https://doi.org/10.24928/2021/0168

Project Delivery Contract Language, Schedules, and Collaboration

Thais da C. L. Alves¹, Manuel Martinez², Min Liu³ & Natalie M. Scala⁴

¹Associate Professor, Civ., Const. & Env. Eng. Dept., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182, USA, +1 619 594-8289, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0001-7928-9190
²Research Assistant, Civ., Const. & Env. Eng. Dept., San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182,USA, [email protected] , orcid.org/0000-0001-6093-6212
³Associate Professor, Civ., Const. & Env. Eng. Dept., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695, USA, +1 919 513-7920, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-3070-7109
⁴Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Towson Univ., Towson, MD 21252, USA, +1 410 704-2773, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0003-2851-134X

Abstract

The construction industry has developed a variety of project delivery methods, contractual arrangements, and scheduling methods in order to facilitate collaboration of stakeholders to maximize project performance. It is critical to investigate how project delivery methods and contractual arrangements might influence collaboration during scheduling practice. Understanding this influence can help managers choose/adapt available project delivery methods to their needs and develop strategies to enforce collaboration when they plan for future projects. This research reviewed contractual language in project delivery methods from the perspective of how those methods accommodate stakeholders’ collaboration. Twenty-six professionals were also interviewed to reveal their insights on how contractual arrangements influence collaborative scheduling practices. Contract clauses were identified and categorized based on their level of supporting compliance or collaboration. Finally, the results from the interviews were compared and contrasted with the analysis of contracts for cross validation. Results show that schedules are commonly used as contractual documents, and a need exists to improve contractual arrangements to address the lack of application of collective knowledge to develop, review, and validate schedules for construction projects regardless of the delivery method used

Keywords

Collaboration, transactional, relational, language, schedules

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Alves, T. C. L. , Martinez, M. , Liu, M. & Scala, N. M. 2021. Project Delivery Contract Language, Schedules, and Collaboration, Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) , 33-42. doi.org/10.24928/2021/0168

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