The project management team is led by a project
manager, who is an agent of the client and acts on his behalf. He is either
appointed by the client or is positioned at site by the construction management
consultant (of the client). He co-ordinate and communicates with all the
agencies engaged in project work. In particular, he is accountable for
planning, mobilizing, motivation, directing, coordinating and controlling all
the activities at the project site which are necessary for achieving the
project objectives of time, cost and quality. Loosely, the site incharge
of a major contractor is also referred as contractor’s Project Manager or
General Manager or Construction Manager.
The achievement of these project objectives is closely
linked with the skill, effectiveness and efficiency of the project management
team, and how it is organized for conducting its operations. This team consists
of the functional heads or the body of managers in a project. To quote example,
trunkey contractor’s Project Management team comprising of heads of staff and
line departments of a Typical Housing Units Building Construction Project, is
show in Exhibit.
The size of the project management team depends upon
the nature and scope of the project work. In the medium and large-size projects,
it may include specialists to manage construction planning, architecture and
engineering, tendering and contract administration, value analysis and quality
assurance, materials and equipment handling, and finance and personnel
administration.
Depending upon the size and nature of the project, the
managers in the project team are entrusted with the responsibility to
accomplish project tasks. A large complex project may have manager incharge of
each specialized task, whereas in smaller and less complex projects, only few
managers can look into all the tasks. The various ways in which the duties of a
manager can be combined with those of the project manager in small
project are:
a) Project manager / construction superintendent
/planning and controlling manager, can be a single individual.
b) Project manager / resources procurement manager /
construction superintendent, all can be centralized in one person.
c) Project manager / planning and controlling
manager / contract manager, can be the same person.
