| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
The major objective of construction project management and value engineering executive management is to create the best operating profit for the company.
The traditional construction industry management tools, in which traditional 2-dimension design shop drawings are used, cannot effectively process complex planning.
As a consequence, the design interface is poorly integrated thereby resulting in construction errors and quality that does not meet owner expectations, making necessary re-workings which generate material waste, schedule delays, cost overruns, and low overall project performance. Reflecting this, the productivity of the construction industry has actually decreased in recent years as a result of poor communication due to software communication barriers, while at the same time clients are demanding improved quality and value engineering management.
The construction industry has therefore started to move away from the traditional construction industry type of contract to a new contract type, known as Alliance Contracting. Unlike the traditional construction industry management, this new contract type also promotes cooperation based on trust. This new contract type also moves away from 2-dimension to 3-dimension design software shared through the World Wide Web. Due to these three factors, the construction industry has started to a new delivery model called Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a project delivery approach that integrates people, systems, business structures and practices into a process that collaboratively harnesses the talents and insights of all participants to reduce waste and optimize efficiency through all phases of design, fabrication and construction.
This new delivery model does not propose specific methods for integration among business model, project management and collaboration systems. As a consequence, this study performs a structure of collaboration and operational flow to integrate the IPD, Project Management Information System, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) into a complete collaborative process.
This study explored the feasibility of implementing a collaboration framework and operational flow, as well as developed a scorecard to assess the studied projects. The result embodied the benefits of this collaborative integrated delivery system therefore verified the feasibility.
This study also discussed the feasibility of applying the IPD in domestic construction industry, afterward to propose and suggest further research directions for the domestic construction industry utilizing the IPD in the future.
Keywords: Integrated Project Delivery, Building Information Modeling, Collaboration.
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