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Thesis Keith Gale 2013Figure 5.3: Mix of attendees and professions within framework forum meetingsin 2009.Importance of these relationships is reinforced through the strength of professionalinvolvement within managerial controls and participation of the frameworks.Although construction projects are seen by a public sector organisation as part of aservice (namely the improvement, maintenance and operation of infrastructure),projects are delivered and controlled by employed engineering and constructionprofessionals following traditional engineering conventions. In a similar way, supplyparticipants, although aware of commercial private sector pressures, tend to focusupon engineering solutions allied to their profession. The cultural context of allparticipants, whether from private or public sector backgrounds, places professionalconstruction environment at a fore and this provides qualitative information towardsthis research.5.10 Techniques used in the case study methodIn order to provide a consistent approach to development of tools for the research, aFunctional Analysis Systems Technique (FAST) diagram suggested by Miles (1972)has been used. The purpose of this technique is to provide a functional application tointerview schedules in order to focus upon questions posed from the six hypothesesidentified previously. Draft questions used for interviews in this research were testedusing the FAST diagram for functionality. If, for example, a draft question was notrelevant to views upon a framework agreement, discrete project, a participant or115