Construction management

Construction management and planning begins with a complete analysis of the job, down to its smallest component part. The production of each is planned in terms of the optimum material and taking account of the resources in labour and plant management. The whole is then fitted into a closely integrated programme, the ideal of which is that each component should be ready on time, in correct balance of quantities, at the right place; that the flow of work should be logical and in single direction. That the distance traveled and the amount of lifting and handling during this flow should be the minimum possible; that machine and men should be employed to capacity without breaks or delays due to shortages or errors in the programme at each point should be adequate and excercise complete control in timing, quality and quantity. The result is a patter of very good great complexity, always in motion, yet never, in the ideal, allowed to fall out of rhythm or balance.