Team Functions, Roles and Responsibilities

Construction Company Team Functions

• Project managers (PM)
• Superintendents
• Schedulers
• Estimators
• Material expediters

Owner’s Project Team

• Size of the owner’s project team will depend on the size and complexity of the project – small project (A/E)
• Large highway project
  • Resident engineer
  • Inspectors
  • Surveyors
  • Quality assurance technicians

Managing Critical Activities

• Contracts are broken down into activities for purposes of scheduling, estimating, progress control, and cost control. Large projects can have several hundred activities, or more!
• Trick is to know which activities are critical
• Critical activities are those that could impact the cost of the work by at least one half of one percent of the bid price:
  • For example, on a $1,000,000 project, any activity with a potential for cost over-run or under-run of $5,000 or more is by definition a critical activity.

Pareto’s 80-20 rule

• 20% of the activities are critical and should be managed carefully
• The other 80% will average out…