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Construction project management: The primary functions
Effective construction management in Kenya involves a range of critical functions. The most important ones can be summarized as follows:
1. Defining project objectives and plans, including scope definition, scheduling, budgeting, establishing success criteria, and selecting project stakeholders, all aligned with Kenya’s building regulations.
2. Enhancing resource efficiency through strategic procurement of skilled labor and necessary construction equipment.
3. Coordinating various operations, including contracting, planning, estimating, architectural design, and construction phases, ensuring seamless project delivery.
4. Fostering open communication among stakeholders to resolve potential conflicts and ensure successful project completion.
The main principles of construction project management
It’s no secret that construction project management is a quite complicated field. However, there are some fundamental principles that anyone who just entering the field should keep in mind.
Everything starts with the project owner reaching out to contractors in order to ask for bids. The managers of construction that are interested in carrying out the project will, then, offer a bid to the owner. The bid will include details about the amount of money that the project owner has to offer for the project to be completed. There are two types of bids:
1. Open bid: Open bids are inextricably connected to public projects. It’s an auction where any contractor is welcome to make his offer. An open bid is normally openly promoted.
2. Closed bid: Private projects are based on closed bids. The project owner sends a bid invitation to a specific number of contractors.