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Examples and Practice Questions  \nMADE EASY Publications  \nCorporate Office:44-A/4,Kalu Sarai(Near Hauz Khas Metro Station),New Delhi-110016  \nE-mail:infomep@madeeasy.in  \nContact:011-45124660,8860378007  \nVisit us at:www.madeeasypublications.org  \nConstruction Practice,Planning &Management  \n◎ Copyright,by MADE EASY Publications.  \nAll rights are reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in or introducedinto a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any means(electronic,mechanical,photo-copying,recording or otherwise),without the prior written permission of the abovementioned publisher of this book.  \nEdition:2020  \n◎ All rights reserved by MADE EASY PUBLICATIONS.No part of this book may bereproduced or utilized in any form without the written permission from the publisher.  \n1.1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………1  \n1.2 Key Phases of Project Management……………………1  \n1.3 Basics of Construction Management……………………2  \nChapter 2  \nElements of a Network…………………………………………………5  \n2.2 Elements of a Network…………………………………………………5  \n2.3 Rules of a Network…………………………………………………………8  \nObjective Brain Teasers………………………………………………10  \nChapter 3  \nPERT ……………………………………………………………………………12  \n3.1 Programme Evaluation and  \nReview Technique(PERT)……………………………………12  \n3.2 Mean Time, Standard Deviation and  \nVariance of an Activity……………………………………………12  \n3.3 Central Limit Theorem………………………………………………………13  \nObjective Brain Teasers ………………………………………21  \nChapter 4  \nCPM ………………………………………………………………23  \n4.1 Critical Path Method (CPM)……………………………………23  \n4.2 Comparison between PERT and CPM………………23  \n4.3 CPM Systems……………………………………………………………………26  \nChapter 5  \nTime-Cost Models…………………………………………………………31  \n5.1 Cost Model Analysis…………………………………………………31  \n5.2 Project Cost………………………………………………………………………31  \n5.3 Components of Project Cost………………………………32  \nObjective Brain Teasers …………………………………………40  \nConstruction Practice,Planning & Management  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 6  \nBasics of Construction Management………………1  \nMiscellaneous Topics(Charts,  \nResource Allocation, Updating,AON)……………41  \n6.1 Chart as a tool of Project Managemen………………41  \n6.2 Resource Allocation………………………………………………………43  \n6.3 Updating…………………………………………………………………4  \nObjective Brain Teasers …………………………………………45  \nChapter7  \nConstruction Equipment…………………………………46  \n7.1 Rolling Resistance……………………………………………………46  \n7.2 Grade Resistance………………………………………………………………46  \n7.3 Earthwork Equipments……………………………………………49  \n7.4 Compaction Equipments……………………………………………68  \n7.5 Drilling Equipments……………………………………………………71  \n7.6 Blasting of Rock……………………………………………………………74  \n7.7 Concreting Equipment ………………………………………76  \n7.8 Hoisting Equipments…………………………………………………79  \nObjective Brain Teasers …………………………………………82  \nChapter 8  \nSite Investigation and Management………………84  \n8.1 Site Characterization…………………………………………………………84  \n8.2 Preliminary Desk Study…………………………………………84  \n8.3 Walk-over survey……………………………………………………85  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