Construction planning is a technical effort that follows an intuitive and well defined script. In this book, planning is taught step by step in a very didactic way. Along the chapter the author details each step, presenting fundamentals, pointing best practices, showing common mistakes and offering the reader many examples and case studies.
As the job schedule is built, its advantages become clearer. Comprehensive in scope and useful to both professionals already involved in planning/scheduling and newcomers who seek a solid theoretical reference, “Construction Planning and Controlling” attracts the reader due to the easy way Aldo Dórea Mattos explains topics such as PERT/CPM, work breakdown structure, precedence and arrow diagrams, activity duration, critical path, float, resource leveling, schedule probabilistic analysis, job monitoring, crashing, S curve, earned value analysis, line of balance and critical chain. As the autor categorically affirms, who had the chance of working in a job well planned will never get used to working otherwise.
