Innovative Tool for Owners: Owner Typology Assessment and Project Delivery Method Considerations

Innovative Tool for Owners: Owner Typology Assessment and Project Delivery Method Considerations

The research sought to determine key owner decision-making characteristics that impact project delivery method outcomes. Based on our understanding of the impact, we developed a tool that owners and project teams could use to understand how an owner's decision-making profile impacts outcomes for different project delivery methods. To determine key decision-making characteristics, we conducted an extensive review of business, management, and organizational literature on decision-making, which covered decision-making speed, organizational change, and innovation. Out of this review, we identified fourteen important decision-making characteristics, eventually narrowing our selection down to seven that are most relevant to building owner decisions around capital projects. These seven became our Decisionmaking Profile Characteristics (DMPC). We then conducted an extensive review of literature related to project delivery methods (PDM) and PDM selection in architecture/engineering/construction (AEC). Out of this review, we identified nine factors affecting the success of a project. These became the Project Delivery Method Criteria (PDMC). Next, we needed to assess how the DMPC impacted each PDMC. We conducted an industry survey of owners that asked participants about the decision-making characteristics that impacted project delivery selection. We also asked participants to reflect on a specific project they had worked on to reflect on the relationships between their DMPCs and the project outcomes. The survey resulted in 278 cases with 109 cases extracted for further analysis-consisting of 68 cases with 100% complete responses, 32 cases with 90% complete responses, and 9 cases with 80% complete responses. With these 109 cases we conducted data analysis including, but not limited to, data wrangling, data cleaning, data pre-processing, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, respondents and projects demographics analysis, Pearson correlation, and linear regression.

• Grant Details

  Project

  Innovative Tool for Owners: Owner Typology Assessment and Project Delivery Method Considerations

  Grantee

  University of Washington

  Category

  Project Delivery

  Subcategory

  General

  Grant #

  02-22

  Award Amount

  $100,672

  Grant Period

  January 2022-January 2023

  Grant Status

  Complete

  Principal Investigators

  Renée Cheng, FAIA; Carrie Sturts Dossick, Ph.D, P.E.; and Laura Osburn, Ph.D. Other team members included Lingzi Wu, Ph.D. Daniel Dimitrov, and Xianxiang Sean Zhao

  Industry Champions

  Markku Allison, Greg Gidez, Louise Pannetor, and Laura Stagner

  CPF Allies

  American Institute of Architects and Integrated Project Delivery Alliance

  Supporters

  Chandos Construction and P1 Consulting

  Research Deliverables

  Literature Review
  Owners Survey
  Digital Innovative Tool for Project Delivery Method Analysis and Selection

• Resources / Downloads

  • Building Owner's Assessment Tool

    Helping You Understand Your Culture and Its Project Delivery Ramifications