BSc Hons Construction Management: Role of a Construction Manager

This report provides a detailed overview of the role of a construction manager in construction management. It begins by defining the role and responsibilities of a construction manager, including overseeing construction projects, estimating costs, supervising workers, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. The report then outlines various management techniques employed by construction managers, such as improving communication, fostering a positive environment, and making effective decisions. It also discusses the disadvantages of poor management techniques and the challenges faced by construction managers, including poorly defined objectives, budget constraints, and unrealistic expectations. Furthermore, the report explores the behaviors and ethics guiding construction management, emphasizing the importance of developing a structure, having a passion for learning, and adhering to clear project goals. Finally, it provides an overview of health and safety in construction sites, highlighting health regulations, manual handling operations, and the management of health and safety at work regulations. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide array of study resources for students.

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Report: Role of Construction Manager in construction management.

Introduction
Introduction (300 words)
Management is the control on the business activities of the organisation.
The people who control and manage everything is kn own as manager. It is
group of individual who over see the challenges and opportunities in the
organisation. Construction manager is the professional who looks the
construction activities such as roads, buildings and their structures (Araújo,
Carneiro and Palha, 2020). They have to make sure about the construction work
that if they are running efficiently or not. They plan, coordinate, and manage
every aspects of construction work. They direct the construction workers and
takes the responsibility of the whole process. role of construction manger
play an essential role at workplace. This report include the different
management techniques that are being employed by the manager. Moreover
this also includes the behaviour and ethics of construction manager which
also involve the advantage and disadvantages of these techniques and the
challenges that are being faced by the construction managers at the
construction site. Further this report provide an overview of management of
health and safety , manual handling operations , and health regulations.
Construction manager plays an important role in the health and safety
management at the workplace. Construction manager is the one who
overview everything at the construction site, they manager every little things
with full panning which gives the result of effective constructed building,
road or anything for which the contract has made. The overall report is based
on the construction manager that how it deals and work with contractors.
Management of activity like construction is a professional business which
required specialization.
Body
Define and provide an overview of a construction manager (400 words)
Construction manager is a expert who oversees the building of commercial,
residential, and industrial structure. They may work in collaboration with
other managers, who focus on specific aspects or elements in each project
while they are a part of all phase, includes planning on site until completion.
Construction manager coordinate, manage and plan every aspect of building
project from start to finish (Celentano and et. al., 2020). They consider conditions
of weather, and their schedule change depends on for what period a

company wants them there. They also deal with what kind of work have to
be done in the given time. Construction managers were responsible to keep
construction project running precisely from start to finish. They do this
through monitoring the site progress in their field office (Safa, Baeza and Weeks,
2019). They decide what need attention or to notify other parties if something
has not been completed as per urgency level specified through higher-ups.
Successful construction manager need best communication skills to connect
with worker and make strong relationship between them, which assist to
avoid delay in process for completing every task on time due to everyone
working together as a team. Construction manager plans and handles the
duties of construction worker. At time a construction worker take primary
responsibility for the building process, the manager ensures the work get
done on time and correctly.
Roles and responsibilities of construction manager:
 Direct and oversee construction project from concept to completion.
 Review the project in-depth to estimate costs and schedule
deliverables
 Supervise all off-site and on-site construction for monitor compliance
with safety regulations and building
 Direct and coordinate subcontractors and workers
 Select materials and equipment, tools and track inventory.
 Meet contractual condition for performance
 Review the process of working on daily basis
 Prepare external and internal reports pertaining for job status
 Plan ahead for prevent resolve and problem and emerging one
 Negotiate terms of draft contracts, agreements and obtain licences
and permits
 Manage, mitigate risks and analyse
 The use of proper construction techniques and ensure standards of
quality construction
Requirements and skills
 Proven working occurrence for construction management

 Progressive knowledge for process of construction management,
methods and means
 Expert knowledge to build construction detail, products and relevant
rules, quality standards and regulations
 Understand every facet for the construction process
Outline the management techniques employed by construction managers
(400 words)
Management technique – It is a set of such procedural stages which
comprises such numerous thoughts and content which help in the process of
decision making or to make such decisions which are related to planning,
organizing, controlling of human, other sources, etc. with the aim to attain
the desired goals and objectives of the organization.
Advantages of effective management techniques
Improved communication – With the help of this as the administrators learn
to give messages more clearly and briefly. For a managers good
communication is gold. They should be company cheerleaders and motivate
employees.
Positive Environment - A deep understanding between manager and a
employee should be done (Wang and et. al., 2018). Good management
technique show participant as how to make organizational decisions, proper
management training, etc.
Effective decision- It is crucial making in every situation. The managers
should learn to make decision in any condition and should not be effected by
any social, political and emotional factors which mostly often play a major
role while decision making.
Disadvantages of poor management techniques
High employee turnover - The obvious impact of bad management is that
there is high employee turnover. The employees are always leaving the
company.
Low employee morale – when the manager is not capable to motivate the
employee they feel deflated and often lack enthusiasm. And fail to fulfil
organisational goal.
Waste of resources- When there are so many workers who are leaving the
company it leads to more recruiting process which results in more waste of

resources.
Challenges to construction manager-
Poorly defined objectives-The project managers also struggle with a lack of
adequate goals for the task that they run. So, when the goals as well as
objectives which is not clearly defined by the project administrator and
stockholders would not be on the similar page respect the direction of the
program.
Budget constraints- As per the over-budget is mutual in the construction
department. This is the job of the construction project administrator to set a
reasonable outlook for cost overruns and make adjustments to extenuate
and carry off it in the organisation.
Time management- A lot of stockholders realize that the time restraint as
among the main issues through which the result in defective designs, loss in
revenue and high rates of accidents (Al Nahyan and et. al., 2019). Scheduling
disputes and missed deadlines can lead to builders inadvertently edging the
corners in order to come up.
Unrealistic expectations- Impossible deadlines as well as unreasonable
requests are the main morale along with the productivity killers in that
specific project. Sometimes, the client and the consultants, board have false
expectations of a task and want to put its efforts into action immediately in
the organisation.
Discuss the behaviours of construction managers and ethics guiding
construction management (400 words)
Behaviours of construction manager-
Develop a structure- It is seen that a successful construction manager is
having a vision for the project and is designing the role of every team
member. It is important that the vision of the project is clearly
communicated with every team member so that there are no
misunderstandings in between the project (Farrow and Wetzel, 2021). The
construction managers are having the written outlines and the procedures of
the duties which are assigned to the team members. The responsibilities
assigned to the team members have to be analysed so that proper measures
can be taken. It is important for the construction managers to have the
personal details and the clearly defined roles of each member with them.
The data can help the construction managers in tracking the performance of
the labourers in each assignment. It is important to evaluate the contribution
of each member to think about their appraisal.

Passion for learning- A good construction manager is engaged in learning
new skills and techniques from their past projects and from others. It is
important to remember the experiences which didn't work in the past, so
that the construction managers can improve their weaknesses. For
construction managers it is important that they store the knowledge and
take it from wherever they get it (Mengistu and Mahesh, 2019). Construction
managers are the one to whom the other team members and labourers will
come for the guidance. So for construction managers it is important that they
have sufficient knowledge, so that they can solve the problems and can
overcome the hurdles which will come in their way.
Principles guiding construction managers-
Outline clear project goals- Construction managers have to establish clear
goals and objectives, which will be the foundation of the project. Specific
targets have to be established by the managers, so that the team members
can achieve the desired results in time. When the goals set are not met on
time, then they can lead to delays in the whole lifecycle of the project.
Manage risks- The construction business is having a lot of risks, thus it is
important for the managers to manage their risks before handedly. In the
time time of COVID-19 pandemic all the projects were stopped and the social
distancing measures have to be followed by every citizens. The projects
under the construction firms are under great pressure as they are not able to
plan their future activities.
Define team's responsibility- The construction manager is responsible for
defining the team's responsibility which includes project planners, cost
managers, schedulers and the engineers (Li and et. al., 2022). Defining the
responsibilities before starting the project will save the construction manager
from the confusion and misunderstandings created in future business
activities.
Briefly provide an overview of health and safety in construction sites (400
words)
Health and safety
it is an important consideration for the construction project . This is the
major task for achieving healthy and safe construction sites. The main
purpose of this is to create a safe and healthy occupational environment (Li,
Wang and Lei, 2019). It explains that how the organisation will manage the
health and safety at the construction sites. With the help of certain policies
of health and safety control the risks at the construction sites . Health of the
worker plays an important role in completing the task.
Here are some regulations at the work place -

Health regulation- It is the regulation that helps in keeping workplace
environment safe and also comply the law. When the health regulation get
applied to construction work than it is associated with the HSE , they are the
authority on the construction sites who enforce everything. Construction
work have higher risk than it is necessary to have the first aid requirements
on the sites. For this they specified the act also which is known as Health and
Safety Act.
Manual handling operation
It covers a large variety of activities that includes lifting, lowering, pushing,
pulling and carrying. In these task there are risk of injury which can harm the
worker at construction site. For this there is an act also that is Manual
handling operations Regulations 1992 (Rahmani and Leifels, 2018).This risk can
not be avoidable at the construction site, so the worker need to careful while
doing such task at the site. By making sure that the load is stable and
balance and also maintain g a grip can also prevent the manual handling.
Practising also removes the risk of injury.
Management of health and safety at work regulation
There is an act for this which is known by The Management of Health and
Safety at work regulations 1999. in this the detail is given about what
management are required to do manage the health and safety under this act.
This helps in putting the manager at the place from where they can minimize
and control the risk. This required effective planning, organising and control,
monitoring and review of the certain measures.
This helps in providing the relevant information related to the risk at the
construction site.
Provide an overview of a construction manager’s role in the management
of health and safety at the workplace (300 words)
The construction managers play a vital role in managing the health and
safety at the workplace. It is important to take measures and make rules and
regulation on the safety measures. The construction managers implement
the safety policies which helps in reducing the risks of the accidents. It is the
responsibility of the construction manager that they enforce the policies
which are necessary at the workplace (Naticchia and et. al., 2019). The safety
officer is required to have proper knowledge about the safety rules and
regulations, so that they can implement them on the employees. Thus, the

managers can keep up with the updated policies and also are engaged in
renewing them with the new discovered trends.
Role of construction manager in managing health and safety at workplace-
Evaluation and approval of subcontractor guarding plans
Confirmation of tools and equipment to guarantee good quality
Advancing safety practices on site
Appointing and implementing safety guidelines and programs
Carrying out drills and exercises on negotiating emergency situations
Managing inquiry on accidents
Confirming that all safety reports are proposed to related government
institutions.
Reacting to workers’ safety concerns
Pulling off all communications with government departments in respect of
safety.
Conclusion
Summary of essay (300 words)
From the above report it is concluded that the construction managers are
having important role in managing the construction project. They help in
planning, building and implementing the project and also helps in completing
the project with pre defined budget allocated. Construction manager is
having several roles which includes coordinating and overseeing the activities
involved within the construction project. It is the role of the construction
managers to organize everything and prevent the hurdles coming in the near
future. It is important for the construction managers to apply several
management techniques to improve their performance as well as the
performance of their labourers. The construction managers are the ones who
are consulted and they have to provide the feedbacks to all the labourers
and the team members. Effective management techniques should be used by
the construction managers, as it helps in increasing the employee
productivity and satisfaction in their work. Construction managers may have
different style of working, which will help them in accomplishing the desired
project on time with pre defined budget. Effective management techniques

are those which helps the construction manager in creating supporting and
positive work environment for the labourers which will help them in
producing better outcomes. For creating positive environment it is important
that the construction managers are using effective leadership styles and
implement positive behaviour with the employees. For construction
managers it is important that they focus on health and safety measures of
the labourers. Health and safety in construction sites is vital as there are
many harmful tools which can injure the labourers. The workers perform
their tasks at certain height from the land, so there are chances that they can
get injured. So health and safety measures are important for the
construction managers.