Utility Power & Water Robots, Electric Power & Water Leaders magazine, Nov2019

FEATURE STORY
Project Engineers Win Construction
Contracts Putting These Skills to Test
Becoming a project
engineer goes hand in
hand with being a good
project manager.
Engineers help build structures
through accurate technical
reading. Project managers
facilitate the design-buildoperation
process by managing
people.
What makes the two so distinct
yet very similar? Their purpose—
which is to put their individual
strengths toward project
completion. Managing the technical
and people side of the
business isn’t a skill honed
overnight; a project engineer
jumps through many hoops to
assimilate a strong culture of
caring into tight bottom lines.
Project management in
engineering is a growing
discipline where engineers apply
project management techniques
to better manage their role on
site.
Responsible for product
design, engineers prepare
detailed sketched and engineering
reports after reviewing
drawings built by architects to
ensure compliance with code and
client specifications. Enormous
technical detail and support
go into materializing the final
design, which creates an equally
big room for errors if consistency
and accuracy are affected.
The bid-to-win ratio of
construction contracts has
diminished over the past two
decades, where in the prefinancial
crisis era more
projects would be up for auction
to a select few contractors in lo-
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