Western Sydney University Construction Communication Report

This report analyzes the roles of four key positions within the construction industry: town planner, architect, construction design manager, and chief executive officer (CEO). The report details the qualifications, responsibilities, and interdependencies of each role, emphasizing their contributions to project success. The town planner focuses on ensuring economic and environmental success, collaborating with regional officers and architects. The architect designs building plans, coordinating with town planners and construction design managers. The construction design manager coordinates designs and manages the building process, working with architects and CEOs. The CEO provides leadership, manages resources, and oversees all operations. The report also highlights the importance of the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act in ensuring safety across all roles and activities, and it references supporting organizations for each position.

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Below are the four roles that have been chosen in construction industry to investigate and
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Town Planner: they must have Masters Degree in Civil Engineering/Architecture. class of
urban or regional planners, primary focus of town planners is to ensure that a town is success
in terms of economy besides being environment friendly. For getting this done they work
with regional officers. How improvement can be brought into a town through different ways
is researched and evaluated by them. One can relate a town planner’s role with that of an a
architect because of dependency on the plans and landscaping of the later, social,
environment and economic problems within a town are wiped or eased by town planner.
Throughout a project, construction design managers coordinate and manage the designs and
plans a town planner develops for a town’s development, implemented further through
corporate decision-makings of construction agencies CEOs alongside managing operations
and resources. Designing town development plans is the responsibility of a town planner
followed by regulating them (Oyelade and Monday, 2019). For town planners Work Health
and Safety Act ensures existence of adequate process for coping with risks involved in
construction projects. Town planners are supported by International Society of City and
Regional Planners. Experienced professionals can seek the role of Chartered Town Planner
followed by becoming Senior Planners.
Architect: in a construction industry designing and building project plan is done by an
architect, having responsibility of a how building or structure’s exterior view is. Bachelors or
master degree in architecture is the required qualification. Architects are supported by
Association of Licensed Architects while their career graph includes Design Architect,
Project Manager, and Urban Designer. Ahead of final structural design an architectural plan
is designed by the architect through his/her functional and imaginative skills. Architects and
town planners’ role are related with the building plan designed by the former once the later
gives approval and recommendation about using the land, requisite for fulfilling community
needs (Tobias, 2020). Architects role is also related to construction design managers in terms
of coordinating, organizing design and construction process to build commercial spaces,
housing areas and industrial structures. While establishment and structures are designed by
architects, construction design managers are working on a project – start to finish besides
coordinating with contractors for varied operations activities. Construction services
operations and procurement are executed under CEOs decision, enabling projects
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accomplishment designed by architects. Architects, under WHS Act must assure that their
projects are having minimal or no risks any time.
Construction design manager: BTEC in Building Studies, Building Engineering or
Building Management is the minimal qualification required. All designing work required in
construction projects are coordinated by them besides administering the technical drawings
production and plan used for structure building. Bringing architects, structural and service
engineers together alongside specialist designers and BIM technicians for developed
coordinated designs is also their role, used while construction besides supporting structures
maintenance on completion (ProjectResource, 2016). A construction design manager’s role is
interlinked to architects with the former establishing coordination for getting the structures
build designed and planned by later. Meanwhile, town planner’s development layouts are also
executed by them through operational activities coordination to get a project completed.
Based on the strategic planning and decisions of a construction project’s CEO activities for
finishing the constructions are performed by them besides ensuring adherence with WHS
guidelines for health and safety, site design and governance, safety in design. They are braced
by International Construction Project Management Association supports while they can get
promoted as BIM managers and Project Directors.
Chief Executive Officer: building and getting into apex level critical decisiveness, targets
and operation plans, making concerted enterprise, managing entire operations and resources
requisite for construction projects accomplishment is CEO’s responsibility besides exhibiting
leadership in supervising and controlling a firm’s every business dimension, overseeing
budget, allocation of resources, adequate execution of plans. One can relate his/her role to a
town planner since actions and strategic decisions are initiated by them for turning the vision
of town development plans into a reality chalked by the later. In addition to this, for getting
the architectural plans and designs made by the architects started and completed on time,
requisite resources are allocated by the CEOs (Sariola, 2018). Moreover, even the operational
activities that have been taken up by the construction design managers are supervised by this
role in construction industry with intent for ensuring that all projects end within the give
schedules and planning. Within a construction project, CEO is held accountable for operating
and supervising all the construction related activities by complying with WHS Act to avoid or
eliminate the risks involved. Having related experience is must for this role. Master degree in
Administration or Law is the minimal qualification. ICPMA supports CEOs while they can
seek to get promoted as Chairpersons or Board Directors.
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References
Oyelade, I. and Monday, E.C., 2019. The Town Planners; Roles and Challenges in Disaster
and Risk Management in the Built Environment of Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. GLOBAL
TRANSACTIONS ON HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, pp.7-7.
ProjectResource. 2016. What Is A Design Manager In The Construction Industry? Available
on: https://www.project-resource.co.uk/blog/2016/01/what-is-a-design-manager-in-the-
construction-industry
Sariola, R. (2018). Utilizing the innovation potential of suppliers in construction
projects. Construction Innovation. 18(2) Available on: https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-06-2017-
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Tobias, M. 2020. Roles and Responsibilities of Architects in Construction Projects. Available
on: https://www.ny-engineers.com/blog/architects-in-construction-projects
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