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PROJECT By Ben Breen


The construction industry is traditionally a lot more reliant on human labour, even today and even in technologically advanced economies like Singapore. This human factor means the impact from the COVID-19 pandemic has been tremendous and the industry will continue to remain vulnerable to recurring infection waves.


Project management is even more crucial under these circumstances. We are seeing more interest for and awareness of project management training from the construction industry in Asia Pacific, at a time when effective project managers are needed more than ever to not just manage the safe movement of manpower, but the movement of materials and machinery on-site and across borders when supply lines are disrupted.


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BECOMING A GYMNASTIC ENTERPRISE More importantly, attitudes towards project management for construction have changed and are likely changed for good. Some major global trends are impacting projects around the world, especially large-


scale construction projects1 . The pandemic


has only accelerated these trends. At the same time, swelling population growth in urban centres around the globe continues to drive demand for roads, ports, housing, facilities and more.


Meanwhile, construction projects will continue facing marked pressure to do more with less, while driving faster project delivery times, especially after the initial delays during the start of the pandemic when the world came to a halt. A clear example would be public housing in Singapore. Eighty-five per cent of Build-to-Order (BTO) projects—a major public housing programme—is now six to nine months behind schedule, affecting 43,000 households2


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Apart from managing timelines, project management continues to be instrumental in managing budgets. Our research in September 2020 shows that 73 per cent of projects globally ended over-budget3


MANAGEMENT IN AN INCREASINGLY DISRUPTIVE WORLD


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fact, US$127 million is wasted for every US$1 billion spent, which is US$14 million more than non-construction projects4


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With governments and businesses around the world unleashing pent-up


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