- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- Guidelines for Implementing a Constructability Program.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Publication 3-2, July 1987, 33 p.
- Keywords
- construction
- Abstract
- Constructability is evolving as one of the most significant enhancement opportunities in the construction industry. Although practiced for a considerable time by some organizations, only recently has it come into focus as offering major benefits in construction cost and schedule. The Business Roundtable's Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness (CICE) Project identified constructability as an area with a major potential for improved cost effectiveness. There is wide acceptance of the basic constructability premise that integration of construction knowledge and experience into planning and design is indeed beneficial. However, there is no single accepted methodology to achieve that integration which is at the heart of constructability. Implementing constructability is easiest on turnkey type projects; it is much more difficult on projects where design and construction are accomplished by distinct and separate contracts.