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DENVER · LOS ANGELES · PHOENIX ·
WASHINGTON DC · ABU DHABI
Architecture · Interior Design · Planning · Urban Design ·
Landscape Architecture · Lighting Design
100 Steele
Located at the northeast corner of 1st Avenue and
Steele Street, the 100 Steele project occupies one
of the most prominent locations within Denver’s
renowned Cherry Creek retail and residential district.
The mixed use, multi-family high-rise is pursuing
LEED-NC Gold. This 12-story concrete frame structure
will provide Cherry Creek with 185 high-styled
apartments and 3,800 sf of boutique retail space.
firms that may fear that this information could be
shared with competitors.” The entire process is built
on a foundation of trust and the transparency of sen-
sitive information is a risk that firms who believe in
the IPD process are willing to assume
His experience suggests two extremes: subcontrac-
tors who eagerly want to test the model, and those who
have walked away to pursue other opportunities in the
market. The transparency of the process requires a cul-
tural shift within the construction industry for which
many firms are not ready. Tilbury admitted that, “At times
it has felt like a social experiment. Putting your fee at
risk with the rest of the team is difficult for some trades
to embrace.”
Advice from Tilbury is for owners to draw a line in the
sand as to which trades and vendors participate in the
multiparty agreement arrangement. The investment in
time and energy to educate all subcontractors and vendors
may not benefit the greater good. “The business model is
not for everyone, and signing up reluctant parties only in-
creases our risk,” Tilbury says.
Rooted in lean design and construction methodology, IPD
seeks to harness the collective talent and innovation of the
team to generate cost and time saving concepts.
“Finding the opportunities to prefabricate project com-
ponents is very job dependent,” remarked Tilbury when
asked about how successful IPD is at spawning innovative
ideas. “We want to apply Lean principles to everything we
do, including finding ways to scale the IPD process to each
project.” Prefabrication, pull planning and process improve-
ment introduce another level of discussion to the project
with which some team members may not be familiar.
The IPD evolution is far from over and is still considered
to be in its infancy. The AIACC IPD Guide is an excellent
resource to further understand the IPD model and more
can be learned at the Center for Integrated Practice at AIA.
org, including a download of the AIACC IPD Guide and IPD
Awareness Survey.
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Rooted in lean design and
construction methodology,
IPD seeks to harness the
collective talent and
innovation of the team to
generate cost and time
saving concepts.
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