Civil Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
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An extensive team of design team co-ordinators and surveyors are necessary to
keep a check on information flow and ensure prompt monthly payments to the
subcontractors. Accounts are finalised as each work package is completed.
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The client often engages an individual project manager to act on his behalf as the
clients representative. Alternatively a company specialising in managing large
projects may be engaged as the clients advisors.
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The employer is responsible for the design and this is normally supplied to the
management contractor by the architect or design team working on the employ-
ers behalf. Hence the need for a design team co-ordinator to form part of the
management contractors management team.
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The management contractor agrees monthly valuations with each of the work
package subcontractors and the client pays them through the management
contractor (as the management contractor has a contact with each of the
subcontractors).
A relationship diagram showing the links between the various parties is illustrated.
Client
Project manager
or
Project engineer
or
Architect
or
Quantity surveyor
Client's
representative
Design team
Management contractor
Architect
structural eng.
services eng.
landscape arch.
other consultants
Design team
co-ordinator
Project manager
Site managers
team
Procurement
team
All work package
subcontractors have
a contract with the
management
contractor.
Work package subcontractors
(some may have a
design responsibility)
