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Construction project management involves planning, coordinating, and controlling all aspects of a construction project from beginning to completion. The project manager is primarily responsible for construction management, which includes planning the job and overseeing its progress. Key responsibilities are creating clear objectives, managing scope, time, cost, and quality. A project has defined objectives, constraints including time, cost and quality, and lifecycle stages of initiation, planning, execution, and closing. The success of a project relies on effectively managing resources like time, cost, labor, materials, and equipment throughout its lifecycle.

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Const MGMT Intro

Construction project management involves planning, coordinating, and controlling all aspects of a construction project from beginning to completion. The project manager is primarily responsible for construction management, which includes planning the job and overseeing its progress. Key responsibilities are creating clear objectives, managing scope, time, cost, and quality. A project has defined objectives, constraints including time, cost and quality, and lifecycle stages of initiation, planning, execution, and closing. The success of a project relies on effectively managing resources like time, cost, labor, materials, and equipment throughout its lifecycle.

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CONSTRUCTION

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Introduction
What is Construction Project Management?

• It is the overall planning, coordination, and control of a project from


beginning to completion.
• It is aimed at meeting a client's requirement in order to produce a functionally
and financially viable project.
•The management of construction projects requires knowledge of modern
management principles as well as an understanding of the design and
construction process.
Who does hold the responsibility of Construction Project Management?

• The Project Manager has the primary responsibility of Construction


Management, which is planning a particular construction job and
overseeing its progress along the way.
•A Project Manager is responsible for accomplishing the stated project
objectives.
•Key project management responsibilities include creating clear and
attainable project objectives, building the project requirements, and
managing the constraints of the project management triangle, which are
cost, time, scope, and quality.
What is a Project?

“A project is a unique set of co-ordinated activities with definite starting


and finishing points, undertaken by an individual or organization to meet
specific objectives within defined time schedule, cost and performance”
Every project is unique in its own way; there are certain basics which define
most project work.
These are:
•objectives,
•constraints,
•lifecycle.
Construction Management

• Significance & Objectives


• Functions
• Stages of Construction
• Construction Personnel
Significance
• As construction involves various activities starting from the
design and planning to project completion and quality check,
there is a exorbitant need for Management of construction.
• Construction Industry plays a crucial role in the economy and
development of a nation.
Objectives
 To complete the project in specified time and with allocated budget.
 To Plan and schedule the work and distribute between various
departments. Deployment of personnel in Different tasks.
 To achieve High quality workmanship.
 Creating an organisation that works as a team.
 Using the limited available resources and producing maximum
output.
 Providing safe and satisfactory working conditions for all
personnel and workers.
Functions:

Planning &
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Controlling &
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Project Constraints

• Each project needs to be performed and delivered under certain constraints.


These constraints are typically as shown below:

•Mainly, project management wishes to provide at the end of the project


a product which is delivered on Time with a high Quality and minimum
Cost. However, it is practically difficult to achieve this.
•The reduction of project’s time involves increasing cost (this could
mean using extra labour and equipment), or reducing quality of work.
Project Lifecycle (Project Development Stages)
•INITIATION: At this stage, project’s scope is determined. An understanding of
the business environment to make sure that all the project’s key controls are fully
addressed and incorporated into the project. If this stage is not performed well, it
is unlikely that the project is going to be successful in meeting the needs for
which it was undertaken.

•PANNING & DESIGN: After the initiation stage is performed, the project’s
WBS is designed in addition to all other project’s documents which are prepared
pre-construction. Occasionally, a prototype of the final project’s product is built
and tested.

•EXECUTION: This stage includes the actual procurement of the project’s set
plan or design.

•CLOSING & MAINTENANCE: The Closing includes handing the final product
over to the owner after the project is finished and the formal acceptance is signed
and published. The Maintenance, which is an ongoing process, includes the
correction of any errors have ever been made during the project’s execution.
The figure shown below describes the activity of work during the project lifecycle:
Project Resources
Any project’s resources can be classified as follows:
- Time
- Cost (Money)
- Labour (Man-power)
- Materials
- Equipment (Machines)

• In order to improve the application of any of the 4Ms (Money, Man-power, Materials,
and Machines), so that they become more efficient and productive and therefore finishing
the project on Time and at the required level of Quality, a control system of each resource
should be prepared. For example:
• To improve Man-power, (motivation, leadership, safety, productivity, and scheduling)
should be improved.
• To improve the application of Machines, (productivity, Scheduling, construction method,
and contracts) should be improved.
• To improve the use of Materials, (scheduling, quality, chemical, suitability, and
purchasing/hiring) should be improved.
• To improve the application of Money, (sources of funds, scheduling, estimating, and
cash-flow) should be improved.
Project Participants
Each project, whatever is its type or what kind of construction involves, requires the
participation of three main parties. These participants are the Owner, Engineer/Designer,
and Contract. The figure shown below displays the relationship between each of these
participants:

In addition to these main participants, there are other sub-players, such as Consultants,
Suppliers, Sub-contractors, and many others. They are working together under the role of
the Project Manager in order to deliver the project’s final product.
Types of Construction Projects

Construction work mainly includes anything is built and permanently


attached to the ground. This includes different kinds of structures such as,
multi-storey buildings, bridges, dams, roads, etc.
Generally, construction work is classified under one of the following
categories:
•Building construction work. [For example, residential complex,
commercial towers, hospitals, malls, etc.]
• Engineering construction work. [For example, dams, bridges, airports,
highways, etc.]
• Industrial construction work. [For example, petroleum structures,
electric-power plant, water plants, etc.]
• Specialised construction work. [For example, deep tunnels, wind
turbines, etc.]

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