1 / 11

CIVL202 Construction Engineering I

CIVL202 Construction Engineering I. Tutorial 6 T1 Mon 11:00 – 11:50 T2 Wed 09:00 – 09:50. Tutorial Outline. Project Delivery Methods Design-Build Contract Design-Build in a Consortium Format Construction Management Contracts Comparing Project Delivery Methods Legal Structure

serenity-mccarty
Download Presentation

CIVL202 Construction Engineering I

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. CIVL202Construction Engineering I Tutorial 6 T1 Mon 11:00 – 11:50 T2 Wed 09:00 – 09:50

  2. Tutorial Outline • Project Delivery Methods • Design-Build Contract • Design-Build in a Consortium Format • Construction Management Contracts • Comparing Project Delivery Methods • Legal Structure • Proprietorship • Partnership

  3. Project Delivery Methods • It reduces the time required to construct a facility • The comprehensive process of assigning the contractual responsibilities for designing and constructing a project • Design/Build and Construction Management Contract

  4. Design-Build Contracts • Design and build are carried out by a single contractor • Advantage: Easy to settle disputes between different entities, designer and builder • Disadvantage: Some technology may not be available for a single company

  5. Design-Build in a Consortium Format • Builders do not have in-house design capability form consortium • The consortium give the owner a final lump-sum price at the end of the preliminary design phase

  6. Construction Management Contracts • Construction manager coordinates the selection of design and construction firms and supervises and controls the pre-design, design, pre-construction, and construction activities related to the project on behalf of the owner • Agency Construction Management: only responsible to provide management service • Construction Management at risk: will sign all contracts related to construction phase of work

  7. Comparing Project Delivery Methods • Competitive Bid Contracts - usually DBB • Negotiated Contracts - also allows compression of design and construction • Design-Build Contracts - owner enters into contract with single entity • Construction Management Contracts -owner holds multiple contracts

  8. Chapter 5 – Legal Structure • Proprietorship: A single person owns and operates a business activity and makes all of the major decisions regarding the company’s activity • Partnership: Two or more persons own and operate a business activity • Corporation: a small number of persons hold all the stock in the firm; or it allows its stock to be sold and bought freely

  9. Proprietorship • All revenue to the firm is personal cash revenue to the proprietor • The credit that the firm can obtain and its ability to generate new capital are limited by the personal assets of the proprietor • Loss must be recovered by the proprietor; liability incurred is owner’s liability • The proprietorship cease once the owner dies

  10. Partnership • Partners share the profit or losses of the firm according to their degree of ownership • If one of the partners does not have enough money to pay for the loss, the remaining partners are responsible to share the loss according to their degree of ownership • There is no limit for the liability of each individual partner

  11. Partnership • Limited partner - has no voice in the management of the firm - his level of loss has been limited to the amount he invested • Partnership terminates when one of the partner dies; but appropriate arrangement can be made

More Related