Often referred to as traditional contracting, General Contracting is a construction delivery where a general contractor (GC) is utilized to provide all the services that a project owner needs to deliver the project successfully. A general contractor can be an individual or a company, but either way they’re the one who manages the day-to-day operations at the jobsite. They build the building.
While the general contractor will usually have a project manager, construction superintendent and even their own laborers and carpenters working under them, they also almost always hire subcontractors to do the majority of the work. In that capacity, the general contractor is sort of the project manager to those subcontractors and bridges the communications between them and the project owner, architect and engineer.