Planning, scheduling is an crucial part of the building administration. Planning and scheduling of building activities helps engineers to complete the project in time and within the budget.
The term ‘construction’ does not only denotes physical activities involving men, substances and machinery but also covers the entire gamut of activities from conception to realization of a construction project. Thus, administration of resources such as men, substances, machinery needs effective planning and scheduling of each activity.
administration is the science and art of planning, organizing, leading and controlling the work of organization members and of using all available organization resources to reach stated organizational goals.
building administration deals with economical consumption of the resources available in the least possible time for successful completion of building undertaking. ‘Men’, ‘substances’, ‘machinery’ and ‘money’ are termed as resources in building administration.
The main objectives of construction management are,
The functions of construction administration are
It is the process of selecting a particular method and the order of work to be adopted for a project from all the possible ways and sequences in which it could be done. It essentially covers the aspects of ‘What to do’ and ‘How to do it’.
Scheduling is the fitting of the final work plan to a time scale. It deals with the aspect of ‘when to do it’. It shows the duration and order of various construction activities.
Scheduling of the programming, planning and construction procedure is a vital instrument in both the daily administration and reporting of the undertaking progress.
Organizing is concerned with decision of the total construction work into manageable departments/sections and systematically managing various operations by delegating specific tasks to individuals.
Staffing is the provision of right people to each section / department created for successful completion of a construction undertaking.
It is concerned with training sub ordinates to carryout assigned tasks, supervising their work and guiding their efforts. It also involves motivating staff to achieve desired results.
It involves a constant review of the work plan to check on actual achievements and to discover and rectify deviation through appropriate corrective measures.
It involves bringing together and coordinating the work of various departments and sections so as to have good communication. It is necessary for each section to aware of its role and the assistance to be expected from others.