- Author
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Albanese, R.
- Title
- Team Building: Implications for the Design/Construction Process.
- Coporate
- Texas A&M Univ., College Station
- Report
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Source Document 87
February 1993
72 p.
- Keywords
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construction
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methodology
- Abstract
- The CII Project Team Building Task Force (task force) was formed in April 1990. Its purpose was to research the owner/designer/contractor/project team approach as a means for minimizing adversarial relationships and for contributing to a more effective design/construction process. The task force focused on the various management aspects of the team approach, not on the technology - the "how-to-do-it" of team building. This Source Document tells the story of the task force's efforts to achieve its research purpose. It is divided into two major parts. The first part, Chapter 2, documents efforts made to define the research problem and methodology. Part 2, Chapter 3, documents the task force's major research process and findings. The task force's major conclusion is straightforward: A successful project team approach can bring to the design/construction process significant short-run and long-run benefits - benefits that can far outweigh costs typically incurred by the team approach. The team approach is a true "step change" in the way project management usually has been conceptualized and implemented.