Building owners and their design and construction teams now have a free guide to help them navigate the waters of integrated project delivery. The how-to publication lays out, for the first time, steps to implement IPD—a collaborative but complicated contracting strategy that centers on a building owner-developer sharing risk and reward with its architect and contractor.
“Until this guide, there was no document focused just on the steps a party needs to take to commence and execute an IPD project,” says Howard W. Ashcraft, a lawyer with Hanson Bridgett, which has structured some 140 IPD contracts. Ashcraft is a member of the five-person core group that produced the 151-page “Integrated Project Delivery, An Action Guide for Leaders.”