제1부 : 미국 공공부문의 건설사업 사업비 관리 및 실적공사비 활용 실태 조사

&nbsp;&nbsp;Effective cost management is one of the crucial factors to the key of the success in major public construction projects. Especially, the efficient project cost management provides the public owners with financial benefits in addition to optimum utilization of limited national resources and even budget savings of the government. Despite these vital roles of the owners, the current Korea public sector owners is not well equipped with the adequate project cost management policies and systems and have resulted in frequent project scope changes, cost increases, and even over budget.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;On the contrary, the American construction industry, which is one of advanced construction group, has already materialized many benefits in practice through deployment of various innovative project delivery and contracting methods, utilization of cost estimates experts pool and consulting group, development of advanced project cost management theories and techniques, and establishment of automatic computer application systems. Thus, this study is designed to investigate and present an overview of project budget and cost estimates policies/procedures/systems in the below public sectors of the American construction industry as a benchmarking agency:<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- United States Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense (Buildings)<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- States Departments of Transportation under Federal Government (Civil)<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In the public construction projects, the cost management should be considered as an integrated management system with other management goals, not as separate cost control activities in different project phases. In other words, a well-tailored cost management program should be devised to fit the public owners&quot; organizations and delivering projects in each phase of the project life cycle such as clear definition of project requirements/scope, and realistic budget estimation/allowance during project planning phase, systematic cost control efforts during design phase, selection of the most effective project delivery/ contracting methods and award of appropriate contractors during procurement phase, consistent contact management activities to meet the budget during construction phase, etc.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Thus, the scope of this study was targeted to the macro level of the owners’ cost management functions in the aspects of the total construction project life cycles.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Contents of the study are as follows:<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- Cost management policy<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- Budgeting and cost management procedures for planning and design phase<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- Methods of cost estimation/for budgeting and bidding purpose)<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- Types and usage of historical data during planning and design phase<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- Adjustment methods (scale or factor) and process for cost data<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- Roles and responsibilities of cost engineer(in-house and external)<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;- Usage of final estimate price during bid and construction phase.