Dedicated to good stewardship of its resources, the nonprofit Cook Children's Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas, turned to integrated project delivery (IPD) to deliver a planned medical office building, putting its faith in a team of contractors and design firms to produce the facility more efficiently.
Committing to an emerging project delivery system that has seen limited use in the industry requires "a great level of trust" among team members, says George Montague, Cook Children's vice president of real estate. The team's collective success will be contractually bound as they share risks and rewards based on performance. "I feel great about the whole group," he adds.