An Integrated Project Delivery critical component is objective, verifiable, granular local market cost data as part of a detailed scope of work (SOW), fully communicated with and agreed to by all participants and stakeholders.
While IPD has been marketed as an improvement to traditional construction delivery methods (Sutter Health, etc.) and clearly demonstrated obvious benefit, the process has not been maximized. IPD has not fully considered the need for…
#1 Objective, verifiable, current local market granular construction task data, inclusived of current labor, material, equipment and productivity components. (IPD project outcomes have typically been compared using benchmarks against similar projects. This does not provide a verfiable methodology for determining an objective project completion costs considering all relevant construction tasks, methods, material, etc.
#2 Integration of internal and external Planning, Procurement, and Project Delivery Teams. (A systems-thinking based framework, applied to the integration of disparate teams and goals would enable greater focus upon mutually beneficial outcomes.)
#3 Application of a IPD framework for ALL construction, repair, renovation, maintnenance projects. (A standardized framework for IPD can be applied to any size project, and not relegated exclusively to large new builds.) The application of collaborative early and ongoing information sharing need within a common date environment via establish methods and workflows is fundamentally the same regardless of project size.
