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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Douglas D. Gransberg (Iowa State University, Ames, USA) , Jorge A. RuedaPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: CRC Press Inc Edition: 2nd edition Weight: 0.793kg ISBN: 9781498788489ISBN 10: 1498788483 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 10 June 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Fundamentals of Construction Equipment Management Chapter 2 Cost of Owning and Operating Construction Equipment Chapter 3 Equipment Life and Replacement Procedures ems Chapter 4 Earthmoving, Excavating, and Lifting Equipment Selection Chapter 5 Estimating Construction Equipment Productivity Chapter 6 Stochastic Methods for Estimating Productivity Chapter 7 Scheduling Equipment-Intensive Horizontal Construction Projects Chapter 8 The Buy, Lease, or Rent Decision Chapter 9 Sustainability in Equipment Fleet Management Chapter 10 Construction Equipment Automated Machine Guidance Systems Chapter 11 The Future of Construction Equipment ManagementReviewsAuthor InformationDouglas D. Gransberg, PhD, PE is the president of Gransberg & Associates, Inc. a construction management/project delivery consulting firm headquartered in Norman, Oklahoma. The firm was founded in 1996 and provides complex project management and cost engineering services to public agencies, consultants, and construction companies. G&A, Inc. has been called on to assist with projects throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as in New Zealand, Okinawa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. The firm specializes in the development of project management services for complex mega-projects. He received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Oklahoma, Texas and Oregon, a Certified Cost Engineer, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the UK. Dr. Gransberg retired in 2017 as a professor of construction engineering at Iowa State University, where he held an endowed research chair for 5 years. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, retiring from that institution in 2010. Before that he held a tenured position at Texas Tech University. Before moving to academia in 1994, he spent over 20 years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel. His research is centered in the delivery of complex infrastructure/transportation projects. He is the author of 4 books on construction management topics and over 200 articles, conference papers, and other publications. Jorge A. Rueda-Benavides, PhD | Assistant Professor, Auburn University. Dr. Jorge Rueda-Benavides is an assistant professor of civil engineering at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. He specializes in transportation asset management, risk management, data analytics, qualitative and quantitative modeling, decision-making modeling, alternative contracting methods, and big data. Dr. Rueda taught construction equipment management and automated machine guidance courses at Iowa State University. He received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga, Columbia and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Construction Engineering and Management at Iowa State. Dr. Rueda been involved in various studies sponsored by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) as well as studies for the Iowa, Montana, and Minnesota Departments of Transportation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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