ABSTRACT
The ability to successfully communicate information
among individual actors is reduced. In a typical con-
struction project for example, a subcontractor sur-
renders exceptions during routine constructability
analysis activity for clarification of a construction
product design. An exception occurs when the actor
in a routine activity requires additional information
to understand, act, or process information for the
same particular activity. The assumption is that the
actor is aware of or acknowledges the lack of infor-
mation within the observed representation to be
able to act in his or her capacity. Beyond the factor
that caused the exception in the design, the subcon-
tractor has to revise the actor’s project relationships
to remediate the exception. If the relationships
between a designer and a subcontractor are estab-
lished by contracts and by other legal relationships,
the subcontractor appeals to any acknowledged
relationships for additional expertise and informa-
tion to solve the exception. However, the ability to
identify with other actors within the network and
to successfully communicate information is stymied
by the dynamic of the social network relationships
and other contextual factors of the construction
project. The project conditions, the method of for-
malization of the relationships through legal docu-
ments, project size and its geographical location are
examples of these factors.
