Campus Units
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
2017
Journal or Book Title
TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
First Page
17-00994
Research Focus Area
Construction Engineering and Management
Conference Title
Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
Conference Date
January 8-12, 2017
City
Washington, DC
Abstract
The benefits that formal partnering on commercial building construction projects regarding the reduction of claims is widely recognized. However, there are no recent formal studies that describe the overall impact of formal partnering in terms of minimizing legal disputes in the transportation sector. A recent American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) survey found that a number of public agencies have dropped formal partnering because they found that the costs no longer were offset by the value of minimizing the legal conflicts. Using classic organizational management theory as its backdrop, this paper hypothesizes that those agencies that discontinued formal partnering have fully institutionalized the salient principles of partnering, such as increased collaboration, communication, and trust-building and no longer need to invest the resources to perpetuate a formal project-level partnering process. The paper bases this assertion on the analysis of the claims history found in four state departments of transportation. The study compared the mean project claims the cost of the two agencies that formally partner most major projects to the claims record of the two that no longer employ formal partnering. The analysis finds that there is no statistically significant difference in the cost of claims between the two groups. Hence, the paper concludes that the two agencies that stopped using formal partnering had successfully institutionalized the precepts of partnering.
Copyright Owner
The Authors
Copyright Date
2017
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Pinto-Nunez, Milagros and Gransberg, Douglas D., "Institutionalizing the Principles of Partnering" (2017). Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Conference Presentations and Proceedings. 101.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ccee_conf/101
Comments
This is a manuscript of a proceeding published as Pinto-Nunez, Milagros, and Douglas D. Gransberg. "Institutionalizing the Principles of Partnering." Paper no. 17-00994. In TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers. Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. January 8-12, 2017. Posted with permission.