This document discusses the demand for and supply of construction management skills in South Africa. It notes that a survey found the construction industry employs around 6,400 people in construction management roles but that graduate output of only 158 per year from universities is insufficient to meet annual replacement needs of around 640 due to attrition. It also highlights that construction management plays an important role in integrating other construction professions but remains an "invisible" profession. Intervention is needed to increase the number of youth choosing construction management careers.

1. Construction Management -
Meeting the needs of the planned
Strategic Infrastructure Projects
Bob Hindle
Drawing upon work undertaken with Prof. J
Smallwood and the work of the SACPCMP
Construction Management Development Committee.
CM Summit 2016

2. A Presentation in 3 parts:
• BE Professions in context
• The demand for CMs & associated
• The supply of CMs & associated

3. INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE –
THE DELIVERY MODEL
Context

4. Town Planning
Architecture Engineering
Quantity Surveying
Land
Survey
ManagementConstruction
ProjectManagement

5. Construction Delivery Model is
Understood to be Inefficient
• Fragmented Professions
• Elitist Social Structure
• Outdated Procedures
• Duplication of Effort
• Poor value for money
Solution!
Integration

6. ORIENTATION OF THE B.E.
PROFESSIONS AT LARGE
Context

7. ORIENTAION
OF
PROFESSIONS
DOMINANT -
•Thinking,
•Values,
•Methods &
•Behavior
Causes
Professions to
FOCUS ON SELF
CONSERVATISM
& Resistance to
Change
Often
described
as SILOS

8. ORIENTAION
OF
PROFESSIONS
Orientation of PRODUCTION
Systems
Orientation
of
Professions

9. ENG 1 QSTRP
ANO
LS
A 2ENG 2
A 1
PROJECT OUTLINE
ROLE PLAYERS IN
A CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT
An array of professions
‘CONGESTION’

10. A
PROJECT OUTLINE
Each profession has its own procedures
Despite the needs of others in the process !

11. A
PROJECT OUTLINE
Net result = inefficiencies, gaps & overlaps
Process falls short of delivering value for money
Exact Opposite of
‘Seamless Delivery’

12. What is needed?
• Process LEADERSHIP
• Real TEAMWORK
• Customer Focus
• Planning, Scheduling & Control
• Communication
• Coordination
• Cooperation
Scientific
Management
Enter:
Construction
Managers

13. PROJECT OUTLINE
INAPROPRIATE ORIENTATION
For INTEGRATION Agents
CPM
&
CM

14. PROJECT OUTLINE

15. Have to Integrate the whole
To achieve Seamless Delivery –
CPM & CM – process orientation

16. CM an Invisible Profession?
• Not a profession that is well known
• Management – a discrete Process
• Quite young?
• Whilst:
– Others compete for status & turf
– CMs get on with ‘herding cats’
• Needs to be promoted more

17. DEMAND FOR CONSTRUCTION
MANAGEMENT SKILLS

18. CONSTRUCTION MAJOR (Jhbg) ORGANIGRAM
INDICATING CM QUALIFICATION
MD
B.Sc CM
PM DIR
B.Sc QS
SNR CD SA
B.Sc CM
SNR CD SA
B.Sc CM
AREA MNGR WA
B.Sc CIVIL
AREA DIR CA
B.Sc CM
SNR PM
B.Sc CM
CD
B.Sc CM
*SNR CM
B.Tech CM
SNRCM
B.Sc CM
SNR CM
B.Sc CM
SNR CM
B.Tech CIVIL
SNR CM
B.Tech CM
CM
B.Tech CIVIL
*CM
B.Tech CM
Job Title Total PDI
Contracts Managers
BSC Construction Management
BSC Civil Engineering
B.Tech Civil Engineering
B.Tech Construction Management
4
0
2
1
1
2
Site Agents
BSC Construction Management
BSC Civil Engineering
B.Tech Civil Engineering
B.Tech Construction Management
6
2
0
1
3
18
SNR PM
B.tech CM
Job Title Total PDI
Engineers
BSC Construction Management
BSC Civil Engineering
B.Tec Construction Management
B.Tec Civil Engineering
19
4
1
11
3
10
Project Managers
BSC Construction Management
BSC Civil Engineering
B.Tech Construction Management
B.Tech Civil Engineering
BSC Quantity Surveying
6
1
2
1
1
1
3
Totals & analysis
CMs Eng’s QS
23 10 1
67.6% 29.4% 3%

19. CM skills needed for many roles
• Site manager (Site Agent)
• Construction Manager
• CMs - Specialist contractors
• Contracts Manager
• Construction Director
• Construction Project Manager
• & many other roles

20. WHAT THE SURVEY NUMBERS
INDICATE

21. Industry Survey (Prof. John)
• Indicates 6400persons employed by
construction majors in CM discipline
for 2013 level of construction
• Included CM’s with the following titles:
• Site Managers
• Site Agents
• Contract Manager
• Contracts Managers
• Contracts Directors

22. Conservative Annual Loses -
Assumptions
• 4.5% burnout
• 2.5% retire,
• 2% emigrate
• 1% move to CPM
= 640replacements
just to maintain levels
= 10%

23. CM Graduate Numbers
B.Sc & B.Tech
• 11 Universities produce 158 CM graduates
per year (4 year degree) (say 30 recruited overseas)
•640 required -
•158 supplied!!!
• Four-fold increase required

24. So, where do the others
come from?
• Traditional route ‘dried-up’
• 500 x 3rd year Graduates
• Other disciplines:
–Quantity Surveyors
– Civil Engineers

25. Meeting the needs of the planned
Strategic Infrastructure Projects?
• Grad numbers keeping pace with annual
losses only
• Intervention needed to increase numbers
choosing the CM career path
• Some deep issues causing youth to avoid
construction (CMDC work)

26. Wishing you a productive –
problem solving, Summit
Thank you for listening

27. References
• Smallwood, J (2014) Indicative SIPS survey
• Proceedings of 1st CM Summit 2012
• Work of the CMDC 2012 - 2014