Construction Commonalities

After visiting the construction sites of the new basketball facility and the new resident hall dorm this past Tuesday and having to find site similarities and differences I feel like there could be a universal truth to all types of construction sites.

First of all it should be known that both of these projects were in nearly the same stages of completion, meaning both jobs were using the same type of machinery and working on the same types of tasks.

All construction projects have universal similarities in that they all need certain equipment and types of trades workers. They all need a level of management both present and not present at the job site. However, the reason all job sites do not appear to be identical to those of similar projects lies behind the differences of how such universal tasks are carried out.
For example, Whiting Turner and their crew kept their job site in a much more organized appearance, while the dorm site seemed to be very clustered and chaotic which is big factor of slow production and job site accidents. Whiting Turner also had an on site project manager and from what I could tell there was not one present at the dorm site which could cause some organization issues.