Integrated Project Design Kaye Alexander looks at advanced contractual and modelling techniques on an HOK office refurb

摘要

The £6 million remodelling of Autodesk's gallery and offices at the software company's San Francisco base - One Market Street - is HOK's first completed project using its new Integrated Project Design (IPD) contract. Underpinning the concept of IPD is the use of Business Information Modelling (BIM) and the incentive of shared profit.rnUsually, the parties involved in an IPD contract comprise the architect, contractor and client. 'On this project, the architect's role in designing the office and gallery space/customer briefing centre was divided between HOK and Seattle and San Francisco-based Anderson Anderson Architecture, so a four-way variant was drawn up,' explains Archie Stephens, HOK vice-president.