Contract alliancing in construction

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Origins of alliancing

What is alliancing?

What are the key requirements for alliancing to work well?

What are the blocks to alliancing working well?

Typical alliancing clauses

Case studies and country snapshots

In the countries contributing to this publication, alliancing is at varying stages of development and adoption. In some countries, alliancing or co-operative contracts of some form are being used and in others, it is not a concept which is well recognised. There is no country where alliancing is significantly developed and adopted in the construction industry but there are many examples of individual projects where this is being used or employers who are taking the lead in using this form of contracting.

What follows are three specific country case studies where alliancing has been more readily used (Australia, Austria and Finland) as well as a snapshot of the experience in a number of other countries.

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Case study: Australia

Case study: Austria

Case study: Finland

Country snapshots

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Contract alliancing in construction

Case studies and country snapshots

Key contact

Expertise