DESIGN MANAGEMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT -
A CASE STUDY OF THE PHU MY 3 PROJECT
By
Nguyen Nong Truong Thanh
Abstract
Infrastructure is the key to creating a dynamic, attractive, and
thriving economic climate in communities around the world. It is important to
nations’ future development and plays a critical role in creating and enhancing
sustainable living conditions. Therefore, the planning, design and construction
of full infrastructure system is of vital importance in developed and
developing countries and in rural and urban areas, as it supports and connects
our communities.
In recent years, the construction market have been swiftly blooming,
especially the real-estate market in Vietnam. Thousands of the residential
areas have been sprouting in the metropolis. This is one of important reason,
why the government and the local authorities are attempting to invest and
improve infrastructure system. This reason not only creating the huge market
for construction consultancies but also raising these challenges for owners for
managing these ones in design. Additionally, the owners have been facing the
complexity of these infrastructure projects increasingly.
However,
the role, the responsibility and the involvement of owner and consultant in
each phase is unclear. Additionally, the design manager is not enough skills to
meet the requirement of infrastructure project. As a result, the delay of
pre-construction phase and the poor quality of existing buidlings as witnessed
by the process of bad design management. The main purpose of this study is to
conduct an intensive exploration and into the most problematic design management
areas and to seek the invovement of owner and consultant and their skills as
design manager in pre-construction phase for complex infrastructure projects in
Vietnam, and assist owner and consultant finding appropriate solution and
precise recommendations to improve them. Analysis of a case study in Vietnam
suggests that owners requires careful planning, innovative managerial
approaches, attention to behavioral issues, appropriate communication and
information technologies, and mutual understanding of parties' roles and
responsibilities.
Executive summary
Rationale of
research
This research has been conducted to identify problems in design
process in infrastructure projects in Vietnam.
Objectives of study
To study the design management process and problems in the process
for recommendations
Methodology
The
exploratory approach was used to understand the overall role of all sides in
managing design and background of important design management with which design
management problems are identified. Data were employed through direct
interviews with the design managers, documentary evidence including all
involved companies information on the internet professional journal articles,
books.
Findings and conclusion
Design management is the way of how to
get things done through the organization of design process is structured
appropriately for project’s objectives, requirements, and resources. With
developing market in Vietnam, the changes in legal always bring huge risk and
therefore research to find out the suitable process for adapting the potential
risk necessarily.
This study has successfully demonstrated
an intensive exploration into the importance of design management in
construction firm in Vietnam. A Concentration has been on analyzing and
exploring the most arising issues in design management that significantly
impact project performance. The findings resulted from thorough analyses based
on the role and responsibility of design manager and the lack of skills for
managing design work.
A case study has also been used that
reflected major real-life problems found particularly in design management
under a large and complex project in Vietnam, and closely related to the
findings identified throughout the study.
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