Integrated Practice
Integrated Practice:
Merging Design, Delivery, and Cost Management into a Unified Process
Integrated Practice Tools
IDC Architects (IDCA), a CH2M HILL company, is an international design firm delivering high-performance facilities for science and technology. Our services span the full range of facility work, from early planning and site selection through architecture, engineering, construction, and operations, all tailored to meet specific client needs. IDCA is making significant breakthroughs in the way building projects are delivered. Using a method called Integrated Practice (IP), or Integrated Project Delivery, we have embraced a collaborative delivery system that promotes better communication, reduces/shares risk, increases value, and provides a positive experience for project owners. Our Integrated Practice methodology allows us to more deeply integrate delivery, design, and cost management, and to connect more closely to your culture, values, and requirements. Service Life Planning
• Our primary business goal is to make you successful. We value mutual respect, meaningful and effective communication, and an open, collaborative working approach. • Our delivery process centers on effectiveness, requiring a combination of efficiency, expertise, and innovation. Efficiency involves reducing waste through early planning and emphasizing continuous improvement. Expertise exists both in our people and in our systems; we make a huge commitment to lifelong learning and encourage our staff to be the best in the world.
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We have developed an integrated set of project delivery tools that anticipate a fundamental rethinking of the building making process, while simultaneously driving improvements within the context of current practices. These tools include: • Site and facility assessments
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Traditional methods for creating facilities involve an owner contracting separately with the designer, constructor, and/or other parties, who work independently of each other and are concerned only with their portion of the project. These methods have dominated the industry for many decades, yet their inherent inefficiencies make it impossible to respond adequately to today’s building owners, needing increasingly complex facilities to be designed and built more quickly, costeffectively, sustainably and with higher quality than ever before.
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• Lean project delivery • Collaborative design and programming • Sustainable design principles • Building information modeling
Innovation is defined by Einstein: “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” It’s new ideas that make a difference.
• Design-Build approach
Site and Facility Assessments
Lean Project Delivery
Whether repurposing an existing facility or assessing a site, the first critical decision of any project is making sure it is in the right place.
Lean project delivery is a unique way of thinking, communicating, and working together that focuses the energies of the organization on delivering value to you, both inside and outside of the company. Lean principles include two fundamental elements:
Focusing on client business objectives and facilities needs, IDCA’s architects, engineers, and industry experts have evaluated hundreds of sites to develop site master plans and reuse plans for existing industrial sites. We have assessed more than five million square feet of facilities for conversion, renovation, and reuse. Using this experience and our proprietary database, we develop the information and analysis that lead to sound site and facility decisions, including: • Needs assessments • Building systems assessments and spatial assessments • Gap analyses • Conceptual and spatial syntheses
• Respect for people: Developing the capabilities of each person, learning continuously, and engaging individual talents and interests to serve the larger objectives—ultimately holding people accountable to the system, following it and improving it. • Eliminating waste and variation: This requires intense focus on uncovering value as defined by you and delivering the value while eliminating activities that do not add value.
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Map all of the steps – value added and non-value added – that bring a product or service to the customer
• Visioning and master planning
Continuous movement of products, services and information from end to end through the process
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Define Value from the customer’s perspective and express value in terms of a specific product
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Implement Pull Nothing is done by the upstream process until the downstream customer signals need
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optimize the whole, not the pieces while creating a culture of learning.
Collaborative Design and Programming IDCA’s clients often have complex, sometimes competing, stakeholder groups that desire active participation in projects. To build consensus among diverse user groups, we listen to your desires and concerns, and incorporate them into our design process. The following are critical elements of that process: • Set a clear vision and create a plan to achieve that vision. This means agreeing to desired outcomes and developing clear strategies to achieve them.
We believe in Thomas Edison’s principle
that to get a great solution, begin by generating many ideas.
• Communicate the plan, promoting transparency of challenges and a collaborative approach to solutions. • Intervene, organize, monitor, and report: include stakeholders in decision making and continuously concentrate on adding value. • Foster teamwork by facing critical issues together—openly discussing status, challenges, and failures—and collaborating on joint initiatives.
For a confidential client’s Innovation and Technical Center, the facility is designed to support cultural and workstyle changes and enhance flexibility through a carefully mapped spatial network that integrates collaborative and interactive spaces, at a variety of scales, throughout the complex.
IDCA’s approach to front-end project definition and conceptual design is intensely collaborative; we prefer to engage client stakeholders as active participants in the design process, rather than passive observers. To accomplish this, we have developed two exclusive processes: collaborative design with digital modeling (CD/DM) is broadly applicable to the design of any facility, with a focus on spatial organization solutions that are built on consensus. Collaborative accelerated front-end design (CAFE) is particularly applicable to facilities that house technical processes, whether for research or production. • CD/DM is IDCA’s unique approach for developing many different ideas very early on to inform the design process. We do this in conjunction with other brainstorming techniques, working closely with the project stakeholders. Using 3D computer modeling and traditional hand sketching, we move quickly, generate variations, and evaluate alternatives from different perspectives. These services can be provided in a cost-effective manner and help establish the goals and broad schema, as well as develop building functional layouts and design concepts further into the process. • CAFE is a proprietary process that leverages creative thinking by empowering individuals working together to exchange ideas, challenge norms, and explore new concepts for innovative ways to continually improve. CAFE is used to help clients develop plans to build a new facility, update an existing one, develop a new product or program, or completely re-engineer the enterprise. Whatever the goal, this process engages all stakeholders, creates a synergistic environment for the exploration and analysis of project alternatives, builds stakeholder consensus to drive project ownership and success, and results in a common vision of the future.
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A design approach that improves its surroundings
Sustainable Design Principles
Three goals drive IDCA’s approach to sustainable design:
Sustainability and environmental stewardship are core values of our firm that go back more than 50 years. We understand the desire to push the envelope for sustainable design and use an approach that transcends the usual checklists. We have worked with many science and technology clients to attain Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED®) or LEED equivalent objectives on tight budgets. Sustainable principles can be balanced with cost effective solutions to manage the budget and understand the payback period for these key systems.
• Reduce carbon footprint by reducing energy use, using more renewable forms of energy and reducing negative impacts of materials and pollution on the environment • Reduce water footprint by reducing usage, purifying, and reclaiming water • Improve quality of life by creating environments that encourage the improvement of the occupant’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being IDCA’s in-house resources, tools, and services include a multidisciplinary LEED submissions process and proprietary web-based LEED commissioning tools, ecocharrettes to develop sustainable design strategies, high-performance building models, material evaluation and selection, lifecycle cost analysis, computerbased system-wide controls, patented building systems, airflow modeling, and super-efficient energy systems.
Building Information Modeling Building information modeling (BIM) involves the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. The resulting models become shared knowledge resources to support decision-making about a facility from the earliest conceptual stages through design and construction, its operational life, and its eventual demolition. Access to this information can be critical to the successful outcome of a project. IDCA embraced BIM early and has continuously developed more sophisticated ways to leverage parametric modeling and databases of pertinent information to improve the design and construction process. Our effective use of these tools, including energy modeling and computational fluid dynamic modeling to evaluate the performance, has encouraged our approach to find alternative solutions.
Integrating Design and Construction The traditional model for executing a building project is based on checks and balances between the owner team, the design team, and the construction team. This situation tends to create inefficiencies, redundancies, and adversarial relationships between the teams throughout the process, and it optimizes for individual interests rather than the interests of the whole project. As a project delivery firm, IDCA offers not only design but all services needed to realize a building project, including construction and construction management. When contracted to provide design-build (D/B) services, IDCA delivers the work using an integrated project team including architects, engineers, procurement specialists, construction personnel, and project controls and estimating staff. Project team members and tools communicate easily with each other throughout the project lifecycle, avoiding the inefficiencies and redundancies associated with traditional delivery models . Our D/B approach typically includes just two prime players—owner and D/B entity—with a single contract between them: • Continuous execution of design and construction with overlapping phases • Some construction-related decisions early in the project including constructability review of design • Overall project planning and scheduling by the D/B entity prior to mobilization (made possible by a single point of responsibility)
About IDC Architects IDC Architects is an integrated, multidisciplinary planning and design firm focused on science and technology, with a global presence and a singular vision: to discover better ways for people, technology, buildings, and the environment to work together. Our integrated method of architectural and engineering design produces sound master plans, functional and flexible spaces, reliable building systems, and sustainable solutions, achieved through a highly collaborative process that fully engages all project stakeholders.
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