Design Professional Roles
Construction Team Roles
Practicing Scale
To Scale or Not to Scale
100
Designs the skyscraper, determining its height and shape, choosing its style and selecting the building materials to fulfill her creative vision of the building.
Who is the Architect?
100

Get their hands dirty to make the project a reality. Demolish old structures and work to create new ones following specific specifications.

Who is a construction worker?

100
If the scale is 1:10 and the scaled drawing is 3 inches, this is the size of the object in feet in real life.
What is 30 feet?
100
Building a chair identical to the one in your kitchen.
What is drawing NOT to scale?
200

Develops land use plans and programs that help create communities, accommodate population growth, and revitalize physical facilities in towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

Who is an urban planner?

200

Renovate and re-lease existing buildings or purchase raw land to later build on and sell.

Who is a developer or owner?

200

If the scale of a drawing of a door is one inch per two feet, and the door is 8 feet long, how many inches will the drawing be?

What is 4 in?

200
Drawing an accurate picture of the Brooklyn Bridge on graph paper.
What is drawing TO SCALE?
300

Designs all aspects of the natural-environment.

Who is a landscape architect?

300

Transforms the drawings and specs by the Design Team (A+E) into reality. Responsible for planning, budgeting, scheduling, and overseeing progress.

Who is the general contractor/construction manager?

300
If the scale of a model of a train is one inch per three feet, and the train is 39 feet long, how many inches will the drawing be?
What is 13 inches?
300
Outlining your hand on a piece of paper.
What is drawing NOT to scale?
400
Designs the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems) and the plumbing.
Who is the Mechanical Engineer?
400
Checks that the property lines at the site are correct and notes special features of the land, like slopes or wet spots.
Who is the Surveyor?
400

If the scale of a model of a building is one inch per four feet, and the model of the building is 8 inches long, how many feet is the actual building?

What is 32 feet?

400
Making an accurate floor plan of a house on graph paper.
What is drawing TO SCALE?
500
Designs the building’s frame and foundation.
Who is the Structural Engineer?
500

The person who cuts, bends, assembles, and welds steel. 

Who is a steel fabricator?

500

If the model is 20 in and the actual object is 100 feet, what is the scale?

What is 1 in = 5 feet?

500
A toy car that is proportional in dimensions to a real car.
What is creating a model TO SCALE?
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