- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI): Building Projects.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Implementation Resource 155-2, July 1999, 83 p.
- Distribution
- For more information contact: Construction Industry, Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 3208 Red River Street, Suite 300, Austin, TX 78705. Telephone: 512-232-3000, Fax: 512-499-8108, Email: info@construction-institute.org Website: http://construction-institute.org
- Keywords
- construction
- Abstract
- The PDRI is a simple and easy-to-use tool for measuring the degree of scope development on building projects. The Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for Building Projects is a powerful and simple tool that helps meet this need by offering a method to measure project scope definition for completeness. It is adapted from the PDRI for Industrial Projects (CII Implementation Resource 113-2). The PDRI offers a comprehensive checklist of 64 scope definition elements in an easy-to-use score sheet format. Each element is weighted based on its relative importance to the other elements. Since the PDRI score relates to risk, those areas that need further work can easily be isolated. (A PDRI score of 200 or less has been shown to greatly increase the probability of a successful project.) The PDRI identifies and precisely describes each critical element in a scope definition package and allows a project team to quickly predict factors impacting project risk. It is intended to evaluate the completeness of scope definition at any point prior to the time a project is considered for development of construction documents and construction.