3PQ: The Project Owner's Control Tool

As a Construction Project Owner you are constantly faced with decisions. Just about all of them are intended to influence success...to 'Control Your Project's Outcome'.

When using typical Design-Bid-Build project delivery tools, you know (along with the entire industry), and are usually confortable with, the dominant DBB Control Tool: Complete Drawings & 16 Division Specifications. But how do you control your Project Outcome when using Design-Build or IPD (particularly 'Performance-Based' Design-Build), and don't have Complete Drawings and a 16 Division Specification?

To explain, The 3PQ Process begins by recognizing that specific "Control Mechanism" correspond to specific "Delivery Models". One then notices that the Construction Project Owner controls DBB projects by directing/guiding/influencing/etc. the plans & specs...

...so how do you control a DB project.

The Project Control Matrix explains...click here