Integrated Delivery

Integrated delivery in the project delivery strategy domain considers four elements that can enhance the ability of the design and construction project team to successfully provide a built facility:

Project Organizational Structure, often synonymous with project delivery or project delivery method terminology, the organization refers to contractual links and structure to the relationships that define the roles, scope of work, and interactions amongst the project participants, stakeholders, and team members.

The team assembly process often discussed as procurement, bidding, or tendering, considers the manner and timing of engaging team members is influential in how they perceive their roles and responsibilities, as well as their ability to participate in the full timeline of the project.

Payment terms, sometimes called reimbursement, focuses on how team members contract terms define their payment and financial risk and reward considerations for the project.

Methods for interdisciplinary engagement refer to the planning, and specific methods or approaches used by the project team to create interaction for the purposes of collaborative information sharing and decision-making. In order to allow the breadth and depth of design and construction knowledge to be used, the team needs to develop the process for sharing information, define the tools and methods for how the information will be created and used to make decisions to meet the client needs, and how that information will be documented and shared.

Team development considers the social, cultural, and interactional elements of engaging a group of individuals in a collaborative process. Each design and construction project engages a new array of team members, many that have never worked together before. The process of getting the team members to learn who they are working and collaborating with underpins much of the technical work that follows for sharing information, engaging in design or planning discussions, as well as knowing where the knowledge within the team lies for specific topics.