Integrated Project Delivery changes how complex work gets done by aligning teams early around shared risk, shared decisions, and project-wide outcomes.
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) explores a collaborative approach to delivering complex projects that emphasizes early involvement, shared understanding of risk, and faster, more informed decision-making. Rather than optimizing individual scopes, IPD-style delivery focuses teams on overall project performance—constructability, schedule reliability, safety, and lifecycle outcomes. This topic treats IPD as a practical way of working, not just a contract type, showing how teams can adopt IPD behaviors even within traditional delivery models. The emphasis is on reducing late surprises by moving learning upstream and creating conditions where expertise can be applied earlier and more effectively.
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VIDEO: Integrated Project Delivery (IPD); An Introduction
AUTHOR
Twennie Founders
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a collaborative approach to delivering complex projects that changes when decisions are made and who makes them together. Instead of passing work downstream and transferring risk, IPD brings owners, designers, engineers, contractors, and key trades into early collaboration under shared incentives. This shift allows constructability issues, risks, and tradeoffs to surface sooner—when they are cheaper and easier to resolve.
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VIDEO: Integrated Project Delivery 1 of 7 - Co-location
AUTHOR
Twennie Founders
This video introduces co-location as the first, easiest step in adopting Integrated Project Delivery. Rather than changing contracts or forcing major decisions, it creates early shared visibility around unfinished work so teams can spot issues sooner. You’ll learn how to choose the right project, define success, brief participants carefully, run the session, record what emerged early, and decide what practices to keep.
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motivational
PROMPT SET: Micro-IPD Habits; Testing the Principles of IPD in Small Steps
AUTHOR
Twennie Founders
This prompt set helps engineers and project managers experience Integrated Project Delivery behaviors in small, low-risk steps. Through shared workspaces, live problem-solving, early risk discussions, shortened feedback loops, and intentional discomfort, participants build collaboration muscle without changing contracts or delivery models. These micro-experiments reveal how early visibility, shared understanding, and aligned incentives improve outcomes — preparing professionals to lead effectively as IPD-style delivery becomes more common on complex projects.
why should I register for this prompt set:
To help engineers and project managers practice Integrated Project Delivery behaviors in small, low-risk ways — building collaboration, shared ownership, and faster decision-making before formal IPD is required
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educational
PROMPT SET: Leading Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in Micro
AUTHOR
Twennie Founders
This leader-focused prompt set supports Integrated Project Delivery in practice by addressing the hidden leadership work IPD requires. Through clear intent-setting, authority clarification, upward risk absorption, time protection, and visible accountability, leaders create conditions where early collaboration is safe and productive. These prompts help leaders prevent exposure from turning into punishment, ensure collaboration doesn’t become unpaid labor, and recognize when to pause or adjust experiments.
why should I register for this prompt set:
to help leaders create the safety, clarity, and protection teams need to practice IPD-style collaboration without being penalized for early visibility, shared risk, or honest uncertainty
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TEMPLATE: IPD Planning Template
AUTHOR
Twennie Founders
This IPD Planning Template is a practical companion for testing Integrated Project Delivery in real projects without committing to full adoption. It guides teams through structured experiments like co-location, shortened feedback loops, and early constructability by focusing on what people actually say and do. Rather than relying on theory, it captures behavioral signals, language shifts, and real-time learning. The template helps teams reflect on what worked, adjust what didn’t, and carry those lessons forward.
Shortening feedback loops is one of the simplest ways to improve project performance without changing authority structures, contracts, or decision-making processes. In this video, you'll learn how to create small, repeatable opportunities for teams to share unfinished work, ask questions, and identify risks before they become costly problems. Discover how early feedback reduces rework, improves coordination, strengthens learning, and helps teams avoid becoming overly committed to assumptions that may later prove incorrect.
Many constructability issues are discovered only after designs are largely complete, when changes are expensive, disruptive, and emotionally difficult. In this video, you'll learn how to introduce constructability thinking earlier in the project lifecycle without changing authority, contracts, or design ownership. Discover practical techniques for identifying buildability concerns, surfacing assumptions, inviting the right expertise, and improving collaboration between disciplines.
As more people become involved earlier in project discussions, confusion about authority, responsibility, and decision-making can quickly emerge. In this video, you'll learn how to clarify roles and decision boundaries without limiting collaboration or creating rigid silos. Discover practical techniques for separating input from decisions, encouraging cross-disciplinary awareness, reinforcing ownership, and creating an environment where people feel comfortable contributing ideas and raising concerns.
Integrated Project Delivery relies on behaviors that traditional project systems often discourage. In this video, you'll learn how to align incentives, success measures, and team recognition with the collaborative habits IPD requires. Discover practical ways to encourage early risk identification, cross-disciplinary thinking, shared learning, and proactive communication without changing contracts or formal authority structures.
VIDEO: Integrated Project Delivery 6 - Use Shared Models as Decision Tools
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June 26, 2026
Integrated Project Delivery works best when teams can see, discuss, and test ideas together. In this video, you'll learn how to use shared models as decision-making tools rather than simple project documentation. Discover how sketches, diagrams, BIM models, decision matrices, and other visual artifacts can help teams explore options, identify constraints, improve communication, and make more informed decisions earlier in the project lifecycle.
VIDEO: Integrated Project Delivery 7 - Close the Project With Intention
PROJECTED
July 10, 2026
The real value of Integrated Project Delivery is not just what happens during a project, but what teams carry forward afterward. In this final video of the series, you'll learn how to close projects with intention by capturing lessons while they are still fresh, recognizing successful behaviors, discussing challenges without blame, and converting experience into practical improvements. Discover how structured reflection helps preserve institutional knowledge, strengthen future project performance, and build long-term IPD capability.
