UC Berkeley’s P2SL Target Value Delivery Research Group was launched in 2016 to persuade the building industry to adopt TVD wherever feasible,
and to strive to make it feasible where it isn’t. This objective was broken down into nine research questions, and book chapters devoted to answering each of them:
- What are the essential characteristics of TVD? (Ch 1)
- How are project value/cost targets set? (Ch 2)
- How are projects steered toward value/cost targets? (Ch 2)
- What is the history of TVD’s development? (Ch 3)
- Has TVD demonstrated success in setting and steering to value/cost targets? (Ch 3 and 8)
- What estimating methods and tools are used in TVD? (Ch 4 and 5)
- How is uncertainty managed in TVD? (Ch 6)
- How is TVD used in practice? (Ch 7)
- What is the relationship between TVD and Lean? (Ch 8)
The book has 8 chapters written by a total of 22 authors, including examples how different project players do
TVD: owners, cost consultants, designers, and general contractors.
