Organically Integrated Project Delivery of a Mission-Driven Team

Organically Integrated Project Delivery of a Mission-Driven Team: An exploratory study on managing the MOR Team TU Delft during the Solar Decathlon Europe 2019

Longo, Francesco (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Management in the Built Environment)

Heintz, J.L. (mentor)
de Jong, P. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Management in the Built Environment

2020-11-06

This master thesis investigated the coordination aspects of the MOR Team TU Delft, a volunteer-students based team, that produced an AEC project for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2019 (SDE19) competition. With a closer look at the aspects of organisation, motivation, and mission, this researched provides an objective account of the characteristics and functions of coordination that aided this team in producing an award-winning project. It is thanks to the study of the available documents, the personal notes of the author, and the interviews with some key members of the team that this research highlighted how a mission-driven team developed an experimental attitude toward an Organically Integrated Project Delivery. The organisational and coordination aspects of Solar Decathlon teams it is not yet a widespread area of research; therefore, this master thesis conducted an exploratory case study that followed an inductive approach. Among the results mentioned above, this work highlighted how the study of volunteer-students based teams, competing in the various Solar Decathlons, can become an exciting area of study for management practices within AEC projects. The peculiarities of these projects have the potential to provide tangible and comparable results in the study of design and construction management. It is thanks to these considerations that this research asks for the development of further studies, with the effects of both further validating the results here presented and to further expand the body of knowledge on this typology of projects.

Design & construction management
Solar Decathlon
AEC industry
Integrated Project Delivery
Volunteers
Students
Education
Management

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Student theses

master thesis

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