Management in Construction Projects Including Formation and Characteristics

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Vinette Mbatha
Soso Monyane

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The aim of this article is to discuss construction project management, including project formation and characteristics. Due to the project's several phases and levels, it's critical that all project participants, especially the project manager, have the necessary skills and expertise to ensure that the product or service delivered achieves standards. Project management expertise refers to the capacity to schedule a project. As a result, project management is the process of executing a project leveraging expertise, knowledge, methodologies, and techniques in order to meet the interests of all parties concerned. a procedure for performing administrative functions such as planning, initiating, and executing. Where it performs efficiently in each of these project elements, effectively and successfully using sufficient resources to achieve the project's goals. A project's features include time, results, phases of various operations, activity intensity, and basic project parameters. In order to strike the optimal compromise of project costs, work performance, and execution time, a construction project requires planning, scheduling, and oversight. In order to achieve the system's goals, system components in the form of elements or subsystems are coupled in a series to form a system of functions and efficacy.

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