CE 420 Class [Oral] Presentation Topics

What Does it Take to be an Effective Project Manager

- Basic leadership principles
- Informal authority and the 4 foundational behaviors & the 4DX
- Basics of management (with application to Philippine setting)
- Basics of construction project management
o 5 process groups

[Probabilistic] estimating in construction, project budgeting

- materials quantity take-off & (probabilistic) estimate of labor
- project budgeting

Project Procurement
- RA 9184 (vs PD 1594), bidding process [time-scaled flow chart]
- Turn-key vs unit price government procurement
- Pros & cons of government and of private project

Project planning and initiation (who will do what by when)

- Planning tools (and work vs duration)
- initiation [scope identification, “deliverables”]
- Work plans, WBS, resource allocation/management, value engineering
- Identifying risks and addressing/managing them
- Scheduling & Scheduling tools
o Gantt Chart, PERT, CPM

Organizing human resources for a construction project

Project execution, monitoring and control (who’s on track, who needs ‘clearing’ the way)
- Project tracking
- Toolbox meetings
- Weekly (accountability) meetings
- Monitoring and Control tools
o Forms, Logbooks, S-Curve & other project diagrams
o Reports and reporting
- Scope Changes (variation order, change order, repeat order)

Project close-out

Current Issues & Trends in CPM imperative to the Phil Construction Industry
- BIM (building information modelling)
- Sustainable engineering