Glossary

Contract governing a project alliance. Innominate contract similar to a contract for work and services (= contract not expressly regulated by statutory law) for the purpose of providing services in return for payment for the planning and realization or only for the realization of construction projects.

List of the project objectives to be jointly fulfilled by the alliance partners.

Is responsible for the management and control of day-to-day business together with the alliance project team.

Is responsible for setting up and maintaining integral project management once the contract has been signed. The alliance manager is the direct contact person of the alliance management team for the alliance steering team and the alliance project team.

The entirety of the parties involved in the alliance agreement (realization partner + client).

Zeiträume zur Erbringung bestimmter Leistungen innerhalb einer Projektallianz.

Comprises all other persons operationally active in the project alliance and entrusted with the implementation of the project planning, execution and support processes.

Is the supreme management body of the project alliance and is responsible for its supervision, strategic management and the overall control of the project.

Natural person or legal entity under private or public law (or a corresponding majority of persons) who initiates, is responsible for and finances the construction project (whereby financing may be provided with the help of third parties who are not alliance partners). Within the framework of the project alliance, the client assumes the role of both the ordering party and an alliance partner.

Indirect costs that cannot be directly allocated to a partial service but are necessary for the operation of the construction site.

Selected number of providers and/or provider groups invited to dialog on the basis of published criteria.

Total costs calculated in the final account from the work costs, general overheads, profit, costs from risks incurred and inflation.

Determination of a cost amount jointly agreed between all alliance partners in the alliance agreement for the purpose of financing the impact of any risks that may arise. Risk management measures are included in the cost of the work.

The general business costs of a company are part of the own costs, which are neither influenced by an individual construction site nor by an individual item (administrative and monetary costs).

Method of initiating the conclusion of a contract between the client and one or more contractual partners.

Organizational model between the client and one or more realization partners for the purpose of implementing a construction project in partnership according to previously agreed basic principles for joint, cooperative project realization.

The client's project definition sets out the most important objectives, functions and constraints of the project. The project definition generally remains unchanged throughout the entire planning and construction process.

List of requirements defined by the client for the project planning, realization, operation and dismantling of the building planned by him, taking into account the social requirements.

All parties directly or indirectly involved in the construction project. In addition to the alliance partners, this also includes the service providers who are not realization partners, as well as the experts and consultants who are only contractually linked (directly or indirectly) to the client.

Describes the functions and characteristics of the building to achieve the target values defined in the project definition as well as the structural and procedural organization of the project.

Service providers who are parties to the alliance agreement.

Impact of an uncertainty on objectives (SN ISO 31000:2018 [11]). The impact can be positive (opportunities), negative (threats) or both.

Contractually agreed allocation of risks to the contractual partners.

Determination of forward-looking measures to make optimum use of opportunities and to avoid risks or minimize the effects of risks.

The entirety of the products and services that must be available at the end of a project as a result of the task.

Companies (in particular planning companies, construction companies, material suppliers) that provide services for the construction project. Service providers are either realization partners, subcontractors of a realization partner (or several realization partners together) or subcontractors of subcontractors. They do not have to be included in the alliance agreement. In special cases, the client can also be a service provider (e.g. own planning, realization partner for special trades).