- Title
- Procuring Indigenous social housing in Australia: a case study of the Project Alliance approach
- Creator
- Jefferies, Marcus; Brewer, Graham; Gajendran, Thayaparan
- Relation
- RICS COBRA 2012. RICS COBRA 2012: Proceedings of the Construction, Building and Real Estate Conference (Las Vegas, NV 11-13 September, 2012) p. 1064-1074
- Relation
- http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/research/conference-papers
- Publisher
- Arizona State University
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Indigenous Australians in remote areas of the Northern Territory (NT) are subject to poor living conditions. This is a common problem and the development of sustainable social housing has become a significant challenge. Various procurement models used for project delivery have failed to address problematic issues that have led to poor health and reduced life expectancy amongst the indigenous population. Project delivery models for social housing are in need of reform to overcome the mounting problems and disadvantage in these indigenous communities. A current State and Federal Government initiative is the Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SJHIP). This program is using an Alliance procurement approach to deliver the planning, design and construction stages for social housing. Project Alliancing provides value for money, develops trusting relationships, appropriate management of team goals, multi-disciplinary expertise and innovative solutions for successful project delivery. Alliancing is characterised by project arrangements that ensure that risk is shared across all stakeholders under a pain/gain-share system to overcome adversarial and inefficient traditional contractual approaches. Using a case study approach, this paper analyses the SJHIP Project Alliance framework and focuses on principles for successful project delivery. The SIHIP has delivered sustainable housing projects for indigenous Australians and was particularly successful with regards to adaptability, effective program management and providing sustainable practices.
- Subject
- Australia; Indigenous culture; procurement; project alliancing; social housing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1048980
- Identifier
- uon:14977
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781842198407
- Language
- eng
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