Explain The Roles And Responsibilities Of All Parties Involved In The Planning And Design Phases

Task 4(a)

Explain the roles and responsibilities of all parties involved in the planning and design phases.

Projects to design and construct buildings can involve large numbers of people, and on major projects many thousands of people. The structure and composition of the project team tends to change through the duration of the project; some team members might only have a very brief involvement, brining specialist knowledge or supplying specialist components during a particular phase, whilst others, such as client sponsors, project managers or lead consultants may be involved for many years.

Structure

It is crucial that project teams are structured properly from the outset, and that team members are selected carefully to give the project the

The increasing adoption of building information modelling is likely to accelerate this trend.

Integrate project team

On publicly-funded projects, the government favours the creation of an ‘integrated project team’ where a system of collaborative working is adopted between all of those involved in the delivery of the project.

The integrated project team is a particularly important concept for public projects as the recommended procurement routes (set out in the Government Construction Strategy) are private finance initiative (PFI), prime contracting and design and build. Under these routes, a single, integrated supply team (including designers, contractors, specialist suppliers and facilities managers) is appointed, responsible for delivering (and sometimes, financing and operating) the entire project. The Government recommendation is that this appointment is made after the preparation of the brief (or output-based specification), before any design work has been