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• 4 M's of Construct

  • Manpower
  • Machines
  • Materials
  • Money
• Construction Management is resource driven.
• The job of a construction manager is to efficiently and economically apply the required resources to realize a constructed facility of acceptable quality within the time frame and budgeted cost specified.
• The challenge faced by the construction manager is to apply the resources of workers, machines, and materials within the limited funding (money) and time available.

  This is the essence of construction.
• PROJECT VARIABLES

  • Defined
  • Scope
  • Time
  • Cost
  • Resources
  • Undefined ​
  • Change
  • Risk
  • Stakeholder
  • Environment
• Scope

  The work needed to produce the deliverables, products, or outcomes for the project.
• Time

  The duration required to complete the project work​.
• Cost

  The funds required to complete the project.
• Resources

  The people, equipment, material, supplies, and facilities needed to accomplish the project.
• Change

  The type, timing, number, and degree of modifications from a project baseline; can affect the project's scope, time, cost, or resources.
• Risk

  Uncertainty (associated with the scope, time, cost, resources, stakeholders, or environment) that can threaten the the completion of any aspect of the project. Fortunately, it can also present opportunities to accelerate the schedule or come in under the budget.
• Stakeholder

  A person who can affect, or who is affected by, the project, either positively or negatively.
• Environment

  The location, culture, or organization in which the project occurs.
• Scope

  Define and organize all work that needs to be done in order to meet the project mission and create deliverables.
• Schedule

  This element, which you create by working with Project, includes the estimated steps and associated timing involved in reaching the project goal.
• Resources

  Assign resources and track their activities on the project as well as resolve resource conflicts and build consensus. This part of the job also involves managing nonhuman resources such as materials and equipment.
• Cost

  Estimate project costs and apply those estimates across the schedule to create a time-phased budget.
• Communication

  Notify appropriate stakeholders (everyone who has a legitimate stake in its success) of the project status.
• Common Project Management Software

  • Smartsheet
  • Excel
  • Autodesk Construction Cloud
  • Microsoft Project
  • Procore
  • Oracle Primavera
  • Asta Powerproject
• Smartsheet is a modern work management platform that brings together people, processes, and technology to empower anyone to drive meaningful change. Organizations of all sizes use Smartsheet to manage projects, automate processes, and gain visibility into programs and portfolios at scale — all on one real-time, centralized platform, accessible from anywhere, on any device
• Autodesk Construction Cloud connects workflows, teams and data at every stage of construction to reduce risk, maximize efficiency, and increase profits.

  Supports integrated & digitized processes for the build phase of a project in a platform that is easy to deploy, adopt and use, while ensuring information sharing and workflows are tightly controlled and highly- configurable.
• Autodesk Construction Cloud

  Standardized and centralized data collection from design through operations enables data-driven decision making, and predictive analytics provide visibility into high-risk issues that can impact project cost, schedule, quality, and safety. Provides a single source of truth for all project documentation for the owner, GCs and subs.
• Oracle Primavera

  • is the only solution that integrates project and portfolio planning and delivery teams for planning, resourcing, risk mitigation, scheduling, and program management.
  • Manage projects of any size. Robust and easy-to-use.
• Benefits of using Project 2016:

  • Use built-in templates to get a head start on your project.
  • Organize your project by phase, deliverable, geography, or any other method.
  • Determine costs by your chosen method.
  • Organize resources by resource type.
  • Calculate costs and timing based on your input.
  • Use views and reports with the click of a button.
  • Manage complex algorithms
• Project Start Screen

  Includes options for creating a new plan or opening a plan.
• Major Parts of Project Interface

  1. Quick Access Toolbar
  2. Tabs
  3. Tell Me
  4. Ribbon
  5. Group
  6. Command
  7. View or report label
  8. Status bar
• Starting the Project

  1. Moving from concept to plan
  2. Creating the project's work breakdown (WBS)
  3. Entering project information into Project
  4. Entering the WBS into Project
  5. Entering tasks into Project
  6. Starting the project
• ✓✓Start Date & Finish Date: For a project scheduled forward from the start date, enter only the start date. Or if you schedule backward from the finish date, enter a finish date.
• ✓✓Schedule From: You can choose to have tasks scheduled backward from the finish date or forward from the start date. Most folks move forward from the start date.
• ✓✓Current Date: By default, this setting matches the Computer clock setting. However, you can change it so that it doesn’t match the computer clock setting. Changing this date is useful for looking at what‐if scenarios or for tracking.
• ✓✓Status Date: You typically set the current date to track the progress on the project. When tracking, you usually want to see the status of the project as of the current moment, so you can ignore this setting.
• ✓✓Calendar: Select from this drop‐down list the Base calendar template to use for the Project calendar.
• ✓✓Auto Schedule: Project calculates task schedules for you based on the project start date and finish date, task dependencies, calendar selections, and resource scheduling.
• ✓✓Manually: Project enables you to skip entering the duration and dates and specifying them later. When you enter the duration and dates, Project fixes the schedule for the task and doesn’t move it unless you do so manually. The manually scheduled tasks move if you reschedule the entire project, in most cases. The Gantt bars for manually scheduled tasks also differ in appearance from those for automatically scheduled tasks.
• ✓✓Outdenting a task moves it up a level in the outline (literally shifting it to the left in the outline).
• ✓✓Indenting a task moves it down a level in the outline (literally indenting the task to the right in the outline). Whenever you indent one or more tasks, the task above becomes the summary task.
• Resources

  Projects utilize people, equipment, and materials, and these people, equipment, and materials.
• Here are some typical project resources (and one not‐so‐typical resource): ✓✓Engineer ✓✓Office supplies

  ✓✓Hotel ballroom

  ✓✓Administrative assistants

  ✓✓Furniture

  ✓✓Computer software

  ✓✓Graphical designer

  ✓✓Rocket fuel
• Creating Resources

  1. Understanding Resources
  2. Identifying Resources Types
  3. How resources affect timing
  4. Estimating Resource Requirements
  5. Allow for a reserve time (Contingency Reserve of Buffer)
• • Understanding Resources • One aspect of working with resources effectively is to manage the workflow of any resource that has limited time availability for your project. When you create resources, you indicate their availability by hours in the day or days of the week. • Resources add costs to a project