Since 2006, lawyer Howard W. Ashcraft has structured nearly 80 multiparty integrated-project-delivery agreements for more than 30 owner-developer clients. He is such a believer in the ultra-collaborative, risk-and-reward-sharing model that, at times, he even has skin in the IPD game.
Of Ashcraft's 77 IPD projects, 75% are exceeding contractual targets for schedule, cost, quality or profitability, says the Hanson Bridgett LLP lawyer. "IPD projects are gorgeous," he adds.