Business Administrator is involved in maintaining workflow within an organization for management of staff, finance and resources. They are expected to set up and monitor a management system for the office and ensure the smooth operations and achieving overall organization goals. The typical profile may contain work allocation, time management, staff training, delivery of work as per schedule, accounts of billable/ non-billable activities in office and managing remunerations. They are required to have sound technical knowledge, management skills, organizational skills, and communication skills.

Disaster Management Expert work at the forefront of emergency management and planning. They are required to be experts in disaster management and risk mitigation. Intensive documentation of built environment and knowledge of environmental science is crucial. They work with governmental agencies and private sector consultancies. They are required to have advance knowledge of policies, protocols, and regulations of national/state and local level disaster management. They analyze built environments to minimize damage to human life and loss of property at the time of disaster. They must be familiar with mapping, blueprints, and spatial data analysis.

Project Managers focus on all aspects of projects from working closely with consultants to develop design, overall project planning, distributing resources, schedule preparation, time management, risk management, budget management, staff management and overseeing the execution of project from paper to reality. They also ensure the compliant of codes, safety norms, quality of work, efficient use of resources, record keeping and overall success of the project.

Project Architect is responsible for developing a concept design of a project and developing it for different stages like schematic design, design development, tender documents and construction documents. They monitor quality, timely delivery of drawings within budget from the office. They coordinate between client, consultants, design staff, project managers, site staff and guide junior staff of office. They need to have good understanding of construction methods, materials, design intend, construction costs, drawings standards, regulations, technical detailing and knowledge of software. They usually work in office but travel for meetings and site inspections for ensuring execution of project as per the drawings/ design.

Project Coordinators are design managers and coordinate with engineers, planners, design architects and other consultants. They are a bridge between client, site execution team, project managers and consultants. They monitor the design and progress of work of all consultants for intent, budget, buildability, drawing quality, time management during design process, regulation compliance and conflict-free drawings to avoid project execution problems and on-site clashes between services, structural members and finishing materials.

Real Estate Developers take up a green field or brown field land and convert it into a built space/ environment through their vision, management skills, understanding of market demand/supply and financial knowledge. They also take up renovation and redevelopment projects. They are required to have risk taking abilities, knowledge about building industry, legal knowledge, good communication skills, marketing abilities and business skills. They hire consultants for designing, statutory approvals, project execution. Contractors and project managers are hired for construction and project execution, whereas marketing, management and sales teams are appointed for selling or managing property. Depending on scale of projects, they have in-house teams for all the essential aspects of development and hire consultants for only specialised tasks.

Real Estate Managers perform many roles like business development for properties, real estate development, real estate marketing, valuation and finance for properties, real estate/ asset management and facilities management. They are required to have knowledge about current trends of property development, market demand and supply, ongoing property rates, investment, and financial aspects of real estate. They should be well versed with regulations and procedures for property development, property transfer and valuation methods. They have a broader perspective about overall regional planning, policies and prospective trends. They should be good communicators with analytical and organizational skills.

Contractors are responsible for new construction, renovation and repairs of buildings. They also take up turnkey interior fit-out projects for commercial / institutional projects. They are mainly responsible for completing the project as per design, within budget and on-time. They oversee the work of sub-contractors, site labor, material management and vendors on site. Contractor is also responsible for adhering to regulations, safety on site, maintaining quality, and record maintenance. Contractor is required to have thorough knowledge about construction, reading/interpreting technical drawings, preparing shop-drawings, good communication skills, leadership qualities, people skills, material knowledge and an inclination towards outdoor work.

Business Development Managers are responsible for developing new business opportunities for their companies, maintaining business relationship with clients and expanding business networks. They are aware of the ongoing market trends and work for business expansion, growth projections by identifying market opportunities, fixing sales targets, developing sales and marketing strategies. They are required to have innovative thinking, problem solving abilities, effective interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, ability to establish profitable relationships with people, negotiating skills and love for traveling.

Entrepreneur is someone who builds business. The business can be implementing an already established business model and fostering it or it could be thinking of an innovative idea, developing, testing and implementing it to turn it into a business. An entrepreneur is required to be resilient, agile, tenacious, versatile and passionate about their businesses and ideas. An entrepreneur in architecture field can be considered who has started their own consultancy, educational institutes, provide new services, developed software and products.

Site Architect mainly is a mediator between office staff and the contractor / execution team on site. They make sure the drawings generated are informative enough to be built on site, work executed on site is as per design, document problems and coordinate for solutions, resolve design issues on site, provide quick solutions for construction work which are synchronized with overall design intent, choose materials as per design intent and within budget, monitor quality, coordinate with various agencies on-site and maintain database to avoid conflicts/ for records.