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Disputes and resolution mechanism of public-private partnership projects in Sri Lankan construction industry
Heenkenda, HMNSB; Sandanayake, Y
Sri Lanka is a developing country, which is experiencing of acceleration in the construction development at present, after 30 years of civil war. Construction industry is the fourth largest economic sector, which contributes in an important level to the country’s GDP. Nowadays Sri Lankan construction firms are on a trying to expand the business with new concepts of Public private partnership investment for government projects. But when consider about conflicts, claims and disputes within the projects, the occurrence is very frequent and the value of conflictive claims is higher when compared to the countries. Most of those destructive conflicts cause to inefficiency and losses to the final project in all the three terms of cost, quality and time. This directly effects to the enhancement of the construction sector. Many of those conflicts generate within the groups of construction parties. A Conflict can be solved at two particular stages of an ongoing project, either before arise the conflict by proper planning or through pre-designed mitigation means or after the arrival, through proper dispute resolution mechanism. This research used expert interview to identify the common conflictive and dispute situations arose in Public Private Partnership Construction project and suggestions were made to mechanisms for dispute resolution. Expert interview has been carried out by using different organization entities from government, private and public population to gather fair thoughts from all main parties. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the respective expert such as Project managers, Engineers, QSs, Investors and clients, whom involved with PPP projects. Base on the research findings, suggestions were decide to most practical dispute resolution mechanisms, such as recommendation of observed expert opining as separate mechanism or supportive mechanism or combined mechanism. It is expected that the findings will be useful for all professionals who lead PPP construction project, which are situated in Sri Lanka.
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Minimizing conflicts in building construction through proper procurement arrangements
(2015-04-11) Heenkenda, HMNSB; Hadiwattege, C
Occurrence of conflicts, claims and disputes within the construction projects is very frequent. Conflicts cause to inefficiencies and losses to the final project in all three terms of cost, quality and time. Poor procurement arrangements are root causes for most of the conflicts. Conflicts can be avoided at two particular stages, either before arising through pre-designed mitigation means or after the arrival through proper functioning of an improved procurement arrangement. The research has used case study approach to identify common conflictive situations which arise in traditional and design and built procurement systems. Findings revealed that, introduction of a separate party to the project team for project co-ordination and to keep detailed project daily records, improving client’s knowledge upon the projects arrangements, providing the project team with end products performance specifications and initial appointment of project members which would be useful to minimize and to handle conflict resolution fairly in Sri Lanka.