Define Your Project Delivery Strategy with Building Owner's Assessment Tool
Discover how you and your clients can leverage this new tool to foster productive collaborative conversations, identify organizational challenges, set shared expectations, and design specific processes to address challenges.
About the live course
By helping owners understand the tensions and alignments between their organization’s decision-making profile and different types of project delivery methods, the Building Owner's Assessment Tool (BOAT) empowers project managers to understand their organization, to reflect on delivery methods, and to onboard project team members with an understanding of and create strategies to address roadblocks and pain points during project delivery.
Discover how you and your clients can leverage this new tool to foster productive collaborative conversations, identify organizational challenges, set shared expectations, and design specific processes to address challenges.
The Building Owner’s Assessment Tool was developed by the University of Washington with support from the Charles Pankow Foundation, AIA Project Delivery Knowledge Community, Integrated Project Delivery Alliance, P1 Consulting, and Chandos Construction.
Learning objectives
-Identify how the Building Owner's Assessment Tool was developed and describe its purpose.
-Recognize the importance of organizational structure, risk tolerance, and approach to decision-making when selecting and managing the appropriate project delivery method.
-Explain the project delivery method selection and management criteria and how they are impacted by an owner’s decision-making profile.
-Describe how an owner can work with the project team to apply the tool to identify tensions and alignments with the selected project delivery strategy and create strategies together to address these tensions and take advantage of the alignments.