Who should handle or supervise your project? Architect, Builder civil or Structural Engineer
here is always confusion in choosing who to handle or supervise a project especially for a newbie property developer.
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Questions
have been raised severally on who should handle individual projects;
however building types will determine who you should use as an arrowhead
onsite.
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The
larger your project, the more the numbers of professionals and
technical people you are expected to have on your building site.
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For
smaller projects like 2 bedroom bungalow any of these professionals are
okay for it, there is no need to have more than one professional on
site for small projects.
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A
young architect, builder or structural/civil engineer can on their own
supervise any bungalow with little or no supervision. But when it is a
story building especially a multistory building or duplex, then you need
the input of the architect not only as the designer but also on site as
the overall.
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Supervisory officer, in some cases they may supervise on secondary role basis.
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The
builder is trained to execute every line of command represented on
sheets of paper by the other building professionals; therefore a builder
is more at home on a building site more than any other professionals,
because that is his major occupation. He can enter the roughest parts of
site and see to it that job is done properly and he likes to be
physically involves most time.
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An
architect has very strong ability to detect an error, he is trained to
be a perennial critic, he sees the building as his baby and ready to
protect the baby jealously, the pride of an architect is to see his
design come out well executed and beautiful.
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Now
take the architect as the mother of the child (the building), the
builder as the nanny. The nanny does all the dirty works, work hardest
and may be closer to the baby than the mother. But the mother happens to
be the one that conceived and bore the child, so she is more protective
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