The general (main) contractor turns the design into a building: plans the work, buys it in packages, manages the site and the subcontractors, and carries the risk of building it on time and on price. Their teams use the model differently from designers.
The general contractor (main contractor) is responsible for building the project: it plans the work, buys it in packages from subcontractors, runs the site, manages health and safety, and carries the risk of delivering on time and on price. For a coordinator, the contractor's needs are practical: what's approved, what's in each package, and what's coming next week.
A school's packages are: groundworks, steel frame, roofing, curtain wall, MEP, drylining and ceilings. List three interfaces between packages where scope gaps often happen, and how the model can help.
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