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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

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Y

Z