Construction field is a hazardous work place though the construction industry is one of the leading industries of the world
About Construction
Construction is the process where a building or infrastructure is constructed; it is actually different from manufacturing process. Manufacturing works in group production of comparable items without a nominated purchaser, where construction takes place on a location for a known client. Big types of construction need association within multiple disciplines. An architect’s just manages the job where the job was supervised by a construction manager, design engineer, construction or project manager. They should have more knowledge in the design with other knowledge like environment impact on the project, scheduling, budgeting, construction-site-safety, availability and transportation of various building materials, coordination, problems occurred to public due to the delayed project and working.
Types of Construction
Generally there are three parts of construction; they are buildings, infrastructure and industrial. Building construction is also divided into two: residential and non-residential. Infrastructure is generally known as heavy civil or heavy engineering which works on big public projects like dams, bridges, highways, railways, water or wastewater and service distribution. And the last one includes refineries, process chemical, power generation, mills and manufacturing different plants.
Building construction is a process that adds structure to the construction of buildings and most of the building construction jobs are of small renewals like renovation of a room or bathroom or other rooms. Generally the owner of the property acts as laborer, paymaster and design team in the whole project. Building construction projects have common elements like design, financial, estimating and legal discussions etc and many more.
About Construction Management
In the other hand, Construction industry is the second largest industry in the United States which holds around 8% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product or GDP. Naturally the construction industry constructs the important buildings and infrastructures for people.
Construction industry has improved from its previous views and works not it is not –
- Simple and straightforward
- Boring
- Unrewarding
- Routine and dull etc.
It has come with new structures and become
- Diverse and interesting
- Fast-paced
- Challenging
- Advantageous
It has now become an interesting field with full of challenges and excitement, also has more career options. There is a good salary structure for the professional construction managers and also gets increment and higher positions here. The demand of professional construction managers are increasing day by day and have excellent employment opportunities as the number of job openings are also growing. Construction managers must have the knowledge about the project, environment, work process, labors, legal authorities etc and have the ability to deal with all kind of problems.