From the course: Construction Management Foundations
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How is the industry organized
From the course: Construction Management Foundations
How is the industry organized
- As we step through the processes in the previous videos, we also begin to break down the structure of the industry. We discussed the architect and the fact that the architect will traditionally have a contract directly with the owner for their design services package. Now, that architect might also have an additional contract with the owner to act as the owner's representative during the construction process. Under this type of arrangement, the architect might provide services that could include conducting progress meetings, overseeing quality, approving changes, and just generally being the point of contact for the owner during construction. Now, that scenario that I described so far is the typical method used on a vertical construction project. If this were a true horizontal only construction project, the roles that I described as being played by the architect might actually be played by a civil engineer since there might be little, if any, architectural design in that type of…
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