Discussing how growth of architectural practice might affect business functions. While the architectural practice grows from strength to strength there will be an influx in demand on the operations within the business, time scale will have to be carefully managed and resources will be at full capacity. Management is about getting things done and workloads will be stretched so meetings with the client become more crucial no business wants to turn down clients but you may have to consider certain alternatives. Carefully decide on the factors when taking on a lot of work and, make corporate objectives when work levels increase and the no of projects gets greater. You will be managing bigger amounts of money and greater budgets .Security issues will be on more sites .Demands of workers will also be stretched Workers may have to be working on a time scale which means there working on different sites and involved on more than one project. Space for workers onsite needs planning to get work teams working alongside each other and Man hours can get pushed to complete. Start to look at decision making and putting controls on money, men, machines and materials. Waste management on different sites will increasingly be an issue. Forecasting the work load and timescale is also very crucial. Demand on workers may mean bringing in other contractors as an option or recruiting more workers delegating time to contractors and spreading costs and workloads, looking at slotting in work slots whilst discussing how to carry out and complete operations and arrangements of where and when work is carried out . Look and consider alternatives to site access for materials and, machinery for a time scale. Using locally sourced materials provides less problems for contractors. Produce objectives and focus on the requirements of the team. The team is everyone involved and need to be motivated and communication has to be constant down through the whole chain of command. After the planning and general direction is found. Formal aspects because of legislation have to be looked at when employing more workers and how to efficiently schedule the arrival of materials and machinery and workers to fill deadlines. Weather becomes a factor so forecasting is the prerogative for time scale management and you do not want to overrun deliveries are scheduled and are the stages of completion of tasks and have to be completed and ready in time . Setbacks in the construction causes the main worry when juggling more than one project. When the motivation is high mistakes are less likely to happen that could put you backwards in the process of always moving forward with an increased work load. The pressure is also on the architects to check the measurements and to get in on site to discuss the written and drawn details. The controls on health and safety on busy work sites are even more crucial when work load increase it imposes greater risks. Planning for costs will change more frequently and needs the involvement of the client and project managers to discuss problems and action to take cash flow and marketing require constant due attention. All teams will be required to provide a lot of feedback that will need to be discussed with client and on site with the workers, contractors and management teams. Skype can be used as a tool for communication for the running projects quickly and efficiently. Time is cost, and quality is performance both are parts that are crucial. The risks are in changes to the schedule, contracts, detailed measurements, so action to make changes
when necessary will mean acting quickly and thinking projects through to scheduled completion. Research, methodology, estimating and different ways of working are the knowledge and skills required in running an efficient professional company and dictate how much work is manageable and the resources required in the management of a growing businesses but communication, motivation, and organisational skills is essential. Increased work if managed efficiently means a bigger cash flow. Dynamic input from the team produces increased development and professional management skill and involvement. As the business grows you can think about getting consultancies to provide a database so information can be easily accessed and managed.