List of CEIM alumni : May and December 2008

May Batch

1. Mr. Phouthasen Sinthavong
Thesis: The Role of Lao Governtment on ADB Operation of Partnership Financin Stratege: Case Study of Vientiane Urbaninfrastructure Services Project

2. Mr. Rathsayam Tiyarathtagarn
Thesis: Factors Affecting Project Delivery Time Delays and Cost Overruns of Project Development at the Royal Irrigation Department of Thailand

3. Miss Surangkana Trangkanont
Thesis: High-end Residential Property Development Process: A Case Study of Projects in Thailand

4. Miss Atcharaporn Suwan
Thesis: A Study of Hotel Renovation Project Management Process in Thailand

5. Mr. Braj Kishor Mahato
Thesis: Conflict Dynamics in Dam Construction Projects

6. Miss Vivi Megawati
Thesis: Financial Management in Construction Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Towards Financial Capability Enhancement: Case Study in Thailand and Indonesia

7. Mr. Pakawat Pormmoon
Thesis: Framework Implementation of Reduc, Reuse, Recycle, and Residual Management Concept for Thai Construction Industry

8. Miss Suphitcha Phoemphoonthanyakit
Thesis: Strategic Planning and Budgeting Allocation of Intermodal Transportation Logistics Development in Thailand

9. Mr. Jirachai Thaewthiang
Thesis: Corporate Social Responsibility in Construction Companies in Thailand: The Case Study of Preuksa Real Estate Public Company Limited

10. Mr. Tran Ngoc Tuyen
Thesis: The Adoption of Sustainable Construction Principles in the Construction Industry in Vietnam

11. Miss Nguyen Thi Xuan Dan
Thesis: Criteria for Selection Process of Local Infrastructure Project in Vietnam

12. Mr. Tran Quang Ninh
Thesis: Public Private Partnership Models for Low-Income Housing Development of Cantho City, Vietnam

13. Miss Pham Thi Cam Tien
Thesis: Sustainable Construction Development Project to Support Tourism Industry in Phu Quoc Island in Kien Giang Province Vietnam

14. Mr. Le Hai Son
Thesis: Cost Control System in Vietnam Construction Company

15. Mr. Nguyen Duy
Thesis: Motivation of Construction Engineers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

16. Mr. Tran Minh Tung
Thesis: Project Time and Cost Management in Water Supply Pipeline Construction in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam: A System Dynamics Approach

17. Mr. Tran Huong Quang
Thesis: Corporate Social Responsibility in Vietnamese Construction Industry

18. Mr. Pham Hoang Anh
Thesis: Enhancing Sources of Funds by Private Participation for Transport Development: Case Study in Ben Tre Province

19. Mr. Truong Vinh Hiep
Thesis: Study of Project Management Personnel Needs for Infrastructure Development in Dong Nai

December Batch

1. Mr. Andreas Adihartanto
Thesis: Safety Rules and Procedures Development and Implementation: A Study on Construction Industries in Thailand

2. Mr. Alvin Agustinus Gahari
Thesis: Workers Participation in Safety Management System in Construction Projects in Thailand

3. Mr. Nguyen Khoa
Thesis: EPC Project Management and Problems: A Case Study of International and Local EPC Contractors of Oil Gas and Petrochemical Projects in Vietnam

4. Mr. Dang The Phuong
Thesis: Quantitative Risk Assessment for the Offshore Platforms in "Vietsovpetro" Joint Venture

Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CEIM) alumni in January and August 2007

Master of Engineering

1. Mr. Nguyen Viet Dung

Thesis: Risk Management in Port & Waterway Projects: A Case Study of the Southern Focal Economic Area of Vietnam

2. Mr. Phan Thanh Hai

Thesis: Audit Safety Management in Business Progress of Offshore Oil & Gas Project

Case Study: Oil & Gas Projects in Ba Ria - Vung Tau, The Southern of Vietnam

3. Mr. Nguyen Kim The Anh

Thesis: Evaluation of Effective Design Architectural Process

4. Miss Nang Kham Kyi Oo

Thesis: Risk Approaches for Making Go/No-Go Decisions by Thai Consulting Engineering Firms

5. Mr. Pham Hiep Luc

Thesis: Application of Neuro-Fuzzy Networks to Forecast Cost and Duration Variances for Building Projects in Vietnam

6. Mr. Arasavindiran Mariappan

Thesis: Effect of Globalization on the Supply Chain Competitiveness of Large Scale Contractors: A Case Study

7. Miss Ramya Kanaganayagam

Thesis: Kaking Construction Employment Decent Work: A System Dynamics Investigation

8. Mr. James Suvanaphen

Thesis: Technology Selection Practices in Building Construction Projects Through the Perspectives of Design Consultants

9. Mr. Le Phi Hai

Thesis: Business Performance Measurement Framework for Construction Organizations

10. Mr. Aut Thaitrong

Thesis: Performance of Capital Investment Analysis on Project Evaluation in Mass Rapid Transit Projects in Thailand

11. Miss Narumon Jongcharoensub

Thesis: Cost Management Behavior Under Cost Overruns

12. Mr. Somjate Chatutewaprasit

Thesis: Safety Communication in Construction Project

13. Miss Chanagarn Watanantachai

Thesis: Strategic Guidelines for Financial Crisis Management in Thai Small and Medium-Sized Construction Enterprises

14. Mr. Apinun Tantiviriyapan

Thesis: Analysis the Office Market Economic by Using System Dynamic Approach

15. Mr. Nguyen Van Long

Thesis: Project Financing for Power Plant in Vietnam: An Innovative Approach

16. Mr. Dau Xuan Thuy

Thesis: Risks in the Construction of Hydropower Tunnels in Vietnam

17. Mr. Tran Tan Tin

Thesis: An Evaluation of Client Roles in Projects Procured Through the Traditional Process in Vietnam

18. Mr. Dinh Truong Giang

Thesis: Knowledge Sharing Process Within Power Engineering and Construction Company: A Case Study

19. Miss Pham Nguyen Quynh Huong

Thesis: Quality Function Deployment Approach in Apartment Construction Project: A Case Study

20. Mr. Fredy Kurniawan

Thesis: Case Study of Concession Contract in the Public Private Partnership: Financial Clauses Investigation of Don Muang Tollway and Second Stage Expressway in Thailand and Cipularang Tollway in Indonesia

Doctor of Engineering

1. Ms. Suchanya Posayanant

Thesis: Development of KPIS for Local Government Infrastructure Development: The Case of Sub-District (Tambon) Administrative Organization

2. Mr. Oei, Fuk-Jin

Thesis: The Assessment of the Development Role of a Statutory Body from Customer Perspective: A Relational Exchange Approach

3. Mr. Wasan Teerajetgul

Thesis: Knowledge Management in Construction Project Environment

4. Mr. Dussadee Satirasetthavee

Thesis: Optimal Value-Based Pavement Management System

5. Mr. Raju Bahadur Shrestha

Thesis: Factors In Power Purchase Agreements Affecting Investment Flows in Independent Power Production in the Nepalese Environment

6. Mr. Martinus P. Abednego

Thesis: An Examination of the Relationship between Risk Allocation and Project Success on PPP Project through Good Project Governance Assessment: Case Studies of Tollway Projects in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam

7. Ms. Piyanut Vorasubin

Thesis: Management of Strategic Assets for Sustainable Competitiveness of Construction Organizations

8 Mr. Thanet Aksorn

Thesis: Safety Program Performance in the Thai Construction Industry

9. Mr. Thanapun Prasertrungruang

Thesis: Modeling the Dynamics of Highway Construction Equipment Downtime

List of the CEIM First Batch in 2006

1. Mr. Bunpot Luttakoon

Thesis: Assessment of Critical Infrastructures: December 2004 Tsunami in the Southern Region of Thailand

2. Mr. Warut Neamnoi

Thesis: Capital Investment Analysis Model From Outputs/Outcomes Framework of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Project: The Case Study of the Bangkok Mass Rapid Transit Project

3. Mr. Bhaskar Jyoti Das

Thesis: IT Application for Construction Safety Management: Planning, Monitoring and Trending

4. Mr. Abu Naser Chowdhury

Thesis: Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for Infrastructure Projects Financing through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)

5. Mr. Muhammad N. Mahmood

Thesis: Development of Performance Model for an International Construction Joint Venture: A System Dynamics Approach

6. Ms. Azmeri Rahman

Thesis: Modeling Contractor's and Subcontractor's Trust: A System Dynamics Approach

7. Mr. Arthit Krachang

Thesis: Risk-based Multicriteria Decision Management for a Railway System in Thailand

8. Mr. Nguyen Duy Ninh

Thesis: Stakeholders' Perspective on Risks and Opportunities of Bot Infrastructure Projects in Vietnam: A Case Study of Yen Lenh Bridge Project

9. Mr. Nguyen Tuan Nghia

Thesis: Case Studies on Risk Allocation in Highway Projects Under Bot Scheme in Vietnam

10. Mr. Muhammad Afzal

Thesis: Profiling a Truly World-Class Construction and Engineering Company

11. Mr. Aung Khin Tun

Thesis: Strategic Financial Modeling for Capital Investment Program

12. Mr. Siwachon Limpakornkul

Thesis: A study of safety budgets process in Thai Construction projects

13. Mr. Niraj Baidya

Thesis: Consistency of Safety Management System Implementation: A System Dynamics Approach

14. Mr. Ariono Dhanisworo Indra Budhi

Thesis: Cost Variances During Construction Period: A Case Study of Indonesian Contractors

15. Mr. Prawat Tuptone

Thesis: Constraints-Based Scheduling of Precast Housing Project: A Case Study of Preuksa Village III

16. Miss Yessie Agustina

Thesis: Enhancing Financial Viability Through Government Support Machanism in Public Private Partnership (PPP) Contractual Framework

17. Mr. Allan Janwar Tannaya

Thesis: Subcontractor Management Strategy: An Approach to Manage Subcontractor in Construction Project

18. Mr. Suphachoke Meeampol

Thesis: Project Performance Improvement in the Public Sector: The Case of Thailand

19. Mr. Ektewan Manowong

Thesis: An Assessment of the Performance of Public Hearing as Vehicle of Public Participation in Infrastructure Development Project in Thailand

20. Mr. Surapon Puthamont

Thesis: Strategic Project Selection in Public Sector: Construction Projects in the Ministry of Defence in Thailand

FYI

Did you know that from 2006 to 2011, there are 24 Ph. D., 175 Masters and 115 Professional Masters graduated from CEIM and MPM fields of study? These alumni come from 17 countries, and 80% of these are male.

Safety and Health Management in Oil and Gas Construction Projects

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Delay & Contract Management in Construction

In order to manage a project successfully, project management is very important because this will determine the quality, time, and expense of the project. The process of project management includes:
- Organizing, choosing, advising, and creating investment projects.
- Managing research and investigating projects;
- Analyzing data and evaluating projects;
- Constructing investment projects and profiles for designing the construction’s total estimates will be sent to authorities for approval.
- Signing economic contracts dealing with survey, design, construction, and installation.
- Supplying materials and equipment

The contract is really important since it is not only the basis of payment but also the basis of solving some legal problems. To get well-completed projects, all sides must have knowledge about the conditions of the contract. Managers are searching for the best ways to manage contracts more effectively. By doing so, the project will be more successful.

Mr. Ho Chi Linh made a on Administration Centre and Postgraduates Trainings at Can Tho University to find out the main factors that cause cost inflation, poor quality and delay at all stages of projects. These factors were analyzed in different ways of parties such as the Laws, Authorities, the Owners, the Contractors, Consultants, Sub-contractors. From that, the factors which are effective to prevent and control delays in the project can be seen.

The objectives of his study were to: (1) study the contract management practice of the case study project; (2) analyze the project management problems (time, cost, quality) in relation to contract administration; (3) identify delay causation in construction projects which were completed up to now or are building; and (4) make recommendation for improvement of the future project with similar characters.

Conclusion

Contract management is an important factor which directly affects projects. The contract management includes managing 3 main factors: quality, price and time. Most projects in Vietnam so far have been strongly influenced by these 3 factors, which leads to the poor quality, costs increases or delays. All these problems are popular and are still going on. However, it is possible for us to prevent even during the time the project is on going. With the total area of 18.990 square meters, 9 floors, the total cost is over 133 billion, the Administration and Post-Graduate Building – Can Tho University project is also affected by these factors.

This project was approved by the Ministry of Education and Training in 2008 and the investment was from the government budget. Although it has got supports and grants from the Government, relevant sectors as well as rector board from Can Tho University, the project was still delayed and the original estimated costs still increased due to objective and subjective reasons.

Objective reasons

Dramatic change in market price which affected workers and materials because the rate of price slipping was not specified in the contract.

There have been many problems in the transportation of materials and equipment because the construction site is located right in the center of the city which is very crowded with many students. The supply of materials was limited because of the fluctuation in the market price which significantly affected the progress and quality of the works.

Subjective reasons

The contract is not really logical, which does not express all the regulated contents that can tie the contractors as well as sub-contractors in materials, human sources and finance to implement the works.

The contractors did not provide with enough machines and modern equipment as regulated in the contracts. This is also due to the fact that the contractors selected were not well-qualified and have poor experience.
The contracts did not state clearly the time for the period of pile pressure and experiments, which does not include the time for implementation. This is the reason why the contractors often blame the experimental institutions for delays.

Solution

- Require the contractors to set up a quality management system suitable to project requirements
- Additional engineers, who have got experience about quality management and check equipment before being put into the work
- Contractor Material Supply who are responsible for the quality of their products
- Request the contractor to focus on human resources, equipment and time
- Providing a clear time for each job. Support the contractor to shorten the time.
- Investor has to set up the slippery of price coefficient.
- Having a strict and frequent monitoring, urge the contractors to solve any unexpected problems if occurred.
- Organizing frequent meetings with the contractors to remind and require them to commit and implement all the articles specified in the contract and follow the project timetable.
- Looking for sufficient extra financial sources to compromise slipping rate so as to assure the contractors to implement well with the rest of the project.

● Although there have been certain limitations, the contractors have successfully implemented some works for the project as well as strictly followed the procedure and legal documents. They did well with the work of environmental protection and guarantee the urban scenery, and especially the assurance of work safety. Therefore, there has been no accident in the construction site so far.

● Upon the completion of the project, it will significantly improve the prestige of Can Tho University in general as well as for the work of post-graduate training, scientific research and technology transfer, which promotes Can Tho University to a higher level in the region and in the whole country. This can help Can Tho University become comparable to other universities in the area as well as in the world. This also creates opportunities for the university managers to get access to and study with new technology thanks to good infrastructure because this is the first and biggest building in Can Tho University.

Recommendations

Due to the time as well as the limited scope of the thesis, not all aspects of the project were examined and analyzed. However, based on what has been achieved and not achieved, as mentioned in the conclusion, the following recommendations are proposed for better management to future projects.
- Contracts need to be more detailed with enough articles and regulations, in which all agreements need to be stated clearly.

- Trained engineers specializing in the fields of quality management and cost management.

- The investor should choose capable contractors with enough modern technical equipment as well as financial sources together with sufficient human resources.

- Bid winning price was not lower than the actual price of the project

- Build price fluctuation factor to deal with changing market prices.

- Utilize all funds to ensure implementation of the project.

- Checking materials, components, construction products through quality certificates where production and results of standard laboratory.

- Checking equipment and technology works before installation through quality certificates where production and results of quality testing of equipment.

- Need unified management of construction cost on a clue to avoid cross situation such as is now

- Complete the system of estimating construction

- Additional norms for construction and installation work is not yet in practice the detailed estimates of current, complete content and methods of synthesis unit set up in construction.

- List building , select a method of calculating overall cost consistent with the actual situation in the country, regional and international levels in each period.

His thesis abstract is copied and posted.

Abstarct

Since Vietnam joined the WTO, global platform for the construction industry were opened, bringing many new opportunities and also many difficulties and challenges. But in recent years, most of of projects are behind schedule, exceeding the estimate is very popular to make the management of the project have many difficulties, specially the management contract. In any investment project construction, the key elements necessary to ensure that the range or scope of the project, the total investment (Money) and the progress Time) of project implementation. Three elements make up a triangle project, including Scope - Money - Time is each edge of the triangle project. When an edge that will make these changes, the other edge changed. A project called good management when the triangle is less than the change triangle is created from investment projects approved construction. In fact the work of our building has been lost on the market at the home of their own, most projects are delayed and exceeded the total original investment to affect performance investment results as well as competitiveness.

The cause of the delayed and costs overcome, there are many such as institutional policy, in the uniform of the other central agencies and localities, these factors impact the world market, the capacity of entities involved in construction activities
This study will also discuss on the advantages and disadvantages of EPC contract from both Contractor and Project Company’s point of view and how to manage the EPC contract in accordance with term and condition clauses stipulated in the signed contract documents; how to resolve problems by understanding the contract clauses. However, the improvement of some major clauses are still needed in order to specify and define clearly the duties and responsibilities as well as obligations of involved parties to minimize the conflicts, interfaces, risks and disputes that can be happened during the project execution phase.

Owner’s Project Quality Management

The business competition in today’s market has been increased swiftly. The customers satisfaction in terms of quality becomes the companies’ primary concern in order to survive. The purpose of the quality management is to make high quality products and focus on customers’ satisfaction. Therefore, the quality management such as ISO 9000, total quality management (TQM), etc have been discussed widely especially in the first class businesses.

PVOIL is one of the leading companies in Petroleum trading. With planned target in 2010, the company concentrates on building, expanding & developing the Petrol retail distribution system. However, the company is having some difficulties in the quality management. Besides, the systems were completed & had high quality.

Mr. Doan Thai Duong made a case study on North Pvoil Petrol Station to research the quality management of the company as well as to set out some solutions in order to complete and improve the quality management of the company & solve the existing difficulties.

The objective of his study is to building quality management of PVOil North Company
Conclusion
After defining the purposes, scope and research methodology, the thesis analyzed arguments such as concept of quality management, quality management procedure in construction works.
On the foundation of analyzing the state, the thesis presented advantages and disadvantages of the construction works quality management of Northern PV OIL through past years, stating objective and subjective reasons for shortcomings, thereof it is a ground for their future development and completion of construction works quality management of Northern PVOIL.

On the foundation of analyzing the practical situation of quality management of construction work in Northern PV OIL, the thesis proposed some completed solutions for the construction works quality management.

His thesis abstract is copied and posted.

Abstract

Petrol station projects quality management in Vietnam.

The study gives a thorough description of the Petrol station projects quality management as practised by the supervising consultant in Viet Nam. The documents and records used in these activities are also reviewed. A model for high level Petrol station projects quality management is defined, including supervising consultants and contractors.

The model depicts the quality management responsibilities and the roles in a scheme relating to Petrol station projects, quality assurance, and the interface between them. The study advances the understanding of how quality management is performed and engages participants in special construction area like Petrol station projects development.

It is very important to assure quality as well as safety of Petrol station projects with the objective to improve the quality of construction projects and to enhance the effect and productivity during PS performance.

The research methodology is highlighted as the main philosophy. Besides, different sources of data will be gathered in this research, including particular project documents, reports from Petrol company, newspapers, construction law and standards in Vietnam etc. An exploratory approach will be adopted by reviewing the available literature to develop a quality management framework for PS projects.

Report the findings of a research study, which was undertaken to examine the underlying factors affecting the quality of a PS project. It also aims to identify factors that show a strong correlation to good quality performance. The ultimate goal is to provide project managers, supervising consultants and contractors with information that can help them become more efficient with their limited resources and, as a result, achieve better quality outcomes.