Factors Can Enhance Design-Build Team Relationship

1. Factors Can Enhance Design-Build Team Relationship Fawzy Al-Alami G200903430 Term Paper

2. Outline • Introduction. • Effect of Teamwork in Design-Build. Construction Contract. • Factors Can Enhance Design-Build Team Relationship. • Selecting Design-Build Team Members. • Team Agreement. • Defining The Responsibility. • Communication. • Trust.

3. Introduction • Design-Build Contract: is a method where the owner has only one contract to complete the project. • Responsibility of the Contractor: • Design the project • Construct the project

4. Introduction • Other designation to design-build system: • Design-construct. • Single source. • Why owners are using design-build contract? • Mainly to reduce the construction period (Fast Track Project)

5. Introduction • Teamwork: is work performed by a group of people. • Cooperated team members helps: • improving the quality of the project. • Continuity of the project. • Enhances the creativity of individuals. • Reduce project duration. • Reduce the cost of the project.

6. Effect of Teamwork in Design-Build Construction Contract • Design-build Required full cooperation between all team members at all phases of the project. • Alpert Chan studied the factors can enhance the successes of design-build system: • Project team commitment. • Contractor’s competencies. • Risk and liability assessment. • Client’s competencies. • End users’ need. • Constraints imposed by end users.

7. Effect of Teamwork in Design-Build Construction Contract

8. Factors Can Enhance Design-Build Team Relationship • Selecting design-build team members. • Team agreement. • Defining the responsibility. • Communication. • Trust.

9. Selecting Design-Build Team Members • Selection of individual should be based on his ability to perform as team not only on individual qualification. • Two Criteria has to be consider before selecting the team member: • Diversity of the team member. • Technical experience of the member.

10. Selecting Design-Build Team Members • Advantages of diversity: • Creativity: different idea and different point view will be more effective if you have people from different countries. • Eliminating of group thinking:”it is a good idea because everyone believes it is a good idea. • Alternative solutions: due different construction method in each region

11. Selecting Design-Build Team Members • Disadvantages of diversity: • Language: different accent may lead to serious misunderstanding during team communication. • Trust: people trust more the person from same country.

12. Selecting Design-Build Team Members • Technical experience of the member • The team member should be experienced in design-build system. • The whole team has to have some knowledge of overall work and expertise other than his area of expertise

13. Selecting Design-Build Team Members • How to select design-build team members? • Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to Support Alliance Team Selection :found a method for the owner to select the contractor team.

14. Selecting Design-Build Team Members

15. Selecting Design-Build Team Members

16. Team Agreement • Team Agreement: the vehicle for structuring the relationship between the parties in design-build project. • Objective of team agreement: • To establish work relationship between constructor, designer, and subcontractors and that will permit the design-build team to satisfy the owner’s requirements. • To establish ground rules between all parties involved in the project.

17. Team Agreement • Topics to be included in the team agreement meeting • Role of each member in the project. • Team communication method and communication and interaction with contractor’s members in addition to sub-contractor and owners representative • Partnering.

18. Defining The Responsibility • Defining the responsibility is to distribute the task equally among the team members and according to their experience to achieve maximum productivity. • Defining the rules distributing the unforeseen work among team work. • Defining the rules that allow cooperation between all parties in design-build project.

19. Defining The Responsibility • Defining the responsibility will reduce the conflict between team members. • Responsibility matrix is a schedule used to assign the responsibility task to each group member. • It has to be prepared by the project manager of the project.

20. Defining The Responsibility

21. Communication • Communication: is delivering and receiving information or knowledge in convenient way. • Communication play a major rule for cooperation between design-build team. • Proper communication helps solving the complexity of design-build system.

22. Communication • Feedback: to evaluate the receiver understanding. • Communication is two way process: failing to listen means failing to communicate. • Provide training course to the design-build team to enhance their communication skills.

23. Trust • Past Experience And History. • Competence and Ability. • Similarity and Differences. • Character Trait. • Relative Power and Authority.

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