Commercial, risk, contract management and contract facilitation.
As I will be participating in a panel discussion on Contracting for Success on Complex Projects at next week’s IACCM Australian conference , I thought it would be useful to reflect on my own recent complex project experiences in Queensland. Alliance
Contracting is a tough game. The industry cycles through periods of feast and famine on a regular basis with forward workload as difficult to predict as the winner of the first race at Randwick. One minute you don’t have enough
Arcadis recently released their annual Global Construction Disputes Report tellingly titled “Avoiding the same pitfalls”. The report contains some interesting statistics concerning construction disputes globally but of particular interest was their ranking of the most common causes of construction dispute: Failure to
With little fanfare, Brisbane City Council (BCC) yesterday released the business case for the proposed Brisbane Metro. On the face of it, the $944M estimated (P90) capital cost seems optimistic given that it includes: A new tunnel access to the King
Whilst many of today’s budget measures were flagged in advance the devil is always in the detail and so here is Brackenway’s construction focused wrap. The Government has committed $75B for infrastructure investment over the next 10 years including: $5.3B
Contractors are a benevolent lot. They give away millions of $ every year to the rich benefactors for whom they toil in all weather, sacrificing wafer thin margins for the joy of the job. Don’t know what I’m talking about?
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a business breakfast event hosted by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland and featuring leading demographer, KPMG Partner, columnist at the Australian Newspaper and infamous questioner of the right of millennials to eat smashed
Tendering for work can be a time consuming and costly exercise. Long tender lists and the law of averages mean the lowest price is often a stuff up. Some more enlightened Clients (when referring to Clients I also include Main Contractors
After the excesses of the festive period the thoughts of many, myself included, turn to making resolutions to stop bad habits such as eating too much, drinking too much and exercising less than a Galapagos Tortoise. These resolutions rarely survive
With the end of the year rapidly approaching I decided to dust off the Brackenway crystal ball to see what we can expect in the Construction Industry, from a commercial and contract perspective, during 2017 Whilst the view was slightly hazy