Project management involves managing finite construction projects with defined start and end dates to achieve goals on time and on budget. Key aspects include planning, scheduling, cost control, quality management, safety management, and contract compliance to coordinate teams and resources across multiple projects simultaneously. Computerized record keeping helps analyze progress and facilitate effective communication.

1. Introduction to Project Management

2. Introduction to Project Management
• Management is a discipline
• Large, broad-based field
• Project management
• Management of several projects
• Separate entities
• Finite time frame
• Associated with completion date
• Primary purpose: to achieve project goals

3. Attributes of Construction
Projects
• Include:
• Specific parameters (duration, quality, budget,
location and assembly team)
• The project will be completed within a Finite durations
It has a specific start date and a specific completion
date.
• Located away from company
• Each project requires separate management
• Single source of responsibility
• Separate cost accounting element

4. Attributes of Construction
Projects
• Single project can have thousands of parts, systems,
and equipment
• Substantial purchases may be required
• Substantial subcontracting is used
• Construction companies have numerous projects at
the same time
• Single owner or customer
• Each site is controlled by the contractor

5. Goals and Objectives of
Construction Projects
• Project goals
• successful and profitable
• Objectives
• Definable tasks that support goals
• Time frame and level of quality
• Cost control and safety program effectiveness
• Customer satisfaction
• Effective management of subcontractors

6. Management Techniques to
Achieve Project Goals and
Objectives
• Management techniques
• Necessary to control project building
• In order to achieve objectives
• Wide variety
• Takes a team to design and build facilities
• Managers control all variables

7. Organization of the Project
Delivery System
• Needs to be cost-effective
• Personnel varies according to project
• Project duration, size, and contract type
• Amount of self-performed work
• Personnel available and crew size
• Multiple areas of work and contracts
• Reporting requirements to the customer
• Extent of cost control and reporting required
• Public versus private work and market

8. Leadership
• Attributes:
• Vision of entire project
• Plans for achieving completed
project
• Insistence of meeting financial
goals
• Understand crews and provide
motivation
– Communication
– Maintain
relationships with
upper management
– Critical decision
timing
– Company loyalty

9. Problem Solving
• Considerations:
• Full impact on subcontractors, suppliers, and
contractor
• Cost impact
• Time impact
• Best solution for project conditions
• Best method of resolving conflicts

10. Reporting and Record
Keeping
• Provides:
• Communication between field and home office
• Communication with client and consultants
• Systematic and regular analysis of current conditions
by field personnel
• Historical record for project documentation

11. Planning and Scheduling
• Enables completion on a finite date
• Plan: organizes the project
• Schedule: tool for communicating the plan
• Flexible
• Can be modified to changing conditions
• Initial planning: project management basis
• Continual planning and scheduling: addresses
conditions that arise

12. Cost Control
• Containing construction costs
• Within budget established by cost estimate
• Involves use of comparison
• May indicate a need to change methods, techniques,
or crew composition
• Can help achieve additional profits
• Ensures accurate cost database

13. Quality Management
• It is an important part of project management’s tasks
• Quality has several meanings
• Meeting expected level of material
• Maintaining the level of workmanship
• Earning general customer satisfaction

14. Safety Management
• Proactive safety management program
• Economic benefits
• Workers’ compensation premiums
• Insurance premiums
• Tied to company-wide performance record
• Goal: prevent all jobsite accidents

15. Contract Compliance
• Submittals include:
• Material and permanent equipment submittals
• Shop drawings
• Project meetings
• Change control, documentation, and compensation
• Progress payments and project closeout

16. Computerized Record Keeping
• Helps compile, organize, and analyze project
progress information
• Time, cost, and project data recorded on the jobsite
• Timely production of quality, usable information
• Facilitates problem solving and communication
during the project

17. Summary
• Construction organizations:
• Rely on project management to manage profit centers
• Goals of a construction project:
• To be successful and profitable
• Variety of techniques used