Construction operations manual of policies and procedures / [electronic resource] Sidney M. Levy; Andrew M. Civitello.

A. About the authors -- B. Preface -- C. Introduction -- D. What this manual will do for you -- 1. Section 1: company organization and quality assurance program -- Section description and use -- Company statement of operations -- Organizational structure and corporate staff functions -- Organization charts -- Jobsite structures -- large and small projects -- Document generation, signing authorities, and communication -- Quality concept and quality policy -- Business development approach and project participation -- Marketing services and support -- 2. Section 2: company and project administration -- Section description -- Use of the operations manual -- Correspondence -- Files and file management -- Recovering a letter previously mailed -- Field labor time reporting -- Administrative time reporting -- Project administrative activity list -- Expenses and reimbursements -- 3. Section 3: general contracts -- Section description -- Contract structures, relationships, and the contracting parties -- Responsibilities of the contracting parties -- General principles of contracts as applied to construction -- Key principles of general contracts -- General contract bonds and insurance -- Shop drawing "approval" -- Equals and substitutions -- Responsibility to "coordinate": use and abuse -- The schedule of values -- Requisitions for payment and contract retainage -- Liquidated damages -- Guarantees and warranties -- 4. Section 4: project engineering -- Section description -- Trade contracts and subcontracts -- Project files -- Subcontractor summary and telephone log -- Subcontractor/supplier reference form -- Transmittal form letter procedure and use -- Subcontract and purchase order distribution procedure -- Subcontractor schedule of values -- Shop drawing and submittal management -- Submittal requirements and procedures -- Subcontractor delivery requirements -- Request for information -- Project meetings -- Preparing for project close-outs at project start-up -- Securing lien waivers -- Securing subvendor certified payroll reports -- Backcharges -- The punchlist: expediting final completion -- Securing subcontractor/supplier guarantees and warranties -- Subvendor performance evaluation -- Project close-out checklist -- Productivity -- 5. Section 5: site superintendence -- The site superintendent function -- section description -- Responsibilities of the site superintendent -- Field organization -- Site utilization program -- Field office mobilization -- Jobsite administrative mobilization -- Jobsite mobilization checklist -- Subcontractor summary and jobsite phone log book -- Daily field report -- Equipment use release form -- Preconstruction survey -- Field engineering, layout, and survey control -- Excavations -- special precautions -- Cutting structural elements -- Control of materials embedded in concrete -- Construction photographs -- Managing time and material -- Field purchases procedure -- Winter precautions -- As-built drawings -- The site superintendent as project leader -- Hot work permit -- Jobsite equipment use, operation, and maintenance -- Building commissioning and turnover to the owner -- 6. Section 6: safety and loss control -- Section description and company policy -- Safety and loss control responsibilities and employee participation -- Jobsite safety program -- Jobsite safety meetings -- Accident investigation, reporting, and records -- Osha's hazard communication standard and safety data sheets. 7. Section 7: design-build project administration -- Section description -- Creating the design-build team -- Consideration of a new business entity -- Creating the design-build team -- The bridging approach to design -- Extracting the owner's program -- Design-build projects in the public sector -- The evaluation process -- Safety issues -- Quality issues -- Comprehensive list of contract documents issued by the design-build institute of America -- 8. Section 8: the preparation and processing of change orders -- Section description -- Contract-related change order provisions -- Presentation of the pco or cor must be clear and concise -- Conditions that create change orders -- Types of change order requests -- Costs to be considered when assemblings change order -- The construction change directive (CCD) -- Roadblocks to acceptance of change orders -- Protocol for change orders, premium costs, winter conditions -- 9. Section 9: construction disputes, claims and resolutions -- General -- When negotiations fail -- Some disputes occur in the bid proposal process -- Promissory estoppel -- Other contentious disputes -- The total cost approach -- Differing conditions -- Type i and type ii differing conditions -- Owner's obligation to disclose superior knowledge -- Delays and potential acceleration claims -- Acceleration: recognizing a delay but requiring the contractor to meet the initial contract schedule -- Claiming extended home office overhead -- Alternatives to litigation: mediation, arbitration, dispute resolution, fact finding -- A checklist of documents to be assembled when preparing to institute a claim -- 10. Section 10: progress schedules and funds analysis -- Managing schedules -- Schedule types and uses -- Schedule preparation and development -- Baseline schedule distribution and final confirmation -- The cash-flow projection -- Schedule updating considerations -- 11. Section 11: building information modeling -- Section description -- Why contractors value bim: the 3d approach -- How does bim impact the role of the project manager? -- Building information modeling: 3d, 4d, 5d -- The 5d aspect of bim -- 12. Section 12: green buildings and sustainability -- Introduction to green building and leed -- How does leed work? -- Public- and private-sector green buildings -- Costs and financial aspects of green buildings -- The learning curve for project managers and construction managers -- Sustainable construction -- Basic sustainable construction goals for site and building -- The national renewable energy laboratory (NREL): lessons learned.

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