I have completed Bsc (Hons) Construction management at the University of West London, and I would now like to further my career by studying MSC Project enterprise and management at UCL. I have made this decision after understanding that this course will enable me to develop a broad understating of construction management of large and complex projects and increase my commercial awareness of these projects. I also expect this course to be taught with both academic rigour and place consistent emphasis on practical application of what I learn to construction environment. After working in construction for industry for almost 2 years, and studying a bachelor’s degree I feel I am more than capable of completing Msc Project Entriprise with success as I have already experienced the rigors & dynamics of university education. I am currently working as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor with a civil engineering firm based in eastern region of United Kingdom and although I have worked with Walker Construction for a short period, I am already on my way to advance to an intermediate quantity surveyor,...
I got a wonderful opportunity to work for one of the best construction companies, which is Hathaway Dinwiddie. Hathaway Dinwiddie has been in construction industry for over 100 years. Back then they started as Dinwiddie construction and been a part of a lot of historic buildings in California. Hathaway Dinwiddie has an expertise in Building information modeling (BIM), Partnered delivery and lean construction, Design-Build, Quality Control, Best Value exploration, Sustainability and safety. Hathaway Dinwiddie has a history of using BIM back in 1998 and now they are using it at every stage of their projects. They use BIM to summarize quantity surveys, develop preliminary construction strategies and maintain coordination between their team and their partners. Hathaway Dinwiddie provides services like General Construction, Preconstruction, Design Build, Construction Management and Interior and special projects. Hathaway also believes in being one step ahead of its competitor and has been investing in the research and development field also.
My employment in construction began when I was seventeen-years old working at a local golf course. I had the opportunity to help rebuild and enhance a Golf Pro Shop to improve the quality of the members’ experience. My work started with the plumbing, and I
Project Management is a concept of making the project successful through knowledge, processes, methods and experience. Every project is unique since it needs the same mythology of the methods but the circumstances are always different. The success rate of a project can be derived from the output it produces, outcomes or benefits, according to a criteria within agreed budget and timescale.
When I grow up I would like to be a construction worker. Construction workers are the men and women that you see working on various construction sites, for example residential construction, highway construction, commercial construction, and more. I chose this career because I enjoy working in the outdoors as well as building structures. It is important to understand the education or training requirements, skills, or talents needed, salary and benefits offered and the duties for a particular career when making this decision.
This project took me through the history, training, and a day on the job. It could not have been a better experience, and this project proved that a career in construction management is a real possibility in the future. The history of construction management was not a shock, but it was a little bit of a reality check. It is common knowledge that the human race has been building things since the beginning of time, but what is extraordinary is to think about how far the world has come over the thousands of years. Men and women started living in small huts.
My research paper will be about “project management”. I feel writing about this topic will help me get better educated on project management; after all it is another degree I want under my belt. A project manager is the person accountable for overseeing a project from its beginning to finishing. This includes preparation, implementation and administrating over the team, resources and scope of the project. Project managers must have the obedience to produce understandable and achievable objective and to see them through to successful finishing point. The project manager has complete accountability and power to complete the given project. Being a great project manager will require for you to be all over the place and you should have the mental capacity to sustain not only for yourself but also for the team you have put together and also for the project that you have agreed to complete. Since the course that I am taking is IT based; I will be doing my paper IT based, although there are several different types of project managers, I chose to just keep it simple and stick to what I’m learning. All project managers tie into one at the end of the day, they all have to the same types of responsibilities, so it will be like I’m touching on all of them at once.
There a few educational qualifications in order to become a construction manager. It is required to have a G.E.D (general education degree).In order to acquire a G.E.D, one must complete high school. After high school, to become a very focused and dependably construction manager, you must attend college and choose one of the following college majors. These four bachelor’s degrees are important in construction science, construction management, architecture, and engineering. For example, construction science, there are course about building science, building permits, and building blueprints. All of these will programs provide a wide variety of other courses that include, project control and management, design, construction methods and materials, cost estimation, building codes and standards, and contract administration. Another type of education is shadowing or following other construction managers. Doing this with a very prodigious construction manager will teach you many new things in a short time. For example, the person shadowing will learn the basic stressful everyday work problems, the techniques that specific construction manager uses, and who and what the mange on a day to day basis (bls).
I am 38 years old and have spent much of my life around and earning a living in the construction industry. My first
Project Management Institute (PMI) (2013). Project Management Professional (PMP) Handbook. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.pmi.org/certification/~/media/pdf/certifications/pdc_pmphandbook.ashx. [Last Accessed 20 April 2014].
In the globalized economy, Successful project managers are in much demand across many industries. Organizations strongly need experienced project managers to lead their staff to accomplish their business goals and deliver successful projects. In an increasingly complex environment, project managers need to turn into many roles and have all kinds of responsibilities at each level of management within an organization. Good project managers are not born. They need to be trained. They develop their skills through study, practise and experience. They become better project managers after they finish a successful project each time. They learn new techniques and apply them on their projects. They learn their lessons from failed projects and then improve to be better project managers in the future.
Working on tenders for the first few weeks was enjoyable for me as it did make me use all the techniques I learned at University in every stream of Civil Engineering that had been taught to us, namely; Geotechnical, Structural, Hydrology and Transport. I realise this might not be the same everywhere and usually Civil Engineers might focus on one type of stream, but I was happy that I had the opportunity to useall of my theoretical knowledge and applied them to real‐life
I have used tools and techniques that I studied in last previous semester to apply it in projects, which I done before to practice and improve for myself. On the other hand, I got management and leadership knowledge and helpful information by reading useful resource such as: Harvard Business Review, Forbes magazine and so on. In addition, I also obtain my awareness about management and leadership in constructions projects by talking and debating with my father, who has worked like a contractor in construction field in 20 years. His comment always helps me to achieve a deep understanding about usual problems in construction projects in reality and how to motivate and empower to staff, especially, how to build a relationship between employee and employer, and between manager and
I am committed to developing my professional skills to allow me to work to the fullest of my potential, and as a consequence I am highly motivated to study for an MSc in Project Management. I believe that it is essential for project managers to be equipped with the skills that are necessary to allow ambitious projects to be completed on budget, on time, and according to their original specifications, and I believe that completing this master’s is the best way to acquire those skills.
I am applying for a Masters in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Solid Mechanics to expand on my study of and experience with materials. I have thoroughly enjoyed studying Materials Science and Engineering as an undergraduate at UCLA. I now look forward to moving into graduate study in a field of engineering with a related, but different perspective. Materials Science and Engineering has allowed me to explore both materials and other fields within engineering, contributing to my strong interest in combining my study of Materials Science and Engineering with Mechanical Engineering. I have completed basic coursework in most areas of engineering, learning statics, thermodynamics, basic programming, and circuit design. This has provided a strong foundation to continue graduate study in other engineering disciplines. I
“Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to organisational and project activities to achieve the aims of an organisation through projects” (PMI, 2003).