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Early Contractor Involvement in Building Procurement: Contracts, Partnering and Project Management
By: David MoseyeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
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Can contractors and specialists add value to a project by their early involvement in design, pricing, risk management and programming? How can this be structured and what role do contracts have to play? What is the impact on procurement and project management?
Commentators from Banwell to Egan have recommended earlier contractor appointments, and this has also been linked to successful project partnering. How are the two related? Early Contractor Involvement in Building Procurement considers the case for a two stage procurement approach based on a system of agreed project processes during the preconstruction phase. It examines the ways in which a contract can describe and support this model throughout its procurement, partnering and project management, and is illustrated with case studies taken from projects and programmes across the construction and engineering industry.
The roles of the various parties involved, the obstacles they encounter and the benefits they can achieve are examined in detail. There is practical guidance on how to improve speed, economy, sustainability, change control, dispute avoidance, and client satisfaction. This book bridges the gap between contract law, partnering and project management and will be essential reading for middle and senior management at construction contractors, consultants and clients in both the public and private sectors.
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| Title of Technology eBook: Early Contractor Involvement in Building Procurement: Contracts, Partnering and Project Management | |
| Release Date: 11-24-2009 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Early Contractor Involvement in Building Procurement: Contracts, Partnering and Project Management
Chapter One
EARLY CONTRACTOR INVOLVEMENT - AN OVERVIEW
1.1 Early contractor involvement - why bother?
The majority of published standard form building contracts provide for the appointment of the main contractor and its subcontractors and suppliers at the point when construction is due to commence. They are generally preceded by a single-stage procurement exercise to select a suitable contractor who has offered a price based on designs developed by other parties. But does this approach always reflect the wishes and needs of the industry and its clients, or does it instead reflect a long-established status quo in a complex and fragmented sector? Arguably, it is often the latter.
If there are benefits to be gained from earlier contractor involvement, is a contract necessary or even desirable to achieve this? Should a conditional building contract govern early project processes, particularly where design processes overlap with the procurement processes by which prices for those designs are agreed? Yet if contracts do not enter this territory, project teams will lack necessary guidance as to the nature and extent of a contractor's early involvement, and its attendant rights, obligations and risks.
Government reports as early as Emmerson in 1962 identified the separation of the design phase from the construction phase of the project as a problem, and observed that 'In no other important industry is the responsibility for the design so far removed from the responsibility for production'. The Banwell Report in 1964 picked up this theme and stated that 'those who continue to regard design and construction as separate fie
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