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Effective planning and utilization of the ‘resources’ as well as the ‘TCQ’ (Time, Cost and Quality) towards achieving certain set goals and targets make the essence of the term “Management” in simple words. And when such planning and resource utilization is linked with one or more aspects of construction related activities, the types of management techniques put in use are collectively termed as “Construction Management”.

Depending upon type of matters handled, the construction management can be broadly divided into:

• Construction human resources management
• Construction financial management
• Construction materials management
• Construction implementation & execution management

Key Resources Involved

The key resources that are handled in the field of construction management are usually:

• Men
• Materials
• Machinery
• Money
• Technical documents, viz., designs & drawings
• Plans & decisions

It is the effective use of these resources only that determine the success or failure of any kind of Civil Project. Therefore, it becomes imperative for a Manager to effectively allocate the weightings depending upon the stage of the project and importance of the resource at a given stage.

Agencies Involved

The main agencies that play important roles in the Construction Management are:

• The Owner
• The Architect, and/or the Consultant
• The Contractor
• The Suppliers

The Owner is the one who envisages a project after the preliminary and/or detailed feasibility studies. Thus this agency is the parent agency of any project.

The Architect and/or the Consultant is/are the one who impart shape to the project. The project is detailed and put in terms of the Owner’s requirements by these agencies only. Usually, the architects are involved in the building projects having more of aesthetic value, whereas the Consultants are mainly involved in mostly the industrial and process-oriented projects.

The Contractor is another important agency, which actually executes the project by deploying the required resources on the field. In other words, it is the Contractor who actually builds and brings-up the project on ground.

Last, but definitely not the least are the agencies which supply the requisite resources like material, machinery, equipment, manpower, etc. to the rest of the three above-cited agencies. Virtually, they act as the much needed fuel-suppliers for the project to take real shape.

Essential Components of Construction management

The essential components of an effective construction management working are Planning, Execution and Control, all of which should perform in a closed cycle type format. It means that each of these components should assist and support the other also while performing its own role in a manner, which economizes the whole working, and reduces the time and cost parameters also at the same time.

In case, any of these basic components fail to deliver up to any major extent, and at any point of time, the project is liable to suffer losses in terms of either the cost, or the time of planned completion, or both. Therefore, all efforts should be put in place so as to ensure that none of these basic components derail too much from the intended course of action at any stage of the project. Regular planning, monitoring and re-scheduling of the resources can only ensure this balance, and the Management teams should strive towards effective management of these goals at all costs so as to make the projects economically best viable as well as profitable.

Effective Construction management- Need of the Hour

Effective Construction management is invariably the most important need of the hour for all the agencies involved for the simple reason that no agency can survive in today’s cut-throat competition environment without implementing the best practices and even innovating industry specific models. With every project demanding loudly to be completed in the least possible time; with the least possible cost incurred, and with top-class quality standards; effective construction management techniques have become the only surviving tool. The ones, who master it, are the ones who become the successful leaders of the industry. There can be no second thoughts to this, and the sooner all agencies realize this fact; the better it would be for the entire construction industry.

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Wow! 'Team B-n-M' feels elated and ecstatic to share with its valuable subscribers, readers, visitors and the entire online blogging world about witnessing its Ten Thousandth (10,000 th) visitor to its blog 'BRICKS-n-MORTAR.com' with nearly 2-pageloads on an average per visitor to the blog reading the pageload figures as nearing 19,000 as on 12-June-2009.

The achievement is celebrated with zeal and enthusiasm among the whole of BRICKS-n-MORTAR community and the core team as well considering the fact that the feat is achieved within 14-calender months of launching the blog as "a weblog encompassing a common man's Civil Engineering related doubts and queries"


A quick analysis of the number indicate the maximum of the traffic coming from the originating country of this blog - 'India'; with the 'United States of America (USA)' following at the second position. The other countries/ regions falling in the rest of the top-ten visitors contributors being 'United Kingdom (UK)', 'Canada', 'United Arab Emirates (UAE)', 'Australia', 'Malaysia', 'Singapore', 'European Union (EU)' and 'Philippines'.

We wish to thank all our patrons, subscribers, readers, visitors and contributors to make this happen in a short span of time despite the fact that BRICKS-n-MORTAR is not the usual kind of blog which would bombard the blog and its RSS feed / E-mail oriented subscribers with unnecessary loads of blog posts day-on, and that it believes in quality material only being posted once or twice a week so that people get ample time to grab every single post to its core and entirety. THANKS A REAL TON TO ALL WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED!! :-D
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What is E-Stamping?  |   Legal Stamp Duty Online Submission

In India, like in most parts of the world till a few years back, stamp papers of different denominations were used as the pre-certified document sheets in order to pay the stamp duty charges to the Government.With the sale of the physical stamp papers being banned from January 1, 2003 due to multi-crore fake stamp paper scam (the infamous Telgi scam), there was always a dire need of replacing the system of physical papers to a more-more reliable system, albeit an online reliable system in this modern online world. Electronic-Stamping (or E-Stamping as it is popularly called) is the apt answer to that need of a reliable and fast system.

Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL) has been appointed by the Government of India as Central Record Keeping Agency (CRA) for Computerised Stamp Duty Administration System (CSDAS) and has devised a mechanism for the electronic method of collection of stamp duty. SHCIL has established e-Stamping system in a number of Indian States including the National Capital Territory of Delhi besides other multitude of States and Union Territories. Collected stamp duty is remitted directly to the government account on next working day by the SHCIL of collecting the amount from the submitter thereby fixing the possibility of revenue leakage, if any.

The details of the issued certificate can be accessed by registering officer holding a valid password to verify the details of the certificate. After verifying the details, the registering officer can disable or lock the distinguishing unique identification number of the certificate to prevent any misuse. The deputy commissioner of stamps may cancel the e-stamp certificate in case it is spoiled or misused or unused or not required for use and refund its amount.

The software is believed to be using fool-proof software supposedly making it almost impossible to fake or duplicate the generated e-stamp certificate. The e-stamping system is reported to be designed to prevent paper and process-related fraudulent practices. It offers a reliable stamp duty collection mechanism; and stores information in secured electronic form and builds up a central data repository to facilitate easy verification. Both the public as well as the governments benefit from the e-stamping facility.

For ready reference purpose, here's a list of COMPULSORY as well as OPTIONALLY REGISTRABLE  Documents in the Delhi - the national capital region which needs these stamp duties:-

1)   List of Compulsorily Registrable Document

Article No.	Description of Instrument
5(c)	Rectification Deed- Immovable
6(2)(a)	Agreement relating to deposit of title deed
6(2)(b).	Agreement relating to deposit of title deed
12	Award
12	Award – Immovable
17	Cancellation of Instrument
18	Certificate of Sale
23	Conveyance
23	Sale
23	Decree (Sale Deed/Conveyance)
23-A	Sale Agreement
25	Additional Copy of document
31	Exchange of property
32(a)	Further Charge
32(b)(i)	Further Charge
32(b)(ii)	Further Charge
33	Gift
35	Perpetual
35(i)	Lease- Rent deed up to 1 year
35(ii)	Lease up to 5 years
35(iii)	Lease up to 10 years
35(iv)	Lease up to 20 years
35(v)	Lease up to 30 years
35(vi)	Lease up to 100 years
35(vii)	Lease up to 200 years
35(ii)	Lease with security up to 5 years
35(iii)	Lease with security up to 10 years
35(iv)	Lease with security up to 20 years
35(v)	Lease with security up to 30 years
35(vi)	Lease with security up to 100 years
35(vii)	Lease with security up to 200 years
40	Mortgage
40(c)	Mortgage Collateral
41	Mortgage of a Crop
45	Partition
54	Re-conveyance
55	Relinquishment Deed
55	Release
57	Security Bond
58	Settlement
58	Decree (Settlement)
58	Memorandum of Settlement
61	Surrender of Lease
63	Transfer of Lease
64	Trust

2)   List of Optionally Registrable Document

Article No.	Description of Instrument
3	Adoption
4	Declaration
5	General Agreement
5	Consent Letter
5(c)	Rectification Deed- Movable
11	Authority to Adopt
12	Award – Movable
15	Indemnity Bond
17	Cancellation of Agreement
29	Divorce
6	Partnership
48	Power of attorney –SPA
48(c)	Power of attorney – GPA
48(d)	Power of attorney – GPA more than five persons jointly and severly
48(e)	Power of attorney – GPA more than five persons but less than ten persons
48(f)	Power of attorney– GPA with consideration
48(g)	Power of attorney – Authenticated GPA
53	Receipt
55	Disclaimer
56	Respondentia Bond
64(b)	Revocation of Trust
64(b)	Dissolution Deed
64(b)	Deed of Retirement

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Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMPTC)

Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India

in association with

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (IITK)

has brought out important and useful information tips on Earthquake disaster management titled:

"IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips:: Learning Seismic Design and Construction"

on the BMPTC's as well as NICEE's websites.

Team BRICKS-n-MORTAR suggests all its subscribers, readers and visitors to visit the above mentioned site and go though the informative tips on Earthquake Disaster Management. As also mentioned in the said website of NICEE (National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering), 24 Tips has been released and is targeted at persons interested in building construction. The Tips cover topics such as basic introduction to earthquakes and terminology such as magnitude and intensity, concepts of earthquake resistant design, and aspects of a seismic design and construction of buildings.

List of the EQTips are listed hereunder also as a ready reference. Hope readers will find this post informative and useful.

S No Subject EQ Tip 1 What Causes Earthquakes? EQ Tip 2 How the Ground Shakes? EQ Tip 3 What are Magnitude and Intensity? EQ Tip 4 Where are the Seismic Zones in India? EQ Tip 5 What are the Seismic Effects on Structures? EQ Tip 6 How Architectural Features Affect Buildings During Earthquakes? EQ Tip 7 How Buildings Twist During Earthquakes? EQ Tip 8 What is the Seismic Design Philosophy of Buildings? EQ Tip 9 How to Make Buildings Ductile for Good Seismic Performance? EQ Tip 10 How Flexibility of Buildings Affects their Earthquake Response? EQ Tip 11 What are the Indian Seismic Codes? EQ Tip 12 How do Brick Masonry behave during Earthquake? EQ Tip 13 Why should Masonry Buildings have simple Structural Configuration? EQ Tip 14 Why are horizontal bands necessary in masonry buildings? EQ Tip 15 Why is vertical reinforcement required in masonry buildings? EQ Tip 16 How to make Stone Masonry Buildings Earthquake Resistant? EQ Tip 17 How do Earthquake Affect Reinforced Concrete Buildings? EQ Tip 18 How do Beams in RC Buildings Resist Earthquakes? EQ Tip 19 How do Columns in RC Buildings Resist Earthquakes? EQ Tip 20 How do Beam-Column Joints in RC Buildings Resist Earthquakes? EQ Tip 21 Why are Open Ground Storey Buildings Vulnerable in Earthquakes? EQ Tip 22 Why are Short Columns more Damaged During Earthquakes? EQ Tip 23 Why are Buildings with Shear Walls Prefer red in Seismic Regions? EQ Tip 24 How to Reduce Earthquake Effects on Buildings?

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