Site Management and Production Guide

A CIOB guide for construction site managers and other construction professionals.

The new breed of site managers must be professional, informed, and prepared to deal with uncertainty and risk, and the skills and competencies they need are reflected in this book.

Construction on site has become more complex, with more rules and regulations, and new ways of procuring projects. Site managers must ensure compliance with a host of regulations and requirements. Digitalisation has both simplified and complicated the processes. Increasing environmental requirements, legislation on health, safety, taxation, waste management, and employment, puts pressure on the site management team to ensure compliance, and an understanding of the implications on project delivery.

Keeping a project on-time and on-budget requires good site management, reliable planning, which depends upon decisions made on-the-spot to ‘solve’ unexpected problems. The site manager is required to have extensive ‘hard’ technical knowledge, to know when the work being done is right or wrong, and to have command of ‘soft’ skills such as leadership and people management. Team working and team leadership are ‘tested’ by the fragmentation of the industry, having to deal with a client and design team and a long and complex supply chain.