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Research on the successful Project Alliancing contract for
the construction of the National Museum of Australia, Acton Peninsular.
Alliancing is suited to projects with a budget greater than $20
million, high risk, time and budget constraints and with client
support to achieve a quality project. A project alliance delivery
strategy requires commitment, a flexible approach, trust and a no
blame - no disputation culture.
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Department
of Industry, Tourism and Resources publication: Australian construction
case study: The alliance contract for the construction of the National
Museum in Canberra
Summary
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Part
A (pdf)
Part
B (pdf)
Part
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Part
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The BRITE Project develops a suite of demonstration case
studies drawn from the CRC-CI partners and the wider industry. It
will document case studies every second year over the life of the
CRC to produce a rich and expanding resource of learning for the
industry.
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The
BRITE Project |
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The IT Best Practice Case Studies form a valuable
collection of IT case studies designed to improve business and management
practices for the construction industry in UK.
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IT
Case Studies
IT Construction Best Practice (Access needs registration)
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Teamwork is a UK industry initiative aimed at helping industry
partners try out collaborative working using the virtual prototyping
approach. The teamwork project was first run in 2000; then in 2001
and 2002. In 2003, the teamwork project was funded by the UK government.
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Teamwork initiatives:
www.teamwork2001.org/T2K/
www.teamwork2001.org
www.teamwork2002.org
www.virtualfirst.org |
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Rethinking Construction in UK is the banner under which
the construction industry, its clients and the government are working
together to improve UK construction performance with the following
culture change movement strategies:
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Bring together clients and all involved in the construction
supply chain |
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Provide leadership, share experience and work together |
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Drive forward by example and persuasion the changes needed |
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Facilitate delivery of the enhanced performance targets through
sustained improvements and innovation in product design and
development, in project implementation, in partnering the supply
chain and in production of components. |
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Test, measure, quantify and disseminate experience and achievements
from demonstration projects in the form of case histories, toolkits,
guidance notes, themed events and conferences |
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Rethinking
Construction
Rethinking
Construction Report 2002 (pdf)
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Mission statement of Movement for Innovation:
"The Movement for Innovation (M4I) aims to lead radical improvement
in construction in value for money, profitability, reliability and
respect for people, through demonstration and dissemination of best
practice and innovation."
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Programme "movement for innovation"
designed to encourage culture change:
http://www.m4i.org.uk/m4i/about/default.asp |
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The Partnering In Innovation Program is a UK government
program designed to encourage alliance for quality work to enhance
life cycle value of built facilities. Innovation is seen as a need
for survival for any individual company and the partner cluster
that it is in. different innovations are for different companies/clusters.
there is no single innovation that fits all.
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UK Government's Partnering
In Innovation program |
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Innovation is to be evaluated through Key Performance Indicators
(KPI). Innovation emphases on delivering quality life cycle values
rather than lowest tendering cost of construction. such value system
will be upheld by govt agencies & through continuous eduction
through projects and forums. The websites on the left are two supporting
portals that promote acceptance of quality life cycle values through
the house building supply chain and the local governments.
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http://www.thehousingforum.org.uk/hf/
brings in house building supply chain to support innovation
http://www.lgtf.org.uk/
promotes the integration of the innovation agenda to local authorities'
procurement policies & practices
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Scope of the Singaporean Construction Industry IT Standards
Technical Committee:
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Specify and endorse Construction Industry specific IT Standards
for sharing of digital information throughout the whole life
cycle of a building project |
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Establish an industry-wide framework for Construction Industry
to exploit IT benefits and to deploy strategic IT systems |
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Establish IT best practices and guidelines for the industry |
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Monitor, localise and specify standards |
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Implement and pilot testing |
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Promote standards and assist in full scale industry-wide deployment |
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Singapore's standardization efforts to
promote digital sharing through whole life cycle of a building. URL
Reference: http://www.itsc.org.sg/tc/5th_term_compo/citc.html |
| Finland's Vera Project |
Vera
Project Reports are all collected here.
Two special mentions are:
Final Programme Evaluation Report: Vera
- Information Networking in the Construction Process, Thomas
Froese, Ph.D., University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada.
PM4D
Final Report, Martin Fischer & Calvin Kam, CIFE Technical
Report 143.
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Finland's latest technology programme is called SARA (2003-2007),
aiming at improving the international competitiveness of the Finnish
construction industry.
The SARA programme aims to make the Finnish construction sector
internationally more competitive by consolidating its strengths:
advanced information technology applications and life-cycle management.
The programme will result in new products and services in which
this expertise can be put to good use.
The idea is to provide the user with maximum life-cycle value instead
of minimum costs. The aim is to create methods that can demonstrate
the impact of a building on the business carried out in it. Value-networking
is based on information and communications technology. The general
product data model created as part of the Vera technology programme
forms the basis for joint data management.
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Sara
Vera
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