Identify the resources required to construct the detached brick garage referred to in drawing No. YB/01/1 and the management techniques employed to control those resources.

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Identify the resources required to construct the detached brick garage referred to in drawing No. YB/01/1 and the management techniques employed to control those resources.

On referring to the drawing no. YB/01/1, we see that a small detached garage of brick construction is required on plot 4.

Before any work can begin on the construction of the garage, an inventory of the materials and plant required to complete the job must be made.  This is the responsibility of the Site Director.

First, referring to a schedule of work, the Director must decide how many men he must put on the particular job in order for it to be completed in the allotted time.

The Site Director may well have a Personnel Manager working for him, particularly if the project is a large one and it is anticipated that a large workforce will be required.

It is the responsibility of the Personnel Manager to employ a suitable workforce.  He must endeavour to recruit people who will be worth the money they are going to be paid.  Many large building companies have shareholders’ interests to consider and productivity and profits will be an important factor for all of the management team to consider.

It is important that care is taken to employ the right number of staff for the particular job in hand; if too many people are on site, wages will be expended needlessly and there will be a lot of people being paid to “swing the lead”.  On the other hand, if not enough people are employed for a given project, then deadlines and productivity targets may not be met.  A lack of manpower on site would also be bad for the morale of the workforce, who may feel that too much is being asked from them.  This too could ultimately result in staff taking a poor attitude to their work.

 If, in our example, other work around the site has all been completed on schedule and work on the garage on plot 4 is begun on time, then, provided that the meteorological conditions are good and no problems are anticipated, the Director may decide that the garage requires a gang of 2 bricklayers plus a labourer and 2 joiners for the work to be completed according to schedule.

Once manpower requirements have been settled, somebody must decide on what materials should be allotted and in what quantity.  The Site Director could do this himself but he is more likely to delegate the task to one of his managers.  The job would probably fall to an Estimator.  It is this person’s job to decide what materials and resources are required for each specific phase of a building project.  On a very large job, there may well be a Senior Estimator or an Estimations Director, who may delegate the task again to an Estimator working under himself.

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Once it has been decided what materials are going to be required and the amounts thereof, a Buyer may then be tasked with sourcing the required materials for the best price, although in effect, the materials will more likely be requisitioned from the site stores.  This must be recorded in a site log so that the materials can be accounted for at a later date and also so they can be replaced as they are used up.

Wastage.   It is inevitable that there will be a percentage of materials that are wasted before they can be used.  Estimators ...

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