Unbox Your Ideas—the Benefits of Integrated Design

Traditional project delivery in North America is often fraught with design changes, budget and schedule overages, and adversarial relationships between the design and construction teams. Rather than the traditional approach of distinct planning, design, and construction teams, each of whom operate in a “black box” passing a project along from phase to phase, the concept of an Integrated Design Process (IDP) is to have one integrated team work together to consider risks and opportunities across project phases.