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Principles of Construction
Management

Project Management
is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to
project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs
and expectations from a project.

Meeting or exceeding stakeholder needs and expectations

invariably involves balancing competing demands among:

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Scope, time, cost, and quality.

Stakeholders with differing needs and expectations.

Identified requirements (needs) and unidentified

requirements (expectations)

The term project management is sometimes used to

describe an organizational approach to the management
of ongoing operations.
This approach, more properly called management by
products, treats many aspects of ongoing operations as
projects in order to apply project management to them.

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Although an understanding of project management is

obviously critical to an organization that is managing by
projects in detailed discussion of the approach itself is
outside the scope of this document.

Construction Management

refers either to the study and practice of the managerial

and technological aspects of the construction industry (including
construction, construction science, construction management,
and construction technology), or to a business model where one
party to a construction contract serves as a construction
consultant, providing both design and construction advice.

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Management Functions or Objectives

Planning
is the ongoing process of developing the business'
mission and objectives and determining how they will be
accomplished. Planning includes both the broadest view
of the organization, e.g., its mission, and the narrowest,
e.g., a tactic for accomplishing a specific goal.

Organizing

is establishing the internal organizational structure of

the organization. The focus is on division, coordination,
and control of tasks and the flow of information within the
organization. It is in this function that managers distribute
authority to job holders.

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Staffing

is filling and keeping filled with qualified people

all positions in the business. Recruiting, hiring, training,
evaluating and compensating are the specific activities
included in the function. In the family business, staffing
includes all paid and unpaid positions held by family
members including the owner/operators

Leading or Directing

is influencing people's behavior through motivation,

communication, group dynamics, leadership and discipline. The
purpose of directing is to channel the behavior of all personnel to
accomplish the organization's mission and objectives while
simultaneously helping them accomplish their own career
objectives.

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Controlling

is a four-step process of establishing performance

standards based on the firm's objectives, measuring and
reporting actual performance, comparing the two, and
taking corrective or preventive action as necessary.

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Eight M’s of Management

MANPOWER (MEN) – skills, talents, team

MONEY – cost, budget, finance
MACHINES – tools, equipment, systems
MATERIALS – facilities, supplies
METHODS – traditional, scientific
MOMENT – time
MANAGEMENT – management information systems
MOTHER NATURE – environment

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Project
➢ is defined as an endeavor wherein people, supplies, and
money are coordinated in an unusual way to undertake a
unique scope of work of a given standards and specifications,
within constraints of cost and time, so as to accomplish
beneficial change defined by quantitative objectives.

➢ This connotes that a project has specific objectives, time

boundaries, and an explicit budget that limits the amount of
human, financial and material resources that can be used to
complete a unique venture.

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The Six Main Characteristics of a Project are:

1. It is a temporary endeavor with a specified beginning and end and

it involves definable sequences of steps of activities

2. It uses resources like manpower, equipment, and money that have

been specifically apportioned to each phase of the project.

3. It produces a unique outcome, wherein such outcome also has

specific goals of quality and performance.

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4. It follows a planned and organized scheme to meet their

goals and objectives

5. It depends largely on a group of people called Project

Team to get it done.

6. It always has a unique set of stakeholders.

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Project success can be measured as

follows:
1. Stakeholder needs and Customer Satisfaction. Customers are
satisfied when you provide a deliverable that meets their needs and
exceeds their expectations. The project team must identify early the
project stakeholders, determine their requirements and find ways in
managing and influencing those requirements in order to ensure a
successful project.

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2. Organizational Approval.

Identifying and satisfying the needs of the

organization, wherein these needs will result in making a
profit or developing capability in a new area of
technology.

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3. Gained Experience and Knowledge by the Project Team and

the Organization.

The team and the organization learn something as a result of the

projects so that next time they can build their success and avoid
mistakes.
The success of projects varies according to the nature of the
project, and culture of the organizations the person involved.

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