Construction Management: Selection Approaches

Running head: CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Construction Management: Selection Approaches
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1CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Overview
This particular report depicts the goal, objectives and processes those are necessary to be
followed by the project managers while selecting the construction manager for a particular
project. A successful construction project could provide both education as well as long term
survival experience to the consumers. In order to select the construction manager an award
program for bid, different types of contracts and all the alternative construction selection
approaches are also elaborated in this report.
1. Selection criteria of a construction manager
The construction managers are responsible to develop the blueprint of the site in terms of
overall planning, time table development, labor cost, material determining, negotiation and
hiring subcontractors for the construction project (Jelodar, Yiu & Wilkinson, 2016). In order to
select a construction manager for a construction project it is necessary to consider certain
selection criteria in terms of job skills and requirements as well and those are as follows:
Analytical skills: People who are good in large scale planning, multi scale projects must
be selected as a construction manager.
Decision making: They must have unique decision making power.
Management skills: The construction managers are required to lead their project team for
keeping them motivated engage to their job roles.
Communication: In order to deal with the clients the construction managers are needed
to have proper communication power (Chin & Hamid, 2015).