Owners across the world are exploring ways of delivering projects that are different than our traditional design, bid, build system. Why is that? Current processes do not deliver timely, affordable, quality projects most of the time. The reasons for this are many, but are largely connected to our erroneous understanding of design and construction as transforming binary bits of materials into buildings. Research over the last thirty years has made it clear that the “transformation model” does not leverage the production qualities of other “manufacturing” industries because it disregards how work flows across projects, it focuses on trades and not elements, it designs projects without regard to how they will be constructed and it doesn’t provide for value recognition by the Owners. Bent Flyvberg calls this the project delivery imperative: “Over time, over budget, under valued time and time again.”
Integrated Project Delivery models are one of the alternatives owners are considering. IPD Contracts clear the way for a lean operating system in design and construction but the contract itself is not an operating system. Join us for a one hour webinar on why we need IPD, what it does and what it doesn’t do.
Learning objectives: Participants will learn:
- Why current practice does not deliver value
- What the integrated project delivery model looks like
- What IPD is designed to do
- IPD is not an operating system
- Projects need a lean operating system to leverage the benefits of the IPD contract
Presenter: Dick Bayer, former Lean Construction Institute Executive Director