A
Associated website - web addresses to your profession where you have had a contributing factor.
ASTA – IT Project software for programming sites
B
BM - Build Manager
Brick & Block = Traditional method
Brownfield – Previously developed land
Buyer- Materials Buyer
C
Career Aspirations- educating the reader what it is you looking for at this current time
CD- Construction director
CM – Contracts manager, same as build manager and construction manager
COINS – IT solution for Construction industry
Contaminate site – Risks / hazards in the ground
Core Skills – Primary skills e.g. land buyers identifying land off market
CV overview – One paragraph educating the reader “who you are” and what you’re capable of delivering.
D
Development manager – Responsible for the company’s future expansion.
Due diligence – collating all information required to arrive at an option price
E
F
FD- Finance Director
Field sales - sells units on single site
FFM- Finishing foreman
Floating floor - A Floating-floor is a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the sub-floor
FM – Finance Manager
Foot fall – numbers of people visiting a show house
G
Greenfield –land which has not been previously developed
H
High rise – de-fined as a building over 75ft (23m) tall
I
J
K
L
LB – Land buyer
LD- Land Director
LM – land manager
M
MD – Managing Director
Meet & Greet – sales person who shows potential customer over a show house
Development Manager
Mixed- use – A mixture of end user
MMC – Modern Methods of construction
N
NHBC - National Housebuilders Council - 10 years buildmark warranty
NHBC awards – include 'Pride in the Job’ & Pride in the Job Quality Top 100 award for Site Managers on UK’s sites
Negotiator - sales person on one site who negotiates the sale
O
Off Market – A person who procures land by direct approaches to vendors operates from the area ordinance survey.
Ordinance Survey - local map of land / dwellings in area
P
Pilling – Reinforced Groundwork’s
PM – Project Manager
Primavera – same as ASTA
Pro map- Ordinance Survey software package
Q
QS - Quantity Surveyor
R
RC frame – Reinforced concrete frame
Regional Sales Manager – Responsible for the regional area of the developer
S
Sales Liaison – liaises with customer after point of sale through to completion and the first six month period
106 section agreement – required from planning for contaminated site
Site Signage – hording for site, lamp post marketing signage
SLM- Senior land Manager
SM – Site Manger
SM- Sales Manager
Snagging - is going over a building in detail to determine a list of areas that need repair or resurfacing. Once these problems have been identified
SSM -Senior Site Manager. Manages projects over 5 years as a number 1
Strategic Land buyer buys land with 5 years or more of business development
Stack – Land person collates information from Technical, Sales, Marketing and Planner for report on the commercial feasibility of the plot of lane
Sub- soil – soil lying immediately below the topsoil, upon which foundations usually bear
T
Timber frame - Built using open / closed panels, factory produced
TPO – Tree preservation order
U
V
W
What House awards. - National awards for Residential developers
X
Y
Z