ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the content and context of integrated project delivery (IPD) through the medium of a framework that identifies and explains the basic components of IPD. IPD collaboration frameworks may be used to assist in the strategic design of project delivery mechanisms. The chapter provides an overview of the Collaboration Framework developed by Walker and Lloyd-Walker to illustrate how IPD Collaboration Framework tools such as this might be used in practice. The extent of collaboration varies across the numerous forms of IPD for good reasons and the ability to collaborate depends upon both personal collaboration competences as well as organisational structural facilitation for collaboration and organisational collaboration competencies. Both of the above frameworks, together with consideration of institutional theory, highlight a collaborative capability versus collaborative capacity paradox. The chapter explains how the tool may be used in practice by using a hypothetical example to illustrate how the tool might be applied to strategic decision-making.
