Project management

Abstract

Project management has for a number of years been gradually introduced into the premises and facilities management areas to cope with the complexity of disciplines now involved in building projects. This is especially true of the major building construction programme in the City of London due to the recent deregulation of the Stock Exchange and the tremendous impact this has had on the operations of the London financial institutions. As a consequence of this building explosion, large companies and financial institutions have reassessed their attitudes towards facilities management, particularly the way in which this profession has quickly established itself at senior management level in major companies involved in Big Bang and other projects throughout the country. Although Big Bang exemplifies this approach, the process of forming a project team applies to all projects; the only material change is the scale of the project operation which will of course determine the size of the project management team and the time frame, which in itself will impose personnel parameters.

Citation

Carter, R. (1986), "Project management", Facilities, Vol. 4 No. 12, pp. 4-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006384