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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalPrem Vardhan is a civil engineer with over 52 years of practical experience on major construction projects. His last assignment was as Executive Director (international operations) of the ESSAR group’s construction division. He has moved to many remote areas in India and overseas to build mega projects. More than 50% of his work force was local villagers given on-the-job training who went from being unskilled to semi-skilled and then to skilled workers in carpentry, masonry, steel fabrication, electrification and other skills while smart and influential people became contractors. His othRead More...
Prem Vardhan is a civil engineer with over 52 years of practical experience on major construction projects. His last assignment was as Executive Director (international operations) of the ESSAR group’s construction division. He has moved to many remote areas in India and overseas to build mega projects. More than 50% of his work force was local villagers given on-the-job training who went from being unskilled to semi-skilled and then to skilled workers in carpentry, masonry, steel fabrication, electrification and other skills while smart and influential people became contractors.
His other books are:
· Administrative and Human Resource Solutions for Construction Projects.
· Civil Engineering Solutions—an Innovative Guide To Advanced Civil Engineering Concepts.
· Functions of A Successful Project Manager.
· Papua New Guinea, A Business Destination
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This book has been written for the benefit of young entrepreneurs thinking of a business idea. It takes them through the journey of becoming a successful, big contractor. It covers major issues in starting a contracting business and the major dos and don’ts. It also briefly explains the basic knowledge of various streams of contracting, project management and tendering. This could also be a good guide to rising and ambitious contractors.
This book has been written for the benefit of young entrepreneurs thinking of a business idea. It takes them through the journey of becoming a successful, big contractor. It covers major issues in starting a contracting business and the major dos and don’ts. It also briefly explains the basic knowledge of various streams of contracting, project management and tendering. This could also be a good guide to rising and ambitious contractors.
Managing a country, your work or even your own life, all are projects in themselves and the person managing such projects is project manager. A project manager’s functions and responsibilities could be divided into minute key result areas or KRAs. A man at a laundry may have fewer responsibilities than a managing director or a prime minister but conceptually their projects are similar. Awareness and proper implementation of their functions and responsibiliti
Managing a country, your work or even your own life, all are projects in themselves and the person managing such projects is project manager. A project manager’s functions and responsibilities could be divided into minute key result areas or KRAs. A man at a laundry may have fewer responsibilities than a managing director or a prime minister but conceptually their projects are similar. Awareness and proper implementation of their functions and responsibilities contribute to making successful project managers.
Success means a step forward and failures imply a few steps backwards in the progress curve of any individual. Most failures are due to ignorance or overconfidence. History is witness to the failures of many stalwarts, who have vanished from professional life due to a few silly mistakes.
This book lists the expectations from individuals in different situations and functions and suggests methods for continued gains towards smooth career growth for a successful project manager.
For any organization, the decision to take up new infrastructure projects or to set up a new production business is dependent on the company’s current involvement in new projects as well as several other considerations. Still, there is always the search for a good, new project.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has readily available opportunities for varied businesses but has been deprived of the right attention due to various irrelevant reasons.
Several lu
For any organization, the decision to take up new infrastructure projects or to set up a new production business is dependent on the company’s current involvement in new projects as well as several other considerations. Still, there is always the search for a good, new project.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has readily available opportunities for varied businesses but has been deprived of the right attention due to various irrelevant reasons.
Several lucrative opportunities are available—for the export of vegetables, fruits and flowers; setting up a dairy farm; investment in real estate, hydropower, cement plants, rerolling mills and hospitals, mining of minerals—including coal, gold and natural gas—and execution of infrastructure contracts.
This work is an effort to highlight such opportunities and to provide more insight into the various businesses in this country.
Engineering, Medical, Chartered Accounting and Law are a few professions that are considered to be good for one’s status, salary and other perquisites. But, just managing one’s admission into professional institutions does not make a person successful professionally.
This book has eleven levels. The first five levels explain what engineering is and how one can become a successful professional, for which parents and teachers should contribute signific
Engineering, Medical, Chartered Accounting and Law are a few professions that are considered to be good for one’s status, salary and other perquisites. But, just managing one’s admission into professional institutions does not make a person successful professionally.
This book has eleven levels. The first five levels explain what engineering is and how one can become a successful professional, for which parents and teachers should contribute significantly.
The rest of book takes a civil engineer working on projects like roads, bridges, dams, seaports, airports, industrial and residential buildings etc. on an innovative and interesting professional journey. It explains in minute detail, with examples of possible challenges and solutions for them, covering as many tasks as possible. The construction of major projects has been explained in simple language that best suits a classroom setting.
Green field, heavy industrial and infrastructure projects face many problems during mobilization and execution due to issues with the local community, land, social, industrial relations and human resources.
This book provides some real life examples to serve as a guide for project managers to handle such problems in their projects. The book highlights easy methods for relationship building with the community, client, consultant, banks, procurement and ot
Green field, heavy industrial and infrastructure projects face many problems during mobilization and execution due to issues with the local community, land, social, industrial relations and human resources.
This book provides some real life examples to serve as a guide for project managers to handle such problems in their projects. The book highlights easy methods for relationship building with the community, client, consultant, banks, procurement and other requirements that are necessary for the project’s success. It also covers human resource planning and management for efficient project execution.
A Project Manager is usually the custodian of the project and he/she has to be the single point of contact responsible for it. Project Manager has an efficient team who manages the project execution to which Human resource and Administration are very important functions to help taking right decisions.
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