CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT FOR ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS: PANACEA FOR SUSTAINABLE PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN DEVELOPING NATIONS

Abstract

This paper focused attention on how the content and nature of study of construction management could be used to create harmonious environment in a construction engagement, free of the usual rancour and acrimony of human nature. It examined the operations of the professionals, supervisors and craftsmen with a view to realising the goals of construction management, which is both social and technical. The analysis of the future for construction management showed that the integration demanded of the industry is at both emotional and operational levels. The ability to coordinate several project activities at once, while analysing and resolving specific problems, is essential for construction management, as is an understanding of engineering, architectural, and other construction management drawings. The environment and man that lives in it act systematically with man as the one in control of the system. He can therefore choose to maintain a balance to this set of interconnected things or parts, to achieve unity, or live with confusion. It therefore becomes imperative that these diverse disciplines and multitude of People must be managed and harmonized in order to optimize the resources available for the benefit of society, in realizing the building project, within the constraints of function, time and cost. That is the basic premise of construction economics, management of man, material and money