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Construction Management:
A process of planning, coordinating, monitoring, and control providing of a construction project is termed construction management. As the name implies this type of project management is designed for the construction industry. There are various types of construction projects that use construction management like civil, industrial, environmental, commercial, and residential. All these categories have their own way of running projects and will follow the same construction management methodology.
Process of Construction Management:
In the below image, you can see the process of construction management.
1. Pre-Design:
This process is taken into account and is supervised by the management and designing team where the different objectives are placed. Shaping of ideas into constructional designs and approval for further procedures, demonstration of the pros and cons, establishing the project financing, arranging of funds, approval, and submission from the project advisory board all forms the part of the pre-designing phase.
2. Design Stage:
The design stage is where the construction project begins. It focuses and has sub-phases that are concepts, schematics design, contract documents, design and regulatory development, and industry codes.
3. Bidding Process:
After the design is finally set and processed for construction, the documents are released for the bidding process. Bids are reviewed and granted permission for the task to carry forward as per purchase.
4. Pre-construction Stage:
The client has given permission to begin the project during the pre-construction stage. The construction team including Engineers, Supervisors, laborers is assembled, documents and baseline are reviewed. The pre-construction planning stage involves the identification of issues, definition of the project, cost estimation, planning, scheduling, and needs for the analysis for the job.
Pre-construction helps the client decide if they can go through the project. During this stage, the client may find that the work is expensive or not feasible for the space they have. so if the client and contractor agree work to be done is viable then the contractor provides cost and schedule for the construction project.
5. Procurement Stage:
By definition, procurement encompasses securing all the goods and services needed to bring the construction project to completion in a satisfying and timely manner.
Construction management procurement is defined as being the art and manner of securing necessary goods and services with an eye:
- Timeliness
- Acceptable quality
- Reasonable pricing
- Mitigating and minimizing risk
- Effective communication
- Client satisfaction
6. Construction and Build:
There are numerous construction activities during the construction stage, During this stage, a decision is generated stating the working hours of the laborers, quality check, material storage, and access on the site. Before the construction starts preconstruction meeting is done to ensure everything is on the same process when construction starts. This meeting includes
- How to access the job
- Quality control of project
- How and where to store all materials
- The timing hours that everyone will follow
7. Owner Occupancy:
The owner can take over the building, this is the time when the warranty period starts. After this, the project owner can feel safe that there is enough time to examine all the systems like materials, equipment that have been installed. In this stage resolving commissioning issues, performing seasonal testing, and performing near warranty-end reviews are taken into account.