LIST ALL THE QUALIFICATIONS OF AN ARCHITECT AS PROJECT MANAGER

Must be a degree holder of Bachelor of Science in Architecture

Must undergone 2-years diversified training

Must be a licensed Architect

Time Management Skills

- Able to allocate time to the project management tasks which will vary by project size, complexity, and phase.

Design and Construction Experience

- Understand the overall design and construction process, preferably form past facilities project management experience.

- Review design and construction documents

- Evaluate value engineering options and make recommendations

- Understand the furniture/fixture/equipment design and procurement processes and provide coordination with the
construction process

Project Budget Skills

- Understand how to develop q project budget

- Monitor expenses to the project budget

- Prepare Budgeted to Actual expense reports

- Review, approve and process

Project Schedule Skills

- Understand the time needed for aspects of the design and construction processes

- Understand a project schedule in graphic format

- Review and provide input for the project schedule

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Communication Skills

- Lead the internal design review process with department users and campus representatives

- Document review comments writing

- Prepare monthly reports on the projects status and quarterly reports to the Board of Trustees as needed

- Maintain the project document filing system, receive and distribute all income correspondence and process all outgoing
correspondence.

Negotiation Skills

- Negotiate contracts with A/E team, OR, and specialty consultants

- Manage the owner required decisions throughout the project

DISCUSS THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF AN ARCHITECT AS A PROJECT MANAGER.

Basic Functions

In the Team Concept of construction, the Project Manager (individual or firm) operates as a member of an Owner-
Architect-Engineer-Contractor Team.

In the Team Approach, each member of the team will have precedence and exercise leadership in his own sphere of
operations or expertise.

In accordance with this principle, the Architect and the Engineer-Consultants will have prime responsibility for the design
of the project.

The Project Managers role is to plan, program and monitor the various activities, and act as an adviser on material costs
and construction methods. His primary responsibility, therefore, is the exercise of overall cost control. It relieves the
Owner of many of the anxieties that usually beset him, particularly those concerned with forecasting costs and completion
dates.

Detailed Functions

In Pre-Construction Phase, as early as practicable during design development, perhaps, concurrently with the Architects
commission, the Project Manager should enter regular consultation with Architects and Engineers (AE) and with the
Owner on all aspects of planning for the project.

Project Manager will advise the Architect-Engineer and the Owner whenever the refined estimates shows the probability
of exceeding the budget allocation, or whenever the construction time required for a given system is likely to prolong or
delay completion schedule.

As schedule criteria of design and construction emerge, the Project Manager may, with the cooperation of the Architect-
Engineer, work some of the design operations in to an overall CPM or other network scheduling operation.

Review all contract documents to be sure that someone is responsible for general requirements on the site and for
temporary facilities to house the management and commerce. The project manager should ascertain that specifications
for such headquarters and furnishings are adequate to the operation.
Construction Phase

The Project Manager reviews all bids for compliance with stipulated conditions. He also makes recommendations for
awards and may, with the concurrence of the Architects, Engineers and Owner enter into the pre-qualifying and actual
awarding process.

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If the client decides to go ahead with a project, PM does the planning of the operation regarding quality, time and cost,
previewing the cash flow and margin of benefits. If there are different options they possess to be considered individually.

Once approved by the client, PM evaluates the feasibility of a project or different projects, selects and handles the
contracts of the various professionals who will carry out the work: architects, engineers, contractor etc.

PM co-ordinates the development of the project and establishes the mark of quality, time and cost that have to be followed
according to the instructions received from the client.

When PM receives a proposal for a plot of land, he/she needs to analyze it from diverse points of view, such as urban
planning issues; Financial, Legal, Political, Technical & Economical issues; in order to inform the client if it is suitable for
the purpose of the operation. Architect as a PM
The PM also co-ordinates the building approval process with the City Administrations.

Manages the contracts and follows the development of works both at a technical level and at coordination level where he
deals with all project partners (architects, engineers, suppliers etc.).

Follows the development of the previewed planning, implementing the corrective actions that should be needed, this could
include the change of people or teams involved if they are not working properly.

Handles all the modifications that could be brought out during execution phase - ensuring that the goals of time, cost and
quality established by the client are achieved.

Manages the closing of the project, including the elimination of all the contracts and the licenses for the correct operation
of the facility.