ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Research on Highway Engineering Supervision and Project

Management
Wenyuan Yang*
Jiyuan Highway Construction Co. Ltd. E-mail: dawei@qq.com

Abstract: As the main part of China's transportation, highway transportation has promoted China's economic
development, and it has been concerned by the society for a long time. However, with the development of highway
industry, the traffic volume and burden of highway are increasing day by day, and highway quality problems have
appeared frequently, which undoubtedly poses a great threat to the economy and people's lives. Based on this, this paper
mainly studies the engineering supervision and project management in highway engineering, and it provides
corresponding suggestions.
Keywords: Highway Engineering; Supervision; Management

Introduction management in highway construction will be affected by

project supervision.
With the rapid development of economy, there are
more and more engineering projects, and the quality of
highway construction has a decisive influence on the 1. The status of highway
comfort and safety of highway traffic. With the rapid engineering supervision and
development of society, there are also outstanding engineering projects
problems in the quality supervision of highway project Highway construction means huge quantities, high
construction. Therefore, it is very important for highway consumption and wide field work scope, so it is usually
construction to strengthen the management of highway affected by various factors in the construction process,
engineering supervision and project management in the which brings various difficulties to management. In this
supervision process. Although the purpose is same to a case, in order to ensure the quality of highway
certain extent, their contents and forms are quite different. construction, it is necessary to supervise and manage
There contents are two independent and interrelated parts, highway engineering. Engineering supervision is to
and their joint action has brought about the supervise and manage according to the suggestions of
transformation of highway construction. At the same relevant project clients, relevant national policies and
time, the project supervision of highway engineering is a corresponding highway construction laws. Generally, in
systematic work to make the work achievements in the the process of highway supervision, it usually involves
process of highway construction better and it is an the management of capital investment, overall
important way to promote the development of project construction quality and construction progress. The
management. Therefore, from a certain level, project construction quality and construction progress should be

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referenced according to the signed contract, which departments leads to conflicts and divergences.
comply with relevant laws and regulations during the
construction process. At the same time, it is necessary to 3. The role of highway engineering
do a good job of coordination with various units, so as to supervision in engineering projects
ensure the legality and standardization of construction,
In the aspect of project schedule control, including
making the engineering supervision work exert its effect
project design preparation and preparation before
during the whole construction process.
construction, schedule control should be done well so
that the project can be completed within the specified
2. Problems in project supervision time and the project management level can be promoted.
and project management Secondly, it is necessary to do a good job in project
At present, there are some problems in engineering quality control. Before construction, the supervision
supervision. First, technical problems are crucial. With engineer shall organize the contractors and workers of
the increasing demand of highway construction, the the construction to carry out training, and the engineer
demand for engineering supervision technology is also requires them to carry out construction according to the
expanding, and the strength of supervision technology contract and verify various factors affecting the
directly affects the quality, construction period and cost engineering quality. For the quality problems in the
of the whole project. To a certain extent, the quality of construction process, it is necessary to adjust and correct
supervision work also depends on the level of the management with full play to the power of
supervisors , their comprehensive quality, the scale of the supervision and management. Finally, it is necessary to
whole supervision process, whether the rules and control the cost of the project. For the construction unit,
regulations meet the market economy construction and cost control is a measure to improve the project
the laws and organizational management methods in the management level. Good cost control is equivalent to an
process of project supervision. Secondly, in addition to investment, and it is better to save more investment.
the technical aspects and the problems of supervision Therefore, the supervision department should plan the
level, there are also deficiencies in the investment scope and control the cost of each link in the
supervision business management of the financial construction process. Two managements refer to contract
department. In the process of management, the financial management and information management. The contract
department pays so much attention to the economic management requirements should be carried out after the
effect that neglects the improvement of supervision work project is finalized, and this contract must run through
level, and it fails to invest large funds to train and the whole construction process, including the signing and
manage supervision talents, which will lead to the low performance of the contract and the termination of the
supervision level and quality. Finally, there are some contract. Information management refers to some
problems between the project unit and the supervision materials and data or other management work in the
department. This kind of management problems often construction process of the project. Adopting modern
directly lead to the supervision staff's great influence on management means, this management processes and
the overall quality and progress of the project. Therefore, manages a large amount of information through current
the supervision staff will be subject to various information technology for assistance, so as to improve
restrictions on the overall work and business of the the supervision project level and innovate the project
project, which makes the supervision work unable to management level.
optimize and develop. The problems in project
management are caused by the lack of clear 4. Highway engineering supervision
responsibility system and management of some and project management related
departments, such as the lack of cost quality control and
analysis
management. Secondly, in the process of project
management, the lack of communication between 4.1 The difference between highway

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engineering supervision and project control the construction quality, it is necessary to
management implement the rules and regulations formulated by
The main differences between highway engineering enterprises according to the construction requirements,
supervision and project management are as follows: first, which is conducive to the implementation of engineering
the contents of work are different; second, their powers supervision work in all construction links. First of all, the
are different. First of all, in terms of work content, relevant enterprises must set up the existing engineering
project management mainly refers to the supervision institutions scientifically and reasonably, and
decision-making of the whole construction process and at the same time some professional supervision staff
the implementation of management in the construction must be hired in practice, so as to realize the targeted
stage, and the connotation of management should design of each link of the project and to ensure the
involve all aspects of the construction process. General orderly development of supervision and management.
project management represents the management of When designing the basic technical scheme, in order to
various jobs that enterprises should do at the construction ensure the effectiveness and pertinence of the scheme,
site. It mainly includes design drawings, project these hired professional staff must effectively deal with
management during construction and overall quality the existing deficiencies in the scheme. At the same time,
management during road construction. The purpose of strengthening the effective implementation of
management is to provide the direction of construction supervision work in the construction stage, arranging
under the condition of safety and quality of construction corresponding staff for different construction links, and
work and to carry out management work throughout all putting the responsibility supervision and management
of them, so as to improve construction efficiency and mechanism into practice are all necessary. Through this
quality. The supervision work is mainly to monitor and mechanism, the functions of the staff can be reasonably
manage in the process of construction, to understand and divided. At the same time, the construction quality of
inspect the documents and schemes in the early stage of different construction links can be effectively controlled.
construction, and to make detailed supervision plans 4.3 Contact of highway engineering
according to some design documents and contract supervision project management
documents signed before construction, which mainly
In the process of highway construction, from the
participate in the construction process. For example, the
presentation of the initial design drawing to the
configuration of building materials, construction
completion and then to the maintenance stage of the
equipment and construction personnel in the construction
whole project, it must run through the project supervision
process should be arranged in a prescriptive and rational
and management, both of which serve the highway
way, and the construction quality should always be
construction process and improve the overall service
guaranteed. Second, for different rights, the management
quality of the highway. To a certain extent, both of them
of construction projects generally means that the
are indispensable. In fact, as a part of project
construction units independently exercise their rights and
management, project supervision controls the progress of
adjust the management rights according to the
funds, safety and environmental protection in the whole
corresponding actual conditions, such as time and
project, and it mainly supervises and manages the
content during the whole construction project. However,
highway to improve the quality service of the whole
engineering supervision only has the right of monitoring
highway. Next, to a certain extent, the quality and cost of
and management, so its power will be restricted to a
engineering projects are restricted and influenced by
certain extent in the project, and it is not independent in
engineering supervision, which depends on some
the exercise of power.
information presented in the process of engineering
4.2 Formulate standardized rules and quality management, while engineering supervision is
regulations only responsible for controlling and supervising the
In the process of planning and construction of process, and the degree of such control and supervision
highway engineering projects, in order to effectively is limited, causing little impact on the goal of the whole

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project. What's more, project supervision will have a way, but also effectively implement the indicators and
certain impact on the construction progress of the whole effectively integrate them with the actual construction
project. The development of enterprises and projects is content. In addition, it is also possible to construct
affected by construction supervision. If problems are different responsible subject relationships in the
found in the construction process during the supervision, construction process of highway engineering projects,
the construction will be stopped and corrected. which is beneficial to realize the effective association
among various construction links. When these standard
4.4 Improve the contents of quality control
and project supervision requirements are determined, they can be effectively
combined with the construction site of each link of the
With the rapid development of economy, the quality
enterprise, and the supervision work can be carried out in
of people's daily life has been significantly improved,
a targeted manner to ensure the effectiveness of the
and the requirements for the construction of highway
engineering quantity, so that reasonable judgment can be
engineering projects are getting higher and higher. It is
made in time according to the construction status and
not only necessary to ensure the construction quality of
effective guarantee can be provided for the construction
highway engineering projects, but also to effectively
quality.
control the costs, so as to maximize the
economic benefits of related enterprises and to promote
5. Conclusion
enterprises to occupy a favorable position in the fierce
market competition environment. In order to achieve this The overall implementation of highway engineering
fundamental goal, in the concrete construction of supervision in China is relatively good at present, but
highway engineering projects, it is necessary to ensure there are still many problems in some links, which need
the effective implementation of engineering supervision to be improved and optimized in the follow-up
and to improve and optimize the existing quality control construction supervision and management process. On
management system. At the same time, it is necessary to the basis of ensuring that the role of construction
improve and optimize the supervision content and quality supervision can be brought into full play, it provides an
control content of the whole project. Its fundamental effective guarantee for highway construction quality.
purposes are to ensure the comprehensiveness and
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