The ambience of infrastructure construction project alliances in Australia

The challenge of delivering construction projects that serve their intended purpose while meeting value for money criteria has confronted the construction industry in many countries. The call for a change in culture in project delivery organisations and their clients has been well documented. The response has been a shift from traditional project delivery towards a relational approach that has been gaining momentum for highly complex and/or highly time-constrained infrastructure construction projects. An especially interesting and instructive development in this trend has been the growth in project alliancing in Australasia. Literature on project alliancing and related comparable forms of project delivery indicates that this way of performing project business requires an entirely new set of project management behaviours.