UNIT: 4 Construction Practice & Management
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Introduction
Construction management is considered as the most challenging as
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profession (Spence and Kultermann, 2016). Here, for completing a project successfully as per
perspective of clients, professionals require to get support of many civil engineers,
surveyors, interior designers, mechanical and electrical engineers, and assistance of other
construction professionals. They would help in building a proper plan and design for
constructing a building in appropriate manner (Virdi, 2017). Here, roles and responsibilities
of each construction professionals is different from each other, where architect used to
manage the design as well as construction of particular project, while structural engineer
helps in ensure that whether such a project is structurally stable or not.
The present report is mainly focusing on concept of professionalism in construction industry.
It demonstrates the scope and linkage among site office structure and head office within
construction organisation. For this purpose, four main case scenarios is taken where first
part reveals the requirement of a client who wants to build a new residential project at
Kowloon East Road in Honk Kong. While second part which is based on feasibility stage,
here, different types of construction companies and their relationship within tendering
process are described. Furthermore, under the third part, recommendation is given to client
for using BIM Model i.e. Building Information Modelling. This would explain key stages
requires in given construction project. At last scenario, concern of client towards health and
safety issue is described, to analyse how construction industry has developed collaborative
strategies for health and safety also described.
LO1 Describe the construction industry with reference to company structures and other
activities.
P1 Explain how the construction industry has developed and encompassed
professionalism within its structures
Construction refers to a diverse industry which includes a number of activities for
constructing a commercial or residential building. It includes activities range from mining,
manufacture and supply of products, quarrying and forestry for making an infrastructure,
etc. With development of professionalism in this sector, today, construction industry has
given a lot in improving the infrastructure of societies (Wood and et. al., 2016). Now,
through support of many professional engineers, architects, interior designer, surveyors and
more, organisations dealing in this sector gain advantage to manufacture effective
infrastructure for development of living standard of human beings (Hairul Bahara and et. al.,
2016). In this regard, within construction industry, for completing a project, employers used
to make a proper professional team which includes project-manager, engineers, technical
people, skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labours etc. In order to manufacture a building
project, professional team helps effectively in managing the entire work related to
construction activities. Along with this, it would also help in ensuring that the project is
constructed by using effectively required technology as per standardisation as well as
includes the most cost-effective methods also (van der Laan and Velthuis, 2016). Since for
completing a construction project as per client requirement, it is essential for professionals
to translate the design into reality.
For this process, each professional has assigned with a specific role and responsibility to
complete and manage the key activities of project viz. Time, technology, money, equipment,
and people management (Duan and Li, 2016). For example: The main role of geotechnical
engineers is site investigation includes assessment of risk for human beings, their property
and identifying natural hazards like earthquake, sinkhole, and landslide etc. While surveyor's
duty is to get license for building an apartment within a specified area by determining the
location, size of landed property, establish a beacon on site for defining boundaries (Wynne,
2016). Along with this, architects make a proper building plan for creating the overall design
of infrastructure. Furthermore, for enhancing professionalism, civil engineers, electrical
engineers and more also give their effective contribution for building an effective
infrastructure. Therefore, to make collaboration of each work and put their efforts into
completing a project on time, there is need of contractor who brings a team of professionals
together. Contractors oversees the entire construction activities as well as ensures effectively
that all essential measures are taken for executing a project in prescribed manner (Wang,
Guan and Lou, 2018). They also draw up a plan which includes planning, developing, and
coordinating activities in making the structures.
P2 Demonstrate the scope and linkage between all parties within a construction
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