Planning, Organisation, and Control of Resources

1. 1 Planning, Organisation, and Control of Resources An Introduction to BTEC Unit 6 In Construction

2. 2 The Learning Outcomes� Investigate the planning and organisational roles of the various parties involved in the construction process and explain how they can work with others to achieve their individual objectives. Identify the resources necessary to complete a building contract and describe how such resources are managed.

3. 3 �The Learning Outcomes Examine the functions of management in organising the production phase of a construction project. Interpret simple networks, bar charts and schedules as used by the construction team.

4. 4 L1, Planning and organisation... Job roles: management roles such as director or site manager; technical roles such as buyer or estimator; professional roles such as architect or quantity surveyor; craft roles such as bricklayer, roofer, steel fixer or plumber; supervisory roles such as supervisor or ganger; and general operative roles. Component parts of construction team: design, production, control.

5. 5 �L1, Planning and organisation Construction process: in terms of feasibility, design, tendering, production, maintenance and repair, refurbishment, renovation and demolition. Team working: group dynamics, organisational charts, interaction and communication in terms of people�s position within the structure, their job roles and their corporate responsibilities and accountability.

6. 6 L2, Resources� Types: materials, labour, plant. Factors: materials factors including cost, availability and fitness for purpose, labour factors including costs per hour and suitability of skills, plant factors including rate of output, suitability and ease of use. Context: finance, site organisation (the �temporary factory�), industrialisation, productivity, health, safety and welfare.

7. 7 �L2, Resources Management: materials management techniques including scheduling of requirements, requisitioning, ordering, receiving, checking and handling, storage and security, issuing and controlling stock, labour management techniques including work study, control and organisation, plant management techniques including decisions on whether to hire, lease or buy, utilisation and control, calculations associated with the above.

8. 8 L3, Management Functions� Broad functions: forecasting, planning, organising, monitoring, controlling, co-motivating, communicating, reviewing and improving. Variables, unknowns and the unforeseeable: weather, difficult access to site, design, lack of resources, poor initial planning and costing, extensions of time, of activities and resources, need for extra resources or different resources.

9. 9 �L3, Management Functions Processes and procedures: site layout planning including movement of labour, and plant, access, accommodation, security and health and safety, method statements, networks, bar charts and schedules, monitoring of progress by meetings, diaries, programmes of work, inspections, scheduling, time sheets, delivery records, utilisation factors, stock control, delivery notes and invoices.

10. 10 L4, Networks, Bar Charts, Schedules, Resource allocation documentation: use of bar charts, networks, schedules and other stock control (as appropriate) to plan, organise, monitor and control resources, documentation of changes made, evaluation of documentation used for resource planning and management.

11. 11 Suggested Reading Cooke B and Williams P . Construction Planning, Programming and Control (Macmillan, 1998). (Amazon �27) Forster G . Construction Site Studies . 2nd Ed (Longman, 1989) Fryer B . The Practice of Construction Management . 3rd Ed (Blackwell Science, 1997)

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