Managing Christchurch Rebuild Project With Effective...

MANAGING CHRISTCHURCH REBUILD PROJECT WITH EFFECTIVE COORDINATION PRATIK PATTANSHETTI1 STUDENT ID – 21524417 ABSTRACT The construction industry has the most adverse and complex projects due to the involvement of large funds, infrastructure, economy of a nation and also large portion of the society. Due to this complexity, the projects suffer a lot of fragmentations, conflicts and disputes, large production of waste, project cost and time overruns etc. Due to increase in these types of projects, there are lots of new techniques being developed in the industry i.e. partnering, joint venture, outsourcing, alliances, enterprise resource planning, Total quality management(Hai, Yusof et al. 2012) to tackle the challenges. We have seen a lot of projects which are not delivered on time due to all these reasons. All the techniques work on one important and vital aspect i.e. coordination, without it there can be no successful completion of any project. The more the project is complex the more complexity involved in coordination. Christchurch rebuild has faced similar problems during the last 5 years, the reas on to which it has not been completed until now is lack of proper coordination between the involved parties. There is lot of misunderstanding between the parties involved in the process of construction due lack of proper coordination mechanisms and techniques. The delay in delivery of the project is hampering the image of Christchurch on a global scale. I have addressed a few