(PDF) Contemporary Design-Bid-Build Model
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1DESIGN-BID-BUILD CONTRACTUAL MECHANISMS AND APPLICATION OF NEC3TO DESIGN-BUILD PROCUREMENT STRATEBy NameCourseInstructorInstitutionLocationDate
2TABLE OF CONTENT1.0 Introduction..........................................................................................................................42.0 Literature review/materials..................................................................................................52.1 Contractual mechanisms...................................................................................................52.2Pre-award stages................................................................................................................52.3 Why the contract is being established?............................................................................72.4 Post-award stage...............................................................................................................93.0 The history of NEC3............................................................................................................93.1 Early Beginnings...........................................................................................................93.2 First Edition................................................................................................................103.3 The Second Edition.....................................................................................................113.4 The third Edition.........................................................................................................114.0 Appraisal of NEC3.............................................................................................................134.1Benefits of NEC3.....................................................................................................144.2 Limitations of the NEC3.........................................................................................174.3 Recent uses of NEC3..............................................................................................185.0 Research Methodology.......................................................................................................185.1 Approach to Research design..............................................................................195.2 Qualitative research.............................................................................................205.3Research Proposal................................................................................................205.4 Quantitative Research..........................................................................................21
35.41Questionnaire......................................................................................................215.5 Type of Data........................................................................................................225.6 Pilot Studies.........................................................................................................235.7 The Research Sample..........................................................................................235.8 Ethical considerations..........................................................................................255.9 Limitations...........................................................................................................256.0 Discussions.........................................................................................................................257.0 Conclusion..........................................................................................................................308.0 Bibliography.......................................................................................................................35
4CONSTRUCTION OF A SUSPENSION BRIDGE1.0 IntroductionIn many parts of the world, the construction of Civil engineering projects is very adversarial. This is particularly evident in the construction of a suspension bridge where the relationship among the contracted project team is regularly edgy, mostly among the client and the main contract that is due to the difference in their aims and major objectives which are to protect individual interests[CITATION Bur16 \p 345 \l 2057].There are many issues that surround the construction of the suspension bridge. The two main problems are the disputes which arise due to the poor communication and lack of collaboration between the different parties who are engaged in the execution of the project.The New Engineering Contract (NEC3) offers the best solution to the problems encountered during construction of civil engineering projects and achieves practically all the requirements for the modern contract.Suspension bridge is defined a bridge whereby the load-bearing part is suspended underneath suspension cables on the vertical suspenders. Early 19th century the first ever suspension bridge was constructed. Suspension cables which are used must be anchored at each other at the end of the bridge; this is because any load which is applied to the bridge is transformed into tension in the main cables[CITATION Sre17 \p 32 \l 2057]. The main cables which are used in this bridge extend beyond the pillars to the deck-level supports, and further continues beyond the pillars to the deck-level supports and continue to connect with the anchors which are located at the ground. The deck (load-bearing portion) is supported by vertical suspender rods which are referred toas hangers. In many situations the towers may be placed on a canyon or a bluff edge. The rod may then proceed straight to the major span, or the bridge will in most cases have two smaller
5spans which link either pair of the pillars and the highway which may be supported by the suspenders cables or apply a truss bridge to make this link.This research will be a selection of different types of contracts, contractual mechanisms uses and interpretation of the NEC3 standard contract form within the construction of suspended bridge so that it runs smoothly from the start to the end[CITATION Abb10 \p 648 \l 2057].2.0 Literature review/materials2.1 Contractual mechanisms.Contracts are considered to be essential pieces of information which make a binding obligation between two or more parties, hence being evidence that there is a contract which isexisting. The contract documents usually take the form generally to the extent and the nature of the contract which they represent[CITATION All11 \p 76 \l 2057]. The contract documents are used by the people who are involved in the execution of the engineering projects such as the engineers, architects and the contractors to convey legal, technical ideas and messages to different parties in the contract. Due to the reasons which are discussed above, it is very significant that a uniform approach to the interpretation and production of the contract documents to be focused throughout the entire construction industry[CITATION Kat15 \p 897 \l 2057]. 2.2Pre-award stages.TheUpstream or pre-award activities include the following activities.Securing a management approval and preparing project case. All the contracts which are signed are predicated on the urge to obtain the management commitment and approval at all the appropriate level. It involves the generation of a sound
6project case which is aligned with the organisation's functional and corporate strategies[CITATION Jon152 \p 125 \l 2057].The project case sets out the policy, project and the objectives of the contract and all the issues which affect the decision of the project implementation.Assembling the project team which will be tasked with the management of the contractualprocurement. The need to assemble a team to manage a contractual procurement programme which will bedetermined by a number of factors such as the scale of the project, complexity, nature, the significance of the procurement and the necessary skills and experience but also by the extentto which it is considered appropriate, beneficial or a requirement to comply with organisational policy to involve stakeholders in the project. The figure below summarises all the pre-award activities[CITATION And153 \p 845 \l 2057].
72.3 Why the contract is being established?The reasons why most of the engineering projects have contracts are: To hold a reasonable balance between the interests and the requirements of the parties who are involved in the construction of the suspension bridge[CITATION Fra162 \p 729 \l 2057].
8The contract also allocates the roles, responsibilities and the risks between the contracting parties. In most cases, the parties which are contracting will react favourably to the obligations which are stated. The reasons why the contract has to be established was to avoid increased costs, unsatisfactory performance and disputes which are likely to rise if the trust which is needed to exist between the parties in a construction contract is lacking. The issues which are mentioned above are likely to rise if there is no trust among the members of the project team.The contract is also established to reduce the delays in the execution of the project. Before the parties come in a contract, there has to be well-set deadlines on how the project will be implemented[CITATION Dav01 \p 90 \l 2057]. The contractor who will be in charge of the execution of the project together with the subcontractors will work towards meeting the deadlines thus reducing the delays which were to be observed if there was no contract/agreement.The contract is established to improve the overall quality of the project. Once the different parties have agreed. The standards which they are expected to meet are set, and thus the various parties will hire experts in their area to ensure that the quality of their output meets the standards which were set. In that the overall quality of the project improves[CITATION Dav163 \p 762 \l 2057].To increase the flexibility of the project. The contract which the project members enter ensures that all the roles and responsibilities of the project are well outlined and what each member is expected to do is also outlined to enable the members to be aware of what is expected from them. After all the roles and tasks have been assigned to each of the members, there is always room for adjustments to be made which increases the flexibility of the project.
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