- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- In Search of Partnering Excellence.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Special Publication 17-1, July 1991, 67 p.
- Keywords
- construction
- Abstract
- The concept of partnering is an approach to conducting business that addresses the economic and technological challenges confronting the U.S. construction industry in the 1990s. This new approach focuses on making long-term commitments with mutual goals for all parties involved to achieve mutual success. It is also an excellent vehicle to help attain total quality management (TQM) for construction projects. Partnering is a term used to define an optimum relationship between a customer and supplier, not to be confused with the formal legal entity, "a partnership", and its associated mutual liabilities. In 1987, the Construction Industry Institute (CII) established a task force on partnering to evaluate the feasibility of this method of doing business. The mission of the task force was to identify the benefits and risks associated with partnering, and to provide guidelines on the process of how to plan, organize, and select a partner, and how to implement a partnering relationship. Contract considerations for partnering relationships were also considered in the study.