Construction Management System

ABSTRACT

The paper reviews literature available on project planning and construction management in civil engineering or construction industry worldwide. The present study is about construction managers’ role in the industry and use of information communication technologies’ and management tools for effective and fast track completion of projects.

INTRODUCTION

The construction industry is considered as most uncertain and complex in its nature. The complex nature of this industry, in association with the challenges of competitiveness and changing regulatory requirements has created the need for extremely educated and competent construction managers. Having Essential attributes like: intelligence, flexibility, adaptiveness, and the ability

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LITERATURE REVIEW

Pollaphat Nitithamyong, Mirosl Caw, J. Skibniewski

In their paper “Web-based construction project management systems: how to make them successful” described research carried out at Purdue University on the finding of factors determining success or failure of web-based construction project management systems, also the authors have found ways to identify common factors across the systems and organizations that can influence the success/failure of this web based implementation efforts.

C. William Ibbs, Young Hoon Kwak

In their paper “Assessing Project Management Maturity”, summarized the results of research conducted by them from the University of California at Berkeley, they studied how to determine the financial and organizational impacts of Project Management (PM). They developed a PM Maturity Model and an analysis methodology to assess the maturity of that processes. This is called a benchmarking tool. It consists of various multiple choice questions that measure maturity.

Also they showed that there are some perceptions of project management that are not confirmed by author’s actual data. The study showed that this is a start in understanding and forming a theory of project management, yet there are still many gaps in the literature

In addition, contractual aspects of fast-tracking are briefly reviewed at three levels: contract language; contract type; and project delivery method. The study showed that inaccurate cost estimating and cost overrun risk liability, liability for design errors and omissions, delay damages, change orders, construction rework and modifications, as well as risk liability for overlooked work are among the most important reasons for disputes in fast-tracking. Also the authors provided a better understanding of the contractual risk s in fast-track projects and help to develop contract strategies and minimize the associated legal