THE CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANT

Design consultants, in particular, can play a valuable role in the project initiation stage. Most clients will require advisers who know about built solutions( Love and Smith,2001) .It explains that in the construction industry clients need consultants in the very beginning of the project. To initiate a construction project a superior level of technical knowledge and expertise is required which a client is not possess by his own.

According to Love and Smith (2001) creative and innovative solutions are expected from client analysts, advisers and consultants, from within and outside the construction industry. Previous research conducted by the authors in several client organizations at the project initiation (pre-design) stage indicates that a building is not necessarily the only, or best, solution (Smith and Jackson, 1998). Here these authors argue that without having any feasibility studies doing the construction project at once can make so many quandaries to the organization.

Clients were led by their design team and were not encouraged to become involved to a significant degree in the decision-making processes of design and construction. (Love and smith, 2001).It explains that the responsibility of the project is entirely in the consultant’s hand. Further Bogers et al (2008) argue that the contributions from the more formally constituted design teams charged with the responsibility of delivering the project are crucial to the success of a project. Therefore the role of the consultant is extremely significant for a victorious construction project.