Integration Management
Integration management is a collection of processes required to ensure that the various elements
of the projects are properly coordinated. It involves making trade-offs among competing
objectives and alternatives to meet or exceed stakeholders needs and expectations.
It comprised of:
Project Plan Development: Integrating and coordinating all project plans to create a
consistent, coherent document.
Project Plan Execution: Carrying out the project plan, according to the strategy, plan
and activities as per the plan.
Integrated Change Control: Coordinating changes across the project.
2. Introduction
Currently, the construction project is more and more large scale and complex, as to this
development situation, a new management style is urgently needed. Construction project
integrated management proposes a new development direction for architectural
engineering. Integrated management is the process which applies the integration theory
and methods, models, tools of systems engineering to integrate systematically the related
resources of construction project management and achieves the settled objectives and
maximizes the investment returns. As the participants of construction project are more
and more extensive, so that the construction project integration management system is
also more complex. Then the isolated and decentralized project management and
decision-making methods no longer meet the requirements of today's new projects. It's a
the new issue about how to mobilize the power of the parties effectively, how to
implement the integrated management on the process of construction project, and how to
improve the maximize value projects to the owners.
According to this figure, the IMS includes the following main documents:
1. IMS Manual (for the whole organization).
2. IMS Procedures (those that are common or general to the three areas, those related
specifically to quality including cost and time, those related specifically to the
environment, and those related specifically to safety and health).
3. IMS Plans (for each construction project, which may include and/or be related to specific
plans on quality, environment, and safety and health).
4. IMS Records (documentation of the implementation of the system).
7. Advantages
The system is capable to integrate the tasks of a project, including planning, design,
estimate, budget, procurement, documentation and price calculation.
It is a very useful tool for the management of a construction company to control its
projects effectively.
The Construction Integrated Management System may comprise the following corners:
(Basic Database, Budget, Procurement Ease, Price Calculation Module, Settlement
Management).
Through the help of this tool, user can effectively generate Bidding List, Purchasing
Materials, Labor and Material Analyze Items and Specifications.
An effective administrating tool is a must in construction life cycle such as estimating,
bidding, procurement, scheduling, site managing, and valuation.
8. Conclusions
Integrated project is emerging as the way to organize project teams to achieve lean construction
at a time when the industry is searching for ways to eliminate waste, cut costs, improve
productivity and create positive outcomes. This approach to project does just as the name implies
by integrating all team members--owner, architect, construction manager, engineers, and
subcontractors--to form a collaborative effort. It uses a three-pronged platform with the owner as
one entity, the architects and engineers as the second, and the contractors or builders as the third.
The owner, architect, and contractor act as the core group to manage the integrated project
process.
9. References
Zhao Xianbo, and Wang Yao, Study on Constructing the Integrated Project
Partnering Team, Construction Economics, No.2, 2009, pp.33-36.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Project_Management/PMBOK/Integration_Management
http://www.tradelineinc.com/reports/2008-7/integrated-project-delivery-improvesefficiency-streamlines-construction
http://www.thecqi.org/Knowledge-Hub/Resources/Factsheets/Integrated-managementsystems/
https://archive.org/details/StudyOfConstructionProjectIntegratedManagement