Sustainability represents many themes to many people. While some have a vested interest in maintaining continued success, others are committed to sustaining for the common good, whether it’s the ...

Complex construction projects have many moving parts and numerous stakeholders. Each project often contains its own unique challenges and obstacles. Finding the right solution does not often come by ...

Three-dimensional information, such as that provided by building information modeling, allows all members of the Building Team to visualize the many components of a project and how they work together.

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a collaborative process that has been applied more and more frequently to building design and construction projects. Although it is implemented in slightly ...

In 2006, a group of healthcare stakeholders met at the University of California, Berkeley, to explore ways to improve the design and permitting processes for hospital projects in California and to ...

Every few decades, the construction industry — in its “brute force” way — tries to come up with a better way of delivering to its customers. This is typically done through a new type of contracting ...

Building owners and their design and construction teams now have a free guide to help them navigate the waters of integrated project delivery. The how-to publication lays out, for the first time, ...

"The risk, as far as losing money, is minimal," says Edwin Najarian, a structural engineer principal with TTG Corp. TTG's profit on IPD jobs has been "the same or a little less" than usual, he adds.

If people in the know are right, integrated project delivery or IPD could completely redefine how teams work together on projects. Locally, the team for Children's Hospital Ambulatory Surgery Center ...

After more than 10 years working on integrated project delivery (IPD) teams, Degenkolb Engineers has learned many lessons. As IPD becomes more prevalent and accepted by owners as a viable project ...

Applying all five of the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) key principles of integrated project delivery (IPD), Balfour Beatty Construction and its IPD team recently delivered 26,000 square feet ...