Construction planning, procurement, and project delivery integration is a prerequisite to the consistent delivery of quality facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new build project on time and on budget.
Failure to achieve the above is the #1 reason for the rampant waste endemic to public sector organizations.
Achieving integration and collaboration among internal and external groups is far from complex. The formidable barrier, however, is that is does require change from the ‘status quo’.
All repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds struggle at the onset at the interfaces of planning, procurement, and project delivery teams. Specifically, managing and leveraging the dependencies between various disciplines like planning, design, engineering, procurement, project management, builders, and other service providers remains the greatest challenge to most organizations and a common failure point. Failure to address the issue at a programmatic levels is the cause of rework, delays, cost overruns, churn, and poor relations for all involved.
Robust solutions exist to resolve the above which improve collaboration, communication, and coordination through the transparent, proactive management of all interfaces and participants. All these solutions share the following fundamental requirements and elements.
#1. Owner leadership, capacity, commitment, and accountability
#2. A common programmatic approach and process applied to all projects.
#3. A written execution guide as part of a multi-year collaborative agreement that focus upon mutually beneficial outcomes, transparency, trust, and performance.
#4. A common, shared data environment inclusive of current, locally researched labor, material, and equipment granular data organized via a standard data format (expanded CSI Masterformat).
#5. Mandatory initial and ongoing training for all.
#6. Quantitative performance metrics.
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