Delay in Planning, Design and Construction

In Vietnam the construction industry especially residential and complex building is now suffering many problems from design to operation. Some normal problems are:

1. Coordinate between Architect and Structural have many difference because they maybe    are another country but the project to be built at other country.

2. Difference communication from Architect and structure by the owner, maybe the condition of contract to be limited.

3. In during construction have many problems from project as lack permit of government of other board.

4. The method of construction from contractor is uncorrected with local building therefore accident will be happen. Example: When the designer provide method for excavation work but they study little big about geology, the result happen underground water to damage the diaphragm wall so the neighbor house to be subsidence.

5. The project be delay which reason the owner return payment to contractor is not on time following contract condition.

6. Disputation between project construction management group with main contractor or main-contractor with sub-contractor about claim, variation order, quality, delay of schedule, and coordinate with other contractor.

7. Taking over have a lot of difficult from contractor to project management group because the standard not clear or unable enter general standard.

8. When PCMG hand over the project to client but client have difficult about finance, on the other hand the client does not receive because some reason from the owner as service following the contract.

9. Problems during operation as warranty manager. Example when the owner pay all the claim but it included percent of warranty and then the project have problem they request contractor to come rework but contractor do not want to come in order to rework.

10. Resolve complain from client about service quality, the method manage project.

It is very important to understand the normal problems and to find the ways to solve all of them in order to be able to develop an effective planning management process, and also to take experience manager in project construction management.

Nguyen Hung Cuong made a case study aimed to:

1.  study delay in planning, design, construction.

2.  find out to solve at prevent problems in each stage.

3.  propose project life cycle strategy in how to develop residential complex.

Conclusions

The project life cycle will be successful in each phase if the project management must have a clear plan and resolve the problems earlier during construction phase in coordination with all the contractors. The project will be completed on time and it satisfies quality, safety and more pleasing to clients.

In order to solve the problems, proposed solutions based on theoretical and recommended practices including guidance from the PMI’s PMBOK guide, one of the world’s most prestigious guides to the project management, were presented. Besides, some useful tools were considered and suggested to use as the aids for the project managers to improve control management in the project.

However, this case has limited information, due to some companies’ confidentiality. Thus, the data gathered were from their staff, from the internet and during the actual construction.

The project delay usually involves the contractor, the owner, and the client. So, the PCMG have to resolve the cause of delay and control the taking over process to accomplish the project on time which brings profit to company.

       

Recommendations

In order to avoid project delay problems from concept design to project operation, The Manor phase II project made the following recommendations:

1. PCMG have to prepare permission together with concept design before constructing the project, and control the plan in such a good way. The plan monitoring is very important for project management. In this project case, the owner committed a mistake when they started the project without Government permission yet resulting to 1.5 years delay. The reason why the reason why the contractor and client lost a lot of profit.

2. With regard to the Owner, to estimate the project expenditure, the owner should have board that will double check it phase by phase. In this case, the owner did not estimate the cost of project.

3. The Project Construction Management Group should organize training in order for them to know how to use the process to accomplish project and contract condition.

4. Document controls for project is very important, all the site instruction should make the process for resolved and return it to contractor soon, with the process that all the scope of work will be completed on time.

5. In case of ISO certified company, Project Manager should give feedback to the company’s Quality Manager to add in personality test forms together with Job Application Assessment Procedures forms. That will save Project Manager’s time whenever there is new job applicant coming to job site for interviewing.

6. With contractors, PCMG have to request them to submit the schedule of delivery material to PCMG in order to double check it. Also schedule of project, PCMG can check and give the site instruction to contractor if they detect problems.

7. The contractors always make report of human resource to PCMG in order to inform that the manpower is enough for scope of work. They make sure that with this manpower project can be completed on time.

8. Relation division always have the plan to solve problems with the method soon to contractors, also project will be base on the site condition to work in order to complete the project on time.

9. The weekly meeting is very important for PCMG and also to the contractor. All problems have to be resolved in that meeting, and relation division have limited time to return the request for information to contractors.

10. Some reasons relating to project delay and about safety work on site, all contractor must provide policy of safety to PCMG, the safety policy monitoring everyday will reduce accidents. The project having zero accident mean safety policy is successful.

11. Finally, the taking over and claim of payment during construction are bigger problem between contractors and the Owner. Some project delays are sometimes due to this reason.

Abstract

The planning process in project life cycle is one case study in the Project Management Institute’s A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. In the case study of Project management is established planning process in project lifecycle is very importance therefore this is really a tough challenge and time-consuming task to any project manager.

The drawing up the plan from concept design to operation project that it suggested management must have large line of vision also experience .The planning process will be evaluated clear that must link everything from the owner, design, contractor. This final project report focuses on construction project as lifecycle project needs who’s have responsibility to design planning process to be clear within knowledge. Though a case study of residential and complex project in Ho Chi Minh City, many problems that we can saw which cause project interruption will be investigate and analyzed. A lot of solutions be proposed which base on the knowledge will be discussed to help project management in order to improve skill in the project.