Winning project alliances reflect culture of value

Four of Australasia’s most cost-efficient, high quality, timely and innovative project alliances won awards at the 2012 Alliancing Association of Australasia’s Excellence Awards last week, reflecting the current culture of value, said AAA acting chief executive Ron Quill.

Conference to focus on collaborative contracts in a cautious market

The Alliancing Association of Australasia has themed its upcoming convention ‘Finding the Cheese in a Changing Market’ around how collaborative contracting methods are being used to tackle the challenges of a cautious construction market.

Collaboration drives success beyond infrastructure projects

Increased experience in relationship contracting and collaboration has been the forerunner of the successful delivery of complex projects, according to a number of Western Australian infrastructure leaders.

Centre for Collaborative Contracting launched

The Alliancing Association of Australasia has launched a Centre for Collaborative Contracting, which aims to assist best practice in the application and management of collaborative business engagements in the delivery of public, commercial, industrial or social infrastructure projects or services.

Mega-projects, alliances to benefit from better contracts

Mega-projects and project alliances have often been plagued by poor contracts, which cause grief to all parties when it comes to distributing risk, costs and resources.

Collaborative projects and the state of alliancing

Collaborative contracting is alive and well, adapting to meet the changing policy landscape while continuing to tackle project complexity through relationship skill and enhanced productivity.

The State of Alliancing—Alain Mignot

AAA: Focus on State of Alliancing and 2011 Highlights

Collaborative contracting is alive and well, adapting to meet the changing policy landscape while continuing to tackle project complexity through relationship skill and enhanced productivity. Public sector agency representatives are actively applying and developing the principles of collaborative contracting and shared their perspectives with local and overseas peers at the Alliancing Association of Australasia’s (AAA’s) 2011 national convention in Brisbane in October 2011. Alliancing practitioners related their experiences over the past twelve months in applying alliancing to meet the challenges of delivering difficult infrastructure projects, including in disaster-torn communities in Christchurch and Queensland.

Authors: Alain Mignot, Frances Walker
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Cost-saving collaborations scoop alliance awards

The Alliancing Association of Australasia has awarded its 2011 Excellence Awards to a diverse array of infrastructure teams at a ceremony in Brisbane earlier this week.