ABSTRACT
After a brief introduction to the building procurement process, this paper will present three major approaches to building procurement in France. These are (a) Equipement/Grand Project, (b) Complex/Large and (c) Simple/Small. Each serves a different segment of the building market as (a) is primarily for large, prestigious government backed projects, (b) is for complex and large commercial projects and (c) is for simple, small, projects usually with local or vernacular constituents. Each description will be supported by a diagram in which there will be (i) the set of phases and sub phases of the approach alongside (ii) the required roles and their lines of communications. This unique mode of presentation greatly assists the understanding of each approach as to its degree of complexity and how to carry out the work required in each major phase of the whole procurement process under each approach. After describing these three French approaches, the paper will consider their salient features and then go on to relate them to the major UK and USA building procurement approaches and discuss where the latter could benefit from considering inclusion of some major features from the French approaches along with required changes to the UK and USA approaches to enable inclusion of these French features.
Après une introduction brève au processus d’obtenir les projets de construction, ce papier présentera trois façons principals d’aborder l’obtention des projets de construction en France. Elles sont (a) Equipement/Projet Immense (b) Complexe/Grand et (c) Simple/Petit. Chaque description sera accompagnée d’un diagramme qui inclura (i) le groupe de phases et sub-phases de la façon d’aborder la question et (ii) les rôles nécessaires et leurs moyens de communication. Le papier se développera en considérant les traits principaux des trois façons français d’aborder les projets de construction, et en les comparant aux mèthodes britanniques et américaines. Le papier discutera les moyens duquels Le Royaume-Uni et l’Amerique pourraient profiter des idées françaises, et comment ils pourraient s’adapter pour en incorporer.
Le papier est tiré des résultats d’un projet de recherche pour le gouvernement français (1) dont l’objet est de démontrer les façons principales d’obtenir les projets de construction en France et au Royaume-Uni.
The paper is drawn from the results of a research project for the French government (1) to map out the major building procurement approaches in France and the UK with especial consideration of the relationships of work and role teams in the Design, Contracting and Construction phases and present comparative views on these approaches from architectural professionals in both France and the UK.
