A SYSTEM APPROACH TO EFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTROL
A SYSTEM APPROACH TO EFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTROL
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1982-09
Authors
Mosaku, Timothy Olusoji.
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Abstract
It is a pervasive tradition for the building process
to be split up for a number of different parties to do
different things at different times. There are many
reasons for this but most important is the increased
specialization in the process. This trend is likely to
continue but yet there is need for integration since
decisions taken in isolation may cause distruption or
distortion somewhere along the line of the whole process.
This research has been attempted in order to investigate
the ways by which rationalised decisions at the
various stages of a project can enhance control and coordination
throughout the whole process; that is from design
to practical completion of the construction work.
The following factors have been found to hinder both
the progress, control and coordination of construction
programmes.
a) Design changes (sometimes made as late as the
construction stage) which may be due to
various reasons.
b) Design inadequancies.
c) Design priorities being at complete variance
with other requirements as function, contract
administration, construction practice etc.
These should be mutually benefitial to all
parties.
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d) Management procedure adopted. (including the
relationships between the various parties to
the contract, and, office and site management
of the contractor). Sometimes the practice is
non-complementary.
e) Government involvement through the introduction
of economic measures and regulatory sanctions.
This thesis takes the premises that coordination
and control of building project are intrinsic parts of
creative and functional design,, well established contract
practice and procedure, and of sound construction practice;
that the various parties involved at different stages of
the project process do not have to think in isolation
but rather to have in their contemplations what could be
both the negative and positive effects of each others
contributions to the realisation of a project management.
The success of any project will depend upon this
ability to closely align the requirements of these various
parties both in terms of cost, quality , functional values,
aesthetic satisfaction and the ability to meet the completion
date. It will also depend upon the parties being
able to realise the prime objectives for which they have
been set up-without mutilating any of the project goals.
It then means that effective project development
and management is a game where there should be no winner
or loser. It is a game of compromises within acceptable
tolerance.
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The thesis itself consists of eight chapters.
Chapter one highlights the general problems of the
construction industry in Nigeria and develops a theme
for the purpose of the thesis. Specific objectives
were set and a brief account of methodology given to
show how the proposed objectives might be accomplished.
An evaluation of the theory of the thesis concept
was given in chapter two coupled with an account of
what has been done along the same line by other
researchers.
Chapters three and four provide the basic data
for the development of the concept. Specifically an
account of the procedural matters was rendered in
chapter three while chapter four provides the information
on the flaws existing in the application of the
procedural matters discussed in chapter three.
In chapter five and six the concept and the basic
application of proposed system were described. The
concept developed is based on finding the common grounds
where cooperation, hence control can be accomplished.
Such information is then fed into a system operating
on both feedforward and feedback control system. In
other words the stability of the system is assured by
the fact that both the feedforward (Ff) and Feedback
(Fb) are equal for each stage of a project development.
Description
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA, NIGERIA.
Dissertation submitted for the Ph.D. Degree in
Construction Management.
A SYSTEM APPROACH TO EFFECTIVE
PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTROL
BY
Timothy Olusoji Mosaku
Department of Building
Faculty of Environmental Design,
Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria - Nigeria.
September, 1982.
Keywords
SYSTEM APPROACH, EFFECTIVE, PROJECT, MANAGEMENT CONTROL