CONTENTS
ABSTRACT I
UNDERTAKING III
CERTIFICATE V
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VII
LIST OF FIGURES XIII
LIST OF TABLES XV
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XVII
CHAPTER-1: INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Need for the study 2
1.3 Research aim and objectives 3
1.4 Scope of study 3
1.5 Overview of Research design 4
1.6 Research schedule 5
CHAPTER-2: LITERATURE REVIEW 7
2.1 The nature of the Design Process 7
2.2 Importance of early phase of Design Process 7
2.2.1 Stages in a construction project 8
2.3 Processes followed during the design phase 10
2.3.1 Silo-Design Process (SDP) 10
2.3.2 Limitations of Silo Design Process 10
2.3.3 Integrated Design Process (IDP) 11
2.4 Difference between IDP and IPD 12
2.5 Lean Design 13
2.5.1 The Lean Design Management (LDM) 14
2.6 Understanding Integration 15
2.6.1 The meaning of Integration 15
2.6.2 The current Level of Integration 15
2.6.3 Better integration through evaluation 16
2.7 Synthesis of literature review and research gap 17
CHAPTER-3: METHODOLOGY 19
3.1 Research strategy 19
3.2 Phase I- Identification and validation of Dimensions of Integration 19
3.2.1 Dimensions of Integration from guidelines 19
3.2.2 Semi-structured interviews 19
3.2.3 Final Dimensions of Integration 20
3.3 Phase II- Development of Evaluation framework 20
3.3.1 Performance indicators of each Dimension 20
3.3.2 Weight of each Dimension 20
3.3.3 Scoring Model 20
3.4 Phase III- Framework testing and validation 21
CHAPTER-4: DIMENSIONS OF INTEGRATION 23
4.1 Comparison of professional guidelines of IDP 23
4.2 Analysis of Dimensions of IDP from guidelines 25
4.3 Dimensions of IDP from Interviews 29
4.4 Data Collection and Analysis 30
4.5 Dimensions of Integration 32
4.6 The major barriers for the success of IDP 37
CHAPTER-5: FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATION OF THE LEVEL OF INTEGRATION 39
5.1 Project Assessment 39
5.2 Standard weights of Dimension- AHP Survey 41
5.2.1 Data collection method 41
5.2.2 Summary of AHP analysis 42
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5.3 Framework development 45
5.3.1 Scoring model 46
5.4 Evaluation framework testing 53
5.4.1 Project 1 53
5.4.2 Head office of Microfinance Company, Gurugram 59
5.4.3 Project 3 64
CHAPTER-6: CONCLUSION 71
6.1 Limitation 72
6.2 Future Scope of work 72
6.3 Research contribution 73
REFERENCES 75
APPENDIX A: INTERVIEW PROTOCOL 79
APPENDIX B: ANALYSIS OF SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW 81
APPENDIX C: PROJECT ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE AND VALUES 87
APPENDIX D: AHP SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE 97
APPENDIX E: AHP SURVEY ANALYSIS 107
APPENDIX F: SCORING MODEL OF THE PROJECTS 117