Qualification and Selection of Construction Managers with Suggested Guidelines for Selection Process

Construction management (CM) is a long‐used practice of the construction industry that began to achieve status as a system in the early 1970s. Today CM is a unique alternative system of contracting that competes with the general contracting and design‐build contracting systems as a means of delivering projects. The CM system breaks down into several forms that have separate variations. CM services are provided by construction managers using different practitioner formats. In essence, CM services comprise a menu from which a form and its variation are selected. For these reasons, users (owners) often have difficulty understanding the services available and determining the combination of services that best suits their requirements when engaging a construction manager. The guidelines presented are in fundamental form in order to accommodate both first‐time users of CM services and repeat users seeking additional CM information. Those in the latter group can except the fundamentals and abbreviate the selection process as they see fit.