IDENTIFYING THE ROLE OF THE OWNER'S ASSISTANT CONSULTANT IN GOVERNMENT BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS DURING THE TECHNICAL PLANNING STAGE

Abstract

The owner's ability to provide information and decide design problems during the technical planning period will determine the success of the project. Owners or commitment making officials (PPK) in ministries or non-technical government institutions according to survey results require assistance in the technical planning process. Assistance by consultants, technical managers or technical teams from both internal and external Government organizations needs to identify their role in order to improve the quality of technical documents. Assistance is needed to empower the role of non-technical owners in traditional delivery systems, especially for complex types of work such as buildings. By using a literature review and content validity analysis as well as the relative importance index (RII) of the opinions of 11 experts, we succeeded in identifying the role of experts as consultants accompanying owners who are really needed in the technical planning process for the success of Government construction projects. There are 5 dominant roles for the owner's assistant, namely ensuring the project brief or TOR is complete and clear, suggesting a list of rules and standard guidelines to be used, helping identify the owner's needs, helping document the results of discussions/briefings, and assisting communication between the owner and the design team.

Keywords

• owner's ability
• owner's accompanying consultant
• technical planning
• construction project