In building construction is essentially a team process in which each member has an important
role to play. Typical team for a large project and function of each member is outlined below.
The client - The person or organisation who finances and commissions the work. They directly or indirectly employ all other personnel, with particular responsibility for appointing the planning supervisor (usually the architect) and nominating the principal contractor.
Architect - Engaged by the building owner as agent to design, advise and ensure that the project is kept within cost and complies with the design.
Clerk of works - Employed on large contracts as the architect’s on-site representative. The main function is to liaise between architect and main contractor and to ensure that construction proceeds in accordance with the design. They can offer advice, but directives must be through the architect.
Quantity surveyor - Engaged to prepare cost evaluations and bills of quantities, check tenders, prepare interim valuations, effect cost controls, and advise the architect on the cost of variations.
Consulting engineers - Engaged to advise and design on a variety of specialist installations, ex. structural, services, security. They are employed to develop that particular aspect of the design within the cost and physical parameters of the architect’s brief.
Surveyor - Employed by the main contractor to check work progress and assist the quantity surveyor in the preparation of interim valuations for stage payments and final accounts. May also be required to measure work done for bonus and subcontractor payments.
Main contractor - Employed by the client on the advice of the architect, by nomination or competitive tendering. They are required to administer the construction programs within the architect’s direction.
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