Particulars of Implementation and Contract of Social Infrastructure

Abstract

Social infrastructure supports nation's living and productive activities, by developing the country's socioeconomy. A project for the infrastructure proceeds stage-wise, ‘identification stage’ for plan & study and ‘implementation stage’ for design & construction. Since the implementation takes large investment, it requi 'res optimal efficiency and transparency in operation for obtaining the nation's agreement and support for the project. The implementation goes with many numbers of stakeholder and often faces unforeseen site conditions during the course of construction, therefore, knowledge of ‘management’ is important at the stage coupled with the technology of ‘engineering’. Conditions of contract in the FIDIC aims to attain the efficiency and transparency, with provision of explicit clauses for the settlement procedure in the events of unforeseen conditions and management system of three parties, namely ‘the Employer’, ‘the Contractor’ and ‘the Engineer’ who exercises fair determination as a third party in the unforeseen events. Japan's two parties system, the Employer and the Contractor, has contributed greatly to the timely completion of the infrastructurefor the growth of the country's economy, by depending on the unique 'good faith rule' in the management. However, the system currently faces a criticism about the mismatch of the system to the changes of the environment, which may require restructuring of the system toward a global one. Taking Japan's great international impact into considerations, such restructuring would contribute to the development of the global socio-economy and eventually to the sustainability of the Japan's socio-economy.