Construction Project Management: Theory and Practice

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Construction Equipment Management

Introduction, classification of construction equipments, factors behind the selection of construction equipments, earthwork equipments, concreting equipments behind, hoisting equipments, plant and equipment acquisition, depreciation, depreciation and taxation, methods of calculating depreciation, example of depreciation calculations for equipment at a site, the effect of depreciation and tax on selection of alternatives, evaluating replacement alternatives, advanced concepts in economic analysis

9.1 INTRODUCTION

Construction equipments are one of the very important resources of modern-day construction, especially in infrastructure projects. Such projects utilize equipments for most of the works including ...