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A vision of project management

Stimulating integration and innovation to get the right project design solution within a price-driven competition is a tricky balance to achieve in the early stages of a complex infrastructure project.

September 19, 2011

Blogs

Convention slated for collaborative project management

The Alliancing Association of Australasia (AAA) and the Lean Construction Institute have combined forces to present a convention that will address the future of relationship contracting in infrastructure throughout Australasia.

September 14, 2011

News

Improving value through lean construction

Imagine transforming unreliable and unaccountable supply and production chain participants into value adding team members.

June 7, 2011

Blogs

4 tips for submitting to project awards

How do award contenders craft their submission to tell a compelling story of how the team accomplished outstanding, award-winning achievements in the face of technical difficulty, program complexity and other challenges?

May 11, 2011

Blogs

Improving project governance in relationship contracts

Is your governance team finding the right balance between strategic and operational involvement in your project or program? Do they understand the distinction between governance and leadership? If you think there is room for improvement, you are not alone.

May 4, 2011

Blogs

Getting results from alliances

It is performance evaluation time on your typical collaborative infrastructure contract. Most who have been there will be familiar with the scramble to gather data and evidence, present it winningly and then refine and improve performance based on the management team’s evaluation and feedback.

April 8, 2011

Blogs

Alliancing benefits and challenges in infrastructure projects

Alliance contracting offers an unprecedented way to create a strong synergy between partners to deliver a project too complex for traditional ‘hard dollar’ procurement and delivery methods. It brings together several organisations including the client, such as a government infrastructure agency or utility; and non-owner participants such as a civil engineering firm and a constructor, as well as technical specialists as required.

March 31, 2011

Alliancing trends towards Early Contractor Involvement

More than 12 years of alliance contracting in Australasia’s public infrastructure sector has yielded a range of relationship-based models to successfully deliver projects. The Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contracting methodology in Australia is a unique form of collaborative contracting, inspired by the UK’s Highways Agency. ECI contracting has rapidly gained popularity since Queensland’s Department of […]

March 16, 2011