OWNER-CONTRACTOR SYNDROME CAN KILL YOUR PROJECT

  

Based on experience: Owner contractor syndrome can kill a project. It’s not health-related but it can kill a project irrespective of size. When a project owner, unqualified professionally want to manage construction processes on site and  assumes the role of a construction manager, it can be said that the fellow is suffering from Owner-Contractor Syndrome (OCS). When the Owner of a project also doubles as a ‘Contractor’, there must be a problem somewhere, especially if the owner is not technically sound.

Owners Contractors  Syndrome is a real threat to sustainable building development in any country and indigenous researchers are studying a link between OCS and the upsurge of sick buildings. This mostly affects small and medium-scale project owners in developing countries.

Though there have been a huge success in self-enlightenment on construction activities by project owners in the last few years, provoked by the incessant rate of building collapse, poor earnings and high cost of construction due to an all-time economic recession has again begin to fuel the spread of OCS and its very many consequences.

There is absolutely nothing wrong in keeping an eye on activities on your site from time to time at least to serve as a form of incentive to the men at work or perhaps to add some spark to the delivery process but taking on the technical role of construction management may eventually harm your project. So it’s very essential to allow the professional handle it for you and give you the best that will stand the test of time.

Owner-Contractor Syndrome is synonymous with Self-medication and it affects victims in about the same manner. Like the saying goes ‘what you don’t know can kill you’. For lovers or fanatics of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) construction approaches, there is a temptation to believe they are sort of knowledgeable enough to assume professional roles which they are not qualified for but there is always an extent to what you can do and it is therefore important to avoid such regrettable pitfalls by allowing those with the technical know-how do their job.

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