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    The document provides an overview of the construction industry and defines construction management. It describes construction management as involving planning, executing, and controlling construction operations to meet cost, quality and schedule objectives. It also discusses the perspectives of construction management from the general contractor and client perspectives. From the general contractor perspective, construction management involves overall project management and field operations. From the client perspective, it involves contract administration and acting as the owner's agent during construction.

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    CHAPTER 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE

    CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

    1.1 Construction Management Defined

    Construction is the mobilization and utilization of capital and specialized personnel, materials,

    and equipment to assemble materials and equipment on a specific site in accordance with

    drawings, specifications, and contract documents prepared to serve the purposes of a client. The

    organizations that perform construction usually specialize in one of four categories:

    a. Housing: including single-family homes and apartment buildings;

    b. Non-residential building: such as structures erected for institutional, educational

    commercial, light-industry, and recreational purposes;

    c. Heavy construction- highways, bridges, tunnels, railroads, waterways, marine structures,

    airports, etc.; and

    d. Industrial construction, such as power plants, steel mills, chemical plants, factories, and

    other highly technical structures.

    The reason for such specializations is that construction methods, supervisory skills, labour, and

    equipment are considerably different for each of the categories.

    Construction involves a combination of specialized organizations, engineering science, studied

    guesses, and calculated risks. It is complex and diversified and the end product is typically

    nonstandard. Since operations must be performed at the site of the project, every project is

    unique. Furthermore, because of exposure to the outdoors, construction is affected by both daily

    and seasonal weather variations. it is also often influenced significantly by the availability of

    local construction materials, labour, financing and equipment.

    Construction contractors typically employ supervisory and administrative personnel, labour,

    materials, and equipment to perform construction in accordance with the terms of a contract with

    a client.
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    Construction management is the task which involves the planning, execution, and control of

    construction operations at the same time meeting the cost, quality and completion date objectives

    of the project. It also involves motivating and leading the human resource to achieve objectives

    of the project.

    Planning requires determination of financing methods, estimating construction costs, scheduling

    of the work and selection of construction methods and equipment to be used.

    In the execution, it is important to recognize that not only construction cost but also the total

    project cost increases with duration of construction time. Hence, fast execution of the work is

    essential. To achieve this end, construction management must ensure that labour, materials, and

    equipment are available when needed for the work.

    Control of construction requires up-to-date information on progress of the work, construction

    costs, income, and application of measures to correct any of these not meeting schedules.

    Progress control typically is based on comparisons of actual performance of construction with

    scheduled performance indicated on master or detailed schedules. Lagging operations generally

    are speeded by overtime work or addition of more crews and equipment and expedited delivery

    of materials and equipment to be installed. Cost and income control usually is based on

    comparisons of actual costs and income with those budgeted at the start of the project. Such

    comparisons enable discovery of the sources of cost overruns and income shortfalls so that

    corrective measures can be institutes.

    Construction management can be considered from two perspectives:

    a) From contracts perspective - after winning the contract, an individual or the

    construction company is responsible for performance of all the work and delivery of the

    finished project within a specific period of time and usually without exceeding estimated

    cost. This individual or company is referred to as a general contractor.


    The general contractor primarily provides construction management for the entire project.

    This contractor may supply forces to perform all of the work but some of the work may

    be subcontracted to others. Nevertheless, the contractor is responsible for all of it.

    Completely in charge of all field operations, including procurement of construction

    personnel materials, and equipment, the contractor marshals and allocates these reserves

    to achieve project completion in the shortest time and at the lowest cost. This is referred

    to as Project Management.

    The contractor will have two prime objectives: (1) provision to the owner of a service

    that is satisfactory and on time; (2) making a profit.

    From the client's (owner's) perspective - the client's construction manager can prepare

    cost estimates during the preliminary design and design development phases, as well as

    the final cost estimate after completion of the contract documents. During construction,

    the construction manager acts as an agent of the owner the construction manager assumes

    the duties of the owner for constructional and organizes a staff for the assumes the duties

    of the owner for construction and organizes a staff for the purpose. Other functions of

    construction management are to provide a resident engineer or clerk of the works; act as

    liaison with the prime design professional, general contractor and owner; keep job

    records; check and report on job progress; direct the general contractor to bring behindschedule items,
    if any, up to date; take steps to correct cost overruns, if any; record and

    authorize with the owner's approval, expenditures and payments; process requests for

    changes in the work and issue change orders; expedite change of shop drawings; inspect

    construction for conformance with contract documents; schedule and conduct job

    meetings; and perform such other tasks for which an owner would normally be

    responsible. This task is usually referred to as Contract Administration.

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