General contractor project manager

Controlling contractor means a prime contractor, general contractor, construction manager or any other legal entity which has the overall responsibility for the construction of the project— its planning, quality and completion. 

Project Constructor. The person, firm or corporation, i.e. construction manager, general contractor, project constructor or other entity, as designated in the project documents, responsible for supervising and controlling all construction work performed on the project. 

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The complexity of the project dictates the execution approach. The coordination of a major project requires a well-structured organization, with formal lines of communication and procedures to insure quality, schedule and cost control. To achieve this, the direct execution and project control responsibilities are assigned to an engineering and/or construction firm to act as general contractor under the supervision of the Owner s Project Manager. In the conventional approach required for major projects, the general contractor is a must. 

In a major project, in addition to the general contractor, the Project Manager is usually assigned a team of engineers specifically dedicated to support the project and follow up on the details of the work to be performed and monitor progress. The Project Manager s role is mainly to provide overall direction, ascertain that proper controls are established and monitor their implementation to insure compliance to project objectives and specifications. 

To fulfill their responsibilities, project managers must participate actively and in a deliberate manner by actually performing some of them and directing or coordinating the others. This is particularly true in small projects where the Owner s project team must perform the functions normally done by the general contractor. 

In all cases, the Project Manager must coordinate and monitor the activities of all groups and generally provide the management usually provided by a general contractor. 

In the absence of a general contractor, the Project Manager must step in to fill the breach and insure, through hands-on action and/or direct supervision, that the essential activities required for proper coordination and control of the detailed engineering phase are performed on a timely basis. Those activities include ... 

Some owners only have general specifications and rely on engineering contractors to provide their own detailed project specifications. When the engineering is done in-house, they would use the specifications from some recent project in the same location. In that case, it is the Project Manager s responsibility to review and update them and, above all, make sure that they provide quality and safety consistent with the project requirements without unnecessary gold plating. 

Although the guidelines in the following section are intended for project managers working with general contractors, they are also appropriate for small project managers. 

On projects handled through a general contractor, procurement (including expediting and inspecting) is performed by the contractor under the supervision of the Owner s Project Manager. Frequently, the Owner s specialists will also participate in the inspection of critical items. 

As mentioned before, the C.M. function could be performed, depending on the construction approach, by the general contractor, by an independently retained C.M., or by the Owner. In the latter option, the Project Manager becomes also the Construction Manager. Construction management entails many other activities, some of which are the responsibility of the contractors directly performing the work and others are the responsibility of the C.M. 

The Construction Manager has a dual responsibility to both the Project Manager and the plant engineer. The Construction Manager represents the Project Manager in the field and is the official contact with construction contractors in all field-related matters. Generally, the CM is responsible for all field activities including those performed directly by the Owner s personnel. The duties include but are not limited to ... 

The total cost of the field indirects is 100-130% of direct labor costs (direct hire) plus 15-20% of subcontracts and inversely proportional to project size. In the following breakdown, an asterisk denotes services usually supplied by Construction Manager or General Contractor. 

For seasoned project managers in charge of major projects, it can be a refresher course in project management and a thorough checklist of project activities. It also provides quick and easy ways to spot check the general contractor s work. 

The construction phase (Fig. 5.) of a project can be accomplished in three main ways—construction management, general contractor, and construction by direct hire. 

The general contractor approach gives the responsibility for construction management to a construction contractor. Most often this contractor will be the one who will also hold the largest subcontract on the project. The major advantage of the arrangement is lower cost. It does not, however, come without price. The contractor selected may not have the qualified people to control the pjuts of the job in which he has no expertise, he may add parts of the project to his work scope that he is not qualified for, and the work he self-performs will not have the advantage of checks and balances on its quality. 

Once construction starts, the appointed project manager assumes responsibility for the project on behalf of the organization and through the general contractor utilizes the architects and the electrical and mechanical consultants as appropriate for the duration of the project. On completion, a commissioning phase is entered, wherein the installed systems are checked and calibrated according to the design specifications, at which point, subject to minor deficiencies, the facility can be turned over to the owner. 

B. If you selected a construction site, imagine that you are the newly-appointed construction project manager, that is, on the staff of the general contractor. Or, if you chose a manufacturing process, pretend you are the just-appointed new... 

Responsibilities of the QAU include the maintenance of a copy of the master schedule, which has been indexed by the test substance and contains information on the test system, the nature of the study, the initiation date, the identity of the sponsor and the study director, and the current status for each study. Individusd field and analytical contractors generally include the name of their project manager for each study listed. 

Construction Quality Plan Construction of seismic retrofitting works must be checked for quality and general compliance with the intent of the drawings, technical documents, and specifications of the retrofitting design, via the construction quality plan of the project. As was previously mentioned, this document will be prepared by the contractor and will be checked and approved by the project manager (Fig. 9). 

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