COLLABORATIVE PRINCIPLES Clause Samples

COLLABORATIVE PRINCIPLES. OBJECTIVES The Project consists of the design, construction and commissioning of the Project as more fully described in Exhibit A to this Agreement. The Project objectives are to design and construct the facilities called for in the Owner's Program, within the Project Target Cost Estimate and the Schedule developed under the Agreement. COLLABORATIVE PROJECT DELIVERY The Parties agree that the Project objectives can be best achieved through a relational contract that promotes and facilitates strategic planning, design, construction and commissioning of the project, through the principles of collaboration and lean project delivery. This approach recognizes that each Party's success is tied directly to the success of all other members of the Collaborative Project Team and encourages and requires the Parties to organize and integrate their respective roles, responsibilities and expertise, to identify and align their respective expectations and objectives, to commit to open communications, transparent decision-making, proactive and non-adversarial interaction, problem-solving, the sharing of ideas, to continuously seek to improve the Project planning, design, and construction processes, and to share both the risks and rewards associated with achieving the Project objectives. COLLABORATIVE PROJECT DELIVERY TEAM The Parties shall perform as a Collaborative Project Delivery (CPD) Team to facilitate the design, construction and commissioning of the Project. CPD Team members shall share information and collaborate for the benefit of the Project. CPD Team members shall initially include the Owner, the Designer and the Constructor. In forming a Collaborative Project Team, the Parties expect that design consultants and Trade Contractors will be selected to provide preconstruction services early in the preconstruction phase. These parties shall sign Joining Agreements, as they become members of the Team, accepting the principles and methods of collaboration set forth in this Agreement. Ultimate Project decision-making authority shall rest with the Management Group defined in Paragraph 4.1.