The Risks and Rewards of Integrated Project Delivery

Discover a new, integrated approach to design and construction that can accelerate schedules and bring down budgets with Paul McGilly and Sean Ottomanelli

An architect creates the plan, contractors bid, and one wins the job. Sound familiar? It’s the Design, Bid, Build process that most construction professionals have followed for the last 100+ years. In this model, the design and construction teams are separate and independent. They can have different and sometimes opposing goals. And one side can make a profit while the other loses money.

But with the advent of BIM and cloud collaboration tools, a new approach is possible called Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). On an IPD project, the contractor and every subcontractor are part of the same team from the beginning. From concepting through design, budgeting, scheduling, and building, everyone’s involved—and all data and models are freely shared, with changes showing up for everyone in real time. Profits are shared, there’s no abortive work, nothing needs to be redesigned later, and the same data stays at the center of the process every step of the way.

Paul McGilly and Sean Ottomanelli from BuroHappold Engineering share their experiences and their takeaways from implementing IPD on a recent project, the Engineering Research Center at Brown University.

About the speakers

Paul McGilly is an industry specialist in BIM and cloud collaboration for BuroHappold. He has experience in America and across several countries in Europe deploying new strategies and workflows to improve working efficiency, and how we approach the design process using BIM, digital design, and computational engineering.

Sean Ottomanelli is a mechanical engineer at BuroHappold Engineering where he has worked for the last 4 years. He holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University of New York.

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