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Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a project delivery method which aligns the project team goals and provides effective collaboration mechanism among them to achieve overall project goal efficiently. While IPD is emerging as a viable delivery model in the industry, with success stories from Canada and around the world, some Canadian owners are hesitant to give it a try.

Helen Goodland collaborated with Dr. Sheryl Staub-French and Dr. Puyan Zadeh of the BIM Topics Lab in the Civil Engineering department at the University of British Columbia to conduct a series of consultations across Canada (Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver) investigating those owners’ perceived barriers to adoption of IPD as a delivery model on their construction projects. The reasons are complex but can largely be distilled down to a set of six perceived barriers - resistance to change, cultural misalignment, lack of clarity in the IPD contract model, resistance to greater involvement in project management, lack of familiarity and trust in the new process and the outcome and strcutural misalignment at owner organziations.

The report can be downloaded here.

The research and report was funded by the Integrated Project Delivery Alliance.

Owners Barriers to IPD

Image extracted from the report - credit. Dr. Puyan Zadeh