Agnieszka Dziadosz

The role and the meaning of a construction company on the market is variable depending on the phase of the life cycle of the company in a given moment. The processes and the services offered by a company are dependent on time and how the business activities of the company are developed as well as the barriers which the company encounters at specific stages of the business activities of the enterprise. In this specific context competitiveness can be understood not only as a comparison of the position of the company with other enterprises functioning within a given sector but as a resultant of possibilities and chances created by an organization in the context of its life cycle. The main aim of this article is to try and assess the influence of the life cycle of a construction company on its market behaviour taking into account the theoretical consideration of competitiveness.

The considerable degree of complexity found in construction work, as well as project susceptibility to unpredictable conditions determines the need of ongoing progress monitoring and continuous time-cost analysis during the execution of work. Financial and material analysis, using the Earned Value method applied to the construction of an Underground Gas Storage Facility, including project risks which occurred during the project, helped to identify the advantages and limitations in application of this method of monitoring work progress.

The main goal of monitoring construction projects is to identify any negative deviations from the approved plan. Therefore, the possibility of the permanently monitoring the progress of construction work scope is an extremely important issue. The authors’ main goal is to present a method of graphical visualization which can be used for tracking progress in relation to the time, progress as a supplement of the cyclograms.

The complexity and need for a comprehensive approach to construction projects programming helps in researching the different methods of the risk estimation for construction projects. The risk estimation, carried out at the planning stage, not only enables rational investment but also the rational project management during construction. The paper concentrates on the possibility of applying the multi-criteria analysis for the selection of construction projects taking the risks into account.