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Outsourcing is the practice of hiring a party outside a company to create products and perform services that traditionally were performed in-house by the company's own employees and staff. The decision to give certain functions to an outside service provider should be taken after careful consideration. Once tasks have been outsourced, reintegrating them back into a company can be anything but easy. Organizations should always first check that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for your company before opting for outsourcing. To know more about us follow the link given below: https://gemengserv.com/the-spectrum-of-construction-project-management-consultancy-services/

Most of us today are on our phones through the day, from using an app to order groceries, a reminder app for our smallest daily tasks, to the gamut of social media apps. However, when it comes to a construction project why are we still recording snags on paper and physically consolidating checklists to generate reports?

To overcome this constraint, the technique of using Welded Wire Mesh (WWM) is gaining acceptance slowly but steadily. Though the use of Welded wire mesh is not very popular in INDIA, it is widely adopted in developed countries like the USA, CANADA, UK and the Middle East region. The popularity of Welded wire wesh in these countries is mainly due to the shortage of site workers and critical timelines of projects.

The cost vs quality tradeoff is a common dilemma faced by many industries, including construction. Here we summarise our understanding based on responses from the industry leaders.

Quite often, in the course of finalization of an assignment, clients ask us, "What is the accuracy with which you will provide quantities". Though not articulated expressly, we understand that the client expects 100% accuracy in Quantity estimation! Obviously, no Quantity Estimator can truthfully claim to provide 100 % accuracy in her deliverable. Our stock answer to this question is "the accuracy will be in proportion to the quality of the drawings & details provided to us".

This article outlines the importance of corrective and preventive action, aside from immediate repairs addressing concrete defects in construction projects.

Construction disputes make up a significant component of the claims and disputes dealt with in Arbitrations in India.

Quantity surveying and estimation cost of construction need to be at the fingertip of every surveyor. This is necessary as estimated cost of building construction assists them to examine and manipulate data used for projections and comparison.

Many concepts related to Quality Management have originated in the manufacturing industry and their implementation is being attempted in the construction industry. Manufacturing industry is characterized by steady‐state processes whereas the construction industry operates quite differently.

The aim of this article is not to analyze the issues causing project delays and to suggest preventive measures. It aims to go back in time and examine the issues when the seed of project delay is actually sown.

As a part of our (Gem Engserv) services related to Quality Management, we offer Quality Audits as well as Third-Party Quality Control services amongst many other services. In the course of discussions to understand how best to serve them (scoping), some clients enquire if we can provide quality rating as a part of our service offering, most often bundled with Quality Audits. This desire of the client's senior management to derive a numerical score as a proxy of the quality of their project is the basis of this article.

Force Majeure is a creature of Contract. It was a term and was a clause that always existed in Construction Contracts. But few stakeholders in the industry thought or imagined that this clause would assume so much importance ever as it has assumed during COVID - 19.