ABSTRACT
In the preceding chapters some of the fundamental issues that influence the performance of interdisciplinary projects have been addressed. The underlying characteristics have deliberately been tackled in a generic way in order to provide insights, rather than prescribe ‘how’ to manage interdisciplinary TPOs. Although a generic approach has many benefits in an introductory text such as this, the underlying challenge remains one of implementation in a real life setting: we would all like to know if, and how, the theories work in practice. To shed a little light on the practical application of interdisciplinary management in practice a case study is used. This describes a people-centred approach to the management of AEC projects used by a large firm of consulting engineers in Denmark. This approach is not used universally within the organisation, which uses a variety of approaches to suit client’s requirements on a project-by-project basis, but it has been used very successfully for a select number of projects.
