Construction Management: Development, Structure and Business Ethos

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of construction management, emphasizing the industry's development, the crucial linkage between head and site offices, and the various types of contractual work tendered by contractors. It highlights the significance of professionalism and technical ...Read More

GROUP PRESENTATION
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
• Construction management can be explained as the professional services which
provides the effective management of the project schedule, safety, scope, quality as
well as function to the project owner (Harris and et.al., 2021). It is very important as
it enables to bring in the leadership as well as direction to the projects.
• This project will discuss the development and professionalism within the structure
as well as linkage between the head office and site office. Further, the types of the
contractual work tendered by the contractors will be discussed.

TASK 1
DEVELOPMENT AND PROFESSIONALISM OF
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
• In UK, construction industry is considered as one of the largest contributor to the
economy of the country. As this solely employees 3.1 Million of the people and over
9% of the employees in the country. It highly depended on the labour intensive
business model as this is becoming unsustainable because of the impacts of the
change in the demographic.
• The New Infrastructure construction work is another key driver of the overall
construction growth after the emergence of the Covid 19 pandemic as this has
expanded by 19.5 % in quarter 1 of the year 2022.

TASK 2
LINKAGE BETWEEN THE SITE OFFICE AND HEAD
OFFICE STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANISATION
• The construction company's site office
will require the office which will
facilitate the accommodation for the site
managers, provides the space for
meetings as well as to provide the
storage for the site documentation.

• They consist of several directors which are working
underneath executives (Patil, 2019). The individual
managers runs the actual teams as there roles are
financial managers, accountants, construction managers
and many more. There is support staff as well which is
responsible for the legwork, supporting to the managers
as well as the directors of each department.
• The entry level tier is basically consists of the
administrative assistants, interns as well as the
specialists. The main link between these both offices
are the site offices are highly depended on the head
offices for many of the decisions to continue the further
work.

TASK 3
TYPE OF THE CONTRACTUAL WORK TENDERED BY
CONTRACTORS-
• Tendering is considered as the process in which the proposal is written by the
contractors to the companies for choosing to accept or give out. There are basically
four types of the contractual work by the contractors are such as-
• Residential Building: These buildings are constructed for the purpose of residing in
by the people such as house or apartment.
• Institutional and Commercial Building: The main purpose of institutional buildings
are for the public use such as hospitals, schools, police stations and many more.

TASK 4
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
IN THE TERMS OF COMPANY'S STRUCTURES,
EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTED WORK
• The structure of the construction company has emerged by seeing the need of the
professionalism and technical within the industry. Basically, the matrix structures are
used in the construction companies as this is the combination of the functional as
well as the project forms of organisation.
• In this type of the matrix organisation each of the project manager has to report
directly to the general manager or more levels in the case of the large companies.

TASK 5
DEVELOPMENT OF STRUCTURE AND BUSINESS
ETHOS IN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
• Business ethos plays very significant role in the
construction company as this industry has become very
vast. Companies has to adopt the healthy and safety
measures which will enable the employees to stay happy,
safe and comfortable.
• The company having the strong business ethos helps them
in prevention of the employees as this allows the
department of the human resource for creation for
fulfilling the staff needs.

• This helps the company to keep their employees
and workers motivated and inspired in the
company by speaking directly with the needs of
the employees. The structure is also very important
for the construction company as this will enable
them to work effectively as well as helps them in
proper functioning of the overall organisation.
• The construction industry is becoming very large
and due to this reason, its is very important to have
the proper structure of the company which will
lead to the successful business (Kim and Leathem,
2018).

CONCLUSION
• From the above project it can be concluded that it is very important for the construction
company to follow the business ethics within the business. This will help them in ensuring
the health and safety within the company for the employees and this will help them in
regulating the behaviour of the people effectively.
• This will provide the guidelines for the employees to avoid any of the mistakes within the
organisation. This report has discussed the development of overall construction industry as
well as the link between the head office as well as the site office within the organisation.

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