Posted by Civil Engineer On February - 21 - 2009
Construction managers are responsible for coordinating and planning various construction projects which can include the building of roads, bridges, or other types of residential and commercial properties. They can manage a whole project or part of one, and they will schedule all construction processes that will occur.
These professionals may also be called project managers or constructors, and they will supervise the project from the design stage through the final construction, ensuring that the project is done in a timely fashion and that it is completed under budget. When building a large structure such as an office building, it will often take multiple project managers in order to complete the project. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Civil Engineer On February - 16 - 2009
Project Management is the business process of creating a unique product, service or result. A project is a finite endeavor having specific start and completion dates undertaken to create a quantifiable deliverable. Projects undergo progressive elaboration by developing in steps and predictable increments that are tied to benchmarks, milestones and completion dates.
This finite characteristic of projects stands in sharp contrast to processes, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent functional work to repetitively produce the same product or service. In practice, the management of these two systems is often found to be quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and the adoption of a separate management philosophy. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Civil Engineer On February - 15 - 2009
The Foundations for Risk Management presented herein will be the basis for the tools and other content that the Risk Management Program committee will deliver at the upcoming convocation. These Foundations were developed by engineers in private practice to help engineering firms focus their practice on avoiding and minimizing risk.
The first five Foundations deal with the process of the engineering business and the last five deal with project management. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Civil Engineer On February - 12 - 2009
ASTM International, originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services. The organization’s headquarters is in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, about 5 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Read the rest of this entry »
