Summary: AIA Contract Documents and members of the AIA California Council invite you to join them for a Web seminar, “Strategies for Integrated Project Delivery,” February 28, 1:00–2:30 p.m. EST. The presentation follows the AIA Contract Documents and AIACC joint release in November 2007 of Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide, offered as a tool to assist owners, designers, and builders to move toward integrated models and improved design, construction, and operations processes. Through the Web seminar, three drafters of the Guide will discuss the definition, economic business models, and technological methods to achieve integrated project delivery (IPD) and the evolution of architecture practice.

The presentation will define and explore IPD as a delivery approach that integrates people, systems, economic 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. It will discuss how IPD principles can be applied to a variety of contractual arrangements and how IPD teams will usually include members well beyond the basic triad of owner, architect, and contractor. Also on the agenda is IPD as a medium for architects to address sustainability as the value proposition for services and how sustainability’s desired outcome can be achieved optimally through an integrated delivery approach.

Specifically, this Web seminar will examine the IPD definitions, business models (Negotiate Select Teams, Construction Manager @ Risk, Design-Build, and Multi-Party Agreements), and technologies (Building Information Modeling and Other Collaboration Tools), and how eco-effective design can be leveraged to demonstrate real value for architecture services. Architecture team make-up will be examined and a proposal developed of how digital tools can be used for green design outcomes that coincide with improved project delivery. The session will examine how IPD requires a shift in thinking in and about the project phases from all participants to achieve better delivery of projects and improved design.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the value created by an integrated project delivery process by understanding industry forces causing the practice of architecture to evolve and transform
• Explore how traditional design/construction processes can be transformed into an integrated delivery process for a green environment
• Understand technological tools that support collaboration across practice areas and the overall building team (owner, designer, engineer, builder, trades)

Presenters: Jim Bedrick, AIA: J. Stuart Eckblad, AIA: and Zigmund Rubel, AIA, all members of the AIA California Council and collaborators on the Guide. Markku Allison, AIA, the Institute’s resource architect, will moderate the virtual session.

Tuition: $135 per site; one registration fee allows for group participation for colleagues in your office.

Learning Units: The program provides 1.5 LUs for AIA members.

Equipment needs: Participation in this seminar requires a telephone and a computer with Internet access; groups will need a projector and screen.

To register: Visit the virtual seminar Web site.

Questions? Contact Vanessa Williamson.