Different from the traditional organization mode of engineering construction, which is restricted by administrative division, market division and industry division, the whole process engineering consultation can cover technical support and services in the whole life cycle of engineering construction, such as project establishment, planning, survey, design, bidding, cost, supervision and construction. Its application is helpful to break down the barriers of engineering construction and promote the improvement of engineering construction organization mode.
Existing consulting, survey, design, supervision, cost and other engineering consulting units have certain professional and technical capabilities, and some of them provide whole-process engineering consulting services, or even become whole-process engineering consulting units, which is the main path to cultivate whole-process engineering consulting. Therefore, in view of the development status of consulting, survey, design, supervision, cost and other engineering consulting units in China, how to organize the whole process consulting in a short time and how to develop the whole process engineering consulting in a long time have become two major topics that should be explored in the current top-level design.
1, whole process engineering consulting service form
The Technical Standard for Whole Process Engineering Consulting Services of Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Construction Projects (Draft for Comment) puts forward two organizational modes: the whole process engineering consulting business should be undertaken by engineering consulting units with corresponding qualifications and capabilities, or by several engineering consulting units with corresponding qualifications and capabilities in the form of a consortium. The former can be summarized as "integration" form, while the latter corresponds to "consortium" form.
In addition, Guangdong, Shaanxi and other places have also piloted the form of "1+N". For example, according to the Guide to Whole Process Engineering Consulting Services in Shaanxi Province (Trial), a consulting enterprise undertakes construction project management and one or more professional consulting services in the form of "1+N", "1" refers to project management and "n" refers to one or more professional consulting services. This is similar to the procurement solution in the Guide to Whole Process Engineering Consulting Services in Jiangsu Province (Trial): the owner or a consulting unit entrusted by the owner is responsible for overall coordination, and several consulting units undertake their own consulting services respectively.
It is not difficult to find that all localities have adopted the idea of comprehensive pilot, without setting a higher threshold for engineering consulting units, in order to maximize the enthusiasm of engineering consulting service institutions in the whole process and promote the all-round development of engineering consulting industry through market means; At the same time, it also emphasizes the integration of the whole process engineering consulting, taking an enterprise as the service provider or the leader of the consortium, aiming at constructing a complete responsibility system of the whole process engineering consulting service organization.
2. The whole process form of engineering consulting development.
According to the idea of "Opinions on Promoting the Sustainable and Healthy Development of Construction Industry" issued by the General Office of the State Council, "enterprises such as investment consulting, survey, design, supervision, bidding agency and cost are encouraged to develop whole-process engineering consulting by means of joint operation, merger and reorganization". Previously, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development not only encouraged large-scale supervision enterprises to develop whole-process engineering consulting by means of cross-industry and cross-regional joint operation, merger and reorganization, but also encouraged (survey and design) enterprises to do so.
The Technical Standard for Whole-process Engineering Consulting Services of Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Construction Projects (Draft for Comment) encourages engineering consulting units to develop from comprehensive consulting of investment decisions to consulting of whole-process engineering construction. On the one hand, it responded to the call of "focusing on cultivating comprehensive consultation of investment decision-making and whole-process consultation of engineering construction" in the Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, on the other hand, it provided new ideas for the cultivation of whole-process engineering consultation.
It is not difficult to find that the top-level design mainly relies on engineering consulting units to develop whole-process engineering consulting units, and promotes the development of whole-process engineering consulting enterprises with the effect of "leader competition".
3. Engineering insurance consultation
It is worth noting that the Technical Standard for Engineering Consulting Services in the Whole Process of Housing Construction and Municipal Infrastructure Construction Projects (Draft for Comment) also stipulates the contents, procedures and achievements of "engineering insurance consulting" in "special engineering consulting".
An engineering consultant who can design an engineering insurance scheme, assist the entrusting party to evaluate and optimize the insurer, participate in the negotiation and signing of the engineering insurance contract, prepare the engineering insurance claim report, and assist the entrusting party to implement the engineering insurance claim in the exposure draft can be regarded as the integration of engineering insurance and engineering consulting. This also endows the whole process engineering consultant with another important function of engineering insurance consultation: by providing engineering insurance risk management and risk control services for insurance companies and reinsurance companies, the benefit of engineering insurance protection, the quality of engineering construction and operational efficiency can be improved.
Of course, this puts forward higher business strength and talent team requirements for the whole process engineering consulting institutions, and also inspires the whole process engineering consulting industry to avoid simply "splicing" single consultation and reduce the occurrence of "holding the banner of the whole process and engaging in fragmentation".
The implementation of whole-process engineering consulting is an important opportunity for the reform of engineering consulting industry and a key driving force for the transformation and upgrading of construction industry. At present, the whole-process engineering consulting industry should cultivate a group of enterprises with the whole-process engineering consulting ability, build a number of high-quality engineering projects with demonstration significance, form a demonstration experience that can be used for reference and promoted, and guide engineering consulting service enterprises to broaden their business fields. In the long run, the whole process of cultivating and developing engineering consulting should also enhance the core competitiveness of engineering consulting enterprises, realize the adjustment of the organizational structure of engineering consulting industry and the optimal combination of resources, and finally promote the supply-side structural reform of engineering consulting service industry.