Reasonable choice of materials for project management in transport construction

Material and technical supply is traditionally considered as a set of activities united by one project purpose. As a rule, a hierarchical approach to management functions is not applied and the links between management functions are determined by the classical form of the implementation of a construction project. The selection of the best types of material resources and its component that is the costs determined by the properties of the applied materials are becoming a key link in project management in modern Russia. This is an important scientific phenomenon. The research of this phenomenon allows finding the problem points in costing and the solution to the problems of the increase in the efficiency of building materials assembly through them. The relevance of this research is important for those countries where there is strong regulation of the estimated cost. The authors of the paper propose the measures to improve the efficiency of the choice of construction materials due to a more reliable determination of the estimated cost. For this, there are two ways to improve the project bill of materials: through the improvement of the regulatory framework and management of the process of the application of this framework. The quality level of resource and cost norms is a paramount problem in conditions of state regulation. This is intensified by the use of the basic costing method. The lag of norms calculated at the basic cost level can not be compensated for the use of conversion indices due to territorial and industrial classification. The attempts to create in Russia a unified information system for setting costs for construction products have not yet had measurable results. This results in a large percentage of outdated regulations that take into account materials with insufficient usability. The participants of the construction process have to spend large human resources to manage material resources in projects. The process of management in terms of material and technical equipment of construction is on top in terms of importance in the field of project management in transport construction. The quality of the projects being implemented largely depends on the success in the improvement of the regulatory framework.