Are there construction managers who work according to external construction plans?

The background is that we have a friend who is an architect, whom we would like to use for our house construction. However, since she lives farther away, she cannot appear regularly on the construction site. Would a site manager work according to the "foreign" construction plan? What about general contractors? Basically, it would be about the shell and interior construction.

Thank you very much! Thomas

I wouldn't know why not. Not only architects are site managers. For example, there are also civil engineers and even experienced craftsmen who are site managers and can also be good. Whether the person you are currently talking to is a good one, you just don't know (and the same goes for the architect). I would even claim that an architect who is a good design planner is not automatically a good site manager and vice versa. To find out what kind of specimen you have in front of you, references are good, for example. Perhaps a publicly appointed expert can also be commissioned for this. I don't know if that is automatically much more expensive.

Yes, there definitely is. We also have one like that among our acquaintances. He even sometimes works for the big home builders as a subcontractor. Our expert during the construction did that as well...

Yes, definitely. We also have one in our circle of acquaintances. He even sometimes works as a subcontractor for the big home builders. Our expert at the construction did that as well...

Thank you for your quick responses! Oh great, would there be a possibility to get in contact with your acquaintance?

There are many GUs who build according to external plans. If I were you, I would select a regional construction company that you can trust and build your desired design with them. In every larger town or municipality, there are some, but they do not explicitly advertise with single-family houses.

The background is that we have a friend who is an architect, whom we would like to use for our house construction. However, since she lives further away, she cannot regularly appear on the construction site.

At what point should the site manager take over?

Would a site manager work according to the "foreign" construction plan? What about general contractors?

It is, of course, better if the supervising architect is also the designer. Since this would not be the case here, other site managers besides architects could also be considered. Site managers who are not architects are usually civil engineers, but they are rarely self-employed and rather permanently employed by construction companies (especially GCs). Freelance site managers who are not architects I would most likely look for among those experts who offer themselves as "construction supervisors." Non-architect site managers regularly work according to external plans. I would always involve general contractors in tendering. However, their "site managers" serve a different purpose and therefore do not replace your site manager. I would advise that either you or the designing architect find a supervising architect who then takes over starting from the quantity surveying and tender preparation; or that the designing architect handles this service phase and then a construction supervisor expert can take over the site management. In any case, the designing architect should at least carry out the detailed planning themselves (or even better together with the supervising colleague). Detailed planning based on external building application plans is almost pointless, and then you wouldn’t actually have needed an architect, but the "included" GC draftsman would have sufficed (with the well-known quality consequences, which I probably don’t need to elaborate on again here shortly before my fourth year).