In this video we're going to cover the goals and objectives of construction
projects, that's coming right up
Hi my name is Chris Konkle and welcome to my
channel this channel is all about helping you master construction so that
you can become an industry leader. Today we're going to be talking about the goals
and objectives of a construction project alright so right away a construction
project needs to be successful and profitable, seems fairly simple right
straight forward maybe? Well it's not okay so successful can mean many things
the successfulness of a project is measured based on the quality,
the owners happy, it was finished on time all of these things, the
objectives that we're about to go over will
determine whether or not your project is successful or not.
The number two goal is profitable so profitable means two things,
the one thing that it means the most is the owners happy because the building
produces as expected every owner or business who
hires a contractor and designers to build a building for them what they're
really trying to do is increase productivity. Increased productivity means
increased profit for that company and every business wants maximum profit
available right? Number two, profitable means that the construction project
itself is profitable if it was finished on time and there was good cost
control all of these things are objectives that we're about to talk
about, and they went in the contractors favor and the contractor made a profit on the
build. Okay so successful can mean many things but it generally means that the
construction project itself was completed within the time frame as expected and the
customers happy meaning the quality workmanship everything's good and
there's no outstanding legal issues or liabilities, liens or lawsuits anything
like that. Okay so now objectives are definable tasks that support the
goals. So remember our goals, profit and successful. Completion
within the expected time frame. If a project goes over the expected time frame
there's going to be additional overhead costs and additional cost to the owner which
in turn is going to directly affect the profit of the of the contractor the
profit made. Overages such as things like liquid damages and all these things are
going to take into effect. liquidated damages, we're going to talk
about in later videos but for now we don't want the project to run over
because there's an additional cost to the owner and to the prime contractor.
Quality, quality means a couple of things as well so number one is
the materials and equipment furnished are what were specified in the contract
documents, the specifications and the drawings that is important also the
workmanship the owners generally don't want to have
any evidence of the installation itself so good clean work is always a
goal and objective of a construction project you don't want the
owners to see any any evidence of the installation so you want it to be nice and
clean and complete as expected. Cost control. Effective cost control
assures that the build is as per budget or under. This reflects the effectiveness of its
management. The fourth objective is safety you need to
have effective management of the job-site safety program. Let's say that any
kind of incident happens whether it's a person injured that is going to directly
affect the the schedule because there's going to be delays if things get damaged
there's going to be additional cost so the safety program is a loss prevention
program it needs to be administered flawlessly and because it could really
affect the overall profit of the project. An accident will affect the overall
profitability of the project and can affect the future of the company that is for example,
the prime contractor, it can affect their ability to get future
jobs and accidents can actually close down a company depending on the severity of it
All right! Number five is customer satisfaction now
customer satisfaction is achieved by completing all of the previous
objectives that we've talked about right so it's completed on time, it's on
budget, the quality is good meaning the materials and equipment
furnished are as what we're specified in the contract documents and the workmanship
is good so there's no evidence of the installation and effective cost control
and safety. However it takes special management attention to achieve this so
you have to have good salesmanship and customer service with the owners so that
they're happy the whole way through the project. An unsatisfied customer can
definitely delay payment, it can hinder the prime contract prime contractor from
gaining future jobs as well okay so the final objective of a construction
project is effective management of the sub trades. Now there's going to be so many
sub trades working on a project it's going to be very difficult to do
this so you have to make sure that all of the subcontractors have the same
objectives right so that they're meeting those objectives.
If the subcontractors don't meet their objectives then the prime contractor is not going to meet
the objectives either so it's very important to make sure that they're on
schedule and that they're using the proper materials and they also have
their own cost accounting and safety programs and that everything is
good right you want everybody to be on the same page because all of these objectives
that we just went over are all interrelated. So say that the
quality and the workmanship is poor well that's going to affect the schedule which will
affect the cost accounting which will honestly affect safety
because there is going to be a push push so they're going to compromise safety and
when the safety is compromised then an accident happens and then yeah you're shut down
and schedule... Everything is interrelated so everything works together all of
these objectives work together. So now that we know the goals and objectives of
a construction project my next video is going to be on the management techniques to
achieve these objectives and goals. Management is necessary to control the
building of the project in order to achieve the goals and objectives.
But all this will be coming up in my next video. If this is your first video
with ChrisKonkleVlogs be sure to catch up with my guide to working in construction and my
new series on project management this is Chris bye for now. Be sure to download
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