Manual of Construction Project Management E-Book

Jüri Sutt

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 171

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

This construction client's manual is written in the form of a list of activities. It supports owners in the role of client by helping them make choices during the project development process. This increases control over cost, quality and duration at each stage. Activities within each main stage of the project development (preparation stage; procurement; design; preparation for construction; construction itself; handover; implementation) are divided into phases, each requiring separate decision-making. The phase begins with a list of direct previous decisions and continues with a list of executors, the goal of the present phase and a list of activities to be performed. And each phase ends with a list of expected results and a list of activities that these results release for action in the next phase. The sequence of these seven stages can be altered to help building owners manage risk by choosing and combining the timing of these stages. The tasks involved in project preparation, described in the first chapter are for example, often left by the owner for the designers to solve - or sometimes even the contractors. The decisions relating to the choice of procurement schemes, described in the second chapter, can be made either at the preparation stage of project development, as part of the prioritisation of aims, or at the time of choosing the designer, or at the stage of choosing construction contractors. Manual of Construction Project Management - for owners & clients is for prospective owners who either operate as clients themselves, or who use the services of professional construction management companies. The aim is to help both owners and their construction partners understand what to expect from each other. The manual describes activities at the level of detail required to choose the management task or method to make the decision. It is not bound to regulations of any specific country and a detailed glossary makes it an indispensable worldwide reference.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

About the Author

Introduction

Glossary

Chapter 1 Preparation stage

1.1 Project statement

1.2 Appointment of a project manager and integration of project management in the process management of the owner’s company

1.3 Needs and profitability analysis

1.4 Preparation of the financial scheme and loan contracts

1.5 Preparation for land purchase and corresponding contracts

1.6 Feasibility studies and corresponding investigations

1.7 Detailed area planning

1.8 Scheme design

Chapter 2 Procurement stage

2.1 Choice of procurement path

2.2 Methods for choosing the contractor

2.3 Process of tendering

Chapter 3 Design stage

3.1 Preparation phase

3.2 The choice of designer

3.3 Contracting between client and designer (consultant)

3.4 Management of design

Chapter 4 Construction preparation stage

4.1 Building permit application

4.2 Construction procurement programme preparation (preliminary conditions of contract)

4.3 Choice of contractor

4.4 Construction contracting

Chapter 5 Construction stage

5.1 Construction management

5.2 Owner’s supervision and quality management

5.3 Cost control

5.4 Management of changes and additional works

5.5 Management of the client’s direct contracts

Chapter 6 Take-over stage

6.1 Revisions of general construction work

6.2 Revisions of engineering systems

6.3 Building take-over

6.4 The building’s taking for use

6.5 Project completion

6.6 Warranty period

Appendices

Appendix 1 List of the construction client’s principal decisions

Appendix 2 List of document folders that should be completed during project development

Bibliography

Index

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sutt, Jüri.

 Manual of construction project management for owners and clients / Jüri Sutt.

p. cm.

 Includes bibliographical references and index.

 ISBN 978-0-470-65824-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Building–Superintendence–Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Project management–Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Contractors’ operations–Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.

 TH438.S8879 2011

 690.068–dc22

2010051096

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This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDF 9781119971689; ePub 9781119971696 and MobiPocket 9781119971702

Preface

Each building project requires project management from three different perspectives: that of the client, the designer and the builder. Although they will share a common knowledge of project management, they will also have specific knowledge of their own fields of management. This book describes the activities of the owner in the role of construction client. By performing the complete list of activities himself, the owner maximises the probability of achieving his quality, cost and time objectives. The owner must know which risks he will accept when leaving some of the activities to his partners. Describing the owner’s activities from the initial idea to build right through to final readiness, the book is a manual for the owner. At the same time the client’s partners must know what the client expects from them; so this book is addressed to designers, contractors, supervisors and professional construction managers as well. Within this text, the owner’s activities preceding design, construction and design procurement are particularly highlighted. As nearly half the construction managers and economists in the construction market are engaged on behalf of the owner, the book can be used as study material for construction-faculty students.

The author would like to thank Erki Laimets, director of Conviso Ltd., whose suggestions for the manuscript’s structure, and numerous remarks thereon, were gratefully received. The author also gratefully acknowledges the remarks and review of Lembit Linnupõld, director of Estkonsult Ltd., and the help of Ahti Väin, director of Ahti Väin Konsult Ltd., Vladimir Issakov, director of Tallinn Linnaehitus Ltd., and Jaanus Tehver, attorney-at-law with Tehver and Partners. The efforts of Diana Järve and Daniel Edward Allen in translation and editing are also highly appreciated.

About the Author

Jüri Sutt has nearly 50 years of experience in construction management as a practising manager, researcher, consultant and lecturer, which has included designing the construction technology for large mines in Siberia and a gas trunk pipeline in Libya, and also managing a construction company. In 1965 he pioneered the use of IT in construction-management research in Estonia. Between 1965 and 1980, Jüri Sutt was a member of several USSR scientific councils in the field of construction management and, from 1965 to 1978, was the head of the Construction Management Department of Estonia’s State Building Research Institute which developed scheduling and cost-estimating IT systems that were widely used in the Soviet Union.

He has been an adviser to four ministers responsible for building during Estonia’s transition to a free-market economy and led working groups formulating construction-market regulations in the 1990s. In addition, he has provided consultancy services for clients’ projects and contract management and has gained expertise in contract disputes in the last 15 years.

In 1960, Jüri Sutt qualified as a construction engineer. He was awarded the Candidate of Science degree in 1968 (equivalent to a PhD), and, in 1989, the Doctor of Science (habil.) in mathematical methods and IT in economics. The principal outcome of his research has been the methodology of IT simulating production – economic activities of construction companies enabling experimentation with different economic mechanisms and management strategies in construction enterprises.

Since 1989, he has been Professor of Construction Economics and Management at the Tallinn University of Technology.

Introduction

All of us as individuals, families or organisations are either owners of buildings or parts of them, or are at least the occupants of them. In developed countries, the building sector accounts for about 7–10% of GNP and the process of construction is expensive and time-consuming. Each prospective owner has his individual needs and demands, and expects the building to satisfy them. The state, through its laws and decrees, sets down rules that must protect social interests, public safety and the economic use of resources. Local governments must ensure, through their own regional plans, laws and rules, rational and cooperative, conflict-free regional development in the long term. The public-orientated character of local planning protects the interests of neighbours and local people when any new construction work begins. Within the construction industry, various enterprises and professional associations have laid down standards, directives and general conditions relating to contracts, classifications of works and resources, construction costs and design documents. The acceptance of such standards by the interested parties can be seen as part of the written rules of good practice within construction.