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Alliancing is an innovative, relatively new way to deliver complex capital works projects.
Coffey Geotechnics is at the forefront of its use in Australia and has worked more than ten project alliances.
Current project alliances include:
Unlike traditional forms of contract, alliance participants have collective ownership of all risks and rewards associated with the project.
Innovative aspects of project alliances include:
- a peer relationship where all participants have an equal say
- all decisions are made on a best-for-project basis
- encouragement of innovative thinking and achieving outstanding results
- all transactions are open-book.
Coffey Geotechnics is achieving extraordinary results from project alliancing:
- clients receive project delivery on time and budget or better
- the community receives state-of-the-art infrastructure
- alliances bring together the best and brightest in the industry, providing Coffey Geotechnics' staff with further opportunities to lead, grow and learn.
Read about Coffey's work on project alliances.
Technical Papers
By L. Lorenti and T. McWilliam
This paper discusses how innovation can be a key factor in the successful delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects undertaken in Australia. The framework of an Alliance is introduced as a project delivery mechanism for promoting innovative design and construction techniques. Two current road infrastructure projects within the Sydney region are used as illustrative case studies of Alliance projects - the construction of Lawrence Hargrave Drive and the Windsor Road Upgrade. Finally the Authors provide a summary of their experiences and lessons learnt as Geotechnical Engineers while actively participating in the abovementioned projects.
