Website

http://www.cibw92.com

Coordinator(s)

  • Steve Rowlinson, Hong Kong University, China
  • Peter McDermott, University of Salford, UK

Objectives and Scopes

The Commission aims:

  • to research into the social, economic and legal aspects of contractual arrangements, appointment systems and tendering procedures used in relation to construction projects
  • to establish and comment upon the practical aims and objectives of contractual arrangements and to define the participants and their responsibilities
  • to review areas of commonality and differences
  • to formulate recommendations and the selection and effective implementation of project procurement systems
  • to compare and contrast standard conventions for the various systems of project procurement generally and specifically
  • to report and liaise with relevant CIB Working Commissions and Task Groups

Current Work Programme

Within its Work Programme W092 aims:

  • To organize regular meetings to enable experts to come together, in order to discuss ideas and developments with a view to helping establish more effective procurement strategies
  • To encourage experts to present learned papers to their peers concerning construction procurement and to arrange, where appropriate, for their publication through the mechanism of CIB
  • To produce bulletins reflecting and comparing current practice in the procurement of construction at both national and project level.

W092 has established a Task Group on:

  • PPP – Public Private Partnership, with as Task Group Leader: Assic. Prof. Dr. Mohan Kumaraswamy, Hong Kong University

In addition W092 has the following ongoing projects:

  • Collection of models related to procurement issues as input to the CIB Compendium on Performance Based Building Models
  • Sustainability and procurement. Information Contacts: Dr. Steve Rowlinson
  • Organizational Learning.
  • Impact of IT on procurement. Information Contact: Dr. Ghassan Aouad, University of Salford, UK
  • Procurement Research Agenda. Information Contact: Dr. Stuart Green, University of Reading, UK
  • Appropriate procurement strategies. Information Contact: Dr. Mike Lewis, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Survey on Potential for Implementing Relational Contracting and Joint Risk Management

Planned Output

Publication of a Research Roadmap on Procurement Systems

External Relations

The Commission has a special cooperation with the CIB Encouraged Journal: Built Environment Project and Asset Management (BEPAM)

Membership

Members of this Working Commission have to be either a Representative of a CIB Member Organization or an Individual CIB Member.