Benefits Of Configuration Control Of Constructing A Building Or Assembling Product

Configuration Management is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) product of the nuclear arms race of the 1950s. [16] During this time, developments were documented or not documented; therefore, the nuclear arms race did not lead to significant advancements in technology standards. [16] Items and protocols were duplicated which resulted in “high costs and mixed success” for the DoD. [16] In turn, the DoD mandated configuration management for the hardware in the military. [16] They issued “Bulletin Number 390 and 390A to the Army, Navy and Air Force and coined the term “engineering change proposal.” [16] Fast forward to today, configuration management is a common practice across the industry and the new standards are found in the NIST-series

In his paper, the author explains us how the technology advancement is taking place, how 2D modelling started initially, how it led to 3D modelling and now how building information modelling techniques are being linked to 3D modelling. BIM is not just about modelling, but it also includes project planning, design and construction. He clearly explains what BIM is in the form of a flow chart. Where he says that B in BIM stands for Residential, commercial, healthcare, institutional, sports and entertainment, I in BIM stands for Spatial, element, systems, quantities, schedule, operations and M in BIM stands for site, architectural, structural, MEP systems, sustainability and management. This all phases of the program are a continuous chain where programming, design, pre construction, construction, operations, and demolition are done. This research also supports that the concept of building information modelling is not only useful for the building’s geometric modelling, but also it can assist in the management of construction projects. In this research, the author has collected information from 35 construction projects that have already utilized BIM. The most common result that was observed was the cost reduction. For some people, BIM is a software application, where as for others, it is a process for designing and documenting

Many people around the entire world do not possess the knowledge of the different types of constructions and if there is a specific reason this construction are made in certain way or area of the world. Construction is more complex than just building an infrastructure or a facility. It takes planning, land property inspection, design, in numerous occasion financing and the process ends once the project is built and ready for use.

This concept could be widely used in the construction industry to increase productivity, and also to enhance organization amongst partakers involved. If there were professionals trained in investigating and scrutinizing various actions employed while a construction project is underway, they could easily identify where there is scope of improvement, and also provide suggestions to improve its

This helps in making the project extremely cost and time effective. The construction manager can provide design timelines to all the participating members of the project. Once the designs are ready, the design conflicts can be solved in group meetings. The traditional method of construction is inefficient in this matter as the problems in design will be faced on site and corrections to this can be extremely costly and inefficient.

Beginning a new year of the construction industry with a report of 6% growth (achieved approximately $712 billion) in the financial profit of construction from Dodge Data & Analytics ' 2016 Construction Outlook, many analysts and experts predict that potential values for the construction business will be progressively increased with extensions of modern technologies and state-of-the-art concepts for improving construction performance, especially in project cost and schedule achievements (Peiffer, 2016). Although it is noticeable that diverse tendencies, including prefabrication or offsite constructions, green buildings, remodeling, etc., are taking higher place in the next decades, true collaborations, sophisticated building modeling tools, and practical value-boosted procedures are always bottom lines for a blossoming construction project. It is unquestionable that construction project costs and schedule are spectacularly difficult to predict by reason of complexity of building procedures and presence of thousands of dependent variables throughout a project. As a result, duties and responsibilities of forecasting and envisioning project cost and schedule performance are considered as momentous challenges and complicated issues for all construction experts and professionals (Ai et al., 2015). Growing from these concerns, a suggestion of synergizing components that particular affect the cost and schedule efficiency is becoming an

Develop and implement innovative construction methods and systems to meet specific project and contractual requirements.

In recent years there has been an improved development for the need of design management in construction. Effective design management is necessary for a successful project but the clear picture of design management is not understood properly (S Austin, 2002). Design is a very key aspect of construction and with the help of a good team; good sustainable projects can be produced. The need for improvement of design in construction is very necessary. Delivering the project on time, budget and providing a value to construction is needed (S Austin, 2002). However the role of a design manager is poorly noted and does not have a robust path (Newton, n.d.).

We have just graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington and joined a small private contractor consists of 100 employees. The contractor is engaged in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services of oil refining facilities and recently gets a new EPC contract of an offshore oil production facility in the US Gulf of Mexico. The owner of the company wants to grow the company rapidly but knows that without formal processes and systems in place, the likelihood of losing control of projects is high. In order to support the contractor, we would like to address the design and deployment of formal processes encompassing two (2) of the CII practices i.e. Materials Management and Change Management.

The difficulty in dealing with resource allocation increases tremendously in today’s world. Owners are willing to start construction without a final design to save time and money, and the owners’ needs may be also changing constantly because of the economic and industry environment. Those factors have led to a tremendous increase of change orders (Hanna et al. 1999) and certainty number of clauses

Of the many lessons learned from the case study, one of the most relevant is how construction projects are managed over their entire lifecycle with the long-term goal being the efficient utilization of the asset being built. The same holds true for enterprise software, as project managers must taken into account every phase of the application development process and also pay very close attention to how the applications will deliver value to users over time as well. For constructions projects, the initial design requirements of streamlining initial building and site development, coupled with defining the many

It has been recognised that it is common to have much higher real construction costs than what was predicted at early design and plan phrase. Poor data and information management as one of the major reasons causes costoverruns has achieved $16 billion a year in US construction industry given by recent research carried out by US NIST (2004). The adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) was then suggested and encouraged by many expertise which has been proved in many practical construction cases in the past that BIM would help to efficiently reduce the information costs throughout the construction process. In this paper the researcher will briefly introduce the background and development of BIM. The relationship between BIM adoption and project cost-saving in Architects, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry will also be analysed. Besides, this paper also aims to discuss the potential impacts of the use of BIM on total duration and project costs in construction industry. This is carried out through analysing and evaluating the benefits and innovation of project process within BIM environment. Apart from that, challenges associated with BIM technology and barriers that prevent people from adopting BIM technology will be presented in the end.

The increasing size and level of complexity of a construction project will have an impact on the construction contract standard being more difficult and complex, causing a significant frequency and number disputes (Iyer, Chaphalkar, and Joshi, 2008). In fact, pre-construction contract documents are profoundly relied on by the contractor prior to making a tender in order to offer a construction project. Iyer, Chaphalkar, and Joshi (2008) point out that engineering and specifications plans are the basis for predicting on site project condition, which in turn determines the price proposals and scheme of work schedule, and contract performances. After the project has been executed, it is frequently discovered that contract document has flaws due to inaccurate data, inadequate site information, unexpected and unforeseen conditions, and human errors. In addition, the inconsistency between the actual situation and preconstruction documents which may delay the project and generate disputes (Lamari, 2008). Project personnel are the core resources of the construction project. They must deal with disagreement and uncertainty conditions, must involve the process, and usually negotiate with the dispute, which often arise during the execution of work (Diekmann and Girrad, 1995). Figure 1 illustrates the numerous collaborating potential sources of disputes in construction situations. Kumaraswamy (1997) explains

The justification of the research comes from first hand experiences of the author who has spent eight years contributing to construction projects through various roles such as laborer, banks man, crane operator and latterly as a trainee package engineer working for various major contractors. In this time the author has encountered reworking and snagging lists covering the same works with the same causes and reasons on a recurring theme throughout the

The purpose of this document is to describe the Project Controls Management Process and to outline specific methods and activities which were implemented to facilitate the various elements, processes and