From cooperation to collaboration

From cooperation to collaboration: Enhancing team collaboration in partnerships for construction projects

Kotoudi, Anastasia (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences; TU Delft Geoscience and Engineering)

Bakker, Hans (mentor)
Leijten, Martijn (graduation committee)
Molaei, Maedeh (graduation committee)
de Vos, Sjacco (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering

2019-08-29

Today’s project complexity is constantly increasing leading to multidisciplinary project teams. Building a truly integrated team in projects where a partnership is necessary in order to achieve the desired outcome isn’t a one-off process that can occur automatically. It’s a procedure that has to be built up over a certain period of time (mostly during the front-end development phase) under a collaboration that will utilize in the best way the benefits of this one-team approach. In international projects cultural differences between the different teams is an important aspect that adds an additional challenge in reaching a successful outcome. It is therefore the project manager’s responsibility to create a team of engaged and committed people that have an aligned project goal and act as a whole and not as a set of wholes. Getting from cooperation to collaboration requires the presence of both a strong project leader and a competent project team.

Collaboration
Partnering
Integration

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Student theses

master thesis

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