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1. Primary Participants in Construction: They include contractors who carry out the construction
work as the owner and the law requires. They include general or prime contractors. The other
category includes the project/construction managers who act as the agents of the owner. Other
participants include commercial contractors, the commercial project owners, the construction
developer, engineers and architects, lenders, material suppliers, and surety companies.
2. Primary Segments in the Construction Industry: There are three major segments of the
construction industry. The first include construction of building segment that incorporates
contractors responsible for building all types of buildings. The second segment entails the Heavy
and civil engineering construction contractors who build roads, bridges, sewers, and other related
projects. The third segment is the specialty trade contractors who perform specialized work about
construction such as painting and plumbing.
3. Megaprojects: They are the projects that have substantial impacts on the people, environment,
and the national budgets. They are intensively costly, physical and attract a lot of public
attention. A case example includes the Panama Canal expansion in Panama that will take 11
years to complete. Other examples are the Three Gorges Dam in China and One World Trade
Center in New York.

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4. Globalization in the Construction Industry: As people migrate from one place to the other,
they do move with their knowledge and skills. The concept of globalization in the construction
industry is similar in that immigrants take with them the knowledge of construction as they settle
in new areas. As such, the make a hybrid with the local construction knowledge or supplant the
knowledge in their new settlements. It is advantageous since it enables firms to participate in
cross-border markets unhindered. However, it has a disadvantage in that it is only a few firms
especially the ones in the advanced industrialized countries (AICs) benefits from it (Ngowi 137-
139).
5. Ethics: From a contractor’s perspective, the most ethical behaviors in the construction industry
include transparency, honesty, and integrity particularly in time and financial management.
Quality of work and respecting of contract is paramount. Per contra, unethical behaviors include
issues such as cover pricing, unfair treatment of contractors during tendering, overstating
qualifications to secure work, complications in payments, and poor documentation to mention a
few. Also and as Adnan et al. (722) notes, competitors also falsify their experience in order to
beat others which can cause low quality work.
6. Construction Management Career: There are numerous benefits of being a construction
manager which as well serves as great motivation to the ones with interest in the career. One
main reason for choosing construction management as a career involves job opportunities. It is
not crowded as in humanity disciplines and one can get a job quickly. The earnings are also
encouraging despite the highly engaging and cumbersome learning process. Also, it is possible to
build a meaningful career with less competition, there is travelling, and one gets an opportunity
to work with high skilled people as well taking part in the construction of essential public
projects such as roads, bridges, tunnels, and building. It makes one feel important.

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Surname 1 Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Details Date Civil Engineering Concepts 1. Primary Participants in Construction: They include contractors who carry out the construction work as the owner and the law requires. They include general or prime contractors. The other category includes the project/construction managers who act as the agents of the owner. Other participants include commercial contractors, the commercial project owners, the construction developer, engineers and architects, lenders, material suppliers, and surety companies. 2. Primary Segments in the Construction Industry: There are three major segments of the construction industry. The first include construction of building segment that incorporates contractors responsible for building all types of buildings. The second segment entails the Heavy and civil engineering construction contractors who build roads, bridges, sewers, and other related projects. The third segment is the specialty trade contractors who perform specialized work about construction such as painting and plumbing. 3. Megaprojects: They are the projects that have substantial impacts on the people, environment, and the national budgets. ...
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