Areas in Construction Industry

• areas

  1. building construction
  2. industrial construction
  3. heavy engineering construction
• areas: examples

  1. building construction

  • institutional:
  • commercial offices
  • schools
  • government bldgs
  • malls
  • hotels
  • hospitals
  • recreation centers
  • warehouses
  • residential:
  • condominiums
  • houses
  • townhouses
  • apartments

  1. industrial construction

  • petroleum refineries
  • petrochemical plants
  • synthetic fuel plants
  • nuclear power plants
  • steel mills
  • manufacturing plants

  1. heavy engineering construction

  • dams
  • tunnels
  • bridges
  • highways
  • airports
  • pipelines
  • ports
• areas: characteristics

  1. building construction

  • institutional:
  • greater cost and sophistication than residential
  • projects are limited to few contractors
  • residential:
  • highly competitive
  • high risk and high reward
  • contractors can be informal

  1. industrial construction

  • large scale with high degree of technological complexity
  • capital intensive and long construction periods

  1. heavy engineering construction

  • large scale with high degree of mechanisation
  • long construction periods