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What Are Construction Projects?

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What are construction projects? In short, construction projects have inherent characteristics of high levels of complexity, uncertainty and uniqueness (CIB, 2014). Complexity due to technology of modern buildings construction, uncertainty created by the inevitable time for a construction project life cycle and uniqueness of each project. The development process of a project mainly includes eight stages which are ‘inception’, ‘feasibility’, ‘strategy’, ‘pre-construction’, ‘construction’, ‘testing and commissioning’, ‘completion, handover and operation’ as well as ‘post-completion review and in use’. The very first stage of all is ‘inception’ which may take up to 4 months (National Research Council staff et al., 2000) to complete. It is a client-led stage when the clients’ ideas and needs are delivered to the project team. At this stage, the project need is confirmed and the project manager is selected. The project team is also given project, environmental and building information modelling mandates. This stage wraps up with a decision by the clients to move on to a detailed appraisal of the development practicability. The pre-design phase has the significance of understanding the clients’ needs. ‘Feasibility’ is the stage coming after, it is when the clients establish their objectives and review options that help accomplish them. This stage may take up to 9 months (National Research Council staff et al., 2000). A large scope of change of design information may involve

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