Construction engineering and management

Construction management is a comparatively recent topic which involves all what is rela’ted to construction process, starting with the early preconstruction study phase and ending with the handing over, commissioning and warranty phase.Although all of the evidence shows and assure that ancient Egyptians (the pharaohs) had reached the mostadvanced techniques and performance in different branches (Science, Mathematics, Astronomy, Architect,Engineering, Construction, Medicine etc. ), Unfort -unately the present Egyptian erformance in most of these branches is considered beyond the second or the third world grouping as it is commonly classified at the present time.Construction management by experience is the most common method used at our present time in Egypt.Although some different individual groups (Educational, Syndicates, Associations ... etc.) are trying to build the right codes, rules and regulations for constructionmanagement, experience is the oldest and most commonly used method for achieving the mentioned above rules andregulations.Some of the construction engineers consider the construction management a special type of industrial project management, this assumption is considered a double-edged sword assumption, this is because -o f thebig variance between the two topics, which be may