Construction Project Management Case Study of THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT: CASE
STUDY OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT PROJECT
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Project Description..........................................................................................................................3
Stakeholder analysis........................................................................................................................3
Management analysis.......................................................................................................................4
Quality of the management system..................................................................................................5
Challenges........................................................................................................................................6
Innovation and collaboration...........................................................................................................8
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
Reference List................................................................................................................................12
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Introduction
Construction is such a platform which needs good management so that the whole project can be
completed nicely. Not only in the constructional field but also in each and every field the
management of the project is very important and the management of the constructional
organization is actually consisting of the Organization, direction as well as that expansion of the
project life cycle and the proper innovation of the project. In this part the construction site about
which the whole project will be designed is “THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT PROJECT”.
Here the details about the project which is investing nearly £5 million are discussed. The time
expansion of the project is nearly 3 years. Here the constructional organization is generally
investing to construct an IT startup company. At first it was decided that the IT sector will be
completed within 2 years but there was a problem of liquidity for which the time of the
construction was extended for more than one year. And the most that were invested in the project
was £ 2.5 million. One more case is stated here in which the government was giving a contract
for a grand project in which the investment was nearly £430 million. It was for 2 years.
Project Description
Stakeholder analysis
Here in the Project management details of 2 projects are stated and here the elaboration of two
types of stakeholder will be focused. In the case of the normal project the stakeholders are
suppliers of the raw materials of the project and the other stakeholders are the community, client,
directive team, curatorship, CEO of the organization, government and lastly the financial entities.
The stakeholders are the people who are involved with the project directly or indirectly and the
stakeholders can give the information about the details that can help in constructing the project
and they are awaking the management and the leaders as well as the employees about the risk of
the project. They are also giving ideas to them how the risk can be overcome (Locatelli et al.
2019). The most important stakeholder in an organization is the owner of the project who is
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having shares in the project. He or she also can control the details of the business. The owner of
the business is such a person who can direct as well as manage the business in an easy way. In
case of the government projects the stakeholders of the projects are Government, Consultants,
Users, Contractors, and Citizens, Special interest groups as well as the Local authorities.
The stakeholder is having a lot of importance in a project and that are-
The stakeholders are doing empowerment of the peoples as well as they are also helping to build
a proper type of organization. They are helping in making sustainable changes in the
organization which can make the environment of the organization better. Better stakeholder can
increase the way of success for the organization and can provide better services and make better
and big projects. There are some techniques of the stakeholder analysis. Such as- Some
extremely useful technology are actually used for the stakeholder analysis as the stakeholder
prioritization can be identified. There are generally three steps in which the stakeholder can be
easily analyzed. They are-
At first this stakeholders that are key stakeholder are needed to be analyzed in the second step
the importance of the stakeholder or the impact of the stakeholder are needed to be analyzed. In
the third steps how they got engaged with the job are needed to be defined here and these is very
important case.
Management analysis
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT organization is actually working in 2 project and the details of the
management of the project and its effect in different parameters are discussed here in details. In
case of the first project the employee of the SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT is designing an IT
sector and total 3 years are allotted for that (Locatelli et al. 2018). In the second case a
government building is designed by the SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT. In the second case nearly 7
years are needed to design the project fully and nicely. And nearly £ 430 million is used in this
case. So, in these part the management style that is adopted are stated here and the analyzed of
the management methods are also given in details in these part.
Site management is actually involving the activity in which how resources can be managed to be
turn into a finished product. Here the self administration is very important and how the builders
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