Who do you need to make your Development happen?

No Property Development can be done by one Individual person, you need a Team! Do you know who you must recruit and why you can’t succeed without them? we’ll answer a who is needed and what each brings to the development to ensure you maximise opportunities, profit and complete your development in the shortest time frame.

We’ll explain who is needed in sequence. Then, we’ll clarify what each does and how they can help the project. After that, we’ll compare what a good team looks like versus a bad or incomplete one. Finally, we’ll analyse a project we worked on in a good team so it all makes sense.

Whether you are just starting out or are a seasoned developer, you have to consider a lot of things for a development.

The initial step is obviously to find a building or land opportunity, but how do you know what to find, and if what you did find has potential and future value?

This is where the Architect is invaluable.

The Architect through their many years of training and, hopefully, experience will have become a jack of all trades.

They should be able to initially look at your prospective site and suggest feasible options.

These could be analysed with you to achieve more specific potential projects.

With the help of other consultants (see below) they could lead until you gain plannning and then prepare detailed designs that could be costed and eventually built.

Even on site the Architect will act as the lawmaker and ensure that the project is built to the legislation and standards set until the project is handed back to you.

In essence the Architect could be seen as your most important partner who truly supports you throughout the entire lifetime of the project.

Architects should know exactly what is possible to get for any given plot, right?

Wrong, unfortunately.

Generally no one can know with certainty what would be allowed on a site, and locally experienced or specialised type Architects will know a lot.

However, Architects are not trained in Planning legislation. In universities Architects spend a considerable amount of time training on design but little on conforming to Masterplans and frameworks set by national and local government.

Planners on the other hand are specialists in this and would work with an Architect consulting on the likely possibilities.

The incredible thing is nothing in Planning is ever truly a final No. There are many opportunities for appeals and redesigns but since they are costly in time and money, the ideal approach is to recruit a planner who is locally experienced with the type of project you wish to gain.

Historically the Architect acted as a form of project manager and certainly Contract Administrator when a project reaches site and is getting built.

However, whilst this still holds true for home projects, for more development based projects the baton has somewhat passed to the Project Manager.

A Developer during the construction phase has a great need for understanding and experience of costs and contractual matters.

For this reason Quantity Surveyors are an important professional for the Developer. They understand deeply the sequences of different construction activities and can relatively predict costs based on moving labour supply market.

When costs change or other aspects of a project such as programme and a multitude of other matters, they can mediate or enact parts of a contract to both help the Developer and the project reach their goals.

Historically the Architect acted as a form of project manager and certainly Contract Administrator when a project reaches site and is getting built.

However, whilst this still holds true for home projects, for more development based projects the baton has somewhat passed to the Project Manager.

A Developer during the construction phase has a great need for understanding and experience of costs and contractual matters.

For this reason Quantity Surveyors are an important professional for the Developer. They understand deeply the sequences of different construction activities and can relatively predict costs based on moving labour supply market.

When costs change or other aspects of a project such as programme and a multitude of other matters, they can mediate or enact parts of a contract to both help the Developer and the project reach their goals.

Historically the Architect acted as a form of project manager and certainly Contract Administrator when a project reaches site and is getting built.

However, whilst this still holds true for home projects, for more development based projects the baton has somewhat passed to the Project Manager.

A Developer during the construction phase has a great need for understanding and experience of costs and contractual matters.

For this reason Quantity Surveyors are an important professional for the Developer. They understand deeply the sequences of different construction activities and can relatively predict costs based on moving labour supply market.

When costs change or other aspects of a project such as programme and a multitude of other matters, they can mediate or enact parts of a contract to both help the Developer and the project reach their goals.

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