The Relationship between Project Delivery Method and Project Work Environment and Collaboration

Edward Minchin

Chapter 3 in Building a Body of Knowledge in Construction Project Delivery, Procurement and Contracting, 2023, pp 39-64 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Almost anyone who has worked daily on a construction site or field office knows the feeling of arriving on site for another day of work, and seeing the vehicle of someone that works for one of the other parties of the construction contract, and having their stomach muscles tighten in anticipation of the confrontation that seems to happen every day. There may not be a particular issue that appears destined to result in this seemingly inevitable conflict, but the working environment on the project is so poor that any little disagreement or inconvenience will almost surely escalate into a major confrontation. There are many possible factors at work here: personalities, prejudices, third parties (such as utilities), constructability issues, etc. One of the most subtle, yet persistent factors, is the delivery system being employed on the project. Different delivery systems do create different work environments and levels of collaboration, but the single biggest contributor to stress in the construction workplace is whether the contractor feels that there is enough money in the contract to ensure that, with proper execution of the work and barring a major calamity, the company will emerge from the project with a profit — or at least without a loss.

Keywords: Construction; Engineering; Project Delivery; Procurement; Contracting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L74 O2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811224782_0003 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811224782_0003 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811224782_0003

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().