Potential savings, trends and strategies
“There is a lot of money lying on a construction site” – this is the phrase to outline the findings of the study „construction site management: potential savings, trends and strategies“ conducted by Management Engineers and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Großanlagenbau (Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer’s Group) of VDMA – German Engineering Federation. The study aimed at identifying the scope for raising the efficiency of construction sites in the field of large-scale plant construction and presenting approaches of how to make use of them. The investigated issues and suggestions for improvements can also be assigned to medium-scale projects in the field of industrial plant construction and engineering.
In the last few years, large-scale plant construction boomed all over the world. In 2008, the companies being member of the Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer‘s Group of VDMA generated incoming orders amounting to a record value of 32.8 bn. € for the fourth time in succession. As pleasant as this economic boom was in principle, it also implicated a number of challenges.
Tight personnel resources as well as increasing material prices were imposing above all high financial burdens and cost pressure on the companies. This led to many deviations from planning in respect of quality, schedules and...
