Project management for building construction: 35 Years of Innovation at Drees & Sommer

by Hans Sommer

Construction has turned into an ever more complex mesh of relationships between increasingly accelerating processes, decisions and actions.

At the same time, however, there is a development toward sustainable design that leads to buildings providing the best possible connection of functionality and architecture, energy efficiency and healthy construction materials that can be recycled while at the same time also achieving the best possible economical benefits.

Following its modest beginnings, the Drees & Sommer corporation has grown in this area and for over 35 years now has been significantly contributing to the development of modern project management while always putting an emphasis on innovation when it came to management method.

On this basis, the third edition of Project management for building construction has been completely reviewed and now constitutes the current status of development.

The key to successfully handling current complexities and dynamics is with the project managers who are completely at home in the subject of contents and interrelations between planning and construction implementation and who master state-of-the-art management methods.

If, in addition to this, constructive cooperation between all participants in the team can be achieved, there are the best possible chances of achieving the optimum possible project result described in Project management for building construction.