Table of Contents

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-Bid Contracting.

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, Cutting Waste, 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-Centered Incentives.

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.

About the Author

REX MILLER is a consultant and veteran sales and management executive in commercial interiors and project delivery. He helped create the Mindshift consortium, made up of top executives from America’s largest construction and architecture firms, which creates new paradigms and practices for the commercial real estate industry.

DEAN STROMBOM is a Principal at Gensler, the world’s largest architectural firm.

MARK IAMMARINO is Vice President and General Manager of Special Projects for Turner, the largest construction company in the United States.

BILL BLACK is National Director of Strategic Business Solutions at Haworth, a leading manufacturer of commercial office interiors.