Publications / 2005 Proceedings of the 22nd ISARC, Ferrara, Italy

Cross-Organization Process Integration in Design-Build Team

Min-Yuan Cheng, Ming-Hsiu Tsai
Abstract:

Combining the design-build and fast-tracking delivery methods, this study aimed to reengineering the fast-tracking processes across both organizations of designer and constructor, so that fast-tracking processes in the design-build team can span across organizational boundaries and are composed of cooperating workflows executed in different organizations. For this purpose, two subjects are described in this study, namely, (1) fast-tracking model creation, and (2) cross-organizational process reengineering. Consequently, this research addressed a mechanism to facilitate the flexibility of cross-organizational process integration, which may assess alliance of design and construction companies for one design-build project.

Keywords: design-build, fast-track construction, business process reengineering (BPR) , virtual enterprise (VE), intelligent agent (IA)