Competences for the Spanish Construction Site Manager
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.73925Keywords:
Project Management, Construction, Spanish Site Manager, Competences, Contractors, BIMAbstract
Construction is a complex and competitive industry. Therefore, Construction Site Management requires very qualified and experienced Site Managers. The purpose of this article is to empirically validate 47 competences for the Site Manager, identified after an in-depth literature review. All of them were satisfactorily validated using a survey by questionnaire for the research, answered by 483 practitioners of this industry. The study makes evident that BIM emerges as a new competence for Site Managers in the current context of Construction Site Management.
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