Own IT.

Ok, you're a major landowner. You have lots of properties. You like to develop them. 

We've all played Monopoly, WE GET IT.

Let me ask you this -  

1. Is the same architect designing each property? 
   
2. Is the same general contractor managing the project? 
   
3. Are the same builders on each project?
   

If you've answered 'No' to any of these questions,  proceed to the next question:

     4.  How do you maintain consistency from project to project and evolve your building process while not being restrained by the lowest common denominator?

Answer well.

Hints:

• Information Flow - what data are you consistently supplying your design team? How can you streamline anything that might be replicated by multiple project teams?
• Standards - what is your process for ensuring that each project maintains standards as defined by your definition of efficiency and productivity? Where can you evolve and put your design time vs. non-critical or highly repetitive units that need to be standard from building to building?
• Data Management - as the owner in a 3-party contract, you will be called on for an acceleration of decision-making as well as information supply. How can that information be made easily accessible, quickly modifiable, standardized, and easily updateable?
• Lifespan - you are developing digital data models of your facilities, how can you use this information on the back-end? Are you facilities looking to this level of information? How are your renovation teams geared?
• Reuse - what are you getting back from one project team that can be shared with the next, reducing design fees while still maintaining liability from architect to architect?
• Shared Learning - when you test something on one project, how can you get that information back from the execution and share what you learned with the next project team, allowing for design evolution across multiple firms? How are prototypes utilized?
• Management - Architects vary with their understanding of IPD and VDC. GC's vary. Your own project managers vary. How do you staff and manage your consultants, reducing the bottom of the learning curve from project to project team while still learning from the top of the curve?

Disappointingly, this is a zen-like journey for many owners, and many that do not know that they will be setting out on this. Universities, healthcare institutions, developers.  Any multiple-building owners will experience this dilemma in the coming years, and not just in the US.  Process engineering can alleviate and flush out many of these issues, and seeking out the leaders in IPD and BIM/VDC today will begin the education process and lessen your learning curve. 

Thank you for your time, I need go now and develop my hotels on Boardwalk. FTW!