At AD we—like many of you—spend time grappling with the future of our industry.  There is a Chinese proverb that says, “Dig the well before you are thirsty.” We believe that is good advice for both ourselves and our clients, so we make it a practice to spend time engaging with people who are leading the conversations so that we stay focused on what is ahead.

Our participation in organizations such as Mindshift, the Global Design Alliance, ASHRAE and Infocomm continues to spark our passion for future thinking, so we wanted to share resources from some of the catalytic people we have met who are shaping the design and construction industry. 

Online reading on new methods of project delivery

• The IPD Framework by Howard Ashcraft
• Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide by the AIA
• The Practitioners Guide to Alliance Contracting by Australia’s Department of Treasury and Finance
• The Integrated Agreement for Lean Project Delivery by William A. Lichtig
• ConsensusDocs – Construction Contracts built open source
• Transformation Partnering and Outsourcing (TP&O) for Commercial Real Estate
• www.infocomm.org/BIM

Books on Industry Change and the People Factors that Improve Process

• The Commercial Real Estate Revolution – a manifesto written by Rex Miller and other members of the Mindshift consortium
• Theory U: Leadng from the Future as it Emerges by C. Otto Scharmer
• Architect’s Essentials of Negotiation – an engaging look at handling risks while honing collaboration by Ava Abramowitz
• Beyond Reason  - negotiation without disconnecting your emotions by Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro
• Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation  by Tim Brown
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams