Construction Practice & Management: Industrial Complex Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the construction industry, focusing on company structures, activities, and various types of construction businesses. It investigates tendering processes, contractual works, and the evolution of the industry concerning company structures and employees. The report also delves into the main stages of construction projects, exploring different construction methods like precast systems and BIM implementation. Furthermore, it examines the importance of health and safety in construction, highlighting statistics and potential hazards. The report covers various aspects of construction management and practice, offering valuable insights into the industry's complexities and providing practical strategies for collaboration and risk management. The report discusses the importance of health and safety within the construction industry, including statistics and potential hazards.

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Executive summary
In the scenario provided the current construction industry is connected to company’s structure and
various kinds of activities taking place. Apart from that, different type of construction business at the
market along with their relationship are tendering e measures are evaluated in this study. Apart from
that, the primary stages of the project of construction are demonstrated here along with methods to
create the informed within building data modeling at different stages are investigated. Further, the
measures through which the sector are able to develop the probable strategies related to collaboration
to support the great identification level of health and safety are also been analyzed.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:..........................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1:.................................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2:.................................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3:.................................................................................................................................................6
TASK 4:.................................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion:............................................................................................................................................9
References:..........................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction:
An initial conceptual design is to be prepared and the report of implementation on the
Industrial Complex having the dimension 2 by 2 km. This is near the highways 12 kilometers of
distance away from the link of London towards the International Airport at London’s outskirts. The
following study demonstrates the present construction industry linked to the structure of the
company and different type of activities. Next, various kinds of construction organizations at the
market and the relationship at the tendering process is investigated.Moreover, the main stages of the
construction project and the ways to develop informs of building information modeling at various
steps are discussed. Ultimately how the industry that has created suitable strategies of collaboration
for supporting high level identification of safety and health are investigated.
TASK 1:
The construction industry can develop and encompass professionalism in the structures with
the assimilation of various traits providing the professionalism image. The attributes and traits are as
follows. Firstly, there is the attitude. It is not just that the person is upbeat, the professional can
search for ways for overcoming the barriers and seek the solutions to those issues. Next, there is the
competence that is required to be known as one is talking regarding the area of work and recommend
the solutions. Then, the skills of communication are to be considered. One must be able to
communicate the ideas effective and then speak in clear word and can make complicated subjects to
be understandable for everyone concerned (Halpin, Lucko and Senior 2017). There are various
linkages and scopes present between various parties for the construction organization. The client can
execute the activities through employing work forces directly or trade contract. Apart from that a
chosen portion is entrusted for the contractors and then execute the residual activity in direct manner

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or the main contract. Otherwise this also includes entrusting of the overall task for the common
contractors. For the present case the client can contract with architect liable for project design and
the common contractor liable for construction. The various kinds of contractual works that are been
tendered from the side of the contractors are discussed hereafter. The open tendering permits to
submit tender to provide services and goods. Commonly, the advert must be placed to provide the
notice that the contract is tendered (Erdogan, Šaparauskas and Turskis 2017). Making negotiation
with single supplier are suitable for largely specialist contracts and to extend the scope of current
contract. The serial tendering includes preparation of the tenders on the basis of national or typical
bill for schedule of works and quantities. The clients has been constantly commissioning tasks that
can decrease the learning curves, timescales and additional challenges through utilizing agreements
of frameworks. For the current scenario, the single stage tendering can be utilized as all the data is
needed for calculating the realistic prices has been there tendering commences (Brady et al. 2018).
Now, the ways the construction industry has been developing as per the structure of the
company, contracted works and employees are narrated. The companies implement the design-and-
build service in the place hey have been taking on typical task of the contractor and consultant.
However, it must be reminded that huge projects can take prolonged time and even years to gain
from the ideas at the first stage to get totally finished (Case, Blackburn and Stylios 2018). For the
present scenario, the construction project should be beginning with the client and then they must hire
various consultants. Besides, the consultants ten gets contractor to continue the task of construction.
Further, the contractor might get help from different subcontractors. Further, the business ethos and
structure is created in the following manner. They have considered new method to perform things,
latest business models, business relationships, institutions and performance metrics. For the scenario
provided, this would break through the present industry ceiling and make different radical changes

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and create collaborative relationships for business such that exception performance can be delivered
(Harty and Dainty 2016).
TASK 2:
Various types of construction companies that are present in market include civil engineering,
construction contracting, heavy engineering industrial infrastructural, EPS- Engineering,
Procurement and Construction companies, Industrial Infrastructural, Real Estate and project
management consultant. Next, there are allied services, small renovation contractors and MEP
Contractors (Matthews et al. 2018). For the present project industrial infrastructural type is chosen.
The construction of infrastructure involves water supply, captive power plants, waste management,
roads, bridges, roads, urban infrastructure development and effluent treatment. Besides, there are
effective relationship present between the construction project and companies working. The
controlling of human elements affects results of construction project with suitable technique and
materials that are of state-of-the-art. Again, there projects has been varying as per scope and size and
sharing common problems. Maximum of the project comprise of inherent tension present between
different types of stakeholders (Owusu, Chan and Shan 2019). The owners of building are seen to be
tending suspicious of the contractor fearing contractors can take benefit of them. Further, the
contractors can deal with strong budgets, gloomy cope of work and different schedules that are
unreasonable in nature. Besides, there are links connecting different construction companies. Firstly,
there should be engendering of trust with owners of buildings. Secondly, the objectives are to be
aligned among every team members of construction project. Thirdly, planning and collaboration are
to be made with the owners of construction project. Then, constant communication are to be
established among different stakeholders of the project. Lastly, performance is to be delivered (Al
Nahyan et al., 2019). Next, there are primary factors differentiating between the tenders and

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contracts of construction-company. The tender documents are provided to maximum number
contractors and get least quotes or the specified work. These documents of contract are signed as the
contractors have lesser rates or tenders. As the documents of tender have conditions of contracts and
every details for special tasks in difference is there between those two terms as per contents.
However, those tender documents could never be submitted as the LOA or Letter of Acceptance as
two distinct kinds of documents.
TASK 3:
Here, the current process of construction are identified with examples. Besides, various
sequences that are been utilized for the present day industry are evaluated highlighting the way react
to needs of sustainability for the present scenario. Firstly, there is the precast flat system of panel.
Again, the construction method includes process to make flow and the units of walls off site. Distinct
outlets of factors are needed with various facilities. Secondly, there is the 3D Volumetric
construction. It includes manufacturing of the 3D units as the form of modules at the in off site.
Here, the construction of factory has been bringing various types of units of similar product. This the
utility is marinated throughout. Thus the process is suited best for various type of repetitive projects
such that there is quick assemble of products (Jraisat, Jreisat and Hattar 2016). Thirdly, there is flat
slab construction. These are the structural elements largely versatile. It is broadly utilized in the area
of construction. It is the mean to increase energy efficiency since that permit exploitation to create
thermal mass for designing of ventilation along with requirements of cooling and heating. Then,
there is the precast concrete type of foundation. For instance it can be used for bespoke design. It is
suited best for the adverse and extreme conditions of weather (Hu et al. 2016). As the construction
can deal with largely contaminated ground, the construction system if the best suited choice. Next,
there is the will wall technology. Here, the type of all the system warrantees waterproof reliability

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and structural integrity for structure. It is primarily employed in relation to precast floor
construction. This ICF system consist of twin panels that are walled. These are developed to
generate the formwork as the buildings work. This concrete type of core deliver better insulation of
sound and good robustness. Then, there is the precast cladding panels (Holm 2018). For instance, it
can be used for aesthetics and be useful to control the infiltration of weather elements. Thus the
safety will be helpful to direct the wind and water such that here is effective control in runoff. Lastly,
there are the concrete floors and walls. It is primarily applicable to the retaining wall, interior
finishes, decorate exterior and seat walls.
As compared with various other types of flooring, the concrete flowing has been affordable
with easy maintenance. Here, stable sealing with flowing could be cleaned through dust mob. The
micro planning must include great level of description of the project. This is concise and short and
has been hitting essential highlights. The elements that are actually required of getting the task done
having no unneeded elements none of the scheduling that is down-to-the-minute. On the other hand,
the micro-planning includes various details with intense schedule for getting the tasks done (Hu et
al., 2016). For the planning the macro-planning can be suggested and this can make the repeating
tasks in the batch process. This can make more effective in due time and as the activities are going to
have to be done in due time repeatedly can perform all these at same time. The deployment of BIM
would permit the managers of the project in streamlining interaction taking place between numerous
systems like material management, data management, plumbing, electrical and mechanical
management. This helps managers in sharing relevant type of models having subcontractors for
assuring pre-construction operations and smooth design. The forcing of project groups for finishing
the total design that use upfront previously the construction take place and generate the virtual
scenario where design make clash could be detected easily. It can simply impact the reducing the
entire project risk. For the present scenario, the BIM is the method coming out in the digital model.

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This never change responsibilities of different professionals who are working on that scheme (Park
et al. 2019). Nonetheless, as the BIM is utilized in collaborative way on the real project, that never
need to interfere with commercial realities for the current construction. In this, the pinpointing to
anyone for blaming inevitably as the things go wrong. Apart from that, the BIM protocol indicates
the alleviating the challenges proposed (Dainty and Leiringer 2019).
TASK 4:
Health and safety has been turning to be essential element of the process of construction. The
health and safety is essential consideration that one must consider prior the construction project can
get underway. Here, one should every time ensure that every aspects of safety and health are to be
considered prior one set the foot on the site of construction. They are specifically useful since the
present industry has been prone towards hazardous cases and could be harmful at many times (Vaux
and Kirk 2018). As per various statistics it is seen three percent of every construction employees at
UK has been sustaining activities that are related to injury. About four percent of them are been
suffering from various illness related to work. It can also lead to great loss during working hours and
indicates that the workers are not so much glad under their roles of jobs. Various vital causes are
there why safety and health are vital in workplace. As the safety and health is concerned, the
construction is seen besides other types of financial activities (Sha'ar et al., 2017). For the present
scenario the Construction (Management and Design) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) and Building
Act 1984 and the related regulations. Implementing of collaborative practices are of specific
significance in construction projects and building design. This is because they can likely bring the
huge amount of diverse nature of disciplines and several of them have not worked before. They can
likely include integration and coordination of high deal of procedures, systems and complex
systems. However, any failure regarding establishment of efficient and clear collaborative practices

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that are project wide are disastrous. It turns true as the structures of project evolves from client
consultant contract relations straight forward towards more effective integrated structures having
complicated financing arrangements, introducing of supplier design and sub-contractor and prior
engagement of supply chain (Rinke et al. 2017).
The heavy machinery and various tools, fast paced environment, activities done at heights
combine to make the construction hazardous to make operations. Here, the detailed and strict safety
and health legislation can reduce the risks. The training within safety and health legislation and the
training is able to make differences (Dykstra 2018). However, several deaths are found in the sector
and though it makes up 7% of workforce of UK, across 25% of the deaths of workplace from
previous years has occurred in the construction industry. Thus the industry requires to work for
reducing the training and figures to make dramatic change.
Conclusion:
The Construction management is the measure to coordination, plan and deliver the
controlling and monitoring of the project. Few kinds of constructions are that utilize construction
management. These involve the residential, environmental, commercial, civil and industrial. All
these categories have their individual manner to run project and permit the methodology of
construction management. The present complex’ site is differentiated from the highways through
huge fast glowing river. This has been flowing parallel to these highways and ultimately meeting
Thames. The construction and buildings have been turning to be complex. There re latest
innovations found in materials designs and methods indicating that construction project management
need professionals with skills and knowledge for providing budget and time in the rapidly and
demanding changing industry. Further, the planning is ground stone of construction project. This is
basis for resource, time and cost management. Despite sufficient plan, the construction management

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can never control the development done against schedule or budget and can never use the effective
usage of the resources whether they are the people and materials.

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