Construction Industry Players

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Construction Industry Players

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Owner

• Individual or organization which starts process
  and owns the end product.
• Responsible for financing the project.
• Land owner or leaseholder.
• Onus of ownership means they are ultimately
  responsible for code and regulation compliance.
• May or may not be end-user.

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Client

• Owner or end-user or both.
• The person or entity paying for the project.
• Tenant or use of the space.
• Could have two or more clients on a construction
  project.

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Developer

• Speculator (sometimes gambler) who purchases or
  ties up real estate and puts in infrastructure to
  support new use.
• Build to suit
• Parcel or subdivide the land
• Value-Adder buys something with potential and
  turns the potential into product
• Flipper

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Players

• Occupants people who live or work in the
  building.
• Lessee entity that has right to use
  land/building by long-term agreement.
• Lessor entity that owns or manages (property
  managers) land/buildings and leases on long-term
  basis.
• Renter user of property, but usually shorter
  term than lease.

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Design Team

• Architect Designs structures to meet criteria
  of owners, users, government entities, and
  constructors.
• Acts as clients (owner or user) agent to create
  space suitable for their needs.
• Coordinates the various disciplines involved.
• Big picture person
• Principle person with final responsibility and
  generally the registered architect.
• Project captain lead at the project level.

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Design Team

• Engineer Registered with the state to practice
  one or more engineering specialties.
• Regulated
• Over-design?
• Civil
• Structural
• Mechanical
• Electrical
• Geotechnical

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Consultant

• Person without a real job that is hired by any
  other player (usually owner or A/E) to solve or
  monitor a particular problem.

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Contracting Team

• GC Contractor, constructor, charlatan
• Owner, principle, president people at risk.
• VP, project executive, head PM, head super
• PM (project manager) - manages staff aspects of a
  project.
• Superintendent manages field operations of a
  project.
• Foreperson directly responsible for laborers
• Estimator uses historical information and
  plans/specs to determine probable cost of
  construction.
• Expeditor person who makes things happen when
  others cant do their own job.

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Contracting Team

• Office engineer, assistant, secretary, clerk
• Field engineer, assistant superintendent, field
  secretary ...
• Scheduler
• Controller
• Quality officer (punch list, customer service),
  safety officer
• Sub or specialty contractor
• Supplier

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Contracting Team

• Construction Manager entity that contracts with
  the owner that evaluates design and construction
  process.
• Additional layer of management to ensure that the
  process is effective and in the best interest of
  the owner.
• CM usually has no contractual ties with other
  contractors, yet oversees their activities.
• CM may monitor A/E, GC, specialty contractors
  working directly for owners

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Regulatory

• Plans examiner person in office who checks
  plans for compliance to zoning ordinance and
  codes. May have never seen an actual job site.
• Inspector person who checks work to ensure that
  it is performed per codes sometimes plans.
  concerned with engineering, not aesthetics.
• Reviewers from various government and/or private
  agencies review plans and/or visit sites to
  ensure that public interest in best met
  (according to their view).
• EPA, DEQ, OSHA, FAA, DOT, Fire Marshall, Census
  board

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Relationships

• Contractual relationships are easy to define and
  enforce.
• Non-contractual relations are definable but
  difficult to enforce.
• Time is money.
• Cash is king.
• Attention goes to the money.