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Exploring the Validity of Qualitative Methods to Analyze Project Delivery of Sustainable, High Performance Buildings
Construction management and project delivery literature is dominated by quantitative methods. However, recent research suggests that its project based and people centric nature requires adoption of additional qualitative methods. Owing to the mounting complexity in sustainable, high performance building projects and consequent increase in the requirements for optimized solutions achieved by interdisciplinary integration of project teams; an on-going research aims to determine the relation between project delivery methods and level of integration in the delivery process and their further effects on sustainable goals. The preliminary findings of this study show that qualitative methods lead to a deeper understanding of sustainable building project delivery. In the conducted structured interviews and surveys for data collection mainly from three project participants (i.e. owner, designer, and contractor) for each case study, disjunctions were seen within inter-participant responses and between the survey and interview of the same participant. The affected metrics in this process, which include owner's commitment, project delivery method, and integration in the delivery process, are presented in this paper.
Exploring the Validity of Qualitative Methods to Analyze Project Delivery of Sustainable, High Performance Buildings
Construction management and project delivery literature is dominated by quantitative methods. However, recent research suggests that its project based and people centric nature requires adoption of additional qualitative methods. Owing to the mounting complexity in sustainable, high performance building projects and consequent increase in the requirements for optimized solutions achieved by interdisciplinary integration of project teams; an on-going research aims to determine the relation between project delivery methods and level of integration in the delivery process and their further effects on sustainable goals. The preliminary findings of this study show that qualitative methods lead to a deeper understanding of sustainable building project delivery. In the conducted structured interviews and surveys for data collection mainly from three project participants (i.e. owner, designer, and contractor) for each case study, disjunctions were seen within inter-participant responses and between the survey and interview of the same participant. The affected metrics in this process, which include owner's commitment, project delivery method, and integration in the delivery process, are presented in this paper.
Exploring the Validity of Qualitative Methods to Analyze Project Delivery of Sustainable, High Performance Buildings
Swarup, Lipika (author) / Korkmaz, Sinem (author) / Gultekin, Pelin (author) / Horman, Michael (author)
Construction Research Congress 2010 ; 2010 ; Banff, Alberta, Canada
Construction Research Congress 2010 ; 1427-1436
2010-05-04
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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