Construction Management [CM]

Construction Management is:
Construction Management (CM) is recognised throughout the world as one of a family of disciplines concerned with the complex phenomenon we know as the ‘Built Environment’ (BE). Its role in relation to the BE is defined within this publication, but it should be made clear at the outset that none of these disciplines has any monopoly of wisdom,
nor any exclusive territory.
The planning, design, production, adaptation, maintenance, restoration, conservation, management, evaluation and recycling of the built environment requires interaction between disciplines, much as the promotion of health and the curing of disease require a multi-professional approach. In both these domains (BE and health) there is an increasing sharing of knowledge bases, but equally each profession brings to the table its own distinctive offering. CIOB’s professionalism is based upon Construction Management, in the broadest sense of that term.
An inclusive definition of the character and content of CM may best be developed through examination of a series of ‘models’, each of which recognises an aspect
of what we are able to see and touch in the work of Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) members and those who identify with them around the notion of CM. From those models, our definition has been developed.