These are the practical challenges which come up during projects ,especially EPC construction projects.
To deal with such challenges we need to address the mistakes that are done either unknowingly or due to lack of proactiveness .
Although there are many mistakes that are done during work execution , the listed ones (covering End to End)are the mistakes which lead to significant loses and work tension-
1) Contractual obligations not well understood & Scope of work was not well defined to the construction managers and supervisors . ( reason : loop holes were not proactively looked and meetings were conducted with no clear agenda )
2) Hired Equipments and machines were kept idle due to improper resource management . (reason : independent and dependent activities were not segregated well , conflict of interest , work permits were not planned in advance because of insufficient documentation & convincing skills to support ) .
3) Vendors overcharged for extra works that had to be done to do quailty execution , but were out of scope as per the contract . (This was due to improper work breakdown structure and missing proactiveness) .
4) Unplanned hiring which lead contract Engineers & consultants with big salaries to be hired untimely and given out of discipline jobs just for the sake of maximum usage of their time for the salaries which they were being given . ( reason : roles were not decided based on competency , weak planning )
5) Wrong project bid in the very beginning phase of the project because of improper estimation and less time being spent by design engineers and design consultants on actual construction site to prepare the layouts and construction plan. This gives immense stress to the project manager & site engineers while executing the actual job because of the actual planning that was done in the very beginning was based on the drawings and documents which may have provided insufficient data for qualitative decision making . ( Result : After construction lot of time gets wasted in getting approvals for as built drawings, modifications in the existing drawings and in turn in getting work permits for commissioning phase )
If you will understand these cases well , then you might work progressively with not much unanticipated hurdles on the way . Feel free for any clarification . There are many mistakes that happen on actual site, but the mistake listed above are so significant that an EPC company/ project company loses millions of dollars due to these mistakes . Thus I listed vital few out of trivial many .
regards,
DEVESH
To deal with such challenges we need to address the mistakes that are done either unknowingly or due to lack of proactiveness .
Although there are many mistakes that are done during work execution , the listed ones (covering End to End)are the mistakes which lead to significant loses and work tension-
1) Contractual obligations not well understood & Scope of work was not well defined to the construction managers and supervisors . ( reason : loop holes were not proactively looked and meetings were conducted with no clear agenda )
2) Hired Equipments and machines were kept idle due to improper resource management . (reason : independent and dependent activities were not segregated well , conflict of interest , work permits were not planned in advance because of insufficient documentation & convincing skills to support ) .
3) Vendors overcharged for extra works that had to be done to do quailty execution , but were out of scope as per the contract . (This was due to improper work breakdown structure and missing proactiveness) .
4) Unplanned hiring which lead contract Engineers & consultants with big salaries to be hired untimely and given out of discipline jobs just for the sake of maximum usage of their time for the salaries which they were being given . ( reason : roles were not decided based on competency , weak planning )
5) Wrong project bid in the very beginning phase of the project because of improper estimation and less time being spent by design engineers and design consultants on actual construction site to prepare the layouts and construction plan. This gives immense stress to the project manager & site engineers while executing the actual job because of the actual planning that was done in the very beginning was based on the drawings and documents which may have provided insufficient data for qualitative decision making . ( Result : After construction lot of time gets wasted in getting approvals for as built drawings, modifications in the existing drawings and in turn in getting work permits for commissioning phase )
If you will understand these cases well , then you might work progressively with not much unanticipated hurdles on the way . Feel free for any clarification . There are many mistakes that happen on actual site, but the mistake listed above are so significant that an EPC company/ project company loses millions of dollars due to these mistakes . Thus I listed vital few out of trivial many .
regards,
DEVESH
Nicely written but I feel you can elaborate an include many other factors...you have desired experience for jotting down these for the benifit of others...Good..
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