| dc.description.abstract | The National Freeways are Taiwan’s most important transportation networks. National Freeway new projects, apart from its mission for the research and development of new materials, new construction methods, and new technologies, are quite similar to other roadway construction projects. National Freeway widening and rehabilitation projects require more complicated plans to maintain the capacity of original traffic. In addition, with limited construction space on both sides of the freeway, equipment and construction workers are subject to space restrictions, and existing National Freeway traffic must be maintained while preventing disturbances to neighbours. The widening while still operating aspect of the projects further tests the engineers, requiring them to apply different methods of implementation to different scenarios encountered along the freeway.
In view of Public Construction Committee Executive Yuan’s 2010 amendments to “Regulations for Selection and Fee Calculation of Technical Services Providers Entrusted by Entities” and other relevant Acts, one must decide whether the amends are feasible and whether they cover characteristics of the National Freeway project in design and supervision services. National Freeway construction supervisions service contracts and the practicality of the new amendments to the law regarding supervision service fees are worthy of further study and discussion.
In this study, actual National Freeway project entrusted construction supervision services provider cases and interviews are presented to facilitate understanding of existing regulations, current problems or other problems experienced by clients and consulting firms are analyzed, relevant research and proposed solutions that were presented to clients to determine if the solutions were feasible and if they adhered to existing laws are detailed, and the results of feasibility surveys given to experts are discussed.
According to the results of the study, the majority of interviewees believed the National Freeway construction supervision service fees are, in general, more reasonable than other roadwork projects. However, with regards to practicality, there are still some inadequacies. Through cases studies, review of the National Freeway construction supervision service contracts, etc, recommendations and strategies are presented. Recommendations include: subcontracting National Freeway supervision work, amendments to the contracts, and a feasibility study of the presented recommendations. Based on the results of feasibility surveys given to experts, the recommendations are quite promising and can be considered by future clients.
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