Project management for construction activities is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve project goals at the specified time and budget.
The primary challenge is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation such as construction contracts, created at the beginning of the development process. The major constraints are scope, time, quality and budget. The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives.
The object of project management is to complete the project which complies with client’s objectives. In many cases the object of project management is also to shape or reform the client’s brief in order to feasibly be able to address the objectives. Once the client’s objectives are cleared they should influence all decisions made by other people involved in the project.
In term of project management, each project is unique with a defined budget and usually time-constrained. Project manager is undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. In practice, the management of construction sites requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies.
