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Formulation of best practices for owner's representatives

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posted on 2014-11-21, 13:39 authored by Lenin Jawahar-Nesan, Andrew Price
Quality and productivity in construction could be achievable if the parties involved in the process identify and apply the relevant best practices to their business processes. This seeks the owner's/client's involvement in and commitment to adopting the industry's best practices into the business/project. To provide the owner/owner's representative with appropriate tasks and directions for improving quality and productivity in construction projects, research by Jawaharnesan and Price identified twelve important tasks to be performed by the owner's representative. The tasks were: preparing and organizing; developing project definition; procurement; organizing a joint management team; design management; safety management; measuring and reviewing performance; communications; motivation; coordination; documentation; and project postmortem. A survey of 38 of the major U.K. construction (owner) organizations coupled with interviews and literature review have evolved best practices to effectively perform each of the preceding tasks to achieve quality in construction. This paper evaluates these practices for their importance in improving the performance of the owner's representative

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING

Volume

13

Issue

1

Pages

44 - 51 (8)

Citation

JAWAHAR-NESAN, L. and PRICE, A.D.F., 1997. Formulation of best practices for owner's representatives. Journal of Management in Engineering, 13 (1), pp. 44 - 51.

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© ASCE

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

1997

Notes

This article is closed access.

ISSN

0742-597X

Language

  • en

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