Chapter Two - What Is Construction Management Flashcards
Agency CM
A construction management project delivery option in which in which the construction manager acts and the owner’s best interest at every stage of the project from design through construction. The construction manager offers advice and project management services to the owner but is not financially responsible for the construction.
Architectural Programming
The research and decision making process initiated by an owner usually with the help of an architect or a programming specialist that identifies the basic needs of the client and the parameters of the project to be designed and ultimately built by construction professional.
At-Risk CM
The project delivery option or the construction manager serves as a consultant to the owner and the development design phases of the project and then the general contractor during the construction phase.
Constructability Review
A design review process in which experienced contractors and construction managers work with designers to ensure that the details of the design actually can be built in efficient and cost-effective manner. The process entails review of materials, application, installation techniques, field execution, and building systems.
Construction Management
The planning, scheduling, evaluation and controlling of construction tasks and activities to accomplish specific objectives outlined in the contract documents.
Design-bid-build
A project delivery method in which the owner holds two separate contracts for design and construction. This method is often referred to as the traditional project delivery method.
Progressive design - build
A qualifications-based design build application where the design builders is selected primarily on qualifications followed by a process whereby the owner then progresses toward a design and contract price with the delivery team.
Design build
The project delivery method in which there is only one contract between the owner and a design build entity. The design builder is responsible for both the design of the construction of the project. This method is often referred to as single source project delivery.
Fast Tracking
A practice utilized to speed up a job by overlapping the design phase and construction phase of a project. This is often applied in design, build or construction management project delivery.
Integrated project delivery
Any project delivery method that can correctly engages the contractor responsible for the construction of the project. At the beginning of the design process. Both design build and at risk CM are considered ipd models.
Multiple Prime
A contracting methodology in which an owner bypasses the use of a general contractor and enters into multiple separate contracts of trade or specialty contractors for the various sections of work associated with the project such as concrete framing, mechanical, and electrical work. Each of the specialty contractors involved becomes a prime contractor on the project.
Scope of work
The parameters defining the overall extent of work to be included in a construction contract. The project scope is commonly communicated through construction plans and written specifications.
Value engineering
A process in which various alternative approaches are evaluated and considered regarding design, product selection or building system in an effort to provide the most efficient, cost-effective solution, possible relative to value and response to the desires of the owner.
Integrated form of agreement (ifoa)
A multi-party agreement that includes the owner design, professional and constructor a signatories to the same construction contract. This unique legal relationship is also referred to as ifoa.
Distinguish between construction management as a function and construction management as a project delivery method.
The construction management function entails various tasks performed by the contractor such as estimating scheduling, cost control and contract administration, or to monitor, manage and control the work of the contract for which the contractor is obligated. Construction management as a project delivery method is a contractual arrangement whereby the construction manager is hired by the owner to provide services to the owner such as design review, overall scheduling, cost control value engineering, constructability reviews, construction coordination. Under CM project delivery, the construction manager may or may not be financially obligated to carry out the construction work itself.
Identify at least three characteristics that make the construction project unique from other industry sector projects.
The construction project is unique in a variety of ways. Each construction project is built as a one of the kind structure or facility. Every construction project is built on a different and unique building site. The building process takes place outside. Much of the work is performed by the human hand. The labor force is by and large made up of transient workers moving from job to job.
Name the four primary project values to be managed, monitored and controlled.
The four primary project values that need to be managed, monitored and controlled on a construction project are time, cost, quality and safety.
Why is scope definition so important in the construction process?
Scope definition is important in the construction process because it describes the extent of the work that is performed by the contractor.
What is meant by the term project delivery?
Project delivery is the overall structural or organizational framework used to put all aspects of designing and building a construction project together.
Identify the four primary project delivery methods and discuss how they differ Contractually.
The four primary project delivery methods are designed. Bid build, design build, at-risk CM also called CM/g C, and integrated project delivery. With design bid build. The owner has separate contracts with the designer and the contractor. With the designed build, there’s only one contract between the owner and the design build entity for both the design and the construction. With at-risk CM. The owner holds two contracts, one with the construction manager or the general contractor and one with the designer. Integrated project delivery also uses a single multi-party agreement with all three principal parties sharing all risks and rewards.
Explain how agency cm is different from at-risk CM
The difference between agency CM and at-risk CM is in regard to who is responsible for performing the actual worker of the contract. Under agency cm, the construction manager has no liability for the construction and acts only as an agent or an advisor to the owner. With at-risk CM, the construction manager acts as an advisor to the owner during the design phase and is liable for the construction.
What is meant by the term? Fast tracking?
Fast tracking is a technique used to speed up the completion of a construction project by overlapping the design and construction process.
Name three basic ways in which a design build entity may be configured.
Three basic ways in which a design build entity may be configured are to have the contractor and the designer create an informal partnership for a project to have a full service design build firm in which the designer and the contractors work for the same company or to establish a legal joint venture between designer and contractor for a single project.
Identify the 10 functions of construction management.
The 10 functions of construction management are managing the project team performing pre-construction services, estimating the project contract administration, managing job site and construction operations, planning and scheduling the project, controlling project performance, managing project quality, managing project safety and managing project risk.
