Construction Project Contracting and Bidding (Second Edition) (Part Two of the Practical Construction Engineering Consulting Book Series)

Author: Zhang Yi, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2003-08-01
Features: With the deepening of global economic integration and China's economic system reform, fixed-asset investment construction has achieved remarkable results in both scale and growth rate. The total investment in fixed assets across society is expected to increase from 3.26 trillion yuan in 2000 to 4.3 trillion yuan by 2005. Industries closely linked to engineering construction, such as real estate, construction, and consulting services like survey and design, will further become hotspots in the socialist market economy. Meanwhile, with the diversification of investment and financing systems and the gradual implementation of project legal entity responsibility, coupled with China's imminent entry into the WTO, the construction industry in China will face broader development opportunities and fiercer market competition both domestically and internationally. People are increasingly recognizing that engineering consulting services are also one of the key factors driving economic growth in the knowledge economy. Therefore, facing the domestic and international markets of the new century, opportunities and challenges coexist, and the consulting service industry will undoubtedly enter a new period of development. In this process, the only way to achieve expected success in competition is to continuously enhance self-competitive capabilities. The whole-process management of engineering construction projects must be carried out in accordance with its objective laws and the construction procedures in a step-by-step manner. For example: investment opportunity evaluation, demonstration, and planning; preparation of project proposals and feasibility studies (reports); design (or general), preliminary, technical design, and optimization; construction drawing design and changes; preparatory work and procurement in the early stages of construction; signing of contracts for subcontracting and project implementation; project acceptance and post-project evaluation. Regarding investment control, it is generally accepted that the early planning stage can control and implement optimization for 80% of the total project investment, while the project implementation stage can only monitor 20% of the total investment. Therefore, investment control must start from the early planning stage of the project, which is also the purpose of the author in compiling this series of books—Early Planning of Engineering Construction, Contracting and Subcontracting in Engineering Construction, Contract Texts of Engineering Construction, Measurement Rules of Engineering Construction, and Quality Supervision of Engineering Construction. This series comprehensively elaborates on the policy and regulatory documents and implementation principles concerning project proposals and feasibility studies, the acquisition of "one book and two certificates" in various fields of engineering construction projects; subcontracting and qualification standards for engineering survey and design (supervision, construction, materials, and equipment); construction projects (related) contracts and international engineering contracts (FIDIC); measurement rules for construction and repair projects and project duration (real estate surveying and sales area of commodity housing, international and Hong Kong regions); evaluation of construction quality and safety supervision (systems); quality supervision and approval for construction materials (mechanical products) and their application. This series is organized around the project construction process, with rich and detailed information, covering a broad scope, and can serve as a reference guide for construction owners (legal entities of projects), real estate companies, construction enterprises, investment (financing) institutions, project management (supervision) companies, drawing review (calculation) institutions, survey and design units, cost engineering consulting (bidding agency, quality supervision, overseas engineering consulting) institutions, and administrative departments. It is also suitable for project managers, investment strategists, asset (real estate) appraisers, bidding agents, cost (drawing review, supervision, quality supervision) engineers, and other professionals from the aforementioned units, as well as students and trainees in relevant professional colleges (job training) for work and study.