aligned - EllisDon

ALIGNED
BUILDING. REDESIGNED.
CHRIS ANDREWS, P.ENG.
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
ALIGNED
416.575.0965
CANDREWS@ELLISDON.COM
WE SEE THE DISCONNECT
BETWEEN DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION. WE KNOW
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH
PROJECT DELIVERY AND RISK.
WE ARE SEEING TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFORMING BUILDING. WE
KNOW THERE'S A BETTER WAY
TO BUILD. THAT'S WHY WE'RE
CREATING A NEW BUSINESS.
IT'S CALLED ALIGNED.
EllisDon has been building for a long time. During this time we have
seen the disconnection between building design and construction.
A NEW
WAY TO
BUILD
Because of this disconnection, we have seen increased risk with project
delivery. We have seen risk with cost, time and in effectively executing
a great vision. We have listened to the demand by owners for changes
to how things are done. Right now the building industry is changing –
driven by new roles, new technologies and international competitiveness.
EllisDon has looked at what is going on and has created a new business that
fundamentally shifts the way that buildings are delivered. The new
business is called Aligned.
Aligned is transparent and simpler for everyone. It supports and values design
thinking and design integrity. It completely links design,
construction and building craft as a single activity. It puts a premium on flexibility and ingenuity while increasing predictability and decreasing uncertainty.
We are calling this new EllisDon business Aligned. It aligns the
interests of what owners want and need with what EllisDon will do.
It aligns design and construction disciplines. It aligns the purpose of
EllisDon with our core values of Trust and Openness.
We think it changes the game.
“AS WE CREATED THIS NEW BUSINESS, WE LOOKED AT
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE WENT BEYOND BEING
A PLAYER DESIGNING AND CONSTRUCTING BUILDINGS
AND REDESIGNED THE WHOLE PROCESS OF BUILDING.”
THE SERVICE
AND STRUCTURE
OF ALIGNED
“DESIGN EXECUTION IN ALIGNED IS
BASED ON A FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT IN
THE EFFORT OF DESIGN DELIVERY,
FROM DOCUMENT PRODUCTION TO
CONCEPTUAL THINKING. IT IS BASED
ON VALIDATING A BUILDING CONCEPT
WITH REAL-TIME CONSTRUCTION
EXPERIENCE, COSTING AND DESIGN
INNOVATION BEFORE PROCEEDING
TO DETAILED DESIGN.”
Aligned is a service that EllisDon offers to owners to help them deliver better buildings faster and with certainty. Aligned is based on a single point of
contractual responsibility for design and construction within
EllisDon and guarantees the result.
The Aligned business unit is positioned laterally beside the traditional construction delivery business in the EllisDon organization. It has the mandate
and responsibility to manage and link design with construction as a single
process.
It is staffed by experts in design management, BIM systems and
modelling, professionals in architecture and engineering. It is supported by
teams of outside consultants, retained by EllisDon. It is driven by a cultural
identity of innovation, technology and shared ideas.
Complete delivery for design and construction will be undertaken within a
simple contractual and organizational structure. The team structure maintains
the continuity of an owner’s vision and connection with a
project from the initial idea to the completed project.
SHIFTING THE DESIGN CURVE
FROM PRODUCTION TO CONCEPT
SHIFTING THE DESIGN CURVE FROM DESIGN PRODUCTION
TO CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT PROVIDES THREE KEY
ALIGNED
BENEFITS:
AN
CH
EFFORT
TO
CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES EARLY ON IN THE
ST
TO VALIDATE THE DESIGN FOR COST, SCHEDULE AND
GE
IT ALLOWS THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TEAM
CO
1.
TRADITIONAL
PROCESS.
2.
IT ALLOWS THE TEAM TO MAKE CHANGES AT LOW COST
AND REDUCES COST FOR CHANGES DURING DETAILED
AB
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PHASES.
3.
IT ENSURES WE DELIVER DESIGN VALUE.
CONCEPT
ILIT
PRODUCTION
YT
OC
HAN
GE
CONSTRUCTION
TIME
ALIGNED ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE
POSITIONING
Aligned is positioned laterally
beside the construction sector in
EllisDon and manages design, delivery and interfaces with
EllisDon construction resources.
ALIGNED
ELLISDON
ELLISDON
CONSTRUCTION
OWNER
INITIAL INTEGRATION
Owner contact with EllisDon
starts project conceptual studies
and team selection.
ALIGNED
ELLISDON
ELLISDON
CONSTRUCTION
OWNER
DESIGN/CONSTRUCTION PHASE
Design team retained through
EllisDon, design managed and
construction delivered by Open
Book GMP contract.
DESIGN
TEAM
ALIGNED
ELLISDON
ELLISDON
CONSTRUCTION
WITH ALIGNED,
ELLISDON PROVIDES
A SINGLE POINT
OF RESPONSIBILITY,
ASSUMPTION OF RISK,
AND GUARANTEED
RESULTS.
HOW IT WORKS
Aligned is targeted at projects with an emphasis on design value and complexity.
It begins with an owner coming to EllisDon with an idea. EllisDon will test the
idea for cost, feasibility, design skills and required design resources. Following
a decision to proceed, EllisDon will select, jointly with an owner, teams of design
professionals chosen for their particular skills, culture of innovation and
commitment to shared responsibility.
These will be teams we value, trust and have a commitment to this process.
Experts in costing, planning, logistics and energy modeling are brought in from
EllisDon’s construction and service businesses. Key trades are introduced into
the design process to facilitate coordination and planning. A concept will be developed with everyone at the table and validated with real-time costing, 3D modeling and
interdisciplinary coordination.
We will then execute the detailed design efficiently, using 3D modeling, based on a
proven design concept. Construction will be delivered with certainty because the design has been proven and coordinated. Because we understand the design
completely, we can easily adapt to site, logistical and market conditions.
“THROUGH ALIGNED, OUR MANDATE TO BUILD
EFFICIENTLY AND WITH CERTAINTY IS EMBEDDED
IN OUR OBLIGATION TO GET THE DESIGN RIGHT
AND THE CONTRACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR
BOTH DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PHASES.”
CONTRACT STRUCTURE AND COSTING
EllisDon will undertake projects through Aligned based on a single contract for
design and construction services. The contract will be structured to undertake design
under a design services scope and construction on an open book
GMP basis.
The extent of services in the contract can be phased. The contract is based on existing CCDC terms and conditions. The point of conversion to a GMP price
is targeted to be prior to completion of production design.
The complete process of developing cost estimates, retention of trades and
setting a GMP price will be on an open book basis, between EllisDon and the owner.
Options are available for incentives relative to cost and schedule targets, established
as part of the design phase and commitment to a GMP.
COST OF SERVICES FOR DESIGN
The costs of design services through Aligned are not greater than the cost of services
for design under traditional delivery methods.
COMPARISON TO OTHER DELIVERY METHODS
Aligned draws on the experience of EllisDon with delivery methods that involve
design and traditional construction services such as Design-Build, IPD and CM approaches. It is fundamentally different from Design-Build because of the
emphasis on the support of design value, the owner’s connection through the process and the development of a design concept that is proven by EllisDon rather than
an emphasis on hitting costs for a pre-determined concept. It
is fundamentally different than IPD because of the complete assumption of
design and construction risk by EllisDon, rather than shared risk by all parties.
It is different than CM delivery because the contractual basis for design and
construction with EllisDon drives design value and overall project coordination.
THE RESULTS
RISK
1.
ALIGNED SHIFTS THE DESIGN EFFORT BY
FOCUSING ON THE CONCEPT AND VALIDATING IT.
2.
ALIGNED SHIFTS THE CONSTRUCTION CURVE
REDUCED
COST
TIME
EFFORT
TO REDUCE UNCERTAINTY, RISK, TIME AND COST.
3.
ALIGNED SHIFTS THE KNOWLEDGE CURVE BY
REDUCED
TIME
LINKING DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND
TECHNOLOGY TO DRIVE NEW THINKING.
TRADITIONAL
DESIGN
CONSTRUCTION
ALIGNED
CONCEPT
FOCUSED
DESIGN
LINKING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
WITH ALIGNED ELLISDON HAS CREATED A
WAY OF BUILDING WHERE OWNERS GET THE
CONTROL AND TRANSPARENCY THEY NEED.
WITH ALIGNED, ELLISDON HAS CREATED
A PLACE WHERE PLANNERS CAN PLAN,
ARCHITECTS CAN DESIGN, ENGINEERS
ALIGNED IS ABOUT
BEING BETTER.
ALIGNED DELIVERS CERTAINTY FOR OWNERS, BETTER
BUILDINGS, LOWER COSTS, SHORTER TIMES. IT IS A
WAY TO WORK WHERE TRUE DESIGN THINKING IS
SUPPORTED, WHERE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF DESIGN
AND BUILDING ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER AND WHERE
DESIGN IS TESTED AND PROVEN.
CAN INNOVATE AND BUILDERS CAN BUILD.
WITH ALIGNED WE HAVE CREATED A NEW
WAY OF BUILDING IN A COMPANY THAT
LEADS – ELLISDON.
ALIGNED IS...
DESIGN
ENGINEERING
CONSTRUCTION
RESULTS
THE NEXT IDEA.
ALIGNED.