The Commercial Real Estate Revolution

As it currently operates, the commercial real estate construction industry is a disaster full of built-in waste. Seventy-percent of all projects end over budget and late. The buildingSMART Alliance estimates that up to fifty-percent of the process is consumed in waste. Almost every project includes massive hidden taxes in the form of delays, cost overruns, poor quality, and work that has to be redone. Building new structures is a fragmented, adversarial process that commonly results in dissatisfied customers and frequently ends in disappointment, bitterness, and even litigation. The industry must change for its own good and that of its customers. But while the industry has tried to reform itself, it can t do it alone. Real change can only come from business owners and executives who refuse to continue paying for a dysfunctional system and demand a new way of doing business. The Commercial Real Estate Revolution is a bold manifesto for change from the Mindshift consortium a group of top commercial real estate industry leaders who are fed up with a system that simply doesn t work. The book explains how business leaders can implement nine principles for any project that will dramatically cut costs, end delays, create better buildings, and force the industry into real reform. The Commercial Real Estate Revolution offers a radically new way of doing business a beginning-to-end, trust-based methodology that transforms the building process from top to bottom. Based on unifying principles and a common framework that meets the needs of all stakeholders, this new system can reform and remake commercial construction into an industry we re proud to be a part of. If you re one of the millions of hardcore cynics who work in commercial construction, you probably think this sounds like pie in the sky. But this is no magic bullet; it s a call for real reform. If you re an industry professional who s sick of letting down clients or an owner who s sick of cost overruns and endless delays, The Commercial Real Estate Revolution offers a blueprint for fixing a broken industry.

As it currently operates, the commercial real estate constructionindustry is a disaster full of built-in waste. Seventy-percent ofall projects end over budget and late. The buildingSMART Allianceestimates that up to fifty-percent of the process is consumed inwaste. Almost every project includes massive hidden taxes in theform of delays, cost overruns, poor quality, and work that has tobe redone. Building new structures is a fragmented, adversarialprocess that commonly results in dissatisfied customers andfrequently ends in disappointment, bitterness, and even litigation.The industry must change--for its own good and that of itscustomers. But while the industry has tried to reform itself, itcan't do it alone. Real change can only come from businessowners and executives who refuse to continue paying for adysfunctional system and demand a new way of doing business.The Commercial Real Estate Revolution is a bold manifestofor change from the Mindshift consortium--a group of topcommercial real estate industry leaders who are fed up with asystem that simply doesn't work. The book explains howbusiness leaders can implement nine principles for any project thatwill dramatically cut costs, end delays, create better buildingsand force the industry into real reform.The Commercial Real Estate Revolution offers a radicallynew way of doing business--a beginning-to-end, trust-basedmethodology that transforms the building process from top tobottom. Based on unifying principles and a common framework thatmeets the needs of all stakeholders, this new system canreform and remake commercial construction into an industrywe're proud to be a part of.If you're one of the millions of hardcore cynics who workin commercial construction, you probably think this sounds like piein the sky. But this is no magic bullet; it's a call for realreform. If you're an industry professional who's sickof letting down clients or an owner who's sick of costoverruns and endless delays, The Commercial Real EstateRevolution offers a blueprint for fixing a broken industry.

Acknowledgments.Foreword.Introduction: The Money Pit.Part One: The Commercial Real Estate Money Pit.1 The $500 Billion Black Hole.2 What Every Executive Needs to Know About Low-BidContracting.3 From Fragmentation to Integration.Part Two: Making the Mindshift.4 Working the Mindshift.5 What Does a Trust-Based Project Look Like?Part Three: Nine Transforming Keys to Lowering Cost, CuttingWaste, and Driving Change in a Broken Industry.6 Key 1: Trust-Based Team Formation.7 Key 2: Early Collaboration.8 Key 3: Built-In Sustainability.9 Key 4: Transformational Leadership.10 Key 5: "Big" BIM.11 Key 6: Integrating Project Delivery.12 Key 7: Trust-Based Agreements and Client-CenteredIncentives.13 Key 8: Offsite Construction.14 Key 9: Workplace Productivity.Appendix 1: Mindshift Core Team.Appendix 2: Mindshift Advisors.Appendix 3: Recommended Reading.Appendix 4: Website Resources and Links.Appendix 5: Mapping the Future.Notes.References.Index.