Restructured Model of the Project Management Body of Knowledge According to Construction Project Life Cycle

ABSTRACT: The Project Management Institute (PMI) has published the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) in 1996 and has been revising it ever since. This book is a guideline contributing to the management field by defining ten knowledge areas and several processes; later on, an extension has been published to fill the gap of knowledge areas regarding the construction industry’s unique characteristic. Although both of the books are useful, but the sequence of the processes has not been clarified and was left to the project team. In this study, a new model was developed for construction projects using the processes identified by PMBOK with a construction project lifecycle approach. The model includes flowcharts that have the characteristics of the guideline with construction perspective. Hence, the restructured model can be used more effectively in the industry due to it’s characteristics. This model facilitates the use of PMBOK for all the managers in the construction industry by providing a sequential and step by step procedure throughout the whole project lifecycle; clarifying each process inputs origins and outputs destination. Keywords: Construction, Management, PMBOK, restructured model, project lifecycle. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………