History
Integrated project delivery is a delivery system that seeks to align interests, objectives and practices, even in a single business, through a team-based approach. The team primary Team Members would include the Architect, key technical consultants as well as a general contractor and key subcontractors. The IPD system is a process where all disciplines in a construction project work as one firm, creating faster delivery times, lower costs, no litigation and a more enjoyable process for the entire team – including the owner.
The first working definition of IPD was established in May 2007 by the AIA California Council Integrated Project Delivery Task Force comprising representatives of owners, architects, contractors, engineers and lawyers: UCSF Medical Center, Hanson Bridgett LLP, ACCO Engineered Systems, Rutherford & Chekene, Webcor Builders, Mcgraw-Hill Construction, Alternative Delivery Solutions LLC, Onuma Inc., Anshen & Allen, American Institute of Architects California Council, DCA Architecture Construction, WLC Architects, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Flewelling & Moody Architects, MCG Architects, Michael Hricak & Associates.
IPD combines ideas from integrated practice and lean construction to solve several problems in contemporary construction such as low productivity and waste, time overruns, quality issues, and conflicts during construction among the key stakeholders of owner, architect and contractor. The growing use of building information modeling in the construction industry is allowing far greater information collaboration between project participants using IPD and considered an important tool to increasing productivity throughout the construction process.
Unlike the design–build project delivery method which places the contractor in the leading role on a building project, IPD represents a return to the "master builder" concept where the entire building team including the owner, architect, general contractor, building engineers, fabricators, and subcontractors work collaboratively throughout the construction process.
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