Network Planning Methods

J. F. Woodward
Additional contact information
J. F. Woodward: University of Stirling

Chapter 2 in Quantitative Methods in Construction Management and Design, 1975, pp 15-37 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The construction industry has been slow to take up a wide range of operational research techniques, but one area that has become widely developed is the use and application of network planning methods. There is no generally accepted name for these methods but they are variously called network planning, CPM (critical path method), PERT (programming evaluation and revue technique) and other similar names. There have been many useful books published on this subject, some of which are referred to at the end of this chapter,1,2,3,4 and it may be superfluous to go over this material yet again in this book. The use of the methods has however become very widespread in the industry and it is therefore felt that no book on the use of quantitative methods in the construction industry would be complete without a chapter on network planning methods. This chapter sets out to explain the fundamentals of network planning methods and to discuss the advantages, disadvantages and practical applications of the methods. It is not possible within a single chapter to cover the whole ground and therefore the more sophisticated and advanced aspects of network planning methods have been omitted, but the reader is directed towards other books on the subject.5,6

Keywords: Critical Path; Activity Duration; Network Planning; Construction Management; Project Duration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1975
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-15579-8_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781349155798

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15579-8_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().