Lean Construction & Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)

Transactional Construction

Taft provides comprehensive transactional legal services for the construction industry, focusing on both traditional and innovative project delivery models.

Our team advises clients through the entire construction lifecycle, from contract negotiation and risk management to project execution and dispute resolution. We work with owners, developers, contractors, design professionals, lenders, and investors across a wide range of sectors, including commercial, industrial, health care, residential, and infrastructure.

Taft is also experienced in implementing lean construction concepts designed to maximize value and minimize waste throughout the construction process. We have assisted numerous clients in implementing integrated project delivery (IPD), a process uniquely suited to put lean construction principles into practice.

Transactional Services 

Taft’s Construction Practice Group is skilled in every area of transactional construction, including:

• Contract negotiation and drafting contracts and agreements, including:
• General Contractor Agreements
• Construction Manager at Risk Agreements
• Construction Manager as Advisor Agreements
• Design-Build Agreements, including Progressive Design-Build
• Integrated Project Delivery Agreements
• Professional Services Agreements
• Letters of Intent
• Change Orders
• Certificates of Completion
• Compliance and regulatory matters on the local, state, and federal levels, including:
• Local Building Codes
• Zoning Regulations
• State and Federal Environmental Regulations

Our lawyers consistently negotiate in AIA, EJCDC, DBIA, FIDIC, ICE, and other industry forms. They further assist with resolution of lien issues, and work collaboratively with our litigation, government contracts, and environmental practice groups to provide full-service legal support for both project implementation and dispute resolution.

Taft represents a US-based international car manufacturer in its IPD projects, including an electric car battery plant with a total investment of $2.3 billion.

Taft represented an international developer in a $150,000,000 IPD project for the renovation of an office campus in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Taft represents a hospital and medical center in a three-phase IPD project involving the construction of a new hospital tower and a new garage, along with extensive renovation of the existing hospital space. This project has a total budget of $335,000,000, and will run until 2022.

Taft represented a major medical center in Omaha, Neb., on a $350 million construction renovation project using IPD.

Attorneys consulted with an owner for a $45 million high-energy efficiency apartment development in Kansas City using IPD.

Taft advised an international construction manager on a $160,000,000 office project in California using IPD.

Attorneys represented the owner and facilitating the implementation of integrated project delivery for a $35,000,000 senior living facility.

Taft represented and coached the design team and negotiated contracts for the implementation of IPD for a $100,000,000 facility for a major Greater Cincinnati medical center.

Attorneys negotiated contracts with a construction manager for a $50,000,000 expansion by a Greater Cincinnati medical center.

Taft facilitated the agreement master construction management agreement between a Greater Cincinnati medical center and a large construction company for continuing services on core hospital projects.

Attorneys created standard form construction contact libraries with extensive customized revisions of numerous project delivery systems for two major medical centers in Greater Cincinnati, a major regional design-builder, and the Kentucky branch of a significant religious organization.

Taft developed contracts for a $48,000,000 residential village at a major state university in Ohio for a design-builder, including a joint venture with a residential builder.