Career
If you are holding a bachelor’s degree to triumph
the industry, it would be a sluggish and tough
road ahead. If you want to measure the depth of
the river you don’t need to submerge yourself.
Just send your resume to any foreign company
or any reputed domestic company for job
interview and see how many of them respond.
In our industry, the value of an engineer is
governed by two factors: experience and skill.
You can’t gain experience of five years in one
year but you can excel anybody when it comes to
skills. While you were pursuing your graduation
what specific skill you mastered or even learned
to the depth? With almost 40 subjects to learn in
4 years it’s quite unrealistic to say that you could
have achieved any expertise.
We studied Strength of
Material, Structural Analysis
and steel structure, yet
people qualify GATE and
peruse masters in Structural
Engineering. Any guess
why?
Similarly having thin books
on Project management and
industrial
psychology
wouldn’t ensure that you
have learned the basics of
what it takes to manage a larger than life
projects.
Project management is the art of directing and
coordinating human and material resources
throughout the life of a project by using modern
management
techniques
to
achieve
predetermined objectives of scope, cost, time,
quality, and participation satisfaction.
Specifically,
project
management
in
construction encompasses a set of objectives
which may be accomplished by implementing a
series of operations subject to resource
constraints. There are potential conflicts
between the stated objectives with regard to
scope, cost, time and quality, and the constraints
imposed on human material and financial
resources. These conflicts should be resolved at
the onset of a project by making the necessary
tradeoffs or creating new alternatives.
Subsequently, the functions of project
management for construction generally include
the following:
1. Specification of project objectives and plans
including delineation of scope, budgeting,
scheduling,
setting
performance
requirements, and selecting project
participants.
2. Maximization
of
efficient
resource
utilization through procurement of labor,
materials and equipment
according to the prescribed
schedule and plan.
3. Implementation
of
various operations through
proper coordination and
control of planning, design,
estimating, contracting and
construction in the entire
process.
4. Development of effective
communications
and
mechanisms for resolving
conflicts among the various participants.
The Project Management Institute focuses on
nine distinct areas requiring project manager
knowledge and attention:
1. Project integration management to ensure
that the various project elements are
effectively coordinated.
2. Project scope management to ensure that
all the work required (and only the required
work) is included.
3. Project time management to provide an
effective project schedule.
4. Project cost management to identify
needed resources and maintain budget
control.