About the Author

Wayne J. Del Pico is president of W. J. Del Pico, Inc., where he provides construction management and litigation support services for construction related matters. He has more than 35 years of experience in construction project management and estimating and has been involved in projects throughout most of the United States. His professional experience includes private commercial construction, public construction, retail construction, and residential land development and construction.

Mr. Del Pico holds a degree in civil engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, where he taught construction-related curriculum in Cost Estimating, Project Management, and Project Scheduling from 1992 until 2006. He is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, where he presently teaches programs in Construction Cost Analysis, Estimating, Project Control, and Construction Scheduling.

Mr. Del Pico is a seminar presenter for the RSMeans Company, where he provides instruction on topics from estimating to scheduling. He is the author of Plan Reading and Material Takeoff (1994), Estimating Building Costs (2004) and its second edition in 2012, and is a co-author of The Practice of Cost Segregation Analysis (2005). His most recent book, Project Control: Integrating Cost and Schedule in Construction, was published by Wiley in September 2013.

His construction experience and knowledge of the industry has qualified him to be the past president ...

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