Construction Project Management and Estimating: Planning, Scheduling, and Bidding with Construction Contracts, Risk, and BIM Fundamentals

By Elliot Thornton

Turn project information into defensible plans, estimates, bids, and control decisions.

Construction work succeeds when scope, quantities, resources, time, cost, contracts, and field execution are managed as one connected system. This practical textbook develops that system from first principles, then applies it through worked calculations and realistic project scenarios.

Readers learn how to build work breakdown structures, perform quantity takeoffs, price labor, equipment, and materials, assemble direct and indirect costs, and form a complete bid. Detailed chapters explain critical path scheduling, resource leveling, schedule compression, earned value, cash flow, payment, procurement, risk-based contingency, changes, claims, and delay analysis.

The final chapters connect quality, safety, lean production, BIM coordination, digital information governance, commissioning, and closeout to integrated project controls. Equations define every variable and unit, while solved examples show how assumptions move through calculations to a decision.

Inside this 2026 edition:

More than fifty worked construction scenarios covering buildings, infrastructure, and renovationPractice problems with answers in every chapterThirty-six original technical diagrams for planning, estimating, scheduling, risk, contracts, and BIMField-ready tables for responsibilities, takeoffs, cost assemblies, bid leveling, controls, and closeoutClear treatment of CPM, earned value, cash forecasting, delivery methods, contingency, and claims

Designed for construction management and engineering students, estimators, project engineers, superintendents, and emerging project managers, this volume supports both structured study and day-to-day reference.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HF5DB6T8
• ISBN13: 9798192472606
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"