Construction and Site Management

◼ Lecturer: Mr. Boris Wong

◼ Email address: boriswong720@vtc.edu.hk

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 Construction and Site Management
◼ 1 Test 25%
◼ 1 Assignment 25%
◼ 1 Project Assignment 50%

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 Introduction to
Management

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 Construction and Site Management
Fundamentals of Site management
-Understanding & acquiring the concept of site management
The Site Manager
-Understanding the role and personal quality of the site
manager
Practice in construction process
-Understanding and acknowledge the practical application
of the site manager’s role throughout all process
Project monitoring
-Understanding and evaluating the project monitoring
techniques and the criteria for selection

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 Why Study Management?
◼ Objectives of a Construction Firm
➢ Obtain and execute construction projects to the client’s
satisfaction in terms of quality, cost and time.
➢ Make profits.

◼ Objectives for a site organization of project

➢ Construct the project as per requirements of the contract
documents within the specified time frame at the budgeted
costs under the management of project/construction
manager.

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 What is Management?
◼ Management is a process of coordinating work
activities with the aim of achieving
organizational goals in an efficient and effective
manner.

◼ Management include planning,

organizing, leading, and
controlling of human and
other organizational resources.
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 What is Management?
◼ Resources include people, skills, know-how and
experience, machinery, raw materials,
computers and IT, financials capital, and
shareholders (e.g. loyal customers, end-user,
and employees)
◼ Organization is collection of people who work
together and coordinate their actions to achieve
the organizational goals.

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 Elements of Effective Site
Management
◼ (1) Organizational structure
◼ (2) Span of control
◼ (3) Responsibility and authority
◼ (4) Discipline & Respect
◼ (5) Leadership
◼ (6) Team spirit
◼ (7) Motivation
◼ (8) Decision making
◼ (9) Site supervision

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 Organization Structure

Need What?

Task & Objective

Communication

Need who?

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 Span of Control
Size

Efficiency

Team spirit
Supervision

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 Responsibility and Authority
◼ Undertaken by Who?
◼ Recognition of works scope / delegation?
◼ End task satisfaction ?
◼ Double handling and abortive works?
◼ Maintaining behavior of team spirit?
◼ Evaluating the works distribution in terms of
loading?

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 Discipline & Respect
◼ True facts
◼ Bias and Fairness
◼ Always Calmness and be endurance
◼ Keep matters confidentiality
◼ Be fair and firm
◼ Listening to subordinates and more peer contacts
◼ Behave to admit mistaken by yourselves
◼ Poor attitude induce poor performance to works
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 Leadership (Class discussion)
◼ Group discussion (4 to 5 nos. in a group)

◼ How can you become a good leader, who can

build up good team spirit, motivation?

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 Decision Making
◼ Look at it
◼ Give options
◼ Risks awareness
◼ Supporting details
◼ Consolidation, cohesion and conclusion
◼ Action and follow up

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 Site Supervision
◼ Preliminary plan to adopt Client’s need.
◼ Site layouts, temporary works, safekeeping and
work flow.
◼ Adopting the plan in actual.
◼ Allocation of works to be supervised in terms of
team organization, individual team scope, and
its complexity.
◼ Allocation of work sequence, time frames and
work trades.
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 Recap:
(1) Organizational structure
(2) Span of control
(3) Responsibility and authority
(4) Discipline & Respect
(5) Leadership
(6) Team spirit
(7) Motivation
(8) Decision making
(9) Site supervision

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 END

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