Print Email Facebook Twitter The role of the architect in integrated contracts for social housing renovations in the Netherlands Title The role of the architect in integrated contracts for social housing renovations in the Netherlands Author Salcedo Rahola, T.B. Straub, A. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Date 2014-05-07 Abstract The use of integrated contracts in the Dutch construction sector has increased in recent years. Integrated contracts presume facilitating a much more effective process than traditional delivery methods leading to reduced cost and time and higher quality. In first instance this type of contracts was only used for large and complex infrastructure projects and new buildings. In the last five years they have been used also in the social housing sector for renovation projects, giving positive project outcomes. In this kind of projects the supply-side actors work together in a team formed by an architect, consultants and construction companies; commonly referred as a consortium. There is a lack of knowledge about the formal and informal bindings between the consortium members, the specific roles of the consortium members and its influence on the project outcomes. The aim of the research project was to get an overview of the existing organizational typologies and the changes in the role of the architect (e.g. type of work, amount of work and work relations). The study is been based on a series of interviews with architects working with integrated contracts in social housing renovations. The findings indicate that in the majority of the projects analysed, the architect is contracted by the main contractor rather than by the social housing organisation. The use of an integrated contract has no important effects on the relation of the architect with the social housing organization and improves the relation of the architect with the main contractor, consultants and advisors, and other specialized contractors involved. The architect is switching from a designer role to a technical and aesthetic advisor role compared to design-bid-build projects. Subject architect roleintegrated contractsrenovationsocial housing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2c7ca3b2-5b43-4f47-b519-d2347c618790 Publisher CIB/The University of Salford ISBN 978-1-907842-54-2 Source CIB International Conference on Construction in a Changing World, Sri Lanka (India), 4-7 May, 2014; Proceedings of the 2014 CIB W55/65/89/92/96/102/117 & TG72/81/83; Authors version Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) The author(s) Files PDF 313773.pdf 255.57 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2c7ca3b2-5b43-4f47-b519-d2347c618790/datastream/OBJ/view