Articles by Jacqueline Bran

The Little Publicized Fact about Win-Win Negotiations for Owners and Suppliers  The true meaning of win-win is a negotiated agreement where the agreement reached cannot be improved further by any discussions. So your outcome cannot be improved for your benefit, and similarly, the agreement for the other party cannot be improved further for their benefit either. By definition, there is no...Full Article »

Project Management Focus Alliance Contracting IQ recently interviewed Wayne Pearce and discussed his experience with respect to project management, leadership and teamwork and how that relates to high performance across larger scale and complex projects. Could you put into perspective your experience with high performance team cultures? Can you also share how this relates to Project...Full Article »

Alliance Contracting IQ, the nation’s network for professionals involved in alliance partnerships and projects, announced the winners for its annual Alliance Contracting Excellence (ACE) Awards. Presented during the Collaborative Contracting Excellence Summit, the awards recognise excellence and best practice in Alliance contracting partnerships. Alliance Contracting IQ Director,...Full Article »

Alliance Contracting Excellence Awards 2011 Finalists Unveiled Sydney. Australia (11 April 2011) – IQPC’s Alliance Contracting Excellence Awards (ACE Awards), Australia’s most established awards recognising excellence in alliancing partnerships, unveiled its 2011 finalists today. The eight finalists will gather at the ACE Awards ceremony on the 17 th May, where winners will be...Full Article »

Innovative Procurement Frameworks Paving the Way for Future Success in Collaborative Contracting What’s in a name? Well, it seems that alliancing by any other name would smell just as sweet. More than a decade of project alliancing has positively transformed the industry and alliancing outcomes have extended to influence other forms of contracting; collaborative contracting and...Full Article »

Collaborative contracting - Under the Microscope  Can we define collaborative contracting in a meaningful way? I believe that we can. There is certainly sometimes confusion as to the nature of collaborative contracting. As an 'umbrella' term it is synonymous with relationship contracting, open-book contracting, partnering and other terms which all relate to the application of...Full Article »

Young Engineers Australia and IQPC Support and Promote the Voice of Young Engineers Hyder’s young engineer, Elizabeth Smolinska was the voice of the next generation of engineers at the 2010 Alliance & Collaborative Contracting Excellence Summit last week. Elizabeth was one of five young engineers involved in a panel discussion, chaired by Madeleine McManus of  Engineers...Full Article »

What's next for alliancing and collaborative Contracting? Alliance contracting has long been the golden child of the collaborative contracting landscape where certain mitigating circumstances make it the ideal delivery methodology. However – times have changed and new trends and research strongly indicate that the sands are shifting. As a member and attendee at the 'Alliancing...Full Article »

At the recent Alliance Contracting advisory board meeting held in Brisbane discussion was focused tightly on the theme of efficiency versus commercial certainty . This was with respect to the benefits of alliancing and how these benefits might be transferred to other forms of contracting. Collaboration is conceivable across all forms of contracting where it is applied and approached in a manner...Full Article »

A recent special infrastructure report in the Australian Financial Review  on Thursday 23rd September drew attention to the success of collaborative contracting and specifically alliances, as an effective risk based form of team building. The model, widely used to deliver government construction contracts, was cited as an innovative model for sharing responsibility, risk and gain...Full Article »

How to use the NEC standard Family of Contracts In a recent interview, Alliance Contracting IQ spoke with Garry Millar. Garry is the NEC, New Engineering Contract Consultant , based in New Zealand. Garry spoke about the specific benefits and opportunities that the New Engineering Contract holds.  Editor: Well, before we begin, I think it would be great if you could share a little bit about...Full Article »