UTILISATION OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AS A PROCUREMENT METHOD IN NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

The aims of this thesis titled ‘UTILISATION OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AS A PROCUREMENT METHOD IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY’ are to ascertain the various roles played by
construction management in contract administration, to consider the history and evolution of construction management in order to ascertain the state-of-the art techniques, to analyse construction management as an indispensable tool for cost saving in construction and to analyse construction management as a vehicle to speedy,
efficient and on-time project delivery, while the objectives are to ascertain the activities/functions that enable the
smooth running and execution of project, and successful completion, to understand how the client’s briefs can be translated into physical reality whilst satisfying his design, technical, cost and time requirements, to find out the various avenues of minimising the amount of outgoings from a company, whilst maximising the amount of incomings in order to have significant cost savings on a project and to determine the height of departure of the current practice of construction management from the primitive method. The method employed in gathering information is through site visits during which oral interviews and oral questions were held with clients,
contractors, engineers and other professionals including even the workmen which bothers on budgeting techniques, cost and time control, cashflow, construction execution, quality assurance, etc. Summarily, construction contractors and the owners of construction projects should effectively use Earned Value Management system as a means of ensuring viable project performance and as well serves as an Early Warning System so as to guard against cost and time overrun

BY NWOSU, KELECHUKWU ESHCOL, A Thesis submitted to the Department of Building and Quantity Surveying (Construction Management option), Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State in partial fulfillment of the
requirements of the award of PGD in Construction Management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State