Project Management

The group had gone to many different establishments such as ILPI, PLDT and banks to conduct an interview but some of them were busy and others were not allowed to give information due to confidentiality. We were down to these three companies namely; DISC Contractors, Builders, and General Services Incorporated, Dansalan College Foundation Incorporated and Viscas Corporation. We had asked them several questions, and these were the information gathered.

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DISC CONTRACTORS, BUILDERS, AND GENERAL SERVICES INCORPORATED 

The group conducted an interview of one former employee of DISC Contractors, Builders and General Services Incorporation last September 27, 2011. Its main office was located at Fuentes, Iligan City. Due to some reasons, sadly the office in Iligan was closed last May and now its being managed by the mother company in Luzon, PNCC. But still has its ongoing projects in Isabel, Leyte and Bicutan, Paranque City. The company has at least 200 employees and at least 5 or more various construction projects in a year. 

  

  The company was supplying the structural steel in the country which offers fabrication and erection of structural steel requirements, horizontal and vertical construction and other others. Our resource person was Ms. Susan Matalines, she was an former Executive Secretary of the company and said that the company was using project management techniques in managing their projects. They were implementing project scheduling based on contract awarded by the clients. After scheduling, daily project monitoring and daily project accomplishment of the employees were strictly supervised so that they could meet the above required schedule. 

 The assignment of the project managers for specific project was done by the  Assistant Vice President of the Company.

The company had a weekly meeting of the employees regarding the projects accomplished.  Also they performed monthly board meetings  with the President, Directors and Area Managers for the updates regarding the project's performance.

    DISC has materials testing laboratory which is duly accredited by the Department of Public Works and Highways. The laboratory ensures that the projects and structures conform with safety and efficiency standards of DPWH. This done by checking the performance of the construction materials and against instituted standards and specification.

                
The company is accredited to undertake quality testing of soils and soil aggregates, coarse and fine aggregates, comprehensive strengths test of asphalt, tensile strength and bending test of reinforcing steel bars and California Bearing Ratio (CBR) and density tests.
            

 The common problems they had encountered were:

• Bad weather condition such as typhoon which lead to delay of working the projects.
• Insufficient supplies or materials.Example, out of stock in the local market.

Since they were working in a construction projects, when it comes to written reports, they usually used word or excel and mostly they do it manually. Such software systems in their own were not used by the company. 

The basis for the cost was budgeting the amount of the project when awarded. Usually the projects were through bidding,So there was already an approved budget by the President based on the contract awarded.

The projects are still active in Leyte and Manila. 

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