Construction Practice and Management

CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT
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Question 1
How the construction industry has developed into a lot of specialist companies with
different knowledge skills and facilities
The present construction industry needs a different set of experts. All the expert firms that would
take part in the progress of the project are allocated to carry out different and specific roles and
responsibilities. For the project to be executed there must be a team of experts such as engineers,
town planners, woodworkers, quantity surveyors, construction managers, engineers, electrical
engineers, plumbers, painters etc. the chart below shows different experts who are involved in
the project, the roles and responsibilities of each of the experts are discussed below.
(Herbert Robinson, 2015, p. 764).

Question 2
a) How the construction of a junior school on the site of an old factory building would
involve the skills and specialisms.
All the experts and specialists involved in the development of junior school will use their extent
of knowledge to deliver to the expected standards.
A surveyor is supposed to be the keeper of all the land information. The acreage, landscape,
features in the site, its location and any other underground feature located beneath the ground
upon the project is going to be laid. With this kind of information from the surveyor he is able to
do an elaborate planning, design, and ensure that the proposed junior school implementation is
achieved.
A town planner is the person who is responsible and ensuring that there is order in the
developing landscape where the proposed project will be set. He is also responsible for the
development of the master plan which is layout that is sensitive of the culture, human needs,
infrastructure and other social economic factors. When the construction is ongoing it’s the
mandate of the town planner to ensure that the master plan of the project isn’t misinterpreted and
all the standards given are followed to the letter. The architects’ duties include ensuring that he
helps the client to come up with the requirements of the project on in the simplest way while
keeping in mind that all legal terms and conditions apply.
The engineering team that is expected to work on the project includes; civil engineers,
mechanical engineers structural engineers and electrical engineers. Engineers are very important
in the important since they are the people responsible in design of the project and within their
field of specialization. Engineers such as electrical engineers will ensure that all the electrical

requirements of the projects are met and are up to the required standards. To do this they have to
do several calculations and analysis before delivering a solution (Herbert Robinson, 2015, p.
116).
The contractor/builders are the ones who are involved in the physical construction of the project.
Their main project is the construction and delivering the project to the client by being in charge
of all the activities in the ongoing in the construction site. The contractor is also responsible of
interpreting the design, drawings, and the specifications into the physical structure through the
application of management knowledge and skills and usage of available resources to implement
the project.
The inspection of the materials used on the site and the level of expertise of the work being
delivered on the project site is the duty of the project manager. The project manager also ensures
that the plans and dimensions given by the architect and engineer are followed precisely and
transformed into the building without any alterations by the builder.
a) Main stages of the construction from tendering through to hand over
A general construction process entails the phases mentioned below:
Phase 1: Planning
Phase 2: Design
Phase 3: Tendering
Phase 4: construction
Phase 5: Handover
Phase 6: Evaluation (Burns, 2017, p. 596).