Construction Practice and Management

Construction Practice and
Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1. Showing the evolvement of construction industry through describing about the presence of
specialist companies with different knowledge skills and facilities along with their cooperation
in building school........................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
1. Showing the involvement of above identified skills and facilities in the development of
junior school on a site of old school building..............................................................................2
2. Description of the main stages of construction from its tendering to handing over to the end
user...............................................................................................................................................4
3. Analysis of the specialisms that are involved during each of the main stages of construction
from the time of its clearance to handing over. Also, comparison is done by considering main
factors that differentiate between construction companies, contracts and tendering options......4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
(a). Analysis of the main concerns that local council include in tender document to select main
contractor.....................................................................................................................................5
(b). Description of the importance of Business Information Modelling that aid the council to
select design of school, analyse expected progress towards completion and maintenance of
school...........................................................................................................................................6
(c). Analysis of the factors that must be kept in mind by the main contract for the involvement
of local sub-contractors in the working of school.......................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
(a). Showing the contribution of BIM from the very early stages in process of controlling
building preparation and helping of counsellors towards selection of best design.....................8
(b). Showing the contribution of BIM is reducing the running cost of school............................8
(c). Determining the contribution of BIM towards safety and health in process of preparing
building and when it is in use......................................................................................................8
(d). Description of the CDM role in construction process and examining the rule that only
good safety records construction companies are able to provide high standard of safety and

health at the time of working.......................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Construction is considered as the process of preparing building or infrastructure. It is a separate
industry due to its nature of working and not falls under the category of manufacturing. This is
fast paced and evolving industry that involves growth in both private and public sector. The
major roles assigned to personnel’s in construction practice are related to contract managers,
quantity surveyors and project managers. Contraction management is different aspect that
includes the use of specialist management techniques in performance of various functions like
planning, designing, monitoring and controlling (Coppola and et. al., 2018). This concept helps
to bring specialism in the exercises from conception to the completion of a building. The main
aim of this report is also to ascertain the evolvement in construction industry and the use of
available specialism techniques in preparation of junior school at the place of furniture factory.
This report has four different tasks that cover different requirements. Task 1 covers about
the evolvement of construction industry and presence of knowledge skills and specialisms. Tsk 2
includes about the role of specialisms in construction of building, stages of the construction and
information about the involvement of different type of specialism on each main stage of
construction. Task 3 covers about main concerns of local council to include in tender while
selecting main contractor, importance of BIM and factors needed to consider by main contractor
while promoting employment in local sub-contractors. In last, Task 4 includes role of BIM in
performance of different functions and the role played by CDM in construction process.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
1. Showing the evolvement of construction industry through describing about the presence of
specialist companies with different knowledge skills and facilities along with their
cooperation in building school
The nature of construction industry is fast paced and evolving. There are many changes were
occurred in this industry that improves the working of building new and strengthened
infrastructures. Still, the nature of industry is not changed and many changes are occurring in
present time towards the direction of making functions more advanced. There are different
factors that contributes in the evolvement of industry. These are defined below:
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