TY  - CONF
TI  - An Investigation of Construction Project Communications Under IPD Constraints
C1  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
C3  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
SP  - 1231
EP  - 1242
PY  - 2025
DO  - 10.24928/2025/0134
AU  - Kaufman, Neil A.
AU  - Collins, Felicia
AU  - Rogers, Haley
AD  - Director Project Integration, Associate, Boulder Associates, Boulder, USA, nkaufman@boulderassociates.com, orcid.org/0009-0009-8457-7512
AD  - President, Efsee Communications, Irvine, USA, efsee2020@gmail.com, orcid.org/0009-0004-8738-5640
AD  - Senior Lean Coach, Boulder Associates, Boulder, USA, hrogers@boulderassociates.com, orcid.org/0009-0006-1646-8558
ED  - Seppänen, Olli 
ED  - Koskela, Lauri 
ED  - Murata , Koichi 
AB  - The authors demonstrate the development of an applied framework for analyzing, influencing, and improving communications to enhance productivity through collaborative information exchange on a fast-track integrated project delivery construction megaproject. Using an interdisciplinary approach, project communications is reconsidered as an independent, value-producing system to be used to improve the relational dynamics of an enterprise. Acknowledging the critical impact of communications on project planning and execution, the framework leans heavily on prospect theory within the field of behavioral economics, which explains how people make decisions when faced with risk. The results show the efficacy of developing a model that focuses on conditions of satisfaction, rather than the traditional hierarchical systems of project information flow for decision making. As with any substantial, independent commercial organization, a dedicated communications team is instrumental to achieving previously unrealized productivity gains otherwise hampered by the pervasive nature of miscommunication in large, complex-design engineering and construction projects.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - communications
KW  - action research
KW  - integrated project delivery
KW  - prospect theory
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
DA  - 2025/06/02
CY  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2329/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2329
N1  - Export Date: 02 June 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -