Construction Management

Abstract

Management of construction work may well be classified into two departments: (1) The objective art of bidding for the contract, planning the work, and bringing it to completion; and (2) the subjective art of combining the elements in Part (1) to discover leaks in profit due to avoidable time losses in the various steps involved. This paper is confined to the first of these departments. Standards of success in conservative bidding are discussed, as are also the ideal qualifications of the most important men on any job, namely, the superintendent, master mechanic, and the foreman. The paper deals, specifically, with the best attitude to hold concerning the maintenance of a construction schedule.