastern Kentucky University; and the American Society of Civil Engineers,

it became evident that the project managers, contract administrators, and other management personnel who worked with or exercised control over the on-site project representatives had special problems that also needed to be addressed if the project team concept was to be realized.

Thus, the concept for the second edition of Construction project administration was born: to bring together the office and field personnel and present them with a workable system for operating as an effective construction team.