Appendices
Eleven reference appendices, a bibliography, and an index. These are the parts of the book you will come back to after you have stopped reading it straight through — the formulas, the forms, the clause translations, and the answers.
Quick routing — what do you need right now?
| You need to… | Go to |
|---|---|
| Find a formula | Appendix A |
| Get better at CPM by actually doing it | Appendix B |
| Look up a division, a unit cost, a productivity rate, or a waste factor | Appendix C |
| Write a daily report, an RFI, a change order, a pay application, or a JHA | Appendix D |
| Understand construction from the paying side | Appendix E |
| Check a hazard, a competent-person duty, or an inspection item | Appendix F |
| Understand a clause in a contract you are about to sign | Appendix G |
| Choose a tool | Appendix H |
| Look up a term | Appendix I |
| Check your work on an exercise | Appendix J |
| Get the project the book asks you to manage | Appendix K |
The appendices
Appendix A — Construction Math Reference
Every formula in the book in one place, organized by topic, each with its units, one worked example using the book's own figures, and the classic mistake. Unit conversions, area and volume, swell and shrinkage, truck-cycle production, formwork by contact area, the burdened labor rate, the unit-cost formula, markup versus margin in both directions, escalation and cost-index adjustment, the CPM forward and backward pass, float, the cost slope for crashing, the earned value family, retention and cash flow, expected monetary value, and equipment ownership economics.
Appendix B — CPM Scheduling Workbook
Twenty worked scheduling problems with complete solutions, progressing from small finish-to-start networks through free float, lags, perturbation, constraints and negative float, crashing, resource leveling, cost loading, and a delay-analysis capstone. Chapter 14 teaches the method; this is where you get good at it. Work them by hand before looking at the solutions — that is the whole mechanism.
Appendix C — Estimating Reference
CSI MasterFormat divisions and what lives in each; illustrative unit costs, productivity rates, crew compositions, and waste factors; and — more valuable than any of that — instructions for building your own historical cost database from your cost reports, which is the only data that will ever actually be right for your market and your crews.
Appendix D — Forms and Templates Library
The documents a project runs on: daily report, RFI, submittal log and transmittal, change order request and construction change directive, schedule of values, pay application, conditional and unconditional lien waivers, punch list, job hazard analysis, toolbox talk, subcontract scope sheet, meeting agenda and minutes, delivery request, non-conformance report, and the turnover package checklist. Each with a note on what the fields are actually for and which one decides a dispute.
Appendix E — The Owner's Companion
Written for the other side of the table — owners, developers, facility managers, and homeowners. How to decide what you are buying, how to hire a contractor, what the contract you are signing actually does, what a fair change order looks like, what to watch for during construction, and how not to get taken. It stands alone; you can start here and work backward into the book.
Appendix F — Safety Reference
OSHA's Focus Four in operational detail, competent-person duties by activity, inspection checklists, the elements of a site-specific safety plan, job hazard analysis structure, and incident investigation. A reference, not a rulebook — Chapter 24's argument is that the rulebook is the least useful part of safety management.
Appendix G — Contract Clause Decoder
The twenty-five clauses that decide who pays, each translated into plain English with what to look for, the question to ask before you sign, and what it costs when you get it wrong. Plus a method for reading an unfamiliar contract in ninety minutes and a clause risk-scoring worksheet.
Appendix H — Software and Tools Directory
Organized by the problem being solved rather than by vendor: scheduling, estimating and takeoff, project management platforms, BIM and VDC, reality capture, field layout, cost accounting, safety, equipment telematics — and spreadsheets, treated seriously, because most construction analysis still happens in one.
Appendix I — Glossary
The vocabulary of the industry, defined plainly. If a term stopped you in a chapter, it is here.
Appendix J — Answers to Selected Exercises
Worked solutions to the calculation and analysis problems, with the reasoning shown rather than just the number. Use them after attempting, not during.
Appendix K — The Willow Street Project Package
The complete project you manage across all forty-two chapters: the Willow Street Community Center, a $6.8 million, 24,000 square foot municipal building on a 425-calendar-day design-bid-build contract. Program, described drawings, specification excerpts, site conditions, quantities, and contract terms — everything the Project Checkpoints assume you have.
Bibliography
Standards bodies, regulators, associations, and the books worth owning — annotated, with an honest note on who each one is for.
Index
Key terms and where they are defined.
A reminder about the numbers in here
Every unit cost, productivity rate, wage, lead time, and rental rate in these appendices is illustrative. They are internally consistent so the arithmetic teaches something real. They are not a price book.
Real numbers come from three places, in this order of reliability: your own company's historical cost data, current quotes from the market you are actually building in, and published cost data adjusted for time, location, and size. Chapter 11 teaches those three adjustments; Chapter 28 teaches you how to generate your own data, which is the entire point of a cost report.
And the standing caution from the front of the book applies here most of all: this is an educational text, not legal advice, engineering advice, or a safety standard. Construction law, lien procedure, licensing, prevailing wage, retention limits, prompt-payment requirements, and building codes vary by jurisdiction and change over time. Read your contract, call the authority having jurisdiction, and talk to a lawyer.