Construction Management 3014 Virginia Tech Exam 1 Questions with correct Answers

construction industry vs. manufacturing - ANSWER-manufacturing produces products and then sells. construction starts with a customer need and the product is built to fill the need. sectors of construction industry (4) - ANSWER-infrastructure, commercial, residential, industrial main players in construction project (3) - ANSWER-owner, designer, constructor stages of construction lifecycle - ANSWER-1)need 2)programming 3)schematic design 4)detailed design 5)construction documents 6)bid 7)construction 8)operation & maintenance 9)decommission design bid build/DBB/traditional - ANSWER-designer sought through qualifications based selection. after design is completed, bids from constructors are sought-"lowest responsive and responsible bidder" DBB cons - ANSWER-low quality from constructors and material suppliers, sometimes constructors use change-orders to drive up cost after receiving the low bid two-step procurement (variant of DBB) - ANSWER-pool of pre-qualified contractors, bid accepted from pool, award to lowest bidder