FACILITATOR’S CORNER
Partnering–The Challenges of Small Urban Projects In order to ensure that your project team can maximize the potential for your project, I will outline the common risks and provide some tips.
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t is a widely held belief in our industry that small construction projects (valued at less than $5M) do not carry enough “risk” for teams to hold professionally facilitated partnering sessions. They often fear that time spent in meetings away from the jobsite is time wasted.After many years of work on projects in urban areas, I have learned that for many of these publicly-funded projects, project teams still require the full complement of partnering skills and competencies and can greatly benefit from the partnering process. In order to ensure that your project team can maximize the potential for your project, I will outline some common risks and provide some tips so you can make sure your team gets maximum benefit from your next small project partnering session. Many of the items identified below often emerge on small projects and are made worse by the lack of opportunity and flexibility to work with and through the schedule. So, what are the big challenges facing publicly funded, small budget projects in urban areas?
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Partnering Magazine March/April 2015
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