Construction: Rethinking Operational Stages

This is to ensure that the necessary raw materials and physical resources are available at each stage, and that the workforce on site has the right skills for the scheduled work. The project management team will need to produce a series of planning documents that can be accessed throughout the project. Each member of the project management team must know their role and responsibilities, including which sections of the workforce they will be directly managing.

A basic definition for the procurement is “the way the building is realised” and “involves assembling and organising the skills and services of a team of construction professionals”. (the Construction Round Table, 1995). More precisely, the construction industry describes procurement as “a system that establishes the roles and relationships which make up a project organisation”; hence the overall organisation and communication structure for the management, administration and control of a project is established by the procurement system. (D.C.H Coles, 2010)

The paper is divided into three sections, the first of which will establish a timeline of events. This project background will serve as a case study for the analysis in the following section that will be structured such that each of the previously mentioned facets will be independently analyzed and contrasted with project management principles. Finally the paper will conclude with a summary of the analysis and recommendations based on

The stages of the construction project management differ from the stage of business management, in several respects. For example, construction management first stage is the resolution; it is necessary to identify requirements relating to the project by the owner and choose a consult to help in completing a preliminary assessment for the project and the feasibility, also the impact of its presence in the economic and social development areas. However, planning is the first stage on

Clough, Richard H, Glenn A. Sears, S K. Sears, Robert O. Segner, and Jerald L. Rounds. Construction Contracting: A Practical Guide to Company Management. , 2015. Print.

When communicating with our clients, Holder Construction Group will focus on key points that the clients should know about us. These key points have been mentioned and explored in the earlier part of the report, and they have been repeated several times.

Feasibility studies are carried out on certain sites to test the usefulness of the initial project brief and to consider how issues on the site can be approached. Site information is specific information on a project in the form of surveys or reports. The procurement task requires preparing project roles tables and contractual trees and continuing the building of the project team. A project roles table sets out the roles needed on a project, as well as outlining the stages of which those roles are required and the people in charge of carrying out the roles. A contractual tree is a diagram which shows the contractual relationship between the parties involved in a project. The programme task is a review of the project programme and the planning task is again where pre-application discussions occur. The suggested key support task involves preparing handover strategies and risk assessments. Handover strategies is the strategy for handing over a building including the requirements for beginning handovers, comissioning and training of

A construction project should always start with a clear brief from the client. In order to obtain or write a clear brief it is advisable to follow a recognised process. An example of this would be the Royal Institute of Building Architects(RIBA). In 2013 the RIBA plan of work became the ultimate process for the building and construction industry.

Brief This is what you will give to the Client demonstrating your understanding of their needs, appropriate research and the design factors. P50 Nelson Senior Graphics as above

Founded May 6th 1902, the Turner Construction Company is known as a company that builds non-residential buildings but it is self described as a risk management company. Their success is accredited to their project management tool called the Indicated Outcome Report (IOR) system that was implemented into the company’s management methods in the 1920s. It is with the IOR system that the company is able to assess risk effectively as the program is designed to help identify the anticipated financial and operational problems within any one of their projects at any level. This report is produced on a quarterly basis with 6-week updates and is reviewed in quarterly team meetings where team member participation is critical so that no unexpected costs

EC Harris Global Construction Report 2013 has indicated that failure to communicate effectively among architects, designers, contractors and procurement teams in the construction industry features first in the list of reasons why building trade has remained a hugely fragmented industry in UK lagging behind the rest of the international community. As per the officials of Construction Industry Council, separate and uncoordinated involvement of a designer, architect, an engineer and a building contractor who finally arrives to undertake the actual work itself will lead to substandard work and increased financials (Opler& Sokobin, 1995). On the legal side, there has been an assertion that legal contracts of collaboration is becoming obsolete and will remain obsolete as long as constructor and employer recognise their mutual interdependence.

The project brief is the description of the client requirements to develop the asset built area of the project. The statement describes the possible needs required for the project. Basing on this document the design of the built area is based. There are different stages in the information flow of the project briefing process. The different stages are the project brief stage and the concept design stage. The information flow goes from the clients, consultants and different stakeholders during the design development. There has be a proper co-ordination between the client and the lead consultant. The project brief should have the complete information about the site surveys, site information and site appraisals. The project brief should talk about the accommodation that exists. There has be workshops conducted with the champions in the field and there has to be panels for the users in which they describe their needs, expectations and priorities. The inputs from other stakeholders are taken and all of those inputs are discussed. There is a wider consultation process that goes on. They will be user surveys that are taken up and analysis is done basing on that. Inputs from the authorities like local authority and heritage organizations are taken up. (www.designingbuildings.co.uk).

This being said, OP must realise the importance of supplying a quality project brief to their consultants at an early stage. This will require them to commit a lot of upfront resources to the project to ensure the design matches the client’s vision.

Another key area that is necessary for the successful completion of the client construction project is the organization for the site meetings. Through a properly planned and conducted site meeting, much can be accomplished since well planned meetings enhance positive achievement, (Shmueli, Pliskin & Fink, 2016, pg 400). However, meetings with no pre-planning will tend to accomplish very little, and always result into a waste of time which is one of the most valuable resources. According to (Shmueli, Pliskin & Fink, 2016, pg 399), for the construction project, personnel have the right to call on the meetings which can be convened by both the Principal Contractor and the organization’s Key Personnel such as the construction Manager, Project Manager, Estimator and the Accountant. In the meeting some of the most important issues that can be discussed comprise of the feasibility of the Project. Generally, feasibility of the any project is based on the project’s Tender Documents.

Formulate and record the outline of project proposal that will be submitted by project development department of the construction company.