Commercial Arrangements That Support IPD and Lean Project Delivery
There are at least five principal forms of contract that support Lean construction
- Integrated Form of Agreement for Lean Project Delivery (IFoA)(USA) developed around explicit lean construction principles for Sutter Health by their legal counsel, Will Lichtig, and used by various other owners/clients.
- ConsensusDOCS300 (USA) a derivative of IFoA http://www.consensusdocs.org/
- AIA C191-2009 Standard Form Multi-Party Agreement for IPD (USA) AIA uses IPD to refer to a new project delivery system. http://www.aia.org/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aias076340.pdf for a list of distributors
- PPC2000 International (UK) http://www.acarchitects.co.uk/publications.htm
- Alliancing Agreement (Australia) a new standard form is under development
These papers will be helpful to explain IPD and IFoA http://www.leanconstruction.org/lcj/V2_N1/LCJ_05_003.pdf and http://www.leanconstruction.org/lcj/V2_N1/LCJ_05_008.pdf
For discussions of Alliancing, PPC2000 and IFoA please see http://www.lean-in-public.org/lips_en_proceedings.html
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