Fundamentals Flashcards
Competencies: • 1A – Job roles and responsibilities of the four project teams • 1B – Stages of facility life cycle with associated activities and documents • 1C – Written formats • 1D – Graphic formats • 1E – Legal implications of contract documents • 1F – Sustainable design and construction
Project Team?
Owner
Designer
Contractor
Supplier
Owner Team Role
Initiates the Project
Assumes Risk
Provides Funding
Constuction Process Control and Management
Approves Design/Construction
Principle Stakeholder
Design Team Role
Turns the owner’s vision from concept to design and documents required for construction
Contractor Role
Estimates, scheduling, sub-contractors, and overall project management
Supplier
Provides materials for project construction
Contractor
Coverts design into a physical facility, Including estimates, scheduling, sub-contractors, and overall project management.
Contractor Team Role
Coverts design into a physical facility, Including estimates, scheduling, sub-contractors, and overall project management.
Supplier Team Role
Provides materials for project construction
The owner may or may not ultimately occupy the facility when they are:
- Administrators of the facilities department of a
school district building a new school. - A developer building multifamily projects for
tenants to lease. - Principals of a business building a new regional
branch of the business. - A department of transportation building new
streets and infrastructure for a new or existing
neighborhood.
Why should you know the type of owner?
It is important to know which type of owner, especially when considering funding sources and operations
Type of owner teams
Public and Private
Private Owners
Facilities in Private Sector (Funding is not from taxation or appropriation by the government)
Public Owners
Funding comes from taxation or appropriation by the government.
Federal, state, county, city or town agencies
How do owners in the private sector differ?
How the design work is awarded, how construction work is awarded, use of project documents and conventions, contract administration, construction management, how applications are paid, warranties and guarantees
Owner Team Players
Public or Private Owners
Owners advisors
owner consultants
occupants,
utility, service providers (Gas, water, sewer, electrical)
AHJ (County/City)
Design Team Players
Architects,
Engineering consultants
and specialty consultants (Specifications, Kitchen, etc.)
Contractor Team Players
Contractors and Sub contractors
Contractor Team Players
Contractors and Sub contractors
Supplier Team Players
Manufacturers
Distributors
Suppliers
Fabricators
Owers Rights and Responsibilities
- If requested by the contractor, provide evidence
that the owner has secured funds to pay for
the project. - Supply secured and paid for approvals,
easements, assessments and charges for
development, construction, use or occupancy of
permanent improvements. - Furnish to the contractor surveys indicating
boundaries, topography, existing utilities, and a
legal description. - Right to correct defciencies not corrected by the
contractor. - Make payment to the contractor.
- Right to order tests, inspections, and reports
concerning hazardous conditions that might
exist on the property or within existing
buildings. - Right to stop the work.
- Right to carry out the work.
- Right to award separate agreements.
- Right to clean.
- Right to partial occupancy.
- Right to terminate for convenience.
- Right to terminate for cause.
Who is responsible for arranging project financing? what what team are they apart of?
Owners team - Financial Institution
Who provides risk coverage for the project? and what team are they apart of?
Owners team - Insurance Companies
Who surveys the land? and what team are they apart of?
Owners team - Surveyors
Who examines the soil strata beneath the surface of the ground and subsurface geological formation? What team are they apart of?
Owner’s Team; Geotechnical Engineer
Who examines existing building and sites for presence of hazardous materials?
Hazardous Materials and Abatement Consultant
Who studies traffic patterns, and designs traffic control device installations and modifications? What team are they a part of?
Owners Team; Traffic Engineer