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Topic Overview
Your Mission
What is Construction ?
Construction
a method that consists of building or assembling infrastructure.
What does it need ?
Activity
Write an example of a construction project that appeals to you on a post-it note.
When you’re done, stick it on the class whiteboard.
We will return to this activity at the end of this topic.
The Types of Construction
Single-Family Homes: garage, porch, outbuilding, etc
Multiple-Family Building: dorm, apartment, nursing home, etc
The Types of Construction
2.Commercial/Institutional
Commercial: warehouses, malls, etc
Institutions: school, hospitals, etc
The Types of Construction
3. Specialized Industrial Construction
Oil refineries, chemical plants, etc
Road, bridges, etc
4. Infrastructures
Constructing Buildings
Multiple-Family Dwelling/ Institution/Commercial building
Single-Family Houses
Residential, commercial, institutional construction involve:
Stakeholders: Company, Private owners, Governments
Specialized Construction
Infrastructures
Building structures that require a high level of specialization and technical skills.
Stakeholders: companies
Building and upgrading roads and railways to the surroundings of a city or existing building
Stakeholders: government, large companies
Plan/design: mostly engineers
Project executor: contractors
Knowledge Check Activity
Name four types of construction
Commercial & Institutional Construction
Residential Construction
Infrastructure & Heavy Construction
Specialized Construction
Your instructor is going to read each post-it note from the whiteboard. Identify the category of each project.
Five Phases of a Construction Project
CONSTRUCTION
PRE-CONSTRUCTION
POST- CONSTRUCTION
Initiation
Procurement
Construction
Post-
Construction
& Evaluation
Pre-
construction
PHASE I:
INITIATION
PHASE II:
PRE-CONSTRUCTION
PHASE III: PROCUREMENT
PHASE IV:
CONSTRUCTION
PHASE V:
EVALUATION/POST-CONSTRUCTION
Knowledge Check Time
Name the 5 phases of a construction project.
Buying construction materials
Installing electricity
Returning Equipments
Feasibility study
Budgeting
Renting Tools
Obtaining various permits
Quality Control
Schematic design
In which phase does the following event happen ?
Who are involved in a construction project?
These people need to collaborate.
Workers
Surveyors, Legal Team, Safety Team, Investors, ….
Engineers
Architects
Accountants
Activity
In 1 minute, write as many benefits of teamwork as you can.
Break the class into 4 groups.
Find the one in your group who listed the most benefits. Their lists are designated to be the group’s main list.
Read out loud the items in the group’s main list. Using that list as a guide, cross out similar answers from your own list.
Add the dissimilar (uncrossed) answers from the group members to the main list.
Activity
Re-do this activity as a class , starting with finding which group listed the most benefits.
THE END PRODUCT: A CLASS LIST
Benefits of Teamwork
Compare these with the class list. Is there anything else to add ?
The Types of Constructions
The Five Phases of a Construction Project.
TEAMWORK IS IMPORTANT