Project Management for Construction: towards methods and tools meeting demands of modern construction operations
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/4053Keywords:
construction projects, construction management, project planning, complexity, company networksAbstract
Project management standards are gradually moving to the direction where increasingly attention is put on cooperation and collaboration methods between different players involved in construction operation. Construction professionals and other experts i.e. in academia agree widely that this is essential. Construction business and its operations in general have not been isolated from the long term developments in different sectors such as outsourcing where core businesses is valued high and other operations are cut away. This has resulted in high number of specialized companies that on the other hand has increased the total number of partners in any kind of construction project.From the management viewpoint this is a different challenge and it has naturally provided the starting point for new kind of managerial tools and solutions. This paper provides discussion of the characteristics of modern construction and those as starting points for the development of new kind of construction management methods and tools.
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