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Power Plant Construction Management_ A Survival Guide 2nd Edition by Peter G. Hessler

This book, the second edition of the original Power Plant Construction
Management: A Survival Guide has been written to update and upgrade
its predecessor. Almost a decade has passed since the first edition. A lot has
transpired, and sometimes re-transpired, during those years. As discussed
in more detail in the introduction, since the first edition was published the
construction industry in general, and the power plant construction industry
in particular, have had several ups and several downs. The construction
industry went through major shifts in the availability and cost of labor,
supervision, equipment, and materials. It has started to embrace advanced
technology, tools, and processes made available with the exponential
advance of computers (especially their downsizing) and computing power,
intelligent cell phones, and the Internet. And during this same period, the
power plant industry has seen shifts to and from coal-fired generation,
gas-fired generation, solar, wind, nuclear, and other renewables. In other
words, the only constant during this intervening decade has been change.
As was the case for this book’s first edition, this second edition has also

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