[PDF] Partnering In Construction eBook

Author : John Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1136374760

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Partnering is the most effective way of tackling construction projects. This book explains how clients and construction firms using partnering can achieve ever higher levels of efficiency and certainty to provide world class buildings and infrastructure of all kinds. Detailed guidance about the actions that clients and professionals new to partnering need to take is given followed by advice about the actions individual firms can take to get the maximum benefits from partnering. Finally the book describes how highly developed forms of partnering are developing into strategic collaborative working that turns construction into a genuinely modern industry able to meet all customers’ needs. The book is designed to be used flexibly by a variety of readers, with coloured sections and executive summaries built into the body of the text to enable senior managers to get a quick overview of the guidance provided. The detailed guidance provides those at the workface with the ammunition needed to cooperate with those around them in doing their best work. The guidance is supported by check lists that help ensure everyone involved knows what they need to do to match and then exceed today’s best practice. Construction clients will learn how to get high quality, reliable and fast completion and a firm price that represents best value for money. This book helps everyone in the construction industry be fairly rewarded for delivering best practice. The expert guidance also gives the construction industry the time and resources needed to give proper attention to all aspects of quality including sustainability and total life cycle costs. to match and then exceed today’s best practice.

Author : Stephen Ogunlana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135804591

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Profitable Partnering in Construction Procurement is a compilation of papers presented at the CIB W92 Symposium held in Chaing Mai, Thailand in January 1999. This volume, drawing on contributions from leading experts in construction contract procurement from 22 countries, addresses the issues of culture within organisations and national cultures and their impact on procurement, performance and profitability. Substantial coverage is given to private finance projects, privatised infrastructure projects, contractor selection and prequalification, decision support systems for procurement, management of design, contracts and contract documents, sustainable construction and the performance of procurement systems. Profitable Partnering in Construction Procurement is a reference for construction professionals and researchers, contract administrators and lawyers wishing to gain an understanding of the complex issues of harmony and profit in construction procurement.

Author : R. Baden Hellard
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780727720436

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"Partnering" is a construction procurement method which aims to eliminate adversarial relations by removing the traditional barriers between client and contractor. This book is suitable for all involved in the commissioning of construction projects.

Author : Clive Thomas Cain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1405148055

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The lean procurement techniques given in this practical guide couldsave clients up to 40% of total design and construction costs; casehistory evidence is included to prove that the techniques reallywork. The guide goes on to explain in equal depth the leanconstruction techniques that supply-side design and constructionfirms (including trades contractors) need to adopt to deliver thesavings while boosting their profit margins. Written in an accessible style, it explains why lean constructiontechniques will only deliver this high level of savings if they areunderpinned by long-term, strategic, supply-side partneringrelationships between consultants, construction contractors, tradescontractors and manufacturers. This is a 'how to' book written in terms everyone can understand,without the need for an expert interpreter or costly training.

Author : Construction Industry Board (Great Britain). Working Group 12
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Communication in management
ISBN : 9780727725516

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- Introduction and executive summary - The basics of partnering - Best practice - The reported benefits of partnering - Case studies of partnering in practice - Partnering for a new office development - Partnering for a corporate head office development - Partnering for a waste water treatment scheme - Partnering for a term maintenance contract - Partnering for a new highways project

Author : John Bennett
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780704905030

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This report discusses the benefits and costs of partnering and deals with the specifics of the two main types of partnering - project partnering and strategic partnering. It provides practical advice and guidance on how you can apply partnering to your organisation and details the contractual and legal issues.

Author : Julian Critchlow
Publisher : Chartridge Books Oxford
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1902375009

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There is a view within the construction industry that the adversarial culture in contracting fails all in the construction process. Partnering has been put forward as an alternative approach.

Author : David Mosey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781444309874

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Can contractors and specialists add value to a project by theirearly involvement in design, pricing, risk management andprogramming? How can this be structured and what role docontracts have to play? What is the impact on procurement andproject management? Commentators from Banwell to Egan have recommended earliercontractor appointments, and this has also been linked tosuccessful project partnering. How are the two related? Early Contractor Involvement in Building Procurementconsiders the case for a two stage procurement approach based on asystem of agreed project processes during the preconstructionphase. It examines the ways in which a contract can describeand support this model throughout its procurement, partnering andproject management, and is illustrated with case studies taken fromprojects and programmes across the construction and engineeringindustry. The roles of the various parties involved, the obstacles theyencounter and the benefits they can achieve are examined indetail. There is practical guidance on how to improve speed,economy, sustainability, change control, dispute avoidance, andclient satisfaction. This book bridges the gap betweencontract law, partnering and project management and will beessential reading for middle and senior management at constructioncontractors, consultants and clients in both the public and privatesectors.

Author : John Bennett
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : 0727726900

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This report describes current best practice in partnering in the construction industry and identifies what needs to be done to meet the new demands arising from a rapidly changing market and from new technologies. The report discusses why the industry must set itself tough new targets to improve its performance and meets the increasing demands of clients. It measures the scale of benefits that are already being achieved, but more importantly it identifies the next steps needed for partnering to totally alter the construction industry's performance.