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Construction management is a set of organizational activities aimed at comprehensive management of all the construction processes starting from development of the project concept to commissioning of the project.
Construction project management helps both to optimize financial and time expenditures and to monitor quality at all construction stages: from concept design and process design solutions, delivery of construction materials and required equipment, construction and installation operations to handing over the project to the Customer.
The main objectives of the specialized engineering SEVERIN DEVELOPMENT company invited for construction management of the project are to achieve the planned operational indicators and production capacity according to the schedule.
Construction project management solves the following tasks:
Three key construction parameters: time, money and quality are interdependent and influence each other directly. Proper construction project management is essential for maintaining balance between them.
Sigitov Roman Anatolyevich
Director General
SEVERIN DEVELOPMENT
Monitoring the construction scope and quality
Monitoring the construction scope and quality is the main feature of any investment construction project. Reduction of construction budget and deadlines does not ensure an investment effect if the scheduled quality parameters of the project are not reached. Quality and scope are specified in design documents. Supporting the designers, checking and monitoring the results of their work is the most important function called construction project management. Construction Supervision Department of SEVERIN DEVELOPMENT is responsible for quality control of work during the construction.
Choose the prime contractor carefully. Avoid situations when the chosen prime contractor is a shell company and cannot perform entrusted functions due to lack of personnel, money in account, experience, construction machinery, etc. In such emergency situations, construction project management is anti-recessionary and shall be reduced to one solution – to get rid of the dishonest contractor as soon as possible and arrange handing over of the site to a new prime contractor.
Petr Minchenko
Head of Construction /
Engineering Supervision
Department
Monitoring the construction deadlines
Meeting construction deadlines directly depends on three factors:
1.
Does the Contractor know what he is going to construct? (in other words, is the Contractor provided with the design documents?).
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Can the Contractor meet the specified deadlines? (i.e. is the Contractor provided with the required man power, qualified engineers, machinery and equipment?).
3.
Has the Contractor received financing timely and fully?
Do not forget that meeting the construction deadlines also depends on methods of calculation: sample or rated. However, urgent deadlines are very often taken instead of estimated ones, when construction must be completed by a specific date by any means.
If the design documents are incomplete, one can assure 100% that the prime contractor will carry out extra works during the construction. As a result, the construction will become more expensive and the specified deadlines will not be met.
Vadim Pimochkin
Head of Technical
Coordination Department
Monitoring the construction cost
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Concluding a general contractor contract according to estimated cost.
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Concluding a general contractor turn-key fixed price contract.
Based on the experience of SEVERIN DEVELOPMENT company, the first approach is more reliable. Under such a contract, the work scope and as a result the cost will increase only in case of gross errors and miscalculations in design solutions. Therefore, high quality thoroughly developed and complete design documents are required to avoid construction appreciation.
The second approach involves assignment of all risks related to potential increase of cost during the construction to the Contractor. In this case the Investor shall conclude a turn-key construction contract with fixed price not subject to any changes.
When concluding such a tough contract, the Contractor usually insists on independent development of design documents. However, a fixed price contract, seemingly reliable, does not exclude change of work scope and therefore cost in case of detecting gross errors in design documents. If the Contractor fails to reach an agreement with the Investor and has to construct using the money specified in the contract instead of the sum actually required, this will almost always lead to construction quality deterioration. And to further economic disputes.
Sergey Prokaev
РHead of Financial
and Construction Audit
Department
