Team and Project Work in Engineering Practices

In this article, we investigate teamwork amongst professionals in engineering consultancy companies
in order to discern how teamwork affects the collaboration and work practices of the
professionals. The article investigates how professional engineering practices are enacted in two
engineering consultancy companies in Denmark where teamwork has been or is an ideal for
organizing work. Through a practice-based lens, the article sets out to investigate, firstly, how discourses
about team and project work affect engineering work practices; secondly, how technologymediated
management is reconciled in teamwork practices; and thirdly, how team and project
work affect engineering professionalism and collaborative work practices. A practice theoretical
framework informs the analysis. Teamwork is investigated as a phenomenon enacted through the
sayings, doings and relatings of practitioners in landscapes of practices and the interconnectedness
of the practices is traced through the setup of specific ecologies in the sites.