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shaded. The most important relationships and features of the network are discussed in moredetail below.First, a closer look is taken at actors and relationships identified in the actor network of theISL-project. As Figure 2 shows, 13 actors have been identified in the project network. Itshould be noted that the illustration represents a snap shot of the network as it appeared earlyin the year 2003 7 . This represented a point in time crucial for the design and planning of thenew building. The most important actors identified in the network at this time in addition tothe focal project itself (labelled A in Figure 2) are the Ministry of Defence (labelled K inFigure 2) which from a project terminology can be seen as the project owner. The NorwegianDefence Estates Agency (NDEA, labelled G in Figure 2) is an administrative agencyresponsible to the Ministry of Defence. The NDEA’s main tasks include planning,development, administration, leasing and sale of defence properties. In this context the NDEAis responsible for the planning and execution of the building project and represents, inclassical project terms, the executing party. The project organisation was staffed merely bypersonnel from the NDEA. The project manager and his core team was already assigned on afull time basis to the project. It was stated above that the perspective would be on theorganisational level. A short description of the features of the actor described as the focalproject would, however, be practical. The project manager of the focal project wasresponsible to a project steering committee made up by representatives assigned by the baseorganisation, the NDEA. The project manager administered a staff mostly consisting oftechnical professionals (technical consultants, architects, safety and quality engineers, etc)involved in the design of the project and the identification and coordination of end user needs.The focal project also consisted of an information department consisting of personnel from7 It is not meant to describe the network through the whole front-end, which above wasindicated to occur between June 2001 and December 2003.22