Constructability: A Tool for Project Management
About this ebook
Key Features
- Focuses on relationship between constructability and sustainability in detail, with respect to their definitions and historical background.
- Summarizes formulation of recommendations and guidelines for various design and construction practices
- Provides an updated information database having overview of constructability studies and researches conducted so far
- Explores association of sustainable development to project management issues
- Includes relevant case studies
About the author
Sharmin Khan is a graduate in Architecture from AMU, Aligarh and post graduate in Construction Engineering and Management from IIT, Delhi. She has a teaching experience of fourteen years collectively, in three Indian universities including AMU, Aligarh. Her research areas of interest are Construction management, Sustainable architecture and History. Her interaction with students during last couple of years encouraged her to publish books on ancient Indian and Indo-Islamic architecture also. She worked on Constructability issues during her post-graduation programme, which inspired her to conduct her doctoral studies in the same area. She obtained a Ph. D in Architecture from AMU, Aligarh, which focussed on the study of design and construction practices of sustainable architecture in India based on the concept of constructability. Her research work is oriented towards the study and correlation of construction management issues with sustainable development. She has presented and published research papers to promote the practices of constructability in Indian construction industry.
