Construction Management by Civil Engineers (On-Site Activity)

• Autor(a) principal: Kalthoum, Mohamad Shadi
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/13755
• topic: Competências; Diretor de Obra; Liderança Transformacional; Métodos Qualitativos; Qualificação Académica; Qualificação Profissional; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Civil

The construction industry is vital to the EU economy. The sector employs 18 million people directly and accounts for around 9% of the EU's GDP. It also generates new jobs, stimulates economic growth, and gives solutions to social, environmental, and energy concerns. The European Commission's goal is to help the sector become more competitive, resourceefficient, and sustainable. The construction sector has been hit particularly hard by the financial and economic crisis. This work offers an overview of the profession of construction management and explores the academic and professional qualifications of a construction manager, as well as their duties. Specifically, the work focuses on the roles and responsibilities of a construction manager in the planning, design, calculation, estimation, and supervision of construction projects, taking into account aspects of project management and safety, technology, and legal and contractual requirements. The research utilizes a component of qualitative methods, including sent-out questionnaires with practising construction managers to explore the key issues facing the profession. The findings of this research have the potential to provide a more holistic understanding of the complexities of construction management work and to inform the strategies used to develop better-qualified and more effective construction managers. “Knowledge is the result of information integration through learning”. Knowledge is defined as “the set of facts, principles, beliefs, and practises relating to a particular field of labour or study.” Both abilities and competencies are based on factual and theoretical information; the distinction is in how this knowledge is implemented and put to use. As an example: Working as a "construction manager" necessitates the ability to combine engineering concepts with project management and people management skills. This application of knowledge and abilities occurs in a somewhat unpredictable environment where technical and organisational difficulties occur on a regular basis and solutions must be developed and deployed instantly - either by the construction site manager alone or through teamwork.