Relational integration for sustainable infrastructure

Rahman, MM; Ugwu, O. O.; Kumaraswamy, MM

doi:10.1049/cp.2014.1108

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“…It is asserted that commitment and intention to collaborate sustain teamwork [50]. Presenting a contractor's view on collaboration, it was argued that teamwork ensures collaboration [86]. In addition, continuous working interactions during the team integration process would allow trust in other teams, such that individual project teams would be fair with the others, and they would work with integrity, keep project-related promises, and finally look after the interests of other project-related teams as well.…”

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Collaborative Behavior in Relational Contracting Projects in Hong Kong—A Contractor’s Perspective

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The construction industry in Hong Kong has adopted relational contracting (RC) as a way forward to address frequent conflicts in construction projects and to promote sustainable development. Despite this effort, adversarial behavior of project team members is still prevalent, stemming from conflicting agendas, which hinders the successful implementation of RC. There is a need to improve collaborative attitudes and behavior among project team members in RC projects, but there is still a lack of understanding of factors that can promote this inter-organizational collaboration. Therefore, using the theory of planned behavior, this research investigates factors that form relational attitudes, collaborative intentions, and collaborative behavior, and their relationships in RC projects in Hong Kong. Quantitative data were collected from experienced practitioners in RC projects and were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results reveal that senior management commitment and relational norms are needed to nurture relational attitudes, which in turn influence the development of collaborative intentions. These intentions can eventually promote collaborative behavior, which is expressed by teamwork, affective trust, and extra-role behavior (striving beyond roles to maintain collaboration). The findings advance knowledge and contribute to practice by providing a structured process to nurture collaboration in RC projects for sustainable development.

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Collaborative Behavior in Relational Contracting Projects in Hong Kong—A Contractor’s Perspective

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“…This section identifies bid evaluation attributes for the selection of sustainable PPP project contractors by MARAs, based on the literature review and interviews with experts in PPP procurement. The bid evaluation attributes involved in the MARA can be categorized into three types: technical attributes (e.g., Mahdi et al [43]; Yasamis et al [44]), business attributes (e.g., Gao et al [23]), and sustainability attributes (e.g., Ugwu et al [31]; Rahman et al [45]), which represent a contractor's technical competency, business strength, and sustainable responsibility, respectively. All the three kinds of attributes are very important.…”

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Sustainable Winner Determination for Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects in Multi-Attribute Reverse Auctions

Gao

2018

Sustainability

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Selection of a sustainable private partner (contractor) is significant to ensure the success of public-private partnership (PPP) projects. In recent years, multi-attribute reverse auctions (MARAs) are widely used in public procurement to select the desirable contractor. However, the MARA mechanism is neglected in the existing studies. The purpose of this paper is to present a MARA framework for selecting a sustainable contractor in PPP infrastructure projects, in which the MARA rules and an integrated winner determination method are involved. In particular, the sustainability considerations are incorporated in the MARA rules, which can make the potential contractors have incentives to improve their sustainable performance. Within the MARA rules, based on the trapezoidal fuzzy linguistic representation model and the classical two-additive Choquet (TAC) integral operator, a winner determination method is developed to evaluate and rank potential contractors, in which both the bid evaluation and the interrelationships among bid evaluation attributes are considered. Finally, the potential of the proposed method is shown through an illustrative case of a PPP project of a subway construction in China. The MARA framework investigated helps governments make reliable decisions in sustainable procurement and thereby facilitates successful project delivery.Sustainability 2018, 10, 4129 2 of 20 guarantees to attract social capital and to prevent competition between similar projects [12]. When the projects are going well, the vast majority of investors have the tendency to carry out opportunism in their pursuit of monopoly profits by increasing prices, such as charging more fees in sewage treatment or highway projects, which is an overall detrimental to public interest [13]. As another example, there is less compensation for multiple government-sponsored infrastructure projects with the aim to serve the public rather than profit such as with a subway in Singapore [13], which results in investors facing the risk of high inputs with low returns. Consequently, investors may have no incentive or confidence to participate in the projects. Such PPP infrastructure projects have the potential risk of failure incurred by private investors Selecting the right partner is considered as a solution to ensure the success of the PPP projects from the origin [14,15]. It is essential for public sector, hereinafter referred to as the government, to evaluate the potential private sector, hereinafter referred to as the contractor, in PPP infrastructure projects. In government procurement, infrastructure projects cannot be allocated solely to the cheapest contractor.The key parameters considered include, but are not limited to, the technical attributes, such as the quality of the materials and the workmanship; the business attributes, such as the creditworthiness and the experience of the potential contractors; and the sustainability attributes, such as the design and impact of the project on local communities and the environment, solid waste manag...

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“…Accidents and the corresponding damage they cause to productivity, property, equipment and morale can have detrimental effects on a construction company's profit and loss statement [9]. Other losses would be incurred are leading to delays in project completion, increased cost and loss of constructors' reputation [38]. The costs associated with these accidents are both human (not directly measurable) and financial for companies and for society as a whole (sick leave, medical treatment, etc.).…”

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A Conceptual Framework of Safety and Health in Construction Management

Kamar

Ahmad

2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Models to analyse and calculate the costs of prevention in the construction industry are not easy to apply in this area. Firstly, because they are based on studies carried out in the manufacturing sector; and secondly because the traditional models for analyzing these costs are limited to identifying and classifying them. This calculation models need to be improved. Hence this study is an attempt to fill the gap by develops a safety and health cost framework from pre-construction stage until to construction stage in order to assist client to allow the compliance of safety aspects in a tender document can be assured. A mixed method research will be used in this study. Semi structured interview and content analysis will be used as a main tool for the data collection. Then, the questionnaire will be distributed to the expertise in construction industry.

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Relational integration for sustainable infrastructure

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Collaborative Behavior in Relational Contracting Projects in Hong Kong—A Contractor’s Perspective

Collaborative Behavior in Relational Contracting Projects in Hong Kong—A Contractor’s Perspective

Sustainable Winner Determination for Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects in Multi-Attribute Reverse Auctions

A Conceptual Framework of Safety and Health in Construction Management

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