Kirshner Publishing is an independent publisher of books and information for those involved in construction. We provide highly-accessible, affordable materials on various aspects of the industry to both existing contractors and those who wish to break into the field.
Construction Project Management: A Complete Introduction focuses on the fundamental issues in the development and management of construction projects. This straightforward and readable yet thorough textbook focuses on the role of the contractor, taking the reader from start to finish in construction projects — from the early developmental stage through bidding, selection of the contractor, the construction itself, and close-out. Construction Project Management: A Complete Introduction has been adopted by technical schools, colleges, and universities throughout the United States.
Kirshner Books is carefully adopting AI into our construction education materials. We have entered into a courseware partnership with FullGlass.ai for our Construction Project Management and Green Construction textbooks. Our textbooks are now available as digital courseware, allowing instructors to deliver the material as an interactive e-book with integrated PowerPoint slides with lecture notes, quizzes, study tools including flashcards, and discussion boards. Here is a brief 90-second demo of the courseware:
We invite instructors to book a 30-minute demo with the Fullglass team today (contact@fullglassai.com) to get started with course adoption, to see how the coursework works, and to discuss options for your upcoming courses.
As a further use of AI, we will be presenting videos, audio conversations, slides, and text chats generated by Google’s NotebookLM product. We have created a “chatbook” from Dykstra’s Construction Project Management and Green Construction. As an initial example of new text that this AI can generate from the full text of our books, see “What are 4 or 5 surprising or unusual things discussed in the book?”
For an audio conversation (together with our initial comments), listen to the 24-minute “Deep Dive” between two pseudo-speakers.
We had Google’s NotebookLM produce a video from the text of our key textbook, Alison Dykstra’s Construction Project Management, and this AI system did a surprisingly good job auto-generating a six-minute introduction to the field, based solely on the full text of the textbook. It’s a nice overview for someone thinking about getting into construction management:
Available now — Third edition of Construction Project Management
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Now available at Amazon
Also available: Green Construction: An Introduction to a Changing Industry, a hardcover textbook for builders transitioning into sustainable construction. See here for further details. Available at Amazon.
Kirshner Books is also developing a series of electronic publications as stand-alone pieces and support for our Construction Project Management textbook. The first title in this series, LEED Certification, An Introduction to Certifying a Green Building is now available. Click here. Upcoming titles in the series include:
- Property Condition Assessment, by Linda Kade
- The Job Superintendent’s Role in a Green Project
- Green Construction and the Electrical Contractor
