Construction Project Management

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Over the past few years, the construction industry has been changing dramatically. One of the most important stages in the construction management and business management is the planning phase. They share similar two main levels of planning which are the strategic and operational planning. However, business management planning to decide in advance what should be done, and how to do it, when you do and you are done. On the other hand, Construction management strategic planning is to deal with selection on a high level of overall objective of the project, including the scope, procurement methods, schedules and financing options but the planning of operations, including the

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Construction projects can be extremely complex and fraught with uncertainty. Risk and uncertainty can potentially have damaging consequences for the construction projects. Therefore nowadays, the risk analysis and management continue to be a major feature of the project management of construction projects in an attempt to deal effectively with uncertainty and unexpected events and to achieve project success. Risk is inherent on construction projects and disputes frequently arise. One in four construction projects results in a dispute that leads to arbitration or litigation. With large scale, complex projects the likelihood of serious, time-consuming and expensive claims increases.

Question 1. What project selection method described in the chapter will ABI probably employ for this proposal? Answer According to the description, the project selection method is profitability of numeric model. We might see the points from the business strategy 1) Bid only on good margin products that have the potential for maintaining their margins over a long term. 2) Pursue only new products. 3) Utilize the most advanced technology in new projects. “ project champion” approach to innovation and creativity. no more than 480 employees. 4) Foster the

In the world of project management, utilizing the three-point technique can prove to be an invaluable tool. In addition to the three-point technique applying the earliest-start (ES), earliest-finish (EF), latest-start (LS), and latest-finish (LF) procedure to identify the critical path, the project completion time, and the slack for each task can prove to be set of invaluable data that will assist the project manager in accurately determining task duration estimates for the entire scope of work for the project. In this week’s assignment we will explore a construction company and the associated time estimates for each task as it relates to their entire project.

Construction Management is the organization, coordination; planning and the process of overseeing a building project from the start of that project to the end. Construction management is carried out by managers who supervise building projects and all the work involved so as to achieve a client's goal or meet his expectation. He works together with other people in the project like the structural engineer, contractors and the architect so as to produce a functional and viable project. For this to be achieved, the people involved need to observe a certain level of personal and professional ethics so as to achieve the goals. Ethics is a set of moral principles through which a person's actions may be judged either as good or bad or as right or wrong. Ethics can either be personal those that guide one's personal actions, or professional, these guide one's actions while in practice. This is what construction management is all about.

The Construction Conundrum – or, Why You Should Not Think Twice About Retaining a Construction Project Manager

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Abstract: The construction projects generally are broadly categorized as Green Field Projects and Brown Field Projects. In recent years Indian Construction Industry practices has set benchmarks globally through adaption of planned policies, their quality standards and ability to complete projects within the defined time frame. Here comes the concept of Project and Construction Management. Within this sector of building construction allied with civil, structure, interior and services, Project Management can be defined on the thumb rule of five stages involved , which are interconnected and can be categorized as Initiate, Plan, Design, Construction, Close out and Handover. Majorly the difference between Project Management and Construction Management can be summarized as Project Management being associated mainly with planning, designing, budgeting and co-ordination, on the other hand Construction Management is associated majorly with on-site execution, building

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ABSTRACT-This article compares the techniques developed for lean construction with those developed for lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing and lean construction techniques share many common elements despite the obvious differences in their assembly environments

The proposal writing process is multifaceted, encompassing both the actual submission of a request for proposal as well as the management of the implementation of received funds. Through class lectures and assigned readings, we’ve discussed the various aspects that make up the process of grant writing. Through this essay, I will explain this process as it leads up the management of the project once funded. Furthermore, this essay will explain how to ensure that the proposal submitted addresses key aspects necessary for the project to be implemented in line with best practices for project management.

The main input to the LoB construction schedule technique is the logical CPM network analysis (Ammar 2013). The network provides a useful feature for determining the logical sequence and duration between activities. This feature included the critical path and float times obtained from the CPM forward and backward calculations. Unlike the CPM technique, the critical path in the LoB is not clear, resource and time is critical to the LoB scheduling technique. In case an activity is delayed, a buffer time may be introduced to act as a float time Elbeltagi (2006) to prevent intrusion among the sequential project activities of the LOB schedule.

After the arrival of critical path in the given network diagram, we need to track closely the activities which are coming under the critical path. And for the activities which are not in the critical path the tracking can be the normal way. But when we say normal, need to know what is the degree of level. This can be determined by the parameter called float or slack. To find the float or the slack we have to perform the Forward pass and Backward pass.