Utility Project Management

This thesis mainly aims at how to improve power plant projects management contracted by Dongfang Electric Corporation. (Hereinafter it is referred to as DEC). By means of analysis of the existing problems in the management of the projects contracted by DEC,this thesis aims to find out the deficiencies , and meanwhile, measures are also suggested in the paper. Hopefully to help DEC improve the quality, speed up the progress and reduce the cost in their projects, so as finally to improve the efficiency and enhance the competitive ability in the market. Only in this way can DEC be truly transferred from the manufacturer to the contractor in the field of power plant construction. In order to survive develop and face more and more drastic competition in the market of contracting power plant, the contractors in the developed countries have used large quantities of new management knowledge in practice of the project management, and such as the principle of management, computerized management, etc.. Those are also requirements of new knowledge economy in the high-speed developing world. The writer hopefully takes advantage of these advanced experiences abroad in the managing practice of DEC's projects management. So as to prompt DEC's project management on a new platform and further to push DEC forward as a true multi-nation group. This thesis is divided into four chapters.The first chapter mainly introduces the principle of project management, the aim system of power plant project management, that is, quality, progress, cost and their interactive relations. The make-up of the cost concerned seriously by the contractors is also analyzed and sortedaccording to the writer's experiences so as to coordinate and deal with their interactive relations.The second chapter mainly deals with the background of DEC's creation and development s for the purpose of laying a firm foundation for analyzing existing problems of DEC's management. The third chapter indicates the existing problems and reasons that caused them through analyzing the cases of DEC's project management, such as the organizational structure of the projects contracted, cost management, quality management, plan management etc..The fourth chapter is the key portion of this paper. As for the existing problems, the writer provides his own proposals, which include the establishment of a source multi-shared and matrix mode of project management instead of the existing close and project mode, so that the advantages in different enterprises and in divisions within one company can be taken in the competition of market economy to improve the quality, shorten the period and reduce the cost, and to strengthen the competitive ability for contracting projects. The proposals also include establishing the perfect rules of on-duty for project manager competition and of supervision of project manager, to consummate and apply Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), to take whole factor integration management, to increase IT application in the project management, to extend P3 and EXP project management software, to attach importance to risk management.