Construction Practice and Management

CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT

Contents
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1.................................................................................................................................................3
P2.................................................................................................................................................3
P3.................................................................................................................................................4
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
P4.................................................................................................................................................6
P5.................................................................................................................................................7
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P6.................................................................................................................................................8
P7.................................................................................................................................................9
P8...............................................................................................................................................10
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
P9...............................................................................................................................................11
P10.............................................................................................................................................11
P11.............................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

LO1
P1
These days construction is not just about dangerous, dirty sites having hundreds of workers with
yellow safety caps standing around a building construction. Nowadays, construction involves
utilizing technology in planning in virtual development, testing of scenarios which may impact
the operation, construction and creating components off site too in order to minimize disruption
and ensure quality.
Virtual Engineering – it has been a great adaptation in construction. It creates the idea of the
project in a way that it can be tested and made calculations over without actually digging the
ground. The prototype prepared completely shows the full scheme and also allows to co-ordinate
the same on screen without utilizing the site physically.
Modular construction – this results in less disruption of environment, less space requirement
from materials, and less delivery issues. It also has major sustainability benefits from less
wastage and also less vehicles requirement (Woodward, 2014).
Professionalism in Construction industry – the construction industry has always been seen as a
corrupt industry, bad business attitude, unethical behavior, irresponsible and failing supply
chains etc. Against such an issue many countries have made plans and regulations to ensure this
scenario is rooted out of the system. The practices followed regarding this are adopting
international conventions, amendments in labor laws, more healthy and strong enforcement
mechanisms, programs like multi-stakeholder program, CoST etc. Other than that introducing
transparency into different levels, better laws, capacity building and awareness building are some
other ethics which are now followed in order to have professionally effective industry (Egbu and
Ofori, 2018).
P2
The parties involved in a construction organization are majorly these three:

 Owner – the party who’s obtaining the work or say the final output of the project. This
party finds a contractor feasible and appropriate for their building or project. And then
assigns this project him/her. He is the one who can intervene at any moment and may ask
to apply some changes to the ongoing work and also may stop it.
 Contractor – The contractor is the service provider or say shopkeeper serving the clients
or the owners. He chooses projects he/she can be able to work upon and are causing him
a fine profit. Then this contractor engages the sub - contractors who carry out the separate
project parts and complete them. The contractor may or may not divide his contract into
further sub – contractors and get it all handled by him/herself.
 Designer – Designer is the architect or engineer who is in-charge of creating the drawings
of specifications and plans for implementing the development. The designer is chosen by
the contractor he or she may belong to the same organization as the contractor or not.
 Other than these three common parties there are other parties involved too, but they are
not as primary as the above three and are considered as secondary. They are:
 Financier – This includes the banks, loaning parties for e.g., government is the financier
when there is urban regeneration is taking place. These provide the essential finance to
the employers for the development of the project. If the project is huge there are a
number of banks involved for small ones just one does the work.
 Consultant – this party provides professional assistance to the owner, engineer, architect
or contractor for some particular work aspect. For e.g., an architect may hire an engineer
with some specialty, a contractor may hire consultant for remediation, a design builder
may hire an engineer with multi talents etc.
 Supplier – supplier is the shopkeeper in this process, one needs a tool or some
construction material he or she is the party one would go to. The supplies are generally
wood, steel, cement, plumbing and electrical fixtures, tiles, glass etc.
 Reviser – the project is to be checked regularly by someone, and reviser handles that job.
A reviser may or may not be the part of the project’s development (DLA Piper
REALWORLD, 2016).