Analysis of Construction Business: Challenges and Modern Solutions

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the construction business, addressing its challenges and exploring modern solutions. The abstract highlights the impact of free market economics and the vulnerability of architects, emphasizing the importance of sustainable construction techniques like prefabrication. The introduction underscores the construction industry's vital role in economic prosperity and the need for efficient project delivery methods, including Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). The research delves into the significance of reducing construction waste and promoting sustainability, discussing the environmental impact of construction activities. The report details the IPD theory, its features, and benefits, such as collaborative environments and early problem-solving. It also examines major issues like design changes, IT infrastructure challenges, and the importance of prefabrication. The evaluation of strategy emphasizes the role of experts in selecting construction techniques and the benefits of prefabrication in terms of cost reduction, quality improvement, and worker safety. The conclusion reiterates the advantages of adopting new technologies and methods to improve the construction business’s performance. This report provides valuable insights for civil engineering students and professionals seeking to understand and improve construction practices.

Practice Management & Professionalism

ABSTRACT
The term architect is generally derived from the word arkhi which original meaning is “chief” or
‘builder’. Due to rise of free market economics and poor demand of deskilled labour in
construction business weaken the architecture professional. It make them very vulnerable and
cause liability problems in the supply side of the business. As we see that prefabrication
technology is nowadays known as sustainable construction technique in terms of its effect on
environment. Prefabrication also involves in the process of handling of waste materials, checking
its disposal and recycle to reduce the waste of construction. It offers different benefits to the
construction company and also gives few limitations which impact the profitability of the
construction projects. This is the main objective that the research wants to find out. Urban
development at high rate causes pollution all over the world. Change in climatic conditions ,
unpredictable economy and policy of the governments are the main challenges in construction
business. Also lack of verified development and research work in construction business is a
major problem. Here we are going to discuss all the problem related to construction business and
then provide best solution using modern technique and methods.
Keywords : Professionalism, construction , architect, theory, design
Introduction

In current period the industry of construction is a multinational and disciplinery industry which
play a major role in the economy of any country. It gives a big contribution in the prosperity to
the economy by providing best infrastructure in a very cost effective method. Nowadays there is
a new methods are used to finish the building planning, and construction in a given deadline.
Due to old project delivery method the objectives of contractors and client satisfaction totally
depend upon the delievery method which in future increases the distance between real and
expected performance of the project. In every project delivery method there are always a three
member in which one is owner, second one is designer and third one is contractor.
By using new technology like Building Information Modelling according to the needs of local ,
new available methods like Integrated Project Delivery provide best projects. Integrated Project
Delivery (IPD) is the new development of project delivery system in the construction industry
where mixed innovation mainly used to get the goals of the project . The big weakness of old
delivery methods is that they do not provide the required level of productivity according to the
needs of project. The failure to complete the job in given time,insufficient budget estimation,
lack of adequate construction details and wastage of materials during construction are the main
reason behind reduce productivity.
According to the need of time there are different project delivery methods were developed in the
construction industry to lower the faults of the old methods similarly IPD mainly develop to
overcome these problems . In this paper we are going to discuss the option of using BIM under
an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method. By using a model of contracting relationship like
IPD gives the important construction framework for a large level of mixing between the big
participants in a construction project which provides the complete benefits of BIM .
Research Significance & Scope
The waste produces during construction is one of the biggest pollutants present in the
environment. We can define waste here as large material produces due to industrial and human
activities which have no any worth in future. The effect of construction waste on the
environment is increases all over the world. As we see that, Around 18% (80 million tonnes) of
the total waste produces in the whole world every year is totally comes from operations of
construction and demolition, it makes the construction business the biggest generator of
controlled waste in the whole world.
The construction business is in urgent requirement of sustainable development. According to few
reports, this type of development is classified by its low-level environmental effects and also
high-level socio-economic use fullness. The need of sustainability in the construction business
needs an adoption of methods which include a decrease in demand of energy , and also increases
the use of resources and materials, effective management of waste and at the same time, its
stability of carbon and emissions of GHG.
Integrated Project Delivery theory
IPD is a new project delivery method which mainly aimed to make a environment which is
cooperative and uses a different-party agreement among the owner,architect and contractor. IPD
is a result of pressure between developers and owners to decrease the cost risk during the

construction of business and also help in forcasting the assets. IPD is a contractual arrangement
between the owner, constructor and architect which benefitted the business interests of every
parties. IPD always
motivates the combination of member in every design and construction process, which convert
in to success of project. The big thing about IPD is that we can work on any upcoming problems
in the initial phases, before the process of construction starts, to remove the future threats and
waste.
This is more advance methodology which is changing or going to change that how buildings and
infrastructure are designed and built using single agreement method.
Features
In IPD method, the owner, designer, and construction manager work with each other and share
the threats and benefits with each other. Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method is used in
managing big-scale construction projects. The main aim of IPD are to provide assistance to
owners, architects and constructors to reduce waste, costs cutting, and increasing the
productivity.(Benedict D & David J, 2012) .
It helps in finding four bigger industry problems: legal which include contract structures,
financial threts and benefits as well as cultural value . Whereas it is also proves that honesty,

Respect and relationships play a major role in success of IPD. It is also seen that financial
support is not the main factors for increasing the collaboration, but also huge cultural changes
between the people are also needed .(Benedict D & David J, 2012).
IPD is very new method and not largely accepted in the construction industry. The basic part of
an IPD is its team members. For project completion, from start we uses experience member, and
these members are directed by principles of trust, transparent metods, effective sharing of
information , shared threats and benefits as well as uses of complete technical support and
capabilities ”.(Benedict D & David J, 2012).
Major Issues
It is believe that due to constant changes in details of the design during the time of construction
is mainly due to lack of knowledge, experience and lack of communication, they play a big role
in higher levels of waste materials related to construction businesses (Wei, 2006).
Due to production, extraction, refinement, manufacture, transportation during the construction
mainly causes the huge impacts on environment. The energy related with construction waste is
major area of concern. In order to solve the issues of energy consumption, it is very important to
check the efficiency of construction and buildings usability should be fully revised.
The industry of construction mainly consumes 50% of the extracted raw materials from the earth,
of which constructions uses 30% (Broun and Menzies, 2011).
The increasing awareness of this challenge put the pressure on professionals in the industry of
construction to improve its performance and status of the environment (Shen et al., 2005).
As such, the requirement has rises for a critical review and changes of traditional methods of
construction , manufacturing technologies and functionality of construction. The
Industrialization of the Construction business by using Prefabrication and Adoption of new
technology.
IT support infrastructure
The use of IPD as a standard for combine practice on the construction projects provides its own
risks. Exchange of files behind the IT firewalls, long size of email attached and the capability to
show every type of file without using the basic software which make IPD more tough. The main
new focus of IPD is to deliver the finished product to the owner, like the building construction
completed. The BEP has been prepared with the support of the Client and project team, and will
enable the proper administration of the document through revision and controlled reissue. The
BEP will be include or exit from the use under the instruction of project manager. Members who
got the documents will be need to assure that current problems are kept and that related people
are keeping all the useful information. The prefabrication technology and equipment has been
found to be highly important for the construction sector in terms of profitability.
Evaluation of Strategy

We use multitasking expert when we preparing IPD materials on the site. IPD construction are
being made in the factory, while the construction service professionals are waiting at the site to
prepare the foundation. The selection of construction methods as relative to health and safety is a
crucial factor given that any construction project is unique. Since contractors are responsible for
the execution of construction work, the question might be asked whether they should be
responsible for selecting the construction method. The research suggests that expert should
decide on which construction technique should be uses for construction projects. Its methods and
techniques are going to improve the quality of construction business . It also decreases the bad
effect on environment due to construction.
The need of sustainability in the construction business needs an adoption of methods which
include a decrease in demand of energy , and also increases the use of resources and materials,
effective management of waste and at the same time. The technology also bridges the gaps in
skills required to be possessed by the workers of the construction projects. The safety of the
construction sites gets increased with the use of this technology. The quality of the materials and
the final outcomes is ensured to be higher as the each individual component is produced in a
specialized environment. The overall cost of the projects gets declined and the profitability get
maximized.
Conclusion
There are so many studies showed that the construction business by using new technology
improves its sustainable performance, it also reduces the time of construction, it also helps in
reducing overall costs; increases its durability and quality ; it also helps in improving the health
and safety of workers, by applying these methods and techniques we conserve both energy and
materials , it also helps in reduction of waste; and at the end reduced the environmental pollution.
By using new technology like Building Information Modelling according to the needs of local ,
new available methods like Integrated Project Delivery provide best projects. Integrated Project
Delivery (IPD) is the new development of project delivery system in the construction industry
where mixed innovation mainly used to get the goals of the project . The prefabrication
technology in the construction enables the construction business to get the quality components
and then assembling them for the better and effective outcomes.
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