CME303 Project Delivery System: A Case Study Analysis Report

This report delves into the intricacies of project delivery systems, examining various methods such as design-bid-build, design-build, and integrated project delivery (IPD). It begins by defining project delivery systems and their significance in organizing and financing construction projects. The report then explores different options available to clients, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each, with a particular emphasis on IPD. A case study is presented from the perspective of a construction management consultant, discussing the optimal project delivery system for a specific client scenario. The report covers essential elements like contract types, risk management strategies, and strategies for delivering projects on time and within budget. It also addresses tendering mechanisms, payment methods, and other project delivery approaches. The assignment highlights the importance of selecting the appropriate delivery system to achieve project success and meet client objectives, incorporating key aspects of project delivery systems into a case study based assignment, in order to complement the coursework Module notes that are part of this unit.

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Project Delivery System
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Executive Summary
The assignment would be discussing about the very definition of project delivery
system. The system of project delivery system or project delivery method is said to be the
cognitive system or method that is used by any kin d of agency or any owner or firms for
organizing and financing the work (Mesa et al. 2018). The types of the work could be
classified to be of design, any kind of construction or operations, and any maintenance
service for structuring or facilitating by the entry of into some legal system or agreements
with certain entities or parties. In the following assignment, there would be discussion about a
particular kind of project delivery system that would be used in the following case student.
From the case study, it could be understand that the selection of the project delivery system
would be from the view point of a consultant that is working at a Construction Management
and Quality Surveying agency. At the case study, it is stated that clients have been referred to
the agency who is a close friend and happen to be man of the work in the line.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Options available to the client regarding project delivery system.............................................4
Method to be advised to the client.............................................................................................5
Definition of the method........................................................................................................5
Setup needed for supporting the method................................................................................6
Strength and Weakness of integrated project delivery system...............................................7
Managing the risks.................................................................................................................8
Suggested method delivering the project in time.......................................................................8
Strategies to be developed for achieving project success with suitable payment method and
tendering mechanism.................................................................................................................9
Other methods..........................................................................................................................10
Explanation..........................................................................................................................10
Contract Type...........................................................................................................................10
Alignment with the Procurement Method................................................................................10
Decision of the project Delivery System.................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The system of project delivery system or project delivery method is said to be the
cognitive system or method that is used by any kin d of agency or any owner or firms for
organizing and financing the work (Mesa et al. 2018). The types of the work could be
classified to be of design, any kind of construction or operations, and any maintenance
service for structuring or facilitating by the entry of into some legal system or agreements
with certain entities or parties. The process is used for making certain types of categorized in
any kind of particular work that is to be delivered to the client. The method would be used for
delivering the project to the clients at a certain amount of time (Liu et al. 2016). There are
many kinds of project delivery system that could use the operators or the owners for making
the task or the operation to be delivered to the client.
In the following assignment, there would be discussion about a particular kind of
project delivery system that would be used in the following case student. From the case
study, it could be understand that the selection of the project delivery system would be from
the view point of a consultant that is working at a Construction Management and Quality
Surveying agency. At the case study, it is stated that clients have been referred to the agency
who is a close friend and happen to be man of the work in the line. The client are very
important as the work matter is huge and wants to have a fast relocation at the owned site.
Thus, the following report would be having certain discussion regarding the various aspects
of project delivery system, which would be ideal for them and what would be the various part
of system. The report would also include detail about the correct delivery system that is
needed to have from the project.

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Discussion
Options available to the client regarding project delivery system
As discussed earlier, it have been seen that there have been many kid of system that
could be used as a part of the system of delivery of the particular project (Steffens et al.
2018). There are many options that could be used by the owner or the consultant to be
suggested to the client for getting their task being delivered. Some of the common types of
project delivery system or method that are used by the owners of firms are – design-bid-build
or design-award-build, design-bid-build (DBB) with construction management, design-bid
(DB) or design-construct, design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM), build-operate-transfer
(BOT), general contractors (GC), integrated project delivery (IPD) and public-private-
partnership (PPP).
The above mentioned are some of the most commonly used project delivery methods
that are frequently used by owners or consultants of the firms (Hanna 2018). The primary
goal of these systems or methods is to deliver the project is designated time and accordingly
to the clients requirements.
The basic parts of the system of delivery is the process that is to be used for delivering
the task. Owner being the highest in the chain, the sub parts of the system is divided into
architectures or engineers and general consultant. The architectural is divided into consultant
and the general is divided into subordinates and vendors. The basic advantages of the system
is to make the common use of the system to be utilizing so that in the market place, it would
be more comfortable with the processes (Ma, Zhang and Li 2018). Another classic advantage
of the system is that there are plans that would be usually be completed for prior to the
bidding or the final pricing of the project at the market place.

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Along with the advantages, there are many disadvantages of the project delivery
system too. There have been many incidents that would have clearly stated that often
contractors have been inputting certain designs while the work is going on. There have been
slow delivery, at the time of the project delivery, as there have been some back to back
phasing. In some cases, there have been some adversarial relationship in between the
designated G.C and the A/E (Rowlinson 2017). Also it have been seen that in some of the
cases, there have been late in the price and the schedule information as they are obtained
lately.
Method to be advised to the client
There have been various kind of methods that have been sued in the process of system
delivery of the project. As some of the methods would seem ideal for being referring to the
client, it should be critically analyzed what should be the methods of work that is to be used
for using in the particular case study.
Apart from all the method, the most commonly used now a days is the DBB. The
approach or the method of the system is used in most of the approaches of private and
majority of the public projects that are used in the construction industry (Pishdad-Bozorgi,
Pardis and Yvan 2018). Though it is one of the most commonly used, at Australia, most of
the builders or firm owners have been using the purpose of integrated project delivery system
for being using in the construction industry.
Definition of the method
The method is classified to the process of delivery method of project, which is said to
be the interest of the primary team consisting of members who are aligned to be in such a
particular way that they would be integrating for the optimal project performance which
would be resulting in the collaboration (Deutsch 2018). The process is also said to be a value

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based process which would be delivering all the high outcomes results that were estimated by
the client. The outcomes would be in such a way that they would be resulting the entire
delivery of the whole building.
Setup needed for supporting the method
Some of the key performance components that would be need by the organization for
setting up the process of integrated system of project delivery are –
 Multiple party contract – this would be including the key some of the key features like
owner to be a primary builder or a designer, there should be single contract amount
which would be including all the contingency, the profit at the risk of partners for
agreement, guaranteed costs for the partners that are based on the audits, all the shared
saving form the delivery under the budgets (Ali 2017).
 There should be implementation of the lean concepts and practices and also the tools.
 There also should be intentional creation of a collaborative culture which would be
implementing in the project delivery system.
The system of integrated project system delivery would be culture, the part 9of the
contracts and that of the lean operating system of the project delivery system. Other key
elements would be integrating the system of some contracts of integrated project system
which would be including third parties like owner, lead designer and lead builders. There
should also be many more parties that would be including poly parties’ agreement that there
would be other parties like structural engineer, mechanical engineer, concrete contractor and
other instrumental contractors (Ali 2017). They estimated cost of the maximum price is also
needed to be analyzed for creating the key performance characteristic of the integrated plan.
The firm or the organization is estimated to have profit, contingencies and that of cost of

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work. It would be guaranteeing the cost for primary partners with a 100 percent of profit at-
risk. It would be collecting profit which would be often (Ma, Zhang and Li 2018). This
particular process would be clarified to be known as risk pool. They should be having the
various kind of contributes in their form of profit.
Strength and Weakness of integrated project delivery system
There are various purposes and uses of the integrated delivery system. It would be
used of delivering the project in particular times. There have been many strengths and
weaknesses of integrated project delivery system.
The strengths are
 It is said that there have been elimination of waste in the project design while using
the approach of integrated project delivery system.
 There would also be establishment of correct point of contract that would be helping
in reaching each of the project task.
 There would be improvement of job productivity.
 There would also be increase of the value of the project.
 There would also be estimation of innovative tactics for approaching in the work of
field.
 Creating cost saving would also be initiated in the project for delivering in the work.
 It would also be producing in the innovative ways of for reaching the goals of the
project.
The weaknesses of the project delivery system are –

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 It would be imperative with each of the team member as there would be many
understanding defects of the results for their own goods.
 Using the approach, it would not always be necessary or possible for delivering all the
models in term of personnel time.
 The flow of work could create challenges as being presented to the terms which
would be taken as the burned for working as assists.
Managing the risks
The risks could be managing by using cognitive approaches which would eventually
solve the issues of the delivery system. It could be more prominent while using the
approaches where there is no form of lean form of business in the process of working or
delivering the tasks (Tran 2017). This would more prominent if there have been in the field of
work in the delivery. By solving all the weaknesses in the prominent delivery system, it
would be helpful for seeing all the necessary kind of feasible approaches for solving the
problem.
Suggested method delivering the project in time
As there have been the use of integrated project delivery system in the case study, it is
to be estimated that there should be need of knowing the fact that if the selected approach is
considered to be getting the work in time or not.
With the alliances of all the participants which would be agreeing in the blame culture
of the contract, which would specifically be precludes of any party that would be seeking in
the legal redress fir the lack of performance by another (Park and Young 2017). It would be
estimated that the accountability of the lead situation where it is not be possible for
adequately addressing any party’s poor performance, it would be suffering with the alliances.
With the help of IPD, there would be number of opportunities where the allow the parties for

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seeking legal redress for which it would be provide big enough for threating to ensure the
performance (Ma, Zhang and Li 2018).
The system would be delivering values in the project. It would be the victim of its
own success with the early government funded or any privatized project. With the help of this
project, it should be using in the downside of the project delivery (Ma, Zhang and Li 2018). It
would also be in the favor of the integrated project delivery system as thee would be no more
than that of any other system of work in the process. The system is used for delivering the
work in time and also using it for delivering value of the project.
The supply chain of the integrated project delivery system, have been using in the any
form of model and is rarely been seen in the compromises as main consultants and designer
owner would be creating provisions for sub-alliances (Park and Young 2017). Thus,
integrated project delivery system would be allowing the in greater engagement with the
supply of chain of collaborative basis.
Lean constructions would be easy for being used by virtue of this integrated project
delivery system. It would be more helpful in improving overall value of the owner. Thus, it
could be used for delivering the task on time.
Strategies to be developed for achieving project success with suitable
payment method and tendering mechanism
As the client have chosen the firm from their own, they would be making the
assumptions that the tendering mechanism would be taken from them directly. There should
some payment methods to be needed to be developed in order to make the strategies that
would be making for the strategic implication of the plans (Steffens et al. 2018). The plan
would be making in developing certain strategies for the success of the project in time.

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For the success of the project, it is needed that there should be some of the rational sot
be developed in the project delivery system that would be making certain claims for making
successful creation of the project in time.
For the creation of certain strategies that would be needed for making success of the
project, it should be kept in mind that they would be making certain amount of strategic
implementation. For keeping the project success, half of the payment is needed to be taken at
the time of project and half after the completion of the project.
Other methods
Some of the other methods that are to be included in the project deliver system could
be the use of design bid build with the application of construction management.
Explanation
With the process of partially completed sector of contract demanded, it could be well
documented that there should be the hiring from the owner side, a construction manager (Li
2016). They would be developing the contract as per the engineer or the architecture, which
would be consisting as the set of the detailed specification. Bids would be consisting of
solicited from the contractors for delivering quality client specification.
Contract Type
The following contract time that is needed to be taken into account in the form of
mechanism along with the integrated project delivery system. The contract type would be
lump sum or fixed price contract type. It is the type of contract that would be involving in the
total fixed priced for the construction-related activities (Modak 2018). The lump sum
contracts that would be including the benefits of early termination or can also have many
penalties which is known as liquidated damage.

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Alignment with the Procurement Method
The Integrated Project Delivery System has been gaining popularity among the
business organizations involved in the construction management process. The delivery model
selected here is mainly used in the different projects that involves different kids of the
construction (Fewings & Henjewele 2019). The construction projects involves the use of the
single contracts or designs along with a shared risk or reward model. The major goal of the
contract model is to remove the different kinds of the barriers to collaboration as well as the
different kinds of the incentives for the project team. The alignment of the contract structure
helps to allow the scope in order to make the organization cost effective. The construction of
the four storey house will thus be done using the integrated project management system. The
procurement method which will be used in the following process will define the different
types of the terms and procedures of the plan. The contract plan will be laying out the
different kinds of the terms and conditions by which the parties involved in the project will
ensure the success of the project. The budget and the schedule of the goals will be easily met
by the organizations.
The alignment process will also involve the consideration of the financial targets that
needs to be achieved by the organization. The financial targets will be met by means of
proper and effective utilization of the resources and by proper application of the integrated
project delivery system. The contract will also define the proper leadership terms of the
business. The leadership terms and conditions will be defined in a proper manner toe ensure
the smooth operations of the project. The integrated agreement signed by the parties will
align them with each other and they will both be responsible for the success and failure of the
party.

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Decision of the project Delivery System
The selection of the integrated project delivery system is one of the most important
elements that needs a serious consideration. The integrated project delivery system is highly
supported and used in Australia. The integrated project delivery system is the best suited for
the following construction as it involves an Australian National (Kerzner 2018). There are
certain advantages of the following project delivery system. They are as follows;
a. Integrated Project Management is capable of eliminating the wastes in the designing
of the project
b. Integrated Project management helps to improve job productivity
c. The implementation of the project management helps to establish the correct point of
contact for each of the project tasks
d. The selection of the integrated project management helps the organization to ensure a
proper improvement in the different tactics that are applied in the construction
methods
e. The integrated project management helps the organization to discover and implement
better and innovative ways in order to reach the different kinds of the business goals
f. The integrated project management systems helps the organizations to create savings
g. The production of the innovative ways helps to reach the goals more easily than the
other kinds of the project management systems
On the other hand, there are different kinds of problems that restricts organizations from
the selection of the integrated project delivery systems. Some of the common problems are as
follows;
a. The delivery method needs to improve the total project and present them to teams
which include different kinds of the teams

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b. The absence of strong partners is one of the biggest cons of the following process

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