LEAN Pre-Construction services considerations significantly improve outcomes.
Pre-Construction Services include the following…
- Project Conceptualization
- Project Delivery Method Selection
- Design
- Construction Documents
- Bidding/Negotiating/Procurement
Adopting a LEAN pre-construction services approach REQUIRES collaboration among all participants and stakeholders and front loads their participation and information-sharing. Some LEAN project delivery methods already integrate these core elements and thereby increase the success rate of projects to approximately 90% or higher.
Job order contracting, JOC and integrated project delivery, IPD, are the two most widely known forms of LEAN collaborative construction delivery. Both integrate design, construction, procurement, and all internal and external team members from conceptualize to hands-off, and even beyond.
Job Order Contracting is suitable for renovation, repair, and minor new construction, whereas Integrated Project Delivery is used for major new construction.
The benefit of integrating pre-construction services with Project Delivery is abundantly clear. It is the Project Delivery Method that established the processes by which all of the procedures and components of initially scoping out a project, designing it, procuring it, and building it are defined, organized, and structured together into an agreement, as well as an associated Operations Manual or Execution Guide.
It is the role of the real property Owner to provide leadership and match the project delivery method to the project, approach and organize project teams, establish metrics, and assure both competency of all involved and ongoing improvement.
Project Delivery is the embodiment of the workflows, requirements, and contractual relationships, between the owner, architect/engineer (A/E), contractor(s), and building users, among others.
The Construction Project Delivery Method, the Contract, and the associate Operations Manual/Execution Guide must all be consider jointly. Collaborative construction delivery methods require multi-party agreements as well as share the following characteristics:
- Outcome focused
- Mutual respect among all participants
- Long term relationships
- Owner competence and leadership
- Collaborative teams
- Shared risk/reward
- Common data environment, CDE – common terms, definitions, data architectures
- Required training
- Continuous improvement
- Key performance indicators, KPIs
- Locally researched, independent, and objectively detailed unit price cost data
- LEAN processes
- Supporting technology, cloud-based integration of required apps
LEAN Pre-Construction Services Considerations increase productivity, quality, and overall satisfaction for all participants.
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