The building contractor’s role in the construction process is investigated with the scope of high-lighting its merits in every contest. These merits are not in competition with the Architect of Design but, on the contrary emphasize the Architect’s innovative and creative role. We are in pursuit of a new alliance between these two realities the Building Contractor and the Architect of Design n order to improve the final result of the construction process and allow a better quality output, true expression of the design intent. At this point a new behavior of the building contractor is required as well as a performance model that has to follow the criterias of the most exemplary construction practices

Gianfranco Dioguardi, in "STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI " 2/2005, pp. , DOI: