Design and Build: Views from some Major Public Clients in Hong Kong

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Albert P C Chan
Denny K C Ho
C M Tam

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This paper presents the views of clients in public sector on design and build(D&B) procurement method. Specifically, their reasons of adopting D&B and refusing to adopt it were explored. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with ten senior staff from four major public organisations in Hong Kong. The findings indicate that public clients held different views on D&B methods based on different grounds. Apart from functional requirements such as project completion time, cost certainty, etc., internal resources and political force would also influence client's adoption of D&B method in the public sector.

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Design and Build: Views from some Major Public Clients in Hong Kong. (2001). Construction Economics and Building, 1(1), 22-31. https://doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v1i1.2277