The benefits of using a Reference Design even with a traditional supply chain.

And we're becoming more of a global economy as well, so they're seeing examples.”.These days she’s starting to see “masses of the big players change their behaviour.”.

She’s as excited for them as she is for architects.. Marks recalls that while talking to the Head of VD&C for a large company, she was impressed with the work and incredible technology going into a two-billion-dollar hospital project.At the end of the presentation, she asked, “how much of this can you use for the next project?”.The answer: “None of it.”.

It’s not acceptable, she says, addressing the position of the serial owners who are building hospital after hospital, school after school.Owners who are spending billions of dollars.. “What owner in their right mind is going to spend money and not get consistency of any data,” she says, “to learn from, reuse and evolve, to be more operationally efficient?

How could that be acceptable?”.

“We find the same thing”, says Jaimie Johnston.There is little value in ten high-quality design packages if they do not interface and deliver efficiency in construction and effectiveness in operation.

The integrated team need to be much more proactive and collaborative than design-coordination, which is a lagging process, detecting and correcting clashes.Instead we need a design integration approach which progressively and iteratively develops the design philosophy that will deliver the value in construction and operations..

All the parties involved in the IPD need to share in the value of the project.The core project management KPI’s are scope, cost and time however purely focusing on these has two fundamental contra-indications.