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The growing importance of physical and mental wellbeing in architecture and design.

“That’s what’s actually changing this.People are making that connection.

And we're becoming more of a global economy as well, so they're seeing examples.”.These days she’s starting to see “masses of the big players change their behaviour.”.She’s as excited for them as she is for architects.. Marks recalls that while talking to the Head of VD&C for a large company, she was impressed with the work and incredible technology going into a two-billion-dollar hospital project.

At the end of the presentation, she asked, “how much of this can you use for the next project?”.The answer: “None of it.”.

It’s not acceptable, she says, addressing the position of the serial owners who are building hospital after hospital, school after school.

Owners who are spending billions of dollars.. “What owner in their right mind is going to spend money and not get consistency of any data,” she says, “to learn from, reuse and evolve, to be more operationally efficient?There is a lot of evidence that well-implemented IPD has significant benefits in project management terms i.e.

projects get delivered more reliably to scope, cost and time.While this is an important measure the big prize is in securing the delivery to a wider set of value drivers.. Never a fan of extolling a particular flavour or brand of approach, I am much more interested in the ingredients and the principles of any approach.

For me, there are a number of foundations that make IPD valuable: -.Each party does what they are best at and this includes the client.