“This undertaking represents an unprecedented level of collaboration between building owners, designers, and contractors,” say group leaders Norman Strong, FAIA, AIA Vice President, William Tibbitt, former CURT president, and Doug Pruitt, AGC Vice President Nominee. “The formation of this group is an owner driven and fully cooperative response to the recent AIA/AGC Construction Industry Summit and a second three-party meeting at the AIA/AGC Joint Committee in Colorado Springs. Together we look forward to tackling the theoretical and strategic challenges to design and construction industry transformation by working across traditional stakeholder boundaries.”
Over the past two years, collaborative discussions between the AIA, AGC, and CURT have resulted in three publications and events, all focused on industry transformation. They include:
1) The shared drafting of CURT white paper 1202 in August, 2004, titled “Collaboration, Integrated Information and the Project Life Cycle in Building Design, Construction and Operation”
2) The continued mutual effort resulting in CURT white paper 1003, , written in 2005 and just published “Optimizing the Construction Process: An Implementation Strategy”
3) The jointly hosted AIA/AGC Construction Industry Summit, held in Washington, D.C. on May 8th and 9th.
In a continued spirit of collaboration, this new group will build upon the platform of the white papers and the summit. Headed up jointly by equal representation from AIA, AGC, and CURT, the working group will address the need for new business models, insurance products and contracts as well as industry “primers” and “how-to’s”.
Group leaders will develop a formal action plan over the course of the summer for release during the CURT meeting in Detroit, Sept. 11 - 13.
