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can u explain me detail about difference between construction management and project management ?


Pratik Bharade 17th Jun, 2019
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Yash Dev Student Expert 17th Jun, 2019
Construction management (CM) is a professional service that uses specialized, project management techniques to oversee the planning, design, and construction of a project, from its beginning to its end. The purpose of CM is to control a project's time / delivery, cost and qualitysometimes referred to as a project management triangle or "triple constraints."[1] CM is compatible with all project delivery systems, including design-bid-build, design-build, CM At-Risk and Public Private Partnerships. Professional construction managers may be reserved for lengthy, large-scale, high budget undertakings (commercial real estate, transportation infrastructure, industrial facilities, and military infrastructure), called capital projects.

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Project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints

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17th Jun, 2019
Thanks for answering, you cleared my all doubt
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