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That seems like a long time ago. Based on its Castro Valley experience, the health-care system is using the IPD-on-steroids model on at least two other California hospitals. "Sutter is taking the delivery model forward in the sense of getting a significant number of design and trade partners 100% at risk," says Christian.
When Christian arrived at the Castro Valley job, Sutter had assembled a team with three partners expected to share risk and reward. Based on the job's complexities, instinct told Christian to get all the profit at risk. He expanded the agreement.
It wasn't an easy road. The behaviors of the parties at risk were not aligning at first because behaviors traditionally align with transferring risk, not managing it.
“迪格比是铁w owners who gets involved and stays involved on a daily basis," says Ralph E. Eslick, Castro Valley's senior project manager for DPR Construction Inc., Redwood City, Calif. "He kept us focused on the client's success. And if the client is successful, we are."
Hospital builders are not the only ones drawn to Castro Valley. Even members of Disney Imagineering visited the project.