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Life-cycle frameworks: for understanding the distinct roles played by phasing and delivery in programs and projects.

Civil engineers delivering projects do so in a series of activities that are sequenced to translate stakeholder objectives into a physical facility constructed and commissioned by third parties. The civil engineer practices in an environment where the vision, the plan, and the realized facility are often controlled by separate organizations. In this regard, the civil engineer advises the project sponsor on assigning the contractual responsibilities for designing and constructing the project. A specific approach to project delivery identifies the primary parties contracting for the performance of discrete subsets of project scope.

The integration of project phasing and delivery means that the civil engineer accomplishes these activities at multiple levels: work package level, design package level, contract package level, functional level, systems level, project level, and in some cases portfolio or program level.

• Program Phase Models, Project Life Cycle and Phase Models
• Program Delivery Methods, Project Delivery Methods
• Project stakeholder
• Project Oversight, Project Monitoring/Assessment/Evaluations, Project Governance/Internal Controls/Charters

Critical decision series in project delivery (see Decision Making in Engineering – Fundamental decisions):

• Critical Decisions in Project Management
• Critical Decisions in Design Management
• Critical Decisions in Management Controls
• Critical Decisions in Risk Management