ABSTRACT
In recent years, construction projects across Canada have encountered significant challenges, including a global pandemic, disruptions in the supply chain, environmental disasters, geopolitical conflicts, war, protests, volatile financial conditions, and the ever-increasing time and costs associated with dispute resolution. These challenges have contributed to a scarcity in competitive and reliable pricing under traditional project risk profiles in some regions and sectors.
Canadian construction industry stakeholders are increasingly interested in collaborative contracting models like early contractor involvement, progressive design build, integrated project delivery, and alliance models. These models aim to achieve on budget and on schedule project completion, while minimizing disputes and incentivizing cooperative behaviours. Major projects in Ontario and British Columbia are proceeding under collaborative contracting models …
Bill Woodhead, Theron Davis and Robert Walker, Collaborative Construction Contracts, Alberta Law Review, volume 61 no 2. Published 8 December 2023.
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