The AIA recently introduced Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide (IPD Guide). Developed jointly with the AIA California Council, the IPD Guide defines the world of integrated project delivery (IPD) as the design and construction industry moves toward more effective and collaborative team approaches.

The guide covers IPD principles and techniques and explains how to use IPD methodologies in designing and constructing projects. Benefits to architects will include better communication on the critical issues facing practice today; a better process for working with clients, consultants, and builders; value-based compensation models; appropriate sharing of risk and reward; and greater professional relevance as architects exceed expectations and truly become designers again.

Target-Value Design: Nine Foundational Practices for Delivering Surprising Client Value

Quantifying Embodied Energy

2008 Corporate Architects and Facility Management Scholarship Program

Application deadline: January 24, 2008

IDP Outstanding Firm Awards Program

Next deadline: January 15, 2008

Call for Papers: 2008 Walter Wagner Forum

Submissions due January 23

CBSP Symposium, Disaster Assessment

Washington, DC March 6-7, 2008

PDC 2008: The Business of Sustaining Our Future

2008 International Conference and Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design and Construction) Orlando March 10–13, 2008

Sustainable Communities: How Healthy Is Your Region?

Salt Lake City March 27–29, 2008 Online registration Print registration form (PDF)

School Building Expo 2008

Schaumburg, IL April 1-3, 2008

Design Parallels Spring Conference

Detroit April 3-6, 2008

The Basics of Design-Assist Contracting

Design-assist contracting is a construction management method to improve quality and maintain cost. It is most commonly used when a specialty trade, fabrication, or building method requires a unique solution or set of trade skills. Read on to learn more.

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