Abstracts – Browse Results
Click on the titles below to expand the information about each abstract.
Viewing 1 results ...
Maseko, L and Root, D (2021) Collaborative Risk Management Within the Design Phase of Green Buildings. In: Scott, L and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 37th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-7 September 2021, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 381-390.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: collaboration, design risks, green buildings, long-term relationships, risk sharing.
- ISBN/ISSN:
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/e89ead5e650f076c2c41c8eb27e38228.pdf
- Abstract:
Green building projects are ambitious in terms of the complexity of structures, design requirements, information flows, stakeholder integration and technological integration. As a consequence, management of these projects is becoming increasingly integrated. However, risk management (RM) has taken little account of these emergent interconnected stakeholders, interdependent tasks, inseparable risks and iteration in the design process. This leads to poor risk management outcomes, where traditional risk management practices that rely on allocating risks to specific individual entities are not able to accommodate the complexities of a collaborative integrated design. As part of a comprehensive research into how project stakeholders in collaborative design teams manage inseparable risks within their interdependent design tasks, multiple case studies were analysed using empirical data from semi-structured interviews of experienced practitioners. The abductive approach provided explanations of the continuous interplay between theory and various real-life examples. To bridge the current research gap, a matrix-based approach of using Dependency Structure Matrix to integrate the stakeholder dimension and the task dimension to solve for inseparable risks, enabled Collaborative Risk Management (CRM) to filter out most complexities, so that efforts could be directed to appropriate risk sharing and analysis of important parts of the design process. In order to judge the collaborative climate and satisfaction of each stakeholder in the design team, stakeholders suggested a decentralized process that foster a co-operative culture, contract negotiation and communication as key to ensuring that all parties are able to perform their respective tasks adequately. To manage inseparable risk, stakeholders suggested proportional risk sharing approaches, regular team meetings and timeous information sharing. The project should have a shared insurance cover that will balance the risks fairly between stakeholders; in absence of bad faith; leading to a reasonable price; qualitative performance and the minimization of disputes.