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Sunday, December 26, 2010
MATERIAL APPROVAL LOG FORM
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
"I am the boss, because of that I am the one that know everything in my field...I dont have to learn from anyone else..." This phrase is a pitfall for everybody that always think that they are master in their field. However as times goes on, things are continously change. They way it works..eg. years back construction industries rely heavily in the usage of menpower.. nowadays, slowly the role of men being replace by machineries, sortwares even the building component now can be readily purchase from the manufacturer and installed on site. This is what we call transformation of the construction industries.
Because of this we need to be prerare ourselves by reading books, attending talks, convention, courses and so many more. If as the owner you do not have much time to do all this...one of the ways is invest in your readily aviable staff that will later on pass the knowledge to the other staff in you office. Don be to stingy...cause you can afford to lose in a long run.
If you don't have time in the day...why not learning through books that are related to you field.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
TENDER( PREBIDDING PLANING)
Tender duration for the submission by the contractor are heavily depend on the followings:-
- Type of tender: Conventional, Design and build or invited tender.
- Size or value of project .(Value of project most of the time is confidential by the party who call for tender .In Malaysia scenario the value of project will determine the category of contractor that can participate in the tender.
- Amount of information that needs to be disclosing by the tenderers.
- financial background
- current project
- previous experience
- registration as required under the condition of prequalification
- Plant, machineries or equipment of the contractor
- Professional (qualified technical and administration) staff of the contractor.
- Design team to do the design for them.
- Professional Architect
- Professional Civil Engineer
- Professional Structure Engineer
- Professional Project Manager Consultant
- Professional Mechanical Engineer
- Professional Electrical Engineer and
- Professional Quantity Surveyor
- Decision to participate in tender
- Purchase of tender document
- Pre tender meeting
- Construction method
- Cost Estimate stage
- Pretender work program
- Decision on overall tender pricing to be submitted and
- Submission of the tender document.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
How to Bid and Win Any Tender
1. Follow exactly whatever that are written in the " Instruction to Tenderer " Section.
2. Never use "blanco" or " liquid Paper" if you make any mistake in filling in the Form. Only Strike of the mistake, initial and stamp with company stamp.
3. Write in Capital Letter.
4. Make sure that you have at least 1/3 of financial capacity against your tender value.
5. Never try to be in the rank of lowest tenderer in term of the value of the tender you offer.
6. Try to include only the related construction experience.( The same or almost the same nature of scope of work and value of work.
With this set of rules, I wish all of you the best wishes in you tender bidding.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FORM.
Project Title : Contract No.: | |||
Client : | Consultant : | Contractor : | |
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FORM | REF. NO.: RFI/ | ||
Signature:…………………….……… Request date :…………………... From :…………………..…………….. Designation :………………………….. To :…………………………………… Attention :……………………………. | |||
Information requested by: *Client / Consultant / client. (*strike whichever not applicable) …………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………….………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………… | |||
Reply by .: *Client / Consultant / client. (*strike whichever not applicable) …………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………….………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………….……………… Reply by : Signature:………………………… Name :…………………………… Designation:……………………... Date :…………………………….. | |||
Copy to :
Related topic: RFI (request for inspection) Sample Request for inspection form 2012 Request for inspection |
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Construction management
Managing the construction site.
Good practice of the construction management of the construction site is always the key to a successful construction project. To have a proper construction management of the site, it always falls back to the basic, that is the CHECKLIST. Among the item that need continuous monitoring and tracking are as bellow.
- Machineries
- Plant
- Equipment
- Labour or manpower
- Health and safety aspect such as Personal protective Equipment (PPE)
- Procurement of the material, machinery, man power, plant
- Quality assurance & Quality control checklist for every aspect of work.
- Method statement Checklist
- Approval of material Checklist.
Some of the common checklist form is as follows.
Contract No :
CONS2U/BLOG/2010
Project Title : Construction of 3 unit of 4 storey Residential Apartment.
Checklist of Machinery/Plant/Equipment/Manpower.
item | Type of machinery | Locations where machine will be deploy. | Machine capacity | QTY | Date Start | Duration | |||
1 | excavator | External drainage | 0.5 cu.m | 1 | 21.04.2006 | 14 days | |||
2 | Dump truck | External drainage | 3 tons | 1 | 21.04.2006 | 14 days | |||
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Financial Tips and Tricks.
Have You ever heard of the phrase " Other People Money (OPM)". I guest you do. May be more than I know. However it is good to recall back on what we already knew.
In construction industry OPM is a good strategy to be utilised. This is because in this field it will definitely be a very large amount of financial commitment involved. How do we applied this OPM?
Let we check this following List of resources needed in construction.
- Supplier of construction material,
- Supplier of construction Machineries,
- Supplier for the transportation,
- Performance bond or bank guarantee,
- Insurance,
- Labour force or Manpower.
If we look into the list above , can it be outsource or not? Definitely it can. How does we relate this Into OPM. Bear in Mind all of the area mentioned above involving money which for sure you need to pay. However if you can get an excellent outcome of you negotiation on terms and condition of payment, you can invest you available cash into something that can guarantee you of you return which can be utilised to pay those six item listed above. MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN GET YOUR RETURN NOT MORE THAN 3 MONTHS!.
Usually you will receive your payment for claim the fastest is within one month and it can be dragging for more than that. Hence to be fair to the parties involved try to close you credit term not less than 3 month or 90days period. Meaning that you need to pay after that particular period. Beware most of the supplier will only give 30 days credit term !
The most easier way to the OPM is Project Financing by the bank. If you are sure of your option , than I wish all managers, Developer and contractor good luck.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
COMMON TENDER ESTIMATION MISTAKE
Common Tender Estimation Mistake by Contractor.
Tender estimation is a very important area for a contractor in order to secure a contract. Their estimation must be very competitive to ensure that they will win in their bidding. However the common scenarios that repetitively happen among the tenderer are always as the following.
- The cheaper the construction cost, the higher their chances to secure a contract.
- Assumption always being done without visiting the actual site, thus they will not be able to provide a cost that is as accurate as needed to suite the site condition.
- Most of the time the contractor always by pass the standard condition of contract and also the special condition of contract which normally being include inside the tender document. Thus, as the result, they will only estimate base on what is inside the bill of quantity and the tender drawing. Usually inside the bill of quantity, there is an item listed as "other necessary work that deem to be necessary to complete the work ". This is where the special condition of contract, standard condition of contract, standard specification and special specification requirement should not being assume.
All the illustration and scenarios above are not the only common mistake done in preparing the cost estimation for a tender but there are many other such as fail to know the market price, calculation error or even for the sake to penetrate the market. Hence in preparing the tender pricing, contractors need to look into all area that will affect the construction work.
Contractors, Good luck and best wishes for you.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Are Your Project Managers Working Too Hard to Be Successful?
The latest Standish Group report shows more projects failing and fewer successful projects.
‘This year’s results show a marked decrease in project success rates, with 32% of all projects succeeding which are delivered on time, on budget, with required features and functions’ says Jim Johnson, chairman of The Standish Group, ‘44% were challenged which are late, over budget, and/or with less than the required features and functions and 24% failed which are cancelled prior to completion or delivered and never used.’
So what is going wrong out there? Why are your projects being challenged in this way? Are your project managers perhaps working too hard to be successful for you?
Read the rest at ProjectTimes.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Construction Management for Contractor : Pre-tender Stage
Type of tender: Conventional, Design and build or invited tender.
Size or value of project .(Value of project most of the time is confidential by the party who call for tender .In Malaysia scenario the value of project will determine the category of contractor that can participate in the tender.
Amount of information that needs to be disclosing by the tenderers.
financial background
current project
previous experience
registration as required under the condition of prequalification
Plant, machineries or equipment of the contractor
Professional (qualified technical and administration) staff of the contractor.
Design team to do the design for them.
Professional Architect
Professional Civil Engineer
Professional Structure Engineer
Professional Project Manager Consultant
Professional Mechanical Engineer
Professional Electrical Engineer and
Professional Quantity Surveyor
Decision to participate in tender
Purchase of tender document
Pre tender meeting
Construction method
Cost Estimate stage
Pretender work program
Decision on overall tender pricing to be submitted and
Submission of the tender document.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Top reason why a project fail
Reason Why a Project Fail
In everyday life there are a lot of changes that always take place. The change have become more and more significant when there is monetary value involve. This have been a big challenge to anybody and it always the case that wether we want to face it or run away from it. When oneself decide to do away with the changes and run away from the challenges, we will never going to improve or move forward but instead of being successful we are already doom before we go to the battle field. In Construction Industry the same principal is applicable.
In managing a construction project, client, consultant and contractor, all of them will never run away from facing the unique of the challenges. They always try to find a way to solve the issue. For the new comer in this industry, there is no project that is going to be the same with the other. Each of them will come with a unique problem due to the nature of this field, that is, we are dealing with human and nature which is unpredictable. Therefore we must be ready to face the challenge.
The worst nightmare for client, Consultant and Contractor and they always try to avoid is project failure. Before we go further into this topic, let us define what "Project Failure"is.
Under this scope of discussion, "Project", simply mean a construction work in whole and "Project Failure " mean construction that was done or completed or even being call off because of it does not meet the real target or purpose of it or due to the budget constrain either on the contractor side or client side.
From contractor prospective, project failure is a construction project that does not bring in positive income or profit but only losing more money and tarnish contractor reputation. The same idea goes with consultant. However for the owner or client or stakeholder, project failure means that the project which has been completed or not completed and handed over to them is a project that does not serve the correct purpose or functionality. It only becomes a waste of time and money.
With the simple definition of "project failure", now we are ready to go and dig deep inside what the root cause is of or the reason why a project fail.
The main root cause of this is failure to plan. What is the significant of planing with project failure? Project planing not just about doing the estimate budget and estimate of time required to complete a project, but it allow the owner of the project to see the following;
- what is the purpose of the project,
- The scope of work of the project,
- What are the degree of cost that will involve,
- What are the resources they need in order to make the project a successful project,
- The duration needed to complete the whole project,
- What are the rule and regulation they have to fulfil,
- How they can reduce the project cost without jeopardise the quality of work, and
- What are the risk they have to take and how to mitigate it and last but not least
- What is the return they will get if they invest in this project?
Even with all the listed above there is still risk that nobody can predict before the event take place. The risk that I mentioned here is risk of uncertainty that ranging from global economic to the labour of workforce issue.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
TOP VITAL STEP IN SUCCESSFUL CONSTRUCTION (PART 3): WORK PORGRAM
In this column we can insert as when we want a task to start which is to be more accurate the date of the task to start. This column also being auto calculate by Microsoft project it self if the task is depend on the other task that need to be completed first before the next task can start. For example; refer to item 3 and 4 under Column ID.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Project management Software
Friday, August 21, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Project Management : Earned Value and Microsoft Project#links
Project Management Blog: Earned Value and Microsoft Project#links
Project Management
The project management is a work that is not on paper only, it can be a trap to oneself if it is going to be done for the sake of documentation wise. It is a very important essence in construction. There are many related article that can be read to know better in this Area of project management.