Avoid These 5 Problems In Construction | Tips for a Construction Management and Engineering Career
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Get ahead in your construction management career and avoid these 5 problems that will likely come up in your construction engineering career. Watch until the end and be better prepared! Add me on instagram: @kikoga
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Communication
Communication is so important in construction, there's so many different people that are part of the team that it is tough to get on the same page. Make sure that you fully understand issues as a new entry or project engineer and ask questions to make sure that you fully understand the plan. Also with construction drawings that you provide to the field workers, be sure that they are clear and clean. Do not give the workers messy, marked up drawings that take time to decipher. The more thinking and analyzing the field needs to do, the less efficient they will be and thus the less money you can make for the company. And, always communicate verbally if possible, don't just email. Verbal communication helps build relationships well which are so important for the industry.
Transitions
Construction material transitions are one of the most difficult details to perfect and understand on the job. Transitions between materials and trades are so important to look through early and get them right. Examples include, flooring thickness transitions, waterproofing transitions, roofing transitions, any time you have multiple materials and multiple subtrades interfacing you can have installation and warranty issues. Its best to get all the subtrades together with the appropriate manufacturers and ask the questions to the designers as soon as possible.
Construction Tolerances
It is so important to consider construction tolerances when reviewing details for the project. Each scope of work has a specific tolerance along with it's install and you need to make sure your contract document details reflect this. It is your job as the contractor to notify designers if the details hold you to a higher standard than you can actually build. Set the expectation with the owner and design team early and give them alternatives and help them understand why these tolerances need to be considered and plan together to create details that are achievable and aesthetically acceptable.
Losing and Procurement of Materials
Materials tend to walk away on the project and you need to make sure everything is stored properly. There are a lot of different people and trades on the job and it just takes a couple people to ruin everything. Procurement of materials is so important and you need to make sure that you understand where all your materials are coming from and how long they will take. Your procurement log should be tied to the schedule and making sure waiting for materials is not holding up progress of the job.
Changes and Drawings
It seems that the trend in the industry is that construction projects will begin without a complete design and design documents and it becomes tough to execute the project. Construction changes will always happen, but the amount of changes can hopefully be limited up front. If the contractor is involved early on with design; they can influence design to help make it constructible. As an entry level engineer, the best thing you can do it understand how you can best help the ownership and design team execute at the highest level and do you best to be a team player.
0:00 Intro
0:46 Communication
4:15 Transitions
6:45 Construction Tolerances
10:13 Losing and Procurement of Material
11:48 Changes and Drawings
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I just graduated college and will start working for a large GC as a field engineer this January. Finding your channel and watching your videos have been a huge help for me to prepare, especially since my internships have been in heavy civil, but my full time job is in commercial building. Thank you for the great content and keep it up!!!
Awesome to hear Alex! Appreciate the support 🤙 glad I could help haha
Any update bro ?
all good points, delivered beautifully,. Nice work Kienen.
Studying CM and set to start full-time this September. Really appreciate the knowledge and perspective you’ve gained during your time in industry. Love your videos and will be recommending them to others in my major, keep it up!
Awesome to hear Ryan! Thank you for the support 🤙
Great stuff man! I'm glad I stumbled across your channel
Thanks Hector! Glad to have to on the channel man haha
Kienen ! Feels like ive been away for too long! Happy new year, and amazing video as always! Keep up the great work!!
Hows it going Rod! Happy new year man! Appreciate the support 🤙
Appreciate your video sir Koga. I am into Construction Management career. Keep making great videos sir. Thanks
Such good advice to just use your mouth! Definitely makes everything go 10x smoother
Lol when in doubt...
I thought I was overwhelmed in your other video about building a building from a high level, and now I’m more overwhelmed hearing about these small details. So much to keep track of! I see why you work so much now lol
Hahaha I guess I’m just used to it by now. Its a tough business! Thanks Mari!
Go Huskie go!
I'm going to do some jacking and leveling for my foundation. Watching this certainly gets my rhythm set for tomorrow. lol
Hahaha awesome Zhixiang!
You're a gifted man 🙏
good tips for my future jobs hehe thanks for this sir. but u have good dota steam right there XD
This was great! Waiting for a part 2 :) - having problems managing change, what is your typical process for SIs and making sure all subs are working off the latest revision?
Thanks so much Nicole! Its always a challenge especially when these are issued while work is already going on. We have our own redline set of drawings through our own website or BIM 360 docs. Usually the best way is to physically go out there and manage it with the field as the changes go in.
nice!
Good advices my friend, I subscribe to your channel. I work for a EPC company, we build power plants
The most tricky issue are scopes of work of each subcontractor, having good and detailed contracts with each one is the key to avoid future problems
Yes! Agreed!
Builder here! Not being that guy but the end of the tape slides out the thickness of the tape measures end. So you can “butt” or “pull” and get the same measurement. But it is still more precise holding on a reference point due to things getting dinged up with use.
As a new PE just coming out of college, I found this to be a great help to consider things maybe I hadn't before and I'm glad to have these tools moving forward! Your videos are fantastic and I recommended that my companies student interns check your channel out. Keep up the great work!
I know alot of site supers and project managers that should watch these videos...
Also important:
1) Calculation and cost mgt
2) Document and sell your work
Very true!
I know this isn’t the goal of the channel but hard hat merchandise for your channel would be cool 😂
Hahahaha that would be unique!
Do you find it’s just our generation that doesn’t want to pick up the phone? I definitely see your point in the importance of verbal and in person communication, esp in construction!
I’ve seen both sides. Its just sometimes people just take the easy route and shoot off the email without thinking about how it can be read and perceived when it comes out of nowhere
Damn that skirting at 6:25 should be talked about ahahhahaha
How can a claim will be either on the site or outside of the site
7:13 how do you mentally calculate that or even guess it without looking at a tape measure? I need to learn the trick because I can only do metric, toughest part has been converting to imperial
I use a calculator lol
What if you mess up a project will you be fired
Bruh...literally my PM my first job outta college, we literally sat by each other and he'd sent me an email and I'd look over and he's just busy focusing on his screen. Don't mind him sending email but follow up by saying..hey i just sent an email could you do that for me? But instead he just pretends nothing happened lol
Work out of sequence, having to go back doing certain things rewinds flow” 😐
By the way, any of the viewers who work with Kienen also follow him on CZcams?
Hahahaha they’re all sick of me preaching at work
Hit that like BUTT-TUN
You lose be me when you start using feet and inches