The change in roles of architects and quantity surveyor's from conventional to partnering approach
Architects and quantity surveyors are among the principal stakeholder using partnering. Partnering is intended to improve the way projects are designed and constructed. Consequently, partnering has an impact on the design and construction process. This research project aims to investigate how...
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2004
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| Summary: | Architects and quantity surveyors are among the principal stakeholder using partnering.
Partnering is intended to improve the way projects are designed and constructed.
Consequently, partnering has an impact on the design and construction process. This
research project aims to investigate how the various aspects of an architect's and
quantity surveyor's job have changed when comparing conventional projects with those
involving a partnering agreement. This study intends to identify the practical impact of
partnering on the architect's and quantity surveyor's role in the construction process and
ascertain the strategy undertaken by the architect and quantity surveyor to adapt to
partnering.
The means of data collection used was a postai questionnaire distributed to architects
and quantity surveyors with partnering experience. Two separate sets of questionnaires
were produced for each category of respondent and were designed to allow comparisons
to be drawn between the architect and quantity surveyor.
Based on the literature review, partnering benefits and impacts were grouped into seven
headings. The results obtained, do not support the hypotheses that partnering has a great
impact on their rotes and practices. They perceived that the highest severities of impacts
are at major scale: procurement and contract issue for the architects, information
exchange and dispute avoidance and resolution issues for the quantity surveyor. The
survey revealed that an architect's role as a designer is the most frequently adopted in a
partnering approach compared to lead consultant and contract administrator in a
conventional approach, whereas, a quantity surveyor's role as a cost adviser remains
dominant. These do not support the hypotheses that their roles adopted in a conventional
approach will change radically in a partnering approach. The hypotheses that a quantity
surveyor is more flexible than an architect in adapting to change imposed by a
partnering approach are also not supported by the results.
The results do suggest that an architect has a preference to develop a close relationship
with design-build contractors, while quantity surveyors prefer to market themselves to
clients who can potentially initiate partnering arrangements as a strategy to adapt in a
competitive partnering market. The role as an independent client adviser and project
manager are the two roles discovered by the survey as potentially the most suitable
potential to architects and quantity surveyors to take on as alternative roles in a
partnering era. |
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