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A code of practice for strategic collaborative working
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By
John Bennett, Former Professor of Reading University, UK
Sarah Peace, Freelance Consultant, UK
Description
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.
Audience
Construction industry professionals on both client and contractor sides, including construction firms, QS consultants, architects, specialist services sub-contractors and consultants.
Contents
?Partnering Explained
?Selecting Firms for Partnering
?Actions at the Start of Projects
?Actions during Projects
?Developing Partnering
Skills
?Developing Partnering Project Teams
?Techniques and Check Lists
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: JUN-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6498-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6498-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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