Optimal construction outcomes such as 90%+ of project on-time and on-budget and 96% satisfaction levels are achieved daily, however, by less than 5% of all real property owners, contractors, architects and engineers. The net result is 2.5% of all construction projects are actually delivered on-time and on budget.
The path to improvement has been available for nearly 30 years…. collaborative LEAN construction delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery, IPD (for major new construction) and Job Order Contracting, JOC (for renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction).
Efficient life-cycle management of physical infrastructure (facilities, roads, dams, bridges, airports, mass transit, ….) has proved equally elusive. Life-safety, environmental, economic mismanagement are the norm versus the exception.
Again, solutions have been available for decades, yet are practiced by a select few.
Until there is focus upon improving our formal and professional educational practices and associated levels of competency across the AECOO sector… environmental and economic waste will continue unabated (AECOO – Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Owner).
As we all know, real property owners remain ultimately responsible for mismanagement of the built environment. Owners pay the bills and allow poor outcomes to be acceptable.
