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Mohammad Razali bin Abdul Kadir
Mohammad Razali
bin Abdul Kadir
Andrew Price
Andrew
Price
Lenin Jawahar-Nesan
Lenin
Jawahar-Nesan
Towards total quality project delivery: synthesis of the conceptual phase
Loughborough University
2017
Construction
Building
Project management
Benchmarking
Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
2017-01-31 16:06:27
Conference contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Towards_total_quality_project_delivery_synthesis_of_the_conceptual_phase/9458783
The notion that the conceptual phase is the prime period in which major decisions are made and influences the success of downstream activities of engineering, construction, handover and maintenance is an established fact. The decision on quality issues should also be perpetuated in the conceptual phase if the final product were to embody one. Furthermore, decision in this phase incur the least cost: a windfall yet to be harnessed. The first important step toward realising this fact is establishing and benchmarking the tasks content of the conceptual phase. The objectives of the paper are to expound the methodology adopted, results and discussions on the establishing and benchmarking of the conceptual phase tasks involving sixty companies throughout Europe. These companies are clients, consultant and contractors covering the whole range in construction industry: building construction, civil engineering and engineering construction.