Miguel Cabezudo

Nicolas Laflesselle

THE LARGE FIRM

1. DEFINITION2. TYPES OF GROUPING3. ORGANISATION STRUCTURE4. EXAMPLES5. QUESTIONS6. REFERENCES

CONTENTS

It’s a firm which employs more than 300 employees.

At the beginning, most of the large firm were medium-sized business.

The growth is by acquisition when separate businesses join together via either a merger or a takeover.

In the company, contractors never work in the same market.

DEFINITION

Functional: the company is divided into departments

Product/Service: the company specializes in a product

Geographical: the company has a regional structure

Customer: the company offers services at particular

customers

Capital: the company has large investments

Project: this grouping typifies traditional “building

contractor”

TYPES OF GROUPING

Chairman

COMPANY DIVISIONS

Design and built

Major contracts

Plant holding

Minor contracts

Managing director

SOUTHNORTH WEST EAST

Design and builtDirector

ConstructionDirector

ManagerDirector

ManagerDirector

RegionalDirector

RegionalDirector

RegionalDirector

RegionalDirector

ORGANISATION STRUCTURE

HEAD OFFICE SERVICE SECTIONS

Office services

Estimating

services

Marketing

services

Surveying

services

Office manager

Managing director

SACYR

VINCI

EXAMPLES

SPANISH EXAMPLE : SACYR

CONSTRUCTION

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPME

NT

CONCESSIONS

RENTAL PROPERT

Y

SERVICES

FRENCH EXAMPLE :

VINCI

CONTRACTINGCONCESSIONS

Vinci Concessions

Vinci Highways

Eurovia (Roads)

Energies

Vinci Construction

Vinci Construction

Vinci Construction

France

Vinci Construction big projects

Vinci Construction

Earthwork

Civils projects

Renawable energies

Fondations works

Cooke, Brian, & Williams, Peter. Construction, planning, programming & control. Blackwell Publishing

Lavender, S. (1996). Management for the Construction Industry. Pearson Education.

www.vinci.frwww.gruposyv.com

REFERENCES