Professional Documents
Culture Documents
To enable students to develop an understanding of the building team, its organization, their duties,
responsibilities and the inter-relationship within which they will seek employment, career progression or
further study.
To develop an awareness of their professional responsibilities and to appreciate their profession in the
construction industry.
To assess the students understanding on the general construction process from the sketch plan to
completion of a building and introduce the scope of work handled by the players involved.
Learning Outcomes
Explain and illustrate structures of organizations and the team involved in the construction industry.
Explain the roles and responsibilities of the entities touching briefly the legal and contractual procedures
and impact.
Ability to document their observations and understanding from interview session and research resources
as well as to communicate in a systematic and convincing booklet.
Tasks
PART I : INTERVIEW
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In a group of 5 members, you are required to interview one of the professions from the following
list. The profession will be randomly assigned to you.
You are then required to select a firm or company in which the profession assigned to you work in.
Set up an interview with him/her.
In the interview session, you are required to find out
o the company profile (history, company structure and any relevant information)
o the profile/background of your interviewee in construction industry (his working
experience, projects he involved in, and any other relevant information)
o two (2) projects in which your profession involved
o his/her roles and responsibilities in that particular projects
o other relevant information
You are advised to plan and think of the questions and structure of the interview properly to avoid
second appointment with your interviewee.
You are also required to record the interview session as a part and parcel of the submission
component in this assignment.
Profession (ICI)
Architect
Interior Architect/Interior Designer
Quantity Surveyor
Landscape Architect
Civil and Structural Engineer
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer
The questions you ask during the interview shall gain further detail information about the
process and procedure the key player has to carry out in order to complete a project according
to the client needs.
PART 2 : MAGAZINE
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From the information gathered through the interview in Part I, your next task is to create a
magazine that would demonstrate your understanding in Part I.
The magazine should include the following components :
o Company profile
o Profile of the interviewee
o Introduction of the project(s) that your interviewee work in
o Detailed description and explanation of his/her roles and responsibilities in that particular
project(s)
You may refer to their current company profile (if any), however you are required to express the
information with your own words and style. Should plagiarism is found, penalty will be applied.
You can either feature ONE or TWO projects that your interviewee involved in. No. of project to be
featured is dependent on the scale of the project. The project however is not necessarily a
completed project.
Submission Requirement
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CD which includes the video recording of the interview and softcopy of your magazine in PDF format
An A5 sized, colored and printed magazine
The magazine should be 8 12 pages
Submission date : 14th. October 2014
Participation
Leadership
Communication
Cooperation
Time
Management
TOTAL
(Out of 25)
RANK
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5
Participation
Leadership
Communication
Cooperation
Time
Management
List down some of the main tasks that had been assigned to you for this assignment and briefly describe your performance:
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You may also list any other contributions that you feel you have made for your team:
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Briefly comment on the contributions of other group member, particularly those you feel contributed more or less than expected:
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Students Signature :
Date:
Students Name :
Student ID: