The biggest problem that the owner is creating for himself here is removing a main head of control, in the contractor. Without the contractor, each subcontractor is required to talk amongst themselves and coordinate things in a timely manner in their own way. The largest issue here is the increase use of communication means lengthy time in understanding each other. The other issue is each subcontractor must talk amongst the architect, making the lack of synergy even worst. The owner doesn’t realize that when one subcontractor talks to another vertically, the information passed implies that the owner is the contractor in this case thereby making construction much more tough. The horizontal method however, allows the architect to talk to the contractor, thereby having the conversation pass through only 2 parties instead of multiple parties with no real person leading the whole project.
How it should be
Case Study #2
