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Contractors Urged to Collaborate for Increased Efficiency
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Contractors Urged to Collaborate for Increased Efficiency
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Tuesday, July 03, 2001 - Contractors and supervisors are being exposed to the benefits of standard contract procedures and administrative practices. That’s the focus of a series of workshops currently being conducted by the Ministry of Communications, Works, Transport and Public Utilities.
According to Dalton Cenac, Chief Engineer at the Ministry of Communications, the training programme is vital to human resource development “The objective of the training programme is to enhance the skills and knowledge of contractors and supervisors in order to facilitate the efficient and effective implementation and administration of construction contracts tendered by the Ministry of Works,” he said.
Some of the essential topics to be covered under the training programme include the construction process, procurement procedures, contract specifications, quality control, construction site management, environmental management issues, estimating, tendering and conditions of contract, and construction claims and disputes.
According
to Cenac, the problem of claims and disputes among contractors can be reduced
through the increasingly popular initiative of “Partnering,” This is
especially important, he says, as the global economy has increased competition
for employment and recent findings in the construction industry reveal that 30%
of construction work is rework, labour is used for only 40-60% efficiency and
10% of all materials used in construction is wasted. “It
is in all our interests to remove the traditional adversarial relationships
between client contractor and engineer contractor to deliver road construction
and maintenance in a more efficient manner. We need to improve performance on
conventional civil engineering contracts where claimed surveyors were the first
contractors’ representatives on site, final accounts took years to settle and
lawyers became rich on court cases and arbitration disputes, “ he said. The construction efficiency and management training programme is facilitated by Engineering, Construction and Management Consulting Ltd, ECMC. Another workshop is slated for July 7, 2001 Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, the Morne. |
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