Types of client related roles for construction projects
The CIOB Code of practice for project management (4th edition), defines a client as the 'Entity, individual or organisation commissioning and funding the project, directly or indirectly.' The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM) provides specific definitions of clients, whilst the Building Safety Act and regulations name the client as a duty holder, under the Building Regulations, a ‘client’ is ‘any person for whom a project is carried out’, a ‘domestic client’, means ‘a client for whom a project is carried out which is not in the course or furtherance of a business of that client.’
Clients are rarely single people acting alone, even on relatively small projects there are likely to be other interested parties, as the number of interested parties grows, different roles and specifications are used to describe their relationship with a project. Below is a list of some client related terms and roles that might be found in relation to a project:
- Academic Institution.
- Asset Manager.
- Authority.
- Buyer.
- Board of directors.
- Board of representatives.
- Board representative.
- Champions for construction clients.
- Charity.
- Client design advisor.
- Client models.
- Client team
- Client's representative.
- Co-operative.
- Company.
- Customer.
- Developer.
- Domestic client.
- Duty holder.
- Employer.
- End-user.
- Government authority.
- Heads of department.
- Housing Association.
- Independent client advisers.
- Integrated project team.
- Intelligent client.
- Investment Decision Maker (IDM),
- Local Authority.
- Main board of directors
- Non-Governmental Organisation.
- Non-profit.
- Owner.
- Principal.
- Project board,
- Project director.
- Project manager.
- Project Sponsor (PS).
- Promoter.
- Purchaser.
- Residents' Association.
- Senior Responsible Owner (SRO)
- Sponsor.
- Stakeholders.
- Tenant.
- Tenant management organisation (TMO).
- User.
- User panels.
- Users.
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