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Article: Hard-hat era yields to a new professionalism.
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- Australasian Business Intelligence
- Article date:
- August 27, 2003
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Aug 27, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX)
In the past few years, project management has changed drastically in the construction industry. A project manager nurses a task until its completion. He is neither designer, builder nor client. However, he has to handle all aspects including budgeting, scheduling and dealing with external parties. The Carson Group has been the project manager for the new headquarters of BHP Billiton in Melbourne. The group says it had a project team that became virtually a part of the company. According to John Tsoukas, principal project manager for consultancy Arup, the project manager's task is to ensure that what ...