The management of construction is an enterprise that involves many people with diverse interests, talents and backgrounds. The owner, the design professional and the contractor comprise the primary triad of parties, but others, such as subcontractors, material suppliers, bankers, insurance and bonding companies, attorneys and public agency officials, are vital elements of the project team whose interrelated roles must be coordinated to assure a successful project. Throughout the project life cycle, from the time the owner first contemplates launching a construction project to that celebrated time, many months or years later, when the completed project is ready for use, the tasks carried out by the various parties vary in type and intensity. In this book, we consider the roles and responsibilities of the many parties at each phase of the construction project life cycle. The primary focus here is on the construction contractor, who carries the lead responsibility for the on-site installation work and all of the associated planning and followup. It is important, at the same time, to understand how other people and organisations contribute to project success.
During the project mobilisation phase, the contractor may be required to acquire surety bonds as a means of assuring the […]
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After the contractor is selected, a number of activities must be completed before installation work can begin at the project
Having studied the various options from the standpoint of costs, economic benefits, ease of construction, schedule impacts, as well as
In presenting the contractors activities on the construction site, we will suggest, perhaps too simply, that the responsibilities involve three basic
Finally, as the project nears completion, a number of special activities must take place before the contractors responsibilities can be
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A construction project is built to achieve certain objectives, as defined in the brief. Those objectives will be achieved if
The final steps in the contractor selection phase involve decisions about the size of the markup to be added to
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The practice of providing material quantities in the contract documents varies in different parts of the world. For all unit-price
For projects with open tenders, it is usually to the owners advantage to advertise the project widely, so as to