Construction Management Books
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Collapse of Burning Buildings Video Training Program Move to Safety & Risk Management [VHS] … |
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Collapse of Burning Buildings Video Training Program Move to Safety & Risk Management [VHS] … |
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Collapse of Burning Buildings Video Training Program Move to Safety & Risk Management [VHS] … |
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Pride & Ownership (DVD) $39.00 In this thought-provoking and inspirational session from FDIC 2001, Chief Rick Lasky gives an upfront and honest criticism about the need to reignite the love of the job on every level, from chiefs and on down. Learn what you can do to drive your members to take pride in their job and assume ownership. This great new DVD is an excellent companion to the book, Pride & Ownership: A Firefighter’s Lov… |
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Flashover! $59.00 Flashover is both dramatic and deadly. Learn from Chief Dunn when flashover occurs and safety techniques that can prevent or delay this dangerous event. We’ve taken Dunn’s classic video and reproduced it on DVD! Now you can use the latest technology for timeless fireground training. Originally released on VHS in 1988…. |
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elago P2 Stand (Silver) for iPad and Tablet PC $29.99 The elago P2 stand allows full access to your iPad easily and comfortably. It’s simple, yet elegant design goes perfectly with the iPad and allows the user to keep any iPad case on while in use. Although it is meant for the iPad, the P2 stand works with most tablet PCs. The stand is angled so that one may relax and watch videos comfortably or to have a hands-off approach to reading. Another featur… |
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elago P2 Stand (Black) for iPad and Tablet PC $29.99 The elago P2 stand allows full access to your iPad easily and comfortably. It’s simple, yet elegant design goes perfectly with the iPad and allows the user to keep any iPad case on while in use. Although it is meant for the iPad, the P2 stand works with most tablet PCs. The stand is angled so that one may relax and watch videos comfortably or to have a hands-off approach to reading. Another featur… |
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elago P3 iPad Stand – Sliver $29.99 The elago P3 stand allows full access to your iPad easily and comfortably. It’s simple, yet elegant design goes perfectly with the iPad and allows the user to keep any iPad case on while in use. Although it is meant for the iPad, the P2 stand works with most tablet PCs. The stand is angled so that one may relax and watch videos comfortably or to have a hands-off approach to reading. Another featur… |
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Pyle-Home PSTND13 One Pair of Heavy Duty Steel Double Support Bookshelf and Monitor Speaker Stand $18.01 PylePro PSTND13 Speaker Stand PYLE-PRO PSTND13 Heavy-Duty Steel Double Support Bookshelf Speaker Stand… |
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The Prepper’s Pocket Guide: 101 Easy Things You Can Do to Ready Your Home for a Disaster $7.51 BE PREPAREDBE SAFEFrom California earthquakes and Rocky Mountain wildfires to Midwest floods and Atlantic hurricanes, you canât escape that inevitable day when catastrophe strikes your home town — but you can be prepared! Offering a simple DIY approach, this book breaks down the vital steps you should take into 101 quick, smart and inexpensive projects: #6 Make a Master List of Passwor… |
Book Review: A Broad Abroad In Thailand By Dodie Cross
This is to say the least an interesting and entertaining read that covers far more ground than the title implies. Told with a huge amount of humor we follow Dodie on her sojourn to Thailand, where things do not work out as planned. As she ruefully reflects on in the final chapters, what seems like a great opportunity at the time, had enough flashing warning lights that she should have spotted early on.
The story opens with our heroine working a mundane office job during the day, and helping out part time at a local golf course in the evenings. Here she meets he husband to be, the club Pro Dick. Although not exactly swept off her feet in passion, they do eventually become lovers. It transpires that Dick prior to becoming a Golf Pro has had considerable experience in the construction world. Happenstance puts Dick and Dodie in a position where a two-year contract for a Construction Project in exotic Thailand is theirs for the taking. A free house, bags of tax free money, what more could you ask for? Of course there is one minor hitch, for Dick to get the full company benefits, he must be married.
Whats a fun loving, adventure seeking gal to do? Well if your name is Dodie Cross you of course get married, and start packing! Minor things like ‘love’ can be worked on later!
It doesn’t take our adventurous author long to discover that the ‘land of smiles’ may well be full of smiles, but the company compound where everyone must live is anything but Eden. A repressive management, or to be exact the manager’s wife, has created her own version of hell on Earth. Endless lists of rules and regulations, the company not only owns the employees, but their wives and families as well. Must-attend meetings, shopping trips, card games, and parties are all part of the social calendar.
None of this sits well with Dodie, and she of course decides to buck the system, even worse she discovers that Dick is a 60 year old sex maniac! Stress at home, stress from “the bosses,” all start to weigh heavily on Dodie, an unexpected medical problem also adds to her growing list of issues.
A Broad Abroad In Thailand is a great read, it is written in a very humorous style, I particularly enjoyed the Pigin English dialog with the local Thai people. That on its own makes this book a hit! Dodie, undaunted by minor and in some cases major setbacks,’bags and crashes’ her way through life. This is a must read book for anyone contemplating living and working in a foreign land, from marital to medical, the problems are so much greater than being at home.
About Dodie Cross: she is a freelance writer who has received numerous awards for her writing and poetry, among them the prestigious Southern California Writer’s Conference First Place Award for “Best Nonfiction,” as well as First Place in their inaugural Poetry Award. She has accrued first and second place prizes in her published articles. Dodie has traveled the world, writing about her life in foreign countries such as Iran and Thailand, as well as American locales such as New Orleans, Orange County, California and Lake Chelan, Washington. Look for her next book: One Strappy-Sandaled Foot Ahead of the Mullahs: An Expat’s Life in Iran Before and During the Revolution.
About the Author
Simon Barrett is an adult educator in Calgary, Alberta. With the 11 months a year of winter, he reads a lot of books! He is also a contributing editor for
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Is this considered Construction/Project Management, General Contracting, or what?
I’m friendly with some people who want houses built and a lot of real estate agents who sell vacant lots and houses that are rebuilt. I’m friendly with a few builders also.
I want to set up the home buyer with the right builder or when my real estate friends sell a home have them recomend one of my builder friends. Of course I’d want some consideration. I don’t know if it’s a percentage or how it works.
I don’t know a lot (anything) about construction but I learn quickly and one of the builders invited me to his sites and offered to show the ropes. Eventually when I’m more knowledgeable I’d like to hold the home buyers’ hand from concept to fruition.
This doesn’t quite seem like a construction manager or a General Contractor… or is it?
My question/s: What’s the title of the guy that brings the builder and the home buyer together? What’s his cut? What books can I read and what steps do I take? If I start a business what does my business model look like?
A construction manager “manages” the construction of the job, hires the contractors, etc. General Contractors hire the subcontractors, subcontractors hire the vendors. It sounds more like you would be a buyer’s rep. Unless, of course, you plan on hiring the architect and general contractor and overseeing the construction of the project, then you would be the CM.
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In by gone days all a contractor had to do was give the customer good quality and good service and he/she would be set. Then set back and let your customers do your selling for you. They would tell a friend and then that friend would tell a friend. Your phone would be ringing off the hook. I remember as an Architectural designer some days I would have up to four people wanting to schedule appointments for designs. Those days are long gone! But Fear Not! Click Here For Help
