Pre-Conference Day
Monday, December 4 2023
9:00 am Registration & Networking
10:00 am -12:00 pm – Workshop A
The Building Owner’s Assessment Tool: Understanding your Decision-Making Culture & It’s Project Delivery Ramifications
Synopsis
- Using the Building Owner’s Assessment Tool (BOAT) to help owners understand the challenges and alignments between decision-making profiles and project delivery methods.
- Analyzing decision-making cultures and project management strategies and work with project teams to mitigate roadblocks
- Understanding how BOAT results can be used to foster collaborative conversations to identify challenges, set expectations and design specific processes to overcome these
Workshop Leaders:
Carrie Sturts Dossick
Associate Dean of Research - College of Built Environments
University of Washington
12:05 pm Networking Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm – Workshop B
Breaking Away From Traditional Thinking to Unlock the Benefits of IPD
Synopsis
- Exploring how each project partner needs to rethink their traditional role to engage on an IPD project
- Frontloading the tough decisions to ensure alignment across your team from the outset to set the project up for success
- Getting used to leveraging the support of your extended team: HOw best can you identify relative strengths and weaknesses in project partners in a productive manner?
- Workshopping common challenges that can derail an IPD project before you even get started
Workshop Leaders:
3:05 pm Afternoon Refreshments
3:30 – 5:30 pm – Workshop C
Crafting the IFOA Contract to Provide an Optimal Framework for Your Projects
Synopsis
- Revealing how the contract structure and language can fundamentally influence your project workflows
- Using the contract as a guidance document: How do you leverage the way in which the contract is written in the day-to-day of an IPD project?
- Avoiding omissions or hidden clauses to ensure every partner is on the same page
- Reconsidering contractual conditions and leveraging previous experience from one project to the next
Workshop Leaders:
