scholarly journals The Department of Construction Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Vinette Mbatha ◽  
Soso Monyane

The aim of this article is to discuss construction project management, including project formation and characteristics. Due to the project's several phases and levels, it's critical that all project participants, especially the project manager, have the necessary skills and expertise to ensure that the product or service delivered achieves standards. Project management expertise refers to the capacity to schedule a project. As a result, project management is the process of executing a project leveraging expertise, knowledge, methodologies, and techniques in order to meet the interests of all parties concerned. a procedure for performing administrative functions such as planning, initiating, and executing. Where it performs efficiently in each of these project elements, effectively and successfully using sufficient resources to achieve the project's goals. A project's features include time, results, phases of various operations, activity intensity, and basic project parameters. In order to strike the optimal compromise of project costs, work performance, and execution time, a construction project requires planning, scheduling, and oversight. In order to achieve the system's goals, system components in the form of elements or subsystems are coupled in a series to form a system of functions and efficacy.

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2836-2839
Author(s):  
Yun Xia Jiang

The whole progress of construction project management from Low-carbon idea is studied in this paper. And we hope these research results make project manager agree on the low-carbon idea of the energy conservation mode and sustainable development mode. Then the future project products become the low-carbon products and become the sustainable development products.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Fahmi Hassan ◽  
Farzad Haghighi-Rad ◽  
Amir-Reza Abtahi

Purpose This paper aims to design and develop a management game in the field of construction project management so that by playing the game, the required level of knowledge, skills, capabilities and overall project management competencies in individuals will be promoted. Also, player’s competencies can be measured. Design/methodology/approach This study, in terms of application, is applied research. The construction project management simulation game (CPMSG) was played by 18 university students. To evaluate the level of the players’ project management knowledge and quality of the game, questionnaires were used. Findings The game improves the players’ project management knowledge by 158%, and the educational program that was formulated in the game has also achieved the first three levels of bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives. In the field of game quality, analysis of players’ results of responses and scores show that the game has a good quality level. Originality/value The CPMS game provides a useful tool for project management training, especially in the field of construction projects. It helps in addition to improving the quality of teaching theoretical topics, making students acquainted with the risks and uncertainties of such projects, and provides a simulated experience. In the field of common behavior analysis and player’s selection, the results indicated that the majority of groups used high-quality materials during the games to perform activities related to the appearance of the building (such as finishing and building facade activities) and used medium quality materials in implementing infrastructural activities such as brickwork and floor construction that are not visible in the appearance of work.


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