Abstract
The construction project consulting service is very important to the project safety and the project lifecycle. In the delivering project systems not only the selection of the project delivering mode but also the arrangement of design and supervision should be taken account into. In China, it is not uncommon that the design service and the construction supervision service respectively are delivered different bodies. The combination of design and supervision could largely improve the efficiency and performance of construction project, which will be the development direction in the consulting service.
Highlights
When the project sponsor or owner selects the project implementation mode and the contract type, he must analyze three questions, i.e. which party is responsible for the project financing? Which party is responsible for the design and construction? Which party is liable for the risk, especially the risk in the quality control and the cost evaluation (Bunni N, 2005, P.66-82)? Different combinations of design, construction, and financing will form different project delivery systems, such as building-transfer (BT), design-building (DB), design-building-financing (DBF), and design-purchasing-construction (EPC)
When the owner organizes the project, he still faces another problem, i.e. how to arrange the design work and the supervision work? Should he let the design work and the supervision work to one consulting company with corresponding qualification and capacity? Or should he respectively deliver design service and construction supervision service? That latter approach is the common practice in construction consulting service which has been employed in China
When owner commits the combination service of design and supervision to the single company with corresponding qualification and capacity, whether the contract belongs to the simultaneous contract or the mixed contract is still disputed in the academic cycle at present
Summary
When the project sponsor or owner selects the project implementation mode and the contract type, he must analyze three questions, i.e. which party is responsible for the project financing? Which party is responsible for the design and construction? Which party is liable for the risk, especially the risk in the quality control and the cost evaluation (Bunni N, 2005, P.66-82)? Different combinations of design, construction, and financing will form different project delivery systems, such as building-transfer (BT), design-building (DB), design-building-financing (DBF), and design-purchasing-construction (EPC). When the project sponsor or owner selects the project implementation mode and the contract type, he must analyze three questions, i.e. which party is responsible for the project financing? Which party is responsible for the design and construction? When the owner organizes the project, he still faces another problem, i.e. how to arrange the design work and the supervision work? Should he let the design work and the supervision work to one consulting company with corresponding qualification and capacity (i.e. the company can provide the combination service of design and supervision)? Should he respectively deliver design service and construction supervision service? That latter approach is the common practice in construction consulting service which has been employed in China. The research and practice about the former are still deficient at present
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