MULTIPLE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1. MULTIPLE PROJECT MANAGEMENT Presented by Clement Contracting Group, Inc. Montgomery, AL

2. Introduction • Why do you want to be a project manager?

3. Realities of Construction • A 40-hour work week…dream on. • Your career choices during the first five years after college will have the biggest impact on the next forty years. • You must enjoy traveling. • Gain field experience wherever possible. • Your greatest tool for being a success in construction- COMMUNICATION.

4. More Realities of Construction • Sometimes it isn’t what you know but who you know. • Don’t burn a bridge if you don’t have to.

5. Degrees Required to be the Ultimate Project Manager • Building Science • Architecture (design – build) • Accounting (budgeting, financial statements, cost reports) • Business • Engineering (design-build) • Law (numerous contracts) • Public Relations (establish and maintain relations with Owners, Architects, Subcontractors)

6. Degrees Required to be the Ultimate Project Manager • Psychology (to understand what these people are thinking) • The # 1 Degree required to be the ultimate Project Manager: Common Sense

7. Why are construction firms assigning multiple projects to project managers? • Increased volume of work • Decreased number of skilled project managers • Increasing project manager salaries • Profit margins not necessarily increasing with volume.

8. As project managers supervise an increasing number of projects, is their workload decreasing? • Yes…and no. • Yes • Information technology (computer, e-mail, internet, etc.) • Superintendents have increased management abilities.

9. As project managers supervise an increasing number of projects, is their workload decreasing? • Yes…and no. • No • Project managers still have to perform most of the same duties • buyout, budgeting, subcontracts, schedules, collaboration with superintendent, submittals, documentation, closeout • Owners and architects desire shorter completion schedules.

10. Total Quality Management • The ability to distribute job responsibilities “down the ladder” to the lowest possible level. • Superintendent assumes responsibilities that are usually reserved for the Project Manager. • Communication with subcontractors, architects • Conflict resolution- plans, design, changes

11. Tools to Make a Superintendent more Effective • Technology • Internet (ex: weather forecasts) • Spreadsheets (pay requests) • Constructware (various management aspects) • Digital Cameras • Scheduling • Primavera (P3) (update and maintain schedule) • Budgeting • Monthly updates • Review of manpower plan • Cost of tools and equipment

12. Keys to Multiple Project Management • The project manager cannot do it all. • Delegate and oversee • Document all correspondence between players • Superintendent to subs • Subs to GC • GC to Architect

13. Keys to Multiple Project Management • Establish clear lines of communication • Establish an aggressive but reasonable schedule upfront. • Partnering • Stay “in the know” • issues, conflicts, schedules, correspondence

14. Future of Multiple Project Management • E-commerce • Software for all applicable construction needs • Submittals, RFI, FCR, Correspondence • Plans and specs • Video conferencing

15. Future of Multiple Project Management • Design-Build • Limits the number of projects a PM can manage simultaneously. • Increased number of design and construct firms (GC w/ design capabilities) • Increased need for professional certification of PM • Increased number of “paper napkin” designs

16. Future of Multiple Project Management • Decrease in Self-Performed Work • Increased number of small subcontractors • Increased coordination • Increased number of subcontractors per project • Increased need for superintendents with management abilities • Increased number of BSC or college graduates in superintendent role

17. Future of Multiple Project Management • Increase number of multi-award contracts • Federal government using IDIQ, MATOC, SOC, JOC to “bundle” numerous small and medium sized projects (up to $10 million projects)