CE3213 Introduction to Construction Management

UNIT 1: Introduction

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Introduction
Construction project management in a corporate environment
What do you get?
 Economics Scheduling
Estimation and Control

Contracts
And laws
OB, HR and
Strategy

Con-Man Materials,
Methods
Claims and And Systems
Accounting

Safety and
Equipment
Quality Productivity
 A few questions

• What is a Project?

• Is there something unique about Construction

projects?

• Why are we the only ones studying this?

• What does Project Management entail?

Commonly Used Terms
 Planning

• Predetermined course of action to obtain the desired

project activities.

• Involves the formulation of alternatives and chooses

the best suitable.

• Split up into well definable work in terms of time and

resources.
 Scheduling

• arranging of the work plan in the sequence of time.

 Scheduling

• arranging of the work plan in the sequence of time.

 Organizing

• Integrating the resources in the project

• Money, equipment, time, technology, manpower,

materials are resources.

 Controlling

• Controlling is the monitoring, influencing and directing

the project.

• The progress of project is assessed through suitable

measure; deviations are discovered and corrective

measures are taken to rectify the deviation.

 Directing
• function of project leader to give instructions to
subordinates, supervise their work and corresponds
to the report when they give as feedback

• Basically directing is linked with organization setup of

project management team.
 Coordinating
• process of interaction between different departments
or functionalities in the project management group
which generally follows pyramidal structure
Coordinating
Project Influence Diagram
Life Cycle