Introduction

Construction Project Management is part of the principle of Project

Management applied directly to the construction industry .
Walker(2007) describes it as ''the planning, coordination and control of a
project from conception to completion (including commissioning) on behalf
of a client requiring identification of the client's objectives in terms of
utility, function, quality, time and cost, and the establishment of relationships
between resources, integrating, monitoring and controlling the contributors
to the project and their output, and evaluating and selecting alternatives in
pursuit of the client's satisfaction with the project outcome.''
As a effective project management should not delay the project progress and
the expensive of project should not extra that expectation earlier for the
project .

Important of project management

-Improper planning, management will causing probability of extra expense
and risk in project are high then others proper planning .
- Extra taxpayers money are given .
-Resulting in un-control situation and perhaps involved to civil suit .
-Improper administration maybe also lead injuries, incident, death to
workers working at the construction site.
- Improper planning by project management will cause a lot of argument
between client and consultant .
Purpose of Project Management
-Conformity with all resources such as human resources ,plants ,
equipments , material , and plan in order to accomplish the scope of
construction project as planned and within assignation budget .

Benefit of construction Project Management

-Resources(manpower, money , material , mechanical ) should efficiently
allocated to the organization's multiple project in line with goal of the
management .
-To arranged the strategy to be devised long term goals whilst short terms
goals are completed.
-Standard operation procedures.
-The risk may happen on site can be anticipated
-Could easily control the quality, performance at the site
-Project output will made more consistent by means of quality and the best
of resource from past projects .

Function of Project management

-Planning and Scheduling through using all information collected by the
information management
-Performance analysis
-Progress reporting
-Cost trend analysis
-Cost control/ manpower planning
-Scope of job planning
-Estimating/ Controlling material and manpower
-Risk analysis

General Procedures of Project Management

Step 1:Project Planning
-To ensure successful project, First must plan an acceptable and strategy to
achieve completion trough allocated time, cost and must be acceptable
quality .
-The plan also must including variation of progress analysis to make correct
the decision in the event of change .
-The operation must be in a coordinated sequence that make the best use of
resources such as material , manpower .
Step 2: Project Organizing
-A satisfactory management system calls for an good organization in all
stakeholders to perform the tasks which required cooperation .
-A efficient organization of the project team is qualification for a successful
project .(The project team such as architect , qs, engineer)

Step 3 : Project Scheduling

-Cost and resources are linked to the schedule
-Work activities are scheduled
-The product of scope , costing and planning

Step 4 : Project Monitoring and Controlling

-To manage the work, controlling time for prevent delay or extend the period
of contract even is a short period . Because contractor will lost a lot of
money by penalty .
-To improve quality of work .
-To ensure project progress as planned

Step 5: Project Close-out

-Final completion to ensure the equipments and satisfaction of the client
-To perform final inspection
-To prepare final account for payment
-Handover to the client

8 key to become more effective management

Delegate works
wisely

Teamwork

Well coordination client

Implementation
with using all
resources

Efficient Project
Management

Proper planning and

managing

Communication

Solving Problem
skill

Experience

Delegated Work Wisely

The key to be a efficient project management is to learn how to effectively
delegated the works to the responsibility for completing the task . Most of
the company wanted to control very things that theirs worker/employees do .
This is a restrict their worker ability to doing the tasks . When management
separated work to employee, management should consider the amount of
work can accomplish by the employees , that will help your employees
develop their confidence and work skill in the project .
Implementation with using all resource
One of the key to be a successful project management required know how
to implementation with using all resource into theirs . Resource
( manpower, data from previous project , material , equipment ) are one of
important in construction site . As effective management should be
implementation with using resource in right time , right person so that
would not causing delay project progress , overturn of cost and turnover .

Communication
Nowadays some of contractor/ worker is not very well in speaking
English .
If project management cannot speak language of the contractor and worker
will causing delay the construction progress because the project
management cannot expressing what task and scope of job need contractor
and worker to do or maybe contractor will misunderstanding the work given
by project management. Communication is one of the key to causing
progress of the construction work .

Teamwork
A well teamwork can completed the work easily with objective
organization . As a efficient project management team should have well
teamwork during the period of construction . As a team will gather various
aspect professionals executive to perform their knowledge and experience
to help the project complete on time with good quality .

Solving problem skill

Solving problem skill one of the important applied in construction project .
As a professional project management should have the ability of solving
problem skill to make the right decision in the event of change to ensure the
cause will delay the progress of construction and no any turnover happen.
No matter how difficult of the problem , project management must be using
their experience , their knowledge and information collected by the team to
troubleshoot the issue and to prevent the issue happen again .

Well coordination with Client

Project management should have the ability to completed what client need .
a well coordination with client will help the team in order to complete the
requirement and satisfaction of the client . Before hand over the project to
client , project management is required to perform final testing and
acceptance inspection .

Proper planning and managing

Proper planning and managing is to ensure your project to complete on time
with good quality . Planning is including achievable path or strategy to help
your team to achieve objective of goals .Before commencement work of
construction , project management required planning for the construction
works such as risk analysis , scheduling , scope of job , costing , estimating
and so on . After that , project management should manage the daily
progress during period of construction to ensure project complete on time
and no any accident happen on site.

Experience
A experience project management can be efficiently to perform their task as
well .For example, A experience project management can make the right
decision immediately with using their knowledge and well estimated the
problem may happen on site.

Conclusion
In my opinion , a effective project management can easily solve the difficult
problem and the project output is made more consistent through good
quality, standardized guidelines, sops, and the best practices data from past
project . Besides that , experience is also one of the important to become a
effective management .