Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557536341 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 460 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Perfect Condition for A Rare Book When practicing taking 3,000 3D photos of a construction site about 200 feet from where I live in San Francisco The Pankow construction crew, engineers and visiting executives, discovering what I was doing as a hobby, began treating me like royalty. I. Teresa A. Callen said Building History. A great read for those interested in the history of Charles Pankow and what he built. Also an excellent read for those interested in the business of building. Detail oriented and academic, full of information and worth a read.
And that Pankow accomplished time and again. Thornton, Chairman, Charles H. Thornton & Company LLC“Michael Adamson chronicles the erratic genius of Charlie Pankow and the construction empire he built in defiance of management conventions. His companies created a powerful niche market that kept his clients happy and the enterprise profitable. Design-bid-build as a delivery method is broken! Charlie Pankow saw this many years ago with his colleagues at Kiewit. As a ‘Master Builder,’ Charlie believed in people, not management doctrine. They wanted handsome, la
It details the contributions that Charles J. While Charles Pankow figures prominently in the narrative, the book also describes how others within the firm adapted the business so that the company could survive a commercial market that changed significantly as a result of the recession of the 1990s. Pankow, a 1947 graduate of Purdue University, and his firm have made as builders of large, often concrete, commercial structures since the company's foundation in 1963. At the same time, the author analyzes and evaluates the strategic decision making of the firm through 2004, the year in which the founder died. This book is a study in business history as well as civil engineering and construction management. The company has been recognized as a pioneer in design-build, a methodology that involves the construction company in the development of structures and substitutes negotiated contracts for the bidding of architects' plans. The book includes dozens of photographs of buildi