Porkchop's Teams Flashcards
Terms and concepts
Understanding Project Teams
Understanding Project Teams
Design & Construction is a team process.
Successful Project team:
- Owner who know what he wants
- Capable A/E team
- Well written contracts
- Complete & coordinated construction documents
- Effective construction management team
- Capable construction contractor
- Knowledgeable & reliable product reps & suppliers
- Capable facility managers
When is a Project Team Effective?
When is a Project Team Effective?
- Participants and stakeholders work together toward mutual goals
- Project delivered on time and in budget
- Satisfied Owner
Stakeholder vs. Participant
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Stakeholders
- Individuals or organizations actively involved in a major portion of the project delivery process
- Interests positively or negatively impacted
- Investment
- Operational
- Reputation
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Participants
- Individuals and organizations
- Active in only a portion of the project delivery process
- Indirect interests not affected by constructed facility
Project Team Composition
- Owner Team.
- Designer Team (A/E).
- Contractor Team.
- Supplier Team.
Owner Team Responsibilities
Owner Team Responsibilities
- Initiates project
- Assumes risk
- Provides funding
- Controls and manages the design and construction process
- Approves of design & construction activities
- Principal stakeholder
- Owner may or may not occupy facility
- Provides the site
Designer Team: Architect, Engineer and Consultant Responsibilities
Designer Team: Architect, Engineer and Consultant Responsibilities
- Transforming Owner’s vision and requirements into a design and construction documentation
- Includes multiple design disciplines
- Specialized design services and expertise
Designer Team: Services
Designer Team: Services
Designer Team selection is usually based on qualifications, experience
and/or unique design skills.
- Planning issues, include those involving the AHJ
- Design that reflects Owner’s vision
- Identify codes and regulations
- Product research and evaluation
- Produce procurement and construction documents
- Administer construction contract
- Provide QA procedures and QC review
Contractor Team: Responsibilities
Contractor Team: Responsibilities
Contractor selection could be based on being the low bidder,
reputation, previous relationship or special qualifications.
Transforms construction documents into a finished Facility
- Cost estimating
- Scheduling
- Contracting
- Procurement (Bidding, Negotiating, Purchasing)
- Management of construction
Supplier Team Responsibilities
Furnishes design information, materials, and products necessary to
construct Project from the:
- Manufacturer
- Distributor
- Supplier
- Fabricator
Dual nature of representation
- Consultant: to the A/E team
- Sales: to the Contractor team
Supplier Team: Skills and Forms of Representation
Supplier Team: Skills and Forms of Representation
- •Skills
- Knowledge of products, including cost, manufacturing lead time, and distribution.
- Knowledge of decision making process by design team
- Knowledge of construction processes
- Forms of Representation
- Manufacturer’s employees
- Independent reps
Owner Team, Advisors
- Financial institutions
- Attorneys
- Insurance companies
- Real estate agents
- Appraisers
- Marketing companies
Owner Team, Owner’s Consultants
• Surveyors
- Environmental engineers
- Geotechnical engineers
- Hazardous materials / abatement
- Traffic engineers
- Sustainability
- Wetland biologists
- Wildlife biologists
- Design Engineers
- Testing and Inspection Agencies
- Commissioning Authority
Owner Team, Others
• Occupants
- Facility manager
- Facility users
- Visitors
- Utility service providers
- Authorities Having Jurisdiction
Designer Team Architect
• Principal-in-Charge
- Project Manager
- Programmer
- Project Designer
- Interior Designer
- Project Architect
- Job Captain
- Drafter
- Specifier
- Construction Administrator
Designer Team
Engineers and Consultants
- Civil Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Electrical Engineer
- Plumbing Engineer
- Landscape Architect
- Fire Protection Engineer
- Exterior Enclosure Consultant
- Roofing and Waterproofing Consultant
- Cost Estimator
- Code Consultant
- Sustainability Consultant
- Commissioning Consultant
- Food Service Consultant
- Parking Consultant
- Acoustical Consultant
- Lighting Design Consultant
- Building Transportation Consultant
- Swimming Pool, Fountain, and Water Feature Consultant
- Building Maintenance Equipment Consultant
