Improving Construction Project Delivery Outcomes
Improving construction project outcomes is critical from both economic and environmental perspectives.
Efficient repair, renovation, maintenance, and new construction of buildings, transportation systems, utilities, and bridges can become a reality with appropriate leadership focus. Robust processes and tools are readily available to assure the delivery of quality projects on time and on budget. Owner leadership and commitment to drive required process changes is “all” that is needed.
Project Delivery Success and Program Dependency
Achieving project delivery success requires the consistent application of robust programmatic processes that integrate teams and associated planning, procurement, and project delivery activities.
From a historical perspective, traditional methods such as design-bid-build and others have failed.
While any “project” is a temporary endeavor, all should adhere to core fundamentals and workflows. It is the programmatic approach that enables management of diverse people and projects to produce technical or physical output to satisfy the requirements of all participants and stakeholders.
Time, Cost, and Risk Management
An overall early and ongoing collaborative focus upon mutually beneficial outcomes is central to project time, cost, and risk management. Impacting variables include capability and capacity (leadership, trades, planners, engineers…), scheduling, location, complexity, and behaviors.
Assuming leadership and a capable team, behaviors are the most critical aspect impacting project outcomes. That said it is the planning, procurement, and project delivery framework that impacts overall outcomes more than any other single element. It is the defined programmatic approach that mandates behaviors, including levels of collaboration, roles, responsibilities, workflows, and deliverables. All projects will have issues to overcome (weather, materials shortages, etc.). Yet these types of issues can be mitigated with competent and capable leadership and teams. Behaviors, however, presents a far more significant barrier.
Tools and Services
Tools and services are readily available to support optimal project delivery behaviors and delivering projects on schedule and on budget.
As noted, early and ongoing information sharing among participants is a fundamental requirement. In this regard, the development of a detailed scope to work (SOW) that can be easily communicated and shared is needed as part of the procurement and project delivery phases. A detailed, locally researched, detailed line-item cost database, organized using CSI Masterformat, provides cost and technical visibility and transparency.
With local market cost and productivity information, both budgetary and scheduling requirements can be determined. The granularity of the data lets the planning and procurement preconstruction professional quantitatively and comprehensively compare bids without high administrative burden and easily pinpoint where there are gaps.
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