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The Tangible ROI of Teaming: Lessons Learned from the DBIA 2023 Best in Teaming Project

Successful Integrated Design-Build (incentivized Progressive Design-Build) delivery demands more than just having the right set of contracts, intentions, and one-off teaming events. Success relies on daily behaviors and interactions between team members to extract best value in project outcomes. Using the 2023 DBIA Best in Teaming University of Washington Health Sciences Education Building as a case study, the team will share the value proposition of a successfully integrated team as well as best practices that attendees can implement on their teams. We will explore daily practices rooted in deliberate, regular, and transparent communication that, if carefully fostered by project leadership, will support a productive and collaborative team environment. The presentation will demonstrate how this project-oriented environment creates open, free sharing of ideas while also facilitating difficult conversations, resulting in an added value of 5.1% for the project along with the mitigation of risk and resolution of challenges. Finally, we will share specific and significant quantitative and qualitative value returns experienced by the entire project team derived from these best practices in teaming, earning the Owner an incredible 146% return on investment for their incentive dollars.

Speaker(s):

 Duncan Howard, DBIA, Project Manager, Lease Crutcher Lewis  Elizabeth Moggio, AIA, NCARB, Principal, The Miller/Hull Partnership, LLC  Jeannie Natta, DBIA, Director of Major Projects, Project Delivery Group, University of Washington

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