Digital Management of Construction Costs
- 1st Edition - January 23, 2025
- Latest edition
- Authors: Clinton Aigbavboa, Ernest Kissi
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Today, software applications make cost estimation and management easier than ever before, but the role played by a construction professional who undertakes financial control and performance of a project remains as crucial as ever. Digital Management of Construction Costs provides readers with a route to understand how technology is dynamically transforming the construction sector and informs them of digital-first practices that can lead to more accurate forecasting and budgeting during the planning process, benchmarking, and monitoring throughout the expected delivery timeline. Theoretical principles and methodological techniques are accompanied by applied investigations of cases where improved efficiencies brought about by the uptake of novel solutions have led to successful bids or project completion. Added value is also provided by findings of the literature review, a framework conceptualized within the context of digitalization, and a discussion on future directions and implications.
Written by experts in academia who aim to foster further subject matter research by compiling a useful reference resource, this book proves to be beneficial to both early-career practitioners and professionals in a more advanced stage of their career who wish to keep abreast of the most recent developments in their field.
Written by experts in academia who aim to foster further subject matter research by compiling a useful reference resource, this book proves to be beneficial to both early-career practitioners and professionals in a more advanced stage of their career who wish to keep abreast of the most recent developments in their field.
Key features
Key features
- Includes the latest academic theories and research as well as accounts of present industry activity in different geographies.
- Bridges a gap between traditional approaches and emerging digital trends to enhance a project’s performance, never discounting quality and safety of the work.
- Focuses on business intelligence tools which enable multiobjective optimization for both decision making and delivery processes.
Readership
Readership
Academics and researchers, postgraduate students in (digital) construction/built environment engineering and management, civil and structural engineering, innovation in quantity surveying, project operations research
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. General Introduction
2. Understanding Construction Project Costs Management
3. Digital Construction Project Costs Management
4. Emerging Tools for Construction Project Costs Management
5. Digitalization and Cost Dynamics of Construction Projects
6. Cost Data
7. Digital Construction Project Costs Management – Practical Steps
8. Digital Construction Project Costs Management – An Industry 4.0 Framework
9. Conclusion
2. Understanding Construction Project Costs Management
3. Digital Construction Project Costs Management
4. Emerging Tools for Construction Project Costs Management
5. Digitalization and Cost Dynamics of Construction Projects
6. Cost Data
7. Digital Construction Project Costs Management – Practical Steps
8. Digital Construction Project Costs Management – An Industry 4.0 Framework
9. Conclusion
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 23, 2025
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Clinton Aigbavboa
Clinton Aigbavboa is a Professor of Sustainable Construction Digitalisation & Construction Industry Research at the University of Johannesburg. He holds a PhD in Engineering Management, a Master’s in Construction Management, and certifications in Good Governance and Artificial Intelligence from MIT. He has authored 27 research books, co-authored 6 edited books, and published over 1000 accredited journal articles and conference papers. As Director of the Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre and Acting Director of the South Africa Research Chair for Sustainable Construction Management, Prof. Aigbavboa has graduated over 180 Master's and 70 PhD students. His research interests include Construction 4.0, smart cities, sustainable human development, and digitalisation in construction.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre (SHSCRC) and CIDB Centre of Excellence, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaEK
Ernest Kissi
Ernest Kissi holds a Senior Lecturer position at the Dept. of Construction Technology and Management of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and is also a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Construction Management & Quantity Surveying, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. While completing his post-doc fellowship at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, he was a visiting scholar in Germany funded by DAAD. His research interests focus specifically on construction economics, project procurement and management, and technical education for sustainable development and social well-being. He is a member of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS), Ghana Institution of Construction (GIOC), Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE), International Society for Development and Sustainability (MISDS), and an incorporated member of the Chartered Institute of Builders (ICIOB). He is also a practicing quantity surveyor who has been involved in a number of construction projects all over Ghana.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer at Dept. of Construction Technology and Management, College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; Senior Research Associate at Dept. of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaView book on ScienceDirect
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