- Title
- A project alliance approach for the procurement of Indigenous social housing in Australia
- Creator
- Jefferies, Marcus; Schubert, Adam; Awad, Ramsey
- Relation
- COBRA 2011: RICS International Research Conference: Legal Research Symposium. COBRA 2011: Proceedings of RICS Construction and Property Conference (Salford, UK 12-13 September, 2011) p. 233-244
- Relation
- http://www.lawlectures.co.uk/w113/cobra2011.htm
- Publisher
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- The standard of living conditions for indigenous Australians in remote areas of the Northern Territory (NT) is widely acknowledged as being below standards the remainder of the population is accustomed to. Project delivery programs have failed to address issues of overcrowding, poor living conditions and insufficient infrastructure that have proved to be a primary contributor to indigenous disadvantage leading to poor health, reduced life expectancy, and social, economic and cultural. Delivery methods for indigenous social housing and infrastructure is in need of reform to overcome the mounting problems and to address continuing disadvantage of indigenous communities. A current Government initiative is the Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastucture Program (SIHIP) which is using an Alliance approach to deliver the planning, design and construction stages for social housing. Project Alliancing is a form of relational contracting that provides value for money, fosters trust, manages team goals, attracts multi-disciplinary expertise and encourages innovation in order to develop the best possible solutions for project delivery. Alliancing is characterised by project arrangements which ensure that risk is shared across all participants under a pain/gain-share system to overcome previous problems with traditional contractual approaches which have have been adversarial and inefficient. Through a case study approach, this paper analyses the SIHIP Project Alliance framework and focuses on specific outcomes of the Alliance partners. The SIHIP was particularly successful in terms of redefining program management principles, integrating community consultation and cultural considerations and devlivering sustainable housing projects for indigenous Australians.
- Subject
- Australia; Government projects; indigenous social housing; project alliancing; sustainable; procurement
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/940570
- Identifier
- uon:13041
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781907842191
- Language
- eng
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