What Architects Need to Know about Construction Management

1. Introduction and Content: Hello, everyone, Welcome to this class. Another title off. Architects need to know about construction management. Here's Lesson one. The introduction and content. Ah, common challenge that construction projects face is establishing strong relation between the project architect and the supervision and management. What we have many people involved in any construction project. We have architectural engineers, structural engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers made contract of subcontractors AH, project management or supervision body. We might have declined representative or the client himself involved with the management and supervision body and so one. Some of these parties air having a minor role to play in the construction project and other parties have a very significant drop. If we look at the role of project architect, Place on Architect defines the project initially, so the design of the project, the main functionality off the project is set by an architect. This is, of course, more focus on the design stage when we go to the translation of the designs of an architect , a reality we have. The project management body is the property vision body as the main party taking care off, coordinating the designs with vehicle contractors and ensuring that the design is executed in reality. So between those two parties, the architect and the management of supervision body, we have many challenges appearing. We have gaps, gaps that come from differences in backgrounds and priorities and decision making process. And so one, since both of those parties are very critical in any construction project. If we want to take the project to US toe success, we need to make sure that the relation between those two on both technical and personal levels is very from so as I mentioned, the gas between them are something from differences in backgrounds, priorities position in the project and to improve the project status. We need to work on it, using these caps, being specializing construction management myself have made this class an attempt to address this gap. Why does it happen? How does it happen and what can we do to reduce it? So here's the content or go to present. First is I'm gonna look at why architects are superheroes. Why, I believe architects are real life heroes. Next is a buildings personal I d. And in this personal I d. We will see where every part, if it's what are the positions on. Why do the gaps happen between them? Originally will then look at architects for versus project managers, difference of priorities and decision making. Next, we'll look at empty pockets. This is a challenge that medicalize would face your construction project. Next we look at material and design compromise. Why does it happen? How to deal with it? And then we look at the fragile lines off trust between those two parties on how to make sure they are sound and secured. Where then look at how we can narrow the gap. Hey, received options such as having design so steers understanding about disciplines. It's nobody effect Building materials market and budget estimates will then look at the class project for any of the conclusion that's it for this lesson and see you the next 2. Architects as Superheroes !: working for. Listen to here. We'll look at why I believe architects are superheroes. I believe it is due to two main fax when we combined. The effect of those facts will give the conclusion I mentioned. So what are those two Main fact. First off, what the works of an architect are the soul and heart off every building. So even though we have many designers involved in any project, we have a structural designer, mechanical electrical engineers doing the services designs. We have the architectural engineer. All of them are doing part of the building design elements. However, the architectural engineer is the one who defined the initial project intention. If, for example, you as a client are planning to build an office building place for you on your employees toe work in. So, for example, you have 15 employees. We're expecting to have additional 10 and future, so you need a place to accommodate a total of 25 employees. You will write all of these requirements on a pennant paper. What are your needs? How many people are there? Different departments and so one. You'll give these requirements to the architect. The architect is the one who is going to take them from pennant paper and translate them into building drawings so the architect will be defining. Where are the entrances? Where are the exits? How to distribute different truth, the sizes where, with every employee said, remain circulation the functionality off the building. The entire definition off the building will be set by an architect, And then we will have the mechanical, electrical and structural engineers doing their designs in support of the architectural engineers design. So if, for example, the architect shows a restroom in one area of the building, you will then have the mechanical engineer and the electrical engineer working on their piping and wiring requirements to service the area set by an architect as a strong and very similarly with the structural engineer, the structural engineer will design the slabs, columns and other structural elements to make the building structure sound and safe just to serve the purpose set by the architect. So here's the first fact. Architects are the one who said the main soul and heart off every building second thing is that our daily lies on activities we do. Almost every single activity is related to a building We, of course, do have some outdoor complete outdoor activities that are not related to buildings. However, they are very little comparing to the major activities were doing buildings where we sleep , where we eat where we live, work. Everything we do is mostly related. Two buildings, even sports, which is in many cases on open space activity. Now we have football fields. Okay, the field service is open to sky. However, everything surrounding the field the stadium is again a building. So by combining those two facts, that architect said, the soul and heart of every building on that we use building for almost everything. We come up with a conclusion that everything we do, almost everything we do is affected. What architects? Architects are literally shaping over a nice and do not only think off what an architect does as a provision only for ability, the way architects design of building the way they decide how much light is coming in it. The spaces, the distribution of areas, the movement along the building, the aesthetic elements. All of these have a very strong impact on the way we perform over daily activities. Not only that, but also how we feel dollars to building an toes or activities. The comfort you feel sitting in a building, um, the encouragement to think the encouragement to relax the encouragement, Teoh read. For example, different activities are affected by the designs off the building. You have certain colors. For example, if the architect uses within the interiors off a building will be promoting relaxation and sleeping. Other colors will promote creativity. You can search more about the mental effects off architectural design on the user's off every building, so architects are literally shaping our lives with works of an architect have a very strong impact on the quality off life we have. So this is even more than what a superhero would do. This makes the jobs off. Architects are record related. Your quiet your flights. That's it for this lesson and see you the next lesson. 3. Building's Personal ID: What comfort us in three Here, look at the buildings. Personal I d to understand more why architects are the soul and heart from a building and the position architects take in a project. I'll be showing your chart a charge representing the main parties we have on the Verrier off process in any project. A chart which represents a bill this personal I. D. So first we have a building. Its first decided by client client, is the one who initiates and decides the entire process. We have the client setting out requirements and then giving it to the architect. The architect is then defining the building. So building is defined by an architect after the architect defined the building and sets the basic designs for it. We have the structural and MPP engineers supporting the design for architect. So as a mature earlier, we had the structural desire mechanical and electrical designers, all doing their designs in support of the architects designed they would see where the architect base of services were. The architects place a provision for colors, for example, and do their designs in accordance with the architects design. So this is all done in the design stage has shown here with a great highlight. We then have a transition nine where we move from the design face to the execution face so the design are done by the engineers and transferred into the Project Management and Supervision Team. This Project Management of Supervision team will be responsible for coordinating the execution off the designs on reality. So we have the main contractor, subcontractors and suppliers, all working in the execution phase, doing the site activities in accordance to the designs made by the architecture of structure and M V. P in Janie's on Under the Management and Coordination Off the Project Management and Supervision Team. So, looking at the focal point off every stage focal point of designs, the architect focal point of execution is the main contractor and the focal point of the entire process is a project management and supervision team in terms off transferring the design phase to the execution face. However, this has not been the case. Always, if you look back in history going back to the chart, we do not see in history many construction projects with project manager with a supervision team carrying such a critical role, the old approach is that the architect is the one doing the management of the project. So we have the architect me, the critical point of the design and a game being the critical point off the coordination between design an execution. However, with construction projects becoming more complex, more complex requirements are there. More fragmentation is in the industry. This old approach, where the architect is the designer and the manager could not survive any more. We cannot have the architect taking two critical roles, and these are the main reasons why we cannot do that. First off, what architects are no specializing management because of the complex management requirements we will need. We need to have someone who is dedicated only for management. Architects may have studied some management would use. However, the focus often architects study is not in management. It's one architectural design, so we need someone who are studied management as a profession to know more about risk management, communication, value management and so one that's the first point. Second point is that architects, like all over engineers, would have a tendency to prefer their specialty. If, for example, I am a structural engineer and I'm looking over a project. I understand Maurin structural elements and reinforcement, steel, concrete and such elements. So I will definitely be looking Maura at the element that I understand comparing toe other elements which are, for example, mechanical piping or electrical wiring which I do not really understand much about. However, when we're looking at the Project Management, we need to have a balance view. We cannot have a certain discipline preferred over the others and finally, is that if you go back to the charter presented, imagine the confusion, the coordination challenges that will happen when we have the architect taking to rolls is go back to the chart. So we have the architect in the second stage of defining the building and then again we have the architect as the first part off the execution face. The first of all, we will have a huge load on the architect. The architect will be coordinating with the client for his requirements at the design stage . We're coordinating with structural and MPP designers to make sure the designs are serving The building well will be coordinating with the main contractor for the execution subcontractors and suppliers, So the amount of flowed on, the architect will be too much. That's first and second thing is that we have a lot of confusion in the decision making process, where everything goes back to a single party. So at the end, if this is the case, we will end up having the architect either looking at the architectural design parts and not acting as a product management or supervision body. All the opposite will have. The architect, concealed completely by the management, works on not acting as the main designer of the project anymore. So what's the new approach, if the old approach could not survivors? The new approach? The new approach is that we have specialized project managers to manage the project. We're introducing this we introduced by introducing a project management body. We add a focal point between the design stage on the execution stage, responsible for delivering the project would success. That's it for this visit and see the next list 4. Architects vs. Project Managers: Welcome back. Here we look at less than four, which is architect versus product managers. So I've already introduced the idea of having specialized project manager in a project. But what are the main benefits we get by doing this? I believe the main benefits are in the decision making and order off priorities. As I've mentioned earlier, architects, like any other engineers, will have a tendency to prefer their specialty. So on architect, managing a project is more likely to look at architectural elements for building focus more on those elements being delivered as planned. However, a project manager will have an entirely different perspective. Project managers commonly in construction look for three main objectives, which are referred to as D. C. Cube Diese Q stands for time, cost and quality. These are the main objective set for a project that is very common to have a project success measured against completing dizzy and cute. So at the initial stage of a project, you'll have an estimated duration an estimated budget on a target level of quality at the end of the project. Depending on how much you have achieved D. C and cue, the project will be defined to be a success or no, it's very common to have TC and keep presented in a triangle to show that they're like the opposite sides off trying. They're not easily join together on optimum Project Manager needs to balance D. C and Q according to the client, interest on conditions. So after fall of those animals, we, of course, do have a relation between D. C and Q and Architects job. However, there are many elements within basically, which are not directly related to the architectural design. Looking at time, for example, we may have some element designed by the architect which required to have certain durations . However, time is related also to the contractor on site. What are the resource of the contractor has, um, the number off manpower available? These factors affect the duration of a project a lot, and they're not directly related to the architect related to the contractor cost as well. We do have, of course, the course of a project related to the architectural design. The elements set by the architect will determine the cost off a project. However, there are many other elements with a cost determination of a project which are not related to architecture and design. The price is caught by bidders, the course off material transportation, logistics, the selection off material and so one so a T. C N Q. Objectives are not directly all related to what an architect does. So here you can see where the gap starts forming within an architect on a project management body, the difference in decision making criteria is equal to difference in priorities. So simply architects are. Project managers do not necessarily think off the same things. So we're like Alliance Tent will decline, prefer more time, cause quality or architectural elements. What will be the position of the client? It depends a lot on the case. You may have some architects, some clients with interest more and achieving the building architectural design as it is, however, from experience in many projects, the letter C within a T. C. Q is always off significant importance. That's it, for This isn't and see you the next listen 5. Empty Pockets: Hello, everyone working to lessen five under the title of Empty Pockets. As I've already mentioned off all T secure objectives. See, discourse is always of particular importance to understand Mawr. Why coast is very critical in a construction project. I'll give you an example. Let's say you have a life saving of $130,000 that you have made over long G's off hard work . You need to build a villa for you and your family to stay in after your third child. The current flat, you're saying, does not have enough space. You already have a plot of 500 square meters that you have purchased back in 2000 and eight in the economic crisis, so you got it at a very good price. You start looking for designers for basic structural and architectural design. It will cost you something around $1500 however, because it's a once in a lifetime project and you really want to do it well and you do not know much about construction, you decide to appoint an interior designer interior designer doing full interior design work with furniture design will cost your on $5000. This is an unplanned caused. However, because of the great value will get a return. You decide to go for it. You started then, looking for men contractors to do the structure and MPP works. You approach contractors in the market and you get prices within the range of $400,000. So this is all main contractors works, not including client works which are selection of finishes. So these are a bit high Prices on these prices are considering a built up area of 400 square meters. Keep in mind that the prices you get from the contractors are directly related to the with the area. If you want to reduce the price, you can produce a built up area. However, reducing the built up area will make you end up with the same problem we're having no having a place with insufficient space. So you decide to keep it as it is you re calculate and you find that you can actually take a loan from the bank alone off five years and with proper saving, you can cover up that loan in three years. Considering that he will have an overall budget off $200,000. So you negotiate with the bidders, you end up with $110,000 from the main contractor and 90,000 remain for you to do the client selections. Construction starts. Everything is fine. Your point. Ah, poor tractor. To do the specialized air conditioning works, the contractor is on board trying to instill the A C ducks. But we have structural beams conflicting with the location of the ducks incidents. Other was shown in the photo here, so if you will pass the ducks below the structural beams, you will end up with the clearest of 2.2 meters only that's one option. Another option will be toe cut through the beams. However, that option will have additional cost. You will do some concrete cutting. You might even need to strengthen some parts of the structure just to pass the ducks on that level and get better cleaners. So will you pay some additional amount, or will you live with a 2.2 meters? Clears 2.2 is very low. What good is a project if you have receding right above your head so you decide to pay for it. It's only $2000. It's nothing comparing to the overall product budget. It's worth it. You go for it. Constructions proceeds. Everything is fine. Attempted finishing works stuck. You have already appointed a tie supplier getting the ties from abroad. However, the delivery to site is delayed due to be covered. 19. Pandemic You have no idea when the material is going to come At site. There are some local suppliers with the same material. However, they are 30% higher in price. You get a letter from the contractor a warning letter saying that if the time material is not delivered outside, the project will be delayed and delay of the project will have some, uh, penalties or damages by the contractor that you will need to pay to compensate him. If you want to go on select different styles, so you leave the material order. Start a new selection. You would have a variation pay to the interior designer. Since you've already selected the ties, the designs and textures colors are all selected by the interior designer. Doing all of the three design works will have against a cost implication from the designer . So you study all the options on the best option is go for the local materially. Do not know when they look locked down is going to end. When are you going to get the material? So you terminate that contract and get the material from the local suppliers. This is a big one. You end up paying 6000 additional doors. There are always surprises and construction projects. Problems go on on on things which are not expected. You keep paying and being fears off. Settling the duct start arising your daily life expenses increasing account of the new baby . The future really seems unknown. The project have already started. You were taking the loan and there is no turning back at this point. If you believe the scenarios to dramatic, please ask anyone who just completed our construction project and listen to their stories at this stage, you as a client, how much interest will you have in pew architectural or aesthetic elements in your building ? Will you really cost? Consider paying for marble ties, for example, which are at least double the price of ceramic types just because it looks better or serve the theme off the building better? That's it for this isn't and see you the next system 6. Material and Design Compromise: Welcome to this and six hero look at material and design. Compromise is very expected from the tonight If he's under certain pressures, whether in time, cost or any other issues to have some material and design compromise, the client might tend to save on the budget of the project. Or maybe we'll look for easier solutions. Or maybe look for faster solutions, depending on the pressures the client is facing. As an architect, you have a very, very important role to play here. You need to be an embarrassing position. If the client decides to have any material design, compromise and matters which were really harm, they use off the building. For example, having clears off 2.2 meters, only you as an architect need to convince the client that this come from my such a compromise should not be made. The tonight may not fully understand what it feels to be in a big to me 2.2 meters clears or how it feels to be in such a tight location. Use an architect, you understand that well, so you should convince declined that such a decision should not be made. Material and design compromise should not be made for invalid reasons or by approaches, which will harm the use of the building Significantly. However, you should also understand the motives off the client. If the night is phasing issues with the budget or with the time or any other pressures, you should understand that going to the approach of having some compromising material and design elements is something expected. And whenever it is justified, you as an architect will need to support the client and decision and help find better alternatives for material or designs to make the knife off the client easier, make the project go to success much easier. That's it for this visit and see you the next loose. 7. Fragile Lines of Trust: welcome to lessen. Seven here will talk about the fragile, nice off trust so we can have some ego in this situation Off already mentioned in the previous listen where we have the client feeling like he all the project. He has the right to do anything in the project. And on the other hand, we have the architect feeling the right to do the building as he imagines, or us why, with a client hired architect, it is an architect professional obligation to make sure the building is done as much as close to the proposed design. So here we may have some conflict appearing between those two perspectives. As an architect, you have a very important role to play here as well. What were the client do? If he finds constant rejection from the architect, the client might simply take the easier way. Get it done without the architect. The impacts off this on a project may be catastrophic. The client being unexperienced in many cases of construction projects may take decisions which were really harm the use off the building. It may go completely against everything the architect intended for when designing the project, and this is a shame for the project. So as an architect you need to know that the lines off trust are very fragile. In such cases, the client being under pressures of time, cost or any other issues, may tend to look for the easier solution if constant rejection is fund from the architect. So what do you need to do as an architect? You need to maintain the trust of the client. Do not lose the trust of the kind. This is very important. Try to be cooperated, even if you personally do not agree with some decision of the client. Try to think in place of the connect. Try to think from a project manager perspective, keeping my TC and Q objectives and think how you can drive the project into success by achieving as much as you can off those objectives. So always keep in mind. The lives of trust in such cases may be very fragile. Your role as an architect is to try and maintain those lines as much as possible. That's it for this lesson and see you the next lesson 8. Narrowing the Gap: work after this in 80. Really look at how we can narrow the gap. I'll give you hear some tips and hints that you, an architect as an architect, can follow to try and reduce the gap between you and the project management or supervision team. First off, all design substrates always keep in mind of territories for design elements you believe are closely, all not easily applicable. As an architect, when you design a project, you can definitely identify which elements may be challenging in the execution face. You should, of course, have a special element in every building. I mean, every design U N as an architect do is a masterpiece. You make, however, keep in mind some design soft years. As I mentioned earlier, we may have some material and design compromise proposed by the client or the project management team. So always keep in mind alternative for design elements that you believe are challenging. Next is understanding other disciplines as an architect, the more you understand about the structural and M e p disciplines, the more it reflects only on your designs being practical structure and it MPP engineer do not necessarily understand need to understand everything. You as an architect, having might they only have to do their design, supporting your design and not harming it, but you as an architect. The more you understand about their disciplines, the more it reflects on your job as you are the one defining the project. You, when you're placing the initial project, design the initial plans. For example, if you accommodate spaces for the structural engineer to fit in his columns or you accommodate places for wiring and Piper provision, the more you understand the requirements of the disciplines and you consider them in your design, the more practical your designs will be, and the easier will be in the execution face next to the snowball effect. Keep in mind that your drawings are like the Project Bible. A single line you draw as an architect will be taken to the social and designer would have an implication there will be taken to the mechanical design will have an implication there , electric it and so one. So a single line you draw will have a snowball effect, adding up to be a huge issue that site. So, as I mentioned earlier, the more you understand about those disciplines, the more you can foresee what the snowball effect your drawings will have on the entire process. Next is a building material market, the more you know about what are the materials available in the market? What are the car's design options? Alternatives. The more it reflects on your design again being practical so you will not have proposal in your growing off materials that are not available in the market. And then the client will have a problem with and will end up compromising in the design. The more you know about what is available in the market, the better it is. And just as you need to know the material options and alternatives, you also need to know the costs, the budget of those materials. So if you know what are the unit rates off different material markets, what are the costs involved with construction project? It will give you a better understanding off the client motives. Your designs will be more considering the client t sick you objectives. That's it for this lesson and seeing the next lesson 9. Class Project and Conclusion: work up the lesson nine. Here look like the class Project on the conclusion for the class project filling the chart shown in the next slide. Do your understanding list down the project Objectives Relations Architects works on methods of improvement. So, looking at the chart first, we had the project objectives. Main objective, our time course quality. We can have many other objectives such as prestige, environment and support. Relation to architects works time is related to the material building elements. Cost is related to material specification and design features. Quality is related to the comfort and practicality off the design. Use of the building usage procedure Objectives are related to availability of spacious areas of proper gets reception. For example, on environmental objectives are related to the availability of natural lighting, care for equality and so one. So what are the methods off improvement? What are the method you as an architect can follow to improve the support for those objectives? Looking at time objective, you can attend side visits. You can observe the actual execution of science activities to understand how time goes for different activities. Four. Course objectives. You can review the market prices. Visit Charles check the unit rates for quality objectives you can follow high standards. Conduct is only exercises to make sure that the areas the effective areas you are designing within a building arm or than the common area which cannot be used for focused activities. The prestige objectives can be improved. Why applying high and luxury design elements, for example on environmental objectives can be improved by studying and applying requirements off lead certificate. In conclusion, I can say that the fast pace projects and methods are developing in demands that we are constantly improving. Architects are the back bone off consortium process, and this role carries a very heavy burden to manage the project and take it, drive it into success. We must have positive relations between the port architect and the supervision or management on both personal and technical levels. The all architects who have attended the skin as I can see continue being the superheroes we know you are, thank you very much. And I look forward to hear your feedback about the class