Construction Management Guide

by Husain Al Omani
 
In Saudi Arabia, job opportunities for project managers are everywhere if you know where to look. [Read more…]

By Dennis Brand

A contract can be varied in one or two ways: either by a variation to the contract terms or the scope of works. The latter is the one that most of us will think of when the term variation is used. [Read more…]

By Alice Haine

The DIFC has opened a creche to help working parents feel reassured their little darlings are safe nearby. It’s fantastic news and shows that corporate environments are taking the right steps towards helping employees cope with the stressful demands of juggling a work and home life. [Read more…]

By Kathleen Goolsby
Steel, lumber, cement, copper tubing and plastic plumbing products are the primary materials used in the structure of homes and other buildings. [Read more…]

Prefabricated Buildings
By Jenny Bengen

Prefabricated buildings are pre-cut, pre-drilled, and pre-engineered before the actual building is constructed. In the past, prefabricated buildings were reserved for industrial structures, but today’s architects have begun building prefabricated homes in large-scale projects. [Read more…]

The project manager has overall responsibility for the quality management process. Some projects may also have specific roles for a quality assurance person or for testing experts. However, even if you have specific people who have responsibilities for quality, project quality is not the responsibility of one or two people. It is everyone’s responsibility.All of the team, including the client, has a stake in ensuring that the deliverables produced are of high quality. Everyone is also responsible for surfacing ideas for improvement to the processes used to create the deliverables. [Read more…]

The best form of defence is attack, and that’s what you need to do to make sure your CV is a targeted weapon. That means no mistakes. Here’s a checklist to run through. [Read more…]

by Rupert Cornford

Many clients are now entering into direct negotiation with contractors in order to secure successful delivery of their projects. [Read more…]

by Dennis Brand

  In the event that a contractor refuses to enter into a contract with a nominated subcontractor, the engineer may do any of the following: [Read more…]

In the first of two articles, Mukund Karnick, senior contracts advisor at Nakheel’s Palm Jebel Ali, discusses when the time is right for clients to take more control over building material selection and use.

In any construction project, the client requires that when the completed project is delivered, they get the exact quality in material and workmanship that was specified when finalising the design of the project. [Read more…]