8/9/2019 Pm Assgnmnt 1

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Assignment 1

a) The 2 categories of construction industry is building construction industry and heavy

construction industry. Builing construction industry is have all the general contractorsand operative builders primarily engaged in the construction of residential, farm,

industrial, commercial, or other buildings.

 Whereas, heavy construction industry have all the general contractors primarily engaged in

heavy construction other than building, such as highways and streets, bridges, sewers,

railroads, irrigation projects, and flood control projects and marine construction. This

includes special trade contractors primarily engaged in activities not normally performed on

 buildings, such as highway grading or underwater rock removal. This does not include

special trade contractors primarily engaged activities performed on buildings.

d) !roject "anager #!") will have overall responsibility for the successful planning,

e$ecution, monitoring, control and closure of a project.They must have a combination of 

skills including an ability to ask penetrating %uestions, detect unstated assumptions and

resolve conflicts, as well as more general management skills.

project manager is usually responsible for the success or the failure of the project.

They first need to define the project and then build its work plan. &f the scope of the project is

not very clear, or the project is e$ecuting poorly, the manager is held accountable. 'owever,

this does not mean that the manager does all the work by himself which is practically

impossible. There is an entire team under the project manager, which helps to achieve all the

objectives of the project. 'owever, if something goes wrong, the project manager is

ultimately accountable.

part from this, depending on the si(e and the comple$ity of the project, they may

need to take on multiple roles. The project manager may need to assist with gathering

 business re%uirements, help to design a database management system or may prepare project

documentation. They may work full time on a large project, or may work parttime on various projects of a smaller nature* or may alternatively handle various projects as well as handle

other responsibilities like business analysis and business development.

t times, they may have accountability but not authority. +or e$ample, he or she may

 be using certain resources but might not have direct control over those resources. t such

times, the manager might find certain limitations over task e$ecution, which might not take

 place as they might have liked. ot having direct control over the state of finances and

finance allocation might cause ambiguity. &n order to be successful, the project manager must

 be given support and authority by senior management.