{"id":46,"date":"2012-02-25T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:47:35","slug":"design-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/program-management\/design-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Design-Management3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47 aligncenter\" title=\"Design Management\" src=\"http:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Design-Management3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Design-Management3.jpg 743w, https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Design-Management3-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many design teams are managed by architects or engineers.\u00a0 Management is a function of maintaining a schedule and meeting project objectives, milestones and budget goals.\u00a0 These are the skills of a Design Program Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago I managed projects for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).\u00a0 The projects were large scale complex\u00a0 projects and sometimes had dozens of design firms working on a single multi-location project.\u00a0 TDCJ discovered that most architects are primarily designers.\u00a0 Their secondary role is sometimes to be a manager of designers.\u00a0 TDCJ found that management of a design effort could best be accomplished by a Construction Program Manager.\u00a0 The overall goal should always be to focus the team on the\u00a0 project&#8217;s design schedule, objectives, milestones and budget goals.\u00a0 Designers sometimes want to design, and design, and design.\u00a0 Construction Program Managers help to keep project team focused on the ultimate goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many design teams are managed by architects or engineers.\u00a0 Management is a function of maintaining a schedule and meeting project objectives, milestones and budget goals.\u00a0 These are the skills of a Design Program Manager. Several years ago I managed projects for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).\u00a0 The projects were large scale complex\u00a0 projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/218"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/construction.pm\/expert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}