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Assembling a Collaborative Project Team
How do these changing roles affect the project team?
It is likely that traditional project teams will exist for the foreseeable future and that
such teams, along with contractor-led teams, will continue to evolve as clients
attempt to balance design quality, programme and cost/risk aspects while
working towards methods of guaranteeing better Project Outcomes.
The processes now involved in designing, constructing, maintaining and using a
building are more complex and there is much more to consider. To say that things
have moved on would be a huge understatement. The following aspects must
now all be considered:
• the architect does not always lead the design team
• many clients have their own internal professional advisers
• more roles and more parties are involved in the process
•the design team may be employed in many different ways using various forms
of professional services contract
•the timing of the contractor’s involvement varies, depending on the procurement
route used
• numerous options for Building Contracts exist
•the contractor and, by extension, specialist subcontractors are responsible for
many aspects of the design
•the lead designer is increasingly responsible for coordinating the work of the
design team and integrating the work of specialist subcontractors
• likewise, the allocation of cost and programme risk varies
• post-occupancy duties are more commonplace and, most crucially,
• new digital technologies are radically changing the way we work.
So, there are now many factors that influence how a project team might be
assembled and there is no ‘standard’ approach. Chapter 3 considers how these
variables complicate the ‘kick-starting’ process with Chapter 4 looking at the
holistic nature of the collaborative project team before Chapters 6 to 9 set out
the detailed tools required to assemble the collaborative project team.
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