Improving Project Cost Control Of M Decoration Company

The proportion of decoration in the construction industry is getting higher. Together with civil engineering and equipment installation, they become the three major components of construction industry. However, the management of architectural decoration lags behind civil engineering and installation, the development of the industry more embodies in the shallow level such as enterprise expanding scale and increasing turnover. Deep enterprise quality such as project cost fine management hasn’t been getting improvement. In the process of decoration project practice, cost control is often overwhelmed by schedule control, quality control and other elements, these factors jointly cause the cost being out of control state.The purpose of this dissertation is to establish M company project cost control system and its measures. This dissertation analyses the problems existing in the company project cost control; uses the causal analysis to find out the influencing factors of cost control. Using the expert interview method to confirm each factor to the influence degree of project cost and the probability of change, and then classify factors according to the comprehensive effect of each factor and put forward to the corresponding control measures. In this dissertation, project cost control system is divided into two levels, emphasizing the framework of advance,matter and afterwards cost control at the company level, taking L decoration project for example to elaborate specific measures of cost control at the project level. Using the theory and methods of project management, using work breakdown structure to establish responsibility matrix table, and using technology, contract, etc. to control project cost. The results show that, progress follow up method, budget control method and factors control method are effective methods to save project cost and improve economic benefits.