TY  - CONF
TI  - Developing a Multi Project-Collaboration Based IPD Framework for Small & Medium Scale Enterprises in the Construction Industry
AU  - Vaitla, Raviteja
AU  - Gaikwad, Vrinda A.
AU  - S., Abhinav Reddy
AU  - Yoon, Jong Han
AD  - Graduate Student, Building construction and Facility Management Department, Georgia Institute of  Technology, Atlanta, USA, rvaitla3@gatech.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-6518-2314
AD  - Graduate Student, Building construction and Facility Management Department, Georgia Institute of  Technology, Atlanta, USA, vgaikwad7@gatech.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-3783-4100
AD  - Graduate Student, Building construction and Facility Management Department, Georgia Institute of  Technology, Atlanta, USA, asingireddy7@gatech.edu, orcid.org/0000-0001-6344-9516
AD  - 4 PHD Candidate, Building construction and Facility Management Department, Georgia Institute of  Technology, Atlanta, USA jyoon337@gatech.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-6303-6241
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/27
T2  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Edmonton, Canada
SP  - 704
EP  - 714
DO  - 10.24928/2022/0179
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - Small and medium enterprises (SME) in construction projects frequently struggle to manage labour, materials, finances, and equipment. The Integrated Project Delivery method (IPD) has the potential to solve these challenges. However, the existing IPD framework has a low feasibility rate in SMEs due to technological, financial, and managerial challenges. This is because IPD is a project delivery system that requires adequate capital, communication channels, software, training for workers, etc. which are usually available with large-scale construction projects but not with SME-based projects. Accordingly, this paper proposes a new IPD framework more specific to small and medium scale construction projects by improving the existing framework in terms of resource management and cross-validation of stakeholders. The proposed framework enables the SME projects to acquire and manage the resources for conducting IPD through the concept of “Multi-Project collaboration”. In the collaboration, multiple contractors with individual projects cooperate with one another for achieving a positive impact on their performance through the IPD method. This study contributes to the body of knowledge by enabling the construction industry to understand the effective application of the IPD method to SME projects.
KW  - Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)
KW  - Collaboration
KW  - Alliancing
KW  - SME
KW  - Challenges.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2000/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/2000
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -