ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the built environment (BE) projects involve the same types of participants, which include businesses, organizations, and individuals. It describes different ways to classify project participants, as well as some of the more common roles present on BE projects. A relationship between the organizations and individuals exists and is easy to capture by considering that organizations employ individuals, including construction project engineers. Some project owners build facilities for their own use. Therefore, they will not only retain ownership at completion, but they will also be end users of the facility. Most projects are designed with the support of design firms that will devise a facility to meet the end user's needs and the owner's time and cost constraints. A design firm employs—or temporarily secures through consulting—individuals, including licensed designers in the specialty discipline the design firm operates in.
