School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

COTM 5104: CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Chapter 2
Introduction to PMBOK

GETANEH GEZAHEGNE
March 2014
 Contents
Introduction to PMBOK
1. General Introduction

2. Knowledge Areas of Project Management

3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas

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 1. General Introduction
1.1 Introduction
 The Project Management Body of Knowledge,
PMBOK is the sum of knowledge within the
profession of project management.
 As with other professions such as law, medicine,
and accounting, the body of knowledge rests with
the practitioners and academics who apply and
advance it.
 The complete PMBOK includes proven
traditional practices that are widely applied, as
well as innovative practices that are emerging in
the profession, including published and
unpublished material.
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 1. General Introduction
1.2 PMBOK Guide Structure
 The PMBOK is organized into three sections:
Section I: The Project Management Framework;
Section II: The Standard for Project management of a
Project; and
Section III: The Project Management Knowledge Areas.
Section I:The Project Management Framework
 The Project Management Framework, provides a basic
structure for understanding project management.
 Introduction: defines key terms and provides an
overview for the PMBOK guide.
 Project Life Cycle and Organization: describes the
environment in which projects operate.

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 1. General Introduction
1.2 PMBOK Guide Structure
Section II: The Standard for Project management of a
Project
 The Standard for Project Management of a Project,
specifies all the project management processes that are
used by the project team to manage a project and; It
describes the five required Project Management Process
Groups for any project and their constituent.

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 1. General Introduction
1.2 PMBOK Guide Structure
Section II: The Standard for Project management of a
Project
 The five Process Groups are:
 Initiating Process Group: Defines and authorizes the project or a
project phase.
 Planning Process Group: Defines and refines objectives, and
plans the course of action required to attain the objectives and
scope that the project was undertaken to address.
 Executing Process Group: Integrates people and other resources
to carry out the project management plan for the project.
 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Regularly measures
and monitors progress to identify variances from the project
management plan so that corrective action can be taken when
necessary to meet project objectives.
 Closing Process Group: Formalizes acceptance of the product,
service or result and brings the project or a project phase to an
orderly end.
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 1. General Introduction
1.2 PMBOK Guide Structure
Section II: The Standard for Project management of a
Project
Interaction among process groups

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 1. General Introduction
1.2 PMBOK Guide Structure
Section III: The Project Management Knowledge Areas

1. Project
2. Project Scope 3. Project Time
Integration
Management Management
Management

6. Project
5. Project
4. Project Cost Human
Quality
Management Resource
Management
management

7. Project 9. Project
8. Project Risk
Communication Procurement
Management
Management Management

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 1. General Introduction
1.2 PMBOK Guide Structure
Section III: The Project Management Knowledge Areas
Construction Project Specific Knowledge Areas

1. Claim 2. Safety
Management Management

3. Financial 4. Environmental
Management Management

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 1. General Introduction
1.3 PMBOK Areas of Expertise
 Much of the knowledge and many of the tools and
techniques for managing projects are unique to project
management, such as work breakdown structures,
critical path analysis, and earned value management.
 However, understanding and applying the knowledge,
skills, tools, and techniques, which are generally
recognized as good practice, are not sufficient alone for
effective project management.
 Effective project management requires that the project
management team understand and use knowledge and
skills from at least five areas of expertise:
 The Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK;
 Application area knowledge, standards, and regulations;
 Understanding the project environment;
 General management knowledge and skills; and
 Interpersonal skills.
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 1. General Introduction
1.3 PMBOK Area of Expertise
Areas of Expertise for a project management team

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 1. General Introduction
1.3 PMBOK Areas of Expertise
1.3.1 The Project Management Body of Knowledge,
PMBOK
 The PMBOK describes knowledge unique to the project
management field and that overlaps other management
disciplines.
 The knowledge of project management described in the
PMBOK Guide consists of:
 Project life cycle definition;
 Five Project Management Process Groups; and
 Nine Knowledge Areas.

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 1. General Introduction
1.3 PMBOK Areas of Expertise
1.3.2 Application Area: Knowledge, Standards and
Regulations
 Application areas are categories of projects that have
common elements significant in such projects, but are not
needed or present in all projects.
 Each application area generally has a set of accepted
standards and practices, often codified in regulations.
 A standard is a “document established by consensus
and approved by a recognized body.
 A regulation is a government-imposed requirement,
which specifies product, process or service
characteristics.

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 1. General Introduction
1.3 PMBOK Areas of Expertise
1.3.3 Understanding the Project Environment
 Virtually all projects are planned and implemented in a
social, economic, and environmental context, and have
intended and unintended positive and/or negative
impacts.
 The project team should consider the project in its
cultural, social, international, political, and physical
environmental contexts.

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 1. General Introduction
1.3 PMBOK Areas of Expertise
1.3.4 General Management Knowledge and Skills
 General Management encompasses planning,
organizing, staffing, executing, and controlling the
operations of an ongoing enterprise.
 It includes supporting disciplines such as:
 Financial management and accounting;
 Purchasing and procurement;
 Sales and marketing;
 Contracts and commercial law;
 Manufacturing and distribution;
 Logistics and supply chain;
 Strategic, tactical, and operational planning;
 Organizational structures, organizational behavior, personnel
administration, compensation, benefits, and career paths;
 Health and safety practices; and
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 1. General Introduction
1.3 PMBOK Areas of Expertise
1.3.5 Interpersonal Skills
 The management of interpersonal relationships includes:
 Effective communication:- the exchange of information;
 Influencing the organization:- the ability to “get things
done”;
 Leadership:- Developing a vision and strategy, and
motivating people to achieve that vision and strategy
 Motivation:- Energizing people to achieve high levels of
performance and to overcome barriers to change
 Negotiation and conflict management:- Conferring with
others to come to terms with them or to reach an agreement
 Problem solving:- The combination of problem definition,
alternatives identification and analysis, and decision-
making.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
 The PMBOK organizes the 9 knowledge areas and 44
process under the knowledge areas.
2.1 Project Integration Management
 Project integration management includes the processes
required to ensure that the various elements of projects
are properly coordinated.
 The processes in integration management include:
 Develop project charter;
 Develop preliminary project scope statement;
 Develop project management plan;
 Direct and manage project execution;
 Monitor and control project work;
 Integrated change control; and
 Close project.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.1 Project Integration Management
 Develop Project Charter:– developing the project charter
that formally authorizes a project or a project phase.
 Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement:–
developing the preliminary project scope statement that
provides a high-level scope narrative.
 Develop Project Management Plan:– documenting the
actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and
coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project management
plan.
 Direct and Manage Project Execution:– executing the
work defined in the project management plan to achieve
the project’s requirements defined in the project scope
statement.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.1 Project Integration Management
 Monitor and Control Project Work:– monitoring and
controlling the processes used to initiate, plan, execute,
and close a project to meet the performance objectives
defined in the project management plan.
 Integrated Change Control:– reviewing all change
requests, approving changes, and controlling changes to
the deliverables and organizational process assets.
 Close Project:– finalizing all activities across all of the
Project Management Process Groups to formally close
the project or a project phase.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.2 Project Scope Management
 Project Scope Management includes the processes
required to ensure that the project includes all the work
required, and only the work required, to complete the
project successfully.
 Project scope management is primarily concerned with
defining and controlling what is and is not included in
the project.
 Project scope management includes:
 Scope Planning;
 Scope Definition;
 Create WBS;
 Scope Verification; and
 Scope Control.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.2 Project Scope Management
 Scope planning:- the project scope management plan is a
planning tool describing how the team will define the
project scope, develop the detailed project scope
statement, define and develop the work breakdown
structure, verify the project scope, and control the project
scope.
 The preparation of a detailed project scope statement is
critical to project success and builds upon the major
deliverables, assumptions, and constraints that are
documented during project initiation in the preliminary
project scope statement.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.2 Project Scope Management
 Create WBS:- the WBS organizes and defines the total
scope of the project and it subdivides the project work
into smaller, more manageable pieces of work, with
each descending level of the WBS representing an
increasingly detailed definition of the project work.
 Scope Control:- Project scope control is concerned with
influencing the factors that create project scope changes
and controlling the impact of those changes.
 Scope Verification:- is the process of obtaining the
stakeholders’ formal acceptance of the completed project
scope and associated deliverables. Verifying the project
scope includes reviewing deliverables to ensure that each
is completed satisfactorily.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.3 Project Time Management
 Project Time Management includes the processes
required to accomplish timely completion of the project.
 The Project Time Management processes include the
following:
 Activity Definition:– identifying the specific schedule activities that need
to be performed to produce the various project deliverables.
 Activity Sequencing:– identifying and documenting dependencies among
schedule activities.
 Activity Resource Estimating:– estimating the type and quantities of
resources required to perform each schedule activity.
 Activity Duration Estimating:– estimating the number of work periods
that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities.
 Schedule Development:– analyzing activity sequences, durations,
resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project
schedule.
 Schedule Control:– controlling changes to the project schedule.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.4 Project Quality Management
 Project Quality Management processes include all the
activities of the performing organization that determine
quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that
the project will satisfy the needs for which it was
undertaken.
 It implements the quality management system through
the policy, procedures, and processes of quality
planning, quality assurance, and quality control, with
continuous process improvement activities conducted
throughout, as appropriate.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.4 Project Quality Management
 The Project Time Management processes include the
following:
 Quality Planning:– identifying which quality
standards are relevant to the project and determining
how to satisfy them.
 Quality Assurance:– applying the planned, systematic
quality activities to ensure that the project employs all
processes needed to meet requirements.
 Quality Control:– monitoring specific project results
to determine whether they comply with relevant quality
standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes of
unsatisfactory performance.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.5 Project Human Resource Management
 Project Human Resource Management includes the
processes that organize and manage the project team.
 The project management team is a subset of the project
team and is responsible for project management activities
such as planning, controlling, and closing.
 The Project Human Resource Management processes
include the following:
 Human Resource Planning:– Identifying and documenting project roles,
responsibilities, and reporting relationships, as well as creating the
staffing management plan.
 Acquire Project Team:– Obtaining the human resources needed to
complete the project.
 Develop Project Team:– Improving the competencies and interaction of
team members to enhance project performance.
 Manage Project Team:– Tracking team member performance, providing
feedback, resolving issues, and coordinating changes to enhance project
performance.
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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.6 Project Communications Management
 Project Communications Management is the Knowledge
Area that employs the processes required to ensure timely
and appropriate generation, collection, distribution,
storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project
information.
 The Project Communications Management processes
provide the critical links among people and information
that are necessary for successful communications.
 Communications Planning:– determining the information and
communications needs of project stakeholders.
 Information Distribution:– making needed information available to
project stakeholders in a timely manner.
 Performance Reporting:– collecting and distributing performance
information. This includes status reporting, progress measurement, and
forecasting.
 Manage Stakeholders:– managing communications to satisfy the
requirements and resolve issues with project stakeholders
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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.7 Project Cost Management
 Project Cost Management includes the processes
involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, and
controlling costs so that the project can be completed
within the approved budget.
 Cost Estimating:– developing an approximation of the
costs of the resources needed to complete project
activities.
 Cost Budgeting:– aggregating the estimated costs of
individual activities or work packages to establish a
cost baseline.
 Cost Control:– influencing the factors that create cost
variances and controlling changes to the project
budget.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.8 Project Risk Management
 The Project Risk Management processes include the
following:
 Risk Management Planning:– deciding how to approach, plan,
and execute the risk management activities for a project.
 Risk Identification:– determining which risks might affect the
project and documenting their characteristics.
 Qualitative Risk Analysis:– prioritizing risks for subsequent
further analysis or action by assessing and combining their
probability of occurrence and impact.
 Quantitative Risk Analysis:– numerically analyzing the effect on
overall project objectives of identified risks.
 Risk Response Planning:– developing options and actions to
enhance opportunities, and to reduce threats to project objectives.
 Risk Monitoring and Control:– tracking identified risks,
monitoring residual risks, identifying new risks, executing risk
response.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.9 Project Procurement Management
 Project Procurement Management includes the
processes to purchase or acquire the products, services,
or results needed from outside the project team to
perform the work.
 It includes the contract management and change control
processes required to administer contracts or purchase
orders issued by authorized project team members.
 The Project Procurement Management processes include
the following:
 Plan Purchases and Acquisitions:– determining what to purchase
or acquire and determining when and how.
 Plan Contracting:– documenting products, services, and results
requirements and identifying potential sellers.
 Request Seller Responses:– obtaining information, quotations,
bids, offers, or proposals, as appropriate.

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 2. Knowledge Areas of PMBOK
2.9 Project Procurement Management
 The Project Procurement Management processes include
the following:
 Select Sellers:– reviewing offers, choosing among potential
sellers, and negotiating a written contract with each seller.
 Contract Administration:– managing the contract and relationship
between the buyer and seller, reviewing and documenting how a
seller is performing or has performed to establish required
corrective actions and provide a basis for future relationships with
the seller, managing contract-related changes and, when
appropriate, managing the contractual relationship with the
outside buyer of the project.
 Contract Closure:– completing and settling each contract,
including the resolution of any open items, and closing each
contract applicable to the project or a project phase.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
 The construction specific knowledge areas comprise 13
process under 4 knowledge areas.
3.1 Claim Management
 The processes of Claim Management in construction
includes:
 Claim Identification;
 Claim quantification;
 Claim prevention; and
 Claim resolution.
 According to Webster dictionary “claim is a demand for something due or
believed to be due”. In construction “something” is usually additional
compensation for work claimed to be extra to the contract or an extension of
time for completion or both.
 What distinguishes a claim form a change is the element of disagreement
between the parties as to what is due or whether or not anything is due. If
agreement is reached, then the claim disappears and become a change. If not,
the claim may proceed to negotiation, mediation, arbitration , and finally to
litigation before it is ultimately resolved.
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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.1 Claim Management
3.1.1 Claim Identification
 The identification of a claim starts with sufficient
knowledge of the scope and contract terms to be aware
when some activity appears to be a change in scope or
terms requiring a contract adjustment.
 Proper identification involves not only an interpretation
of what the contract requires but also a documented
description of the activity viewed as extra to that required
by the contract.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.1 Claim Management
3.1.2 Claim Quantification
 Once an activity has been reviewed and a decision made
that it is worthy of pursuing as a claim, the next step is to
quantify it in terms of additional compensation or a time
extension to the contract completion or other milestone
date.
 Quantity measurement, Cost estimation, refereeing
Contract law and procedures and schedule analysis are
the main inputs for quantifying claims.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.1 Claim Management
3.1.3 Claim Prevention
 Clearly the best way to prevent claims is to have no
claims to prevent! Thus, the emphasis is on how to avoid
or prevent claims from arising.
 The prefect, well-scoped and risk allocated contract that
is well executed will very likely not produce any claim.
 Since perfection is widely unobtainable, all that most
owners and contractors can do is their best toward that
goal i.e. preventing claims.
 Some of the major causes of claims are:
 Variations;
 Defect in contract document;
 Unforeseen condition; and
 Failure in contract administration.
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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.1 Claim Management
3.1.4 Claim Resolution
 Even with a concerted effort to prevent claims they still may
arise. There may be a justifiable disagreement as to whether
the claim in question is a change to the contract or not, or
whether the claimed amount of compensation or time
requested is correct. When this situation arises, there begins a
step-by-step process to resolve theses questions.
 The process begins with negotiation before moving on to
mediation, arbitration, and litigation; depending on the
remedies afforded by the contract.
 Because of the propagation of claims in construction and the
expense of litigation, alternative methods of resolution have
been increasingly used. Dispute resolution methods include:
 Preventive;
 Non-judgmental/amicable, (Negotiation, mediation, conciliation):
 Judgmental, (Adjudication, Arbitration and litigation).
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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.2 Safety Management
 Safety management includes the processes required to
assure safety within the construction site to prevent
accident that causes or has a potential to cause personal
injury or property damage.
 Safety management is a major concern to the construction
industry both in terms of humanitarian loss and direct and
indirect cost to the industry.
 The management of safety include the following
processes:
 Safety planning;
 Safety plan execution; and
 Administration and reporting.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.2 Safety Management
3.2.1 Safety Planning
 Safety planning for construction project involves a job
site analysis of the hazards inherent in the work and
making decision as to the measures to be taken to deal
effectively with them.
 This analysis includes a survey of the geographical and
physical hazards of the site as well as a review of the
normal hazards in the type of construction anticipated.
 In addition to these: government laws and regulations;
contract and owner requirements must be considered in
developing the project safety plan which will be the
guiding document for a safety project .

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.2 Safety Management
3.2.2 Safety Plan Execution
 Execution of the project safety plan involves the
application and implementation of the safe construction
practices on site in accordance with the requirement of
the plan.
 On large construction project there may be a separate
safety staff of several persons headed by the safety
officer.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.2 Safety Management
3.2.3 Safety Administration and Records
 Along with government laws and regulation that apply to
safe construction practice, there are often requirements
for records keeping and reporting.
 Insurance companies also usually require periodic
activity and accident reports.
 The contract may also require additional records and
reports.
 Finally it is good practice to keep track of safety
performance for use in improving performance and for
use in making future service.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.3 Financial Management
 Financial Management includes the processes to
acquire and manage the financial resources for the
project and is more concerned with revenue sources and
analyze/updating net cash flow for construction project
than is cost management.
 Financial management is distinctly different from cost
management which relates more to managing the day to
day cost of the project for labor and material.
 The processes involved are as follows:
 Financial planning;
 Financial control; and
 Financial administration and records.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.3 Financial Management
3.3.1 Financial Planning
 Planning as with any other areas is starting phase of
financial management for construction project and is the
phase where all projects requirements of a financial
nature are identified and provided for.
 Financial planning is not different than standard project
planning and task must be identified, the requirements
placed on a time scale and quantified, resources are also
required to ensure that the financial tasks are completed
timely.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.3 Financial Management
3.3.2 Financial Control
 Financial control ensure that the bonds are reduced
when necessary, calls for funds from project partners are
made as needed, and all insurance and bank
withdrawals/deposits are done at the appropriate times.
 Financial control and cost control are executed in most
effective way to ensure all items are within budget and
the financial cash forecast.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.3 Financial Management
3.3.3 Financial Administration and Records
 This processes includes project financial plan and status
report as well as understanding contract requirements.
 Attention must be paid to contract clauses for invoicing
and possible bond reduction that may require a certificate
of tax paid and specific statements of completion.
 Some contract require written indemnity for the client,
certification, salaries paid to employees and
subcontractors for payment progresses invoice.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.4 Environmental Management
 Project Environment Management includes the
processes required to ensure that the impact of the
project execution to the surrounding environment will
remain within the limits stated in legal permits.
 It is related with:
 Identifying the environmental characteristics
surrounding the construction may bring to the
environment;
 Planning the approach towards avoiding
environmental impacts and achieving environmental
conservation;
 Auditing the plan and controlling the result; and
 Inspecting environmental conditions.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.4 Environmental Management
3.4.1 Environmental Planning
 Environmental planning involves identifying which
environmental standards are relevant to the project and
determining how to satisfy them.
 It is one of the key facilitating processes during
construction project planning and it should be performed
regularly and in parallel with the other project planning
processes.
 It includes assessing the environmental condition
surrounding the project site, the nature of the project
activities and consequences of their performance to the
environment.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.4 Environmental Management
3.4.2 Environmental Assurance
 Environmental assurance is all the planned and
systematic activities implemented within the
environmental system to provide confidence that project
will satisfy the relevant environmental standards. It
should be performed throughout the project.
 Assurance should be provided to all stakeholders as
environmental conservation is a matter of global interest.

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 3. Construction Specific Knowledge Areas
3.4 Environmental Management
3.4.3 Environmental Control
 Environmental control involves monitoring specific
project results to determine if they comply with relevant
environmental standards and identifying ways to
eliminate causes and effects of unsatisfactory results.
 While quality control monitoring project results for all
aspects of the project; a specific control processes should
exist for environmental management due to its particular
requirements expressed in standard and regulation and its
importance to all stakeholders.

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