A statistical analysis correlating controllable factors identified by the integration-VDC-lean method and project outcome metrics for MEP coordination
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- MEP coordination has become an important step in construction project delivery. It bridges the gap between design and construction, facilitating communication between the different stakeholders involved and resolving issues before they are encountered in the field. Successful MEP coordination has been tied to successful project outcomes (Khanzode, Fischer, & Reed, 2005; Korman, Fischer, & Tatum, 2003; Staub-French & Khanzode, 2007), resulting in fewer field conflicts. Khanzode et al. (2011) developed the IVL method for MEP coordination with fifty factors project managers can control to make the coordination successful. However, guidelines that help managers prioritize these factors do not exist. For example, is identifying the strategic goals and specific objectives for the coordination of MEP systems more important for successful MEP coordination than having the team co-located during MEP coordination? Until now, managers have relied on their personal experience and lessons learned from past projects to guide their efforts during coordination. This has led to wide variations in project outcomes across projects (even within the same organization) and a lack of consistency during coordination. With the support of Professor Martin Fischer from Stanford University, and Dr. Atul Khanzode and Stephane Denerolle from DPR Construction, I carried out a survey inquiring 65 construction projects about their MEP coordination methods and correlated them with their project outcomes. This allowed the development of a thorough analysis correlating the different controllable factors to the different project outcomes to uncover which are the most important controllable factors that influence project outcomes during MEP coordination. This research uncovered the most critical controllable factors related to each project outcome. In particular, we were able to identify that fifteen controllable factors (out of the fifty identified by Khanzode et al. (2011)) that have the greatest influence on the fourteen outcome metrics for MEP coordination. Using this methodology, teams can to focus their attention on manageable controllable factors which are directly correlated to MEP outcomes which are critical for the project.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Garcia-Lopez, Nelly |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Thesis advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nelly Garcia-Lopez. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Thesis | Engineering Stanford University 2013 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Nelly Paola Garcia Lopez
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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