The Next Era of IPD Research: A Systematic Literature Review of The IPD Research Trends 2017-2020

Questions around integration, innovation, and collaboration within project teams have been the focus of increasing research in recent years. This is in response to the notorious fragmentation and the inherent performance issues that face the construction industry. Among the solutions identified, new contractual approaches, namely, integrated project delivery (IPD), have been investigated to understand how they can help overcome the industry’s issues. This paper aims to contribute to the previous efforts that studied the research trends of the IPD from 2001 to 2016 by synthesizing the last four years from 2017 to 2020. This period accounts for more than 70% of research on IPD compared to the previous 16 years combined. A systematic literature review was conducted to understand the trends in IPD research over the last four years. The results allowed the research team to understand better where such research was being conducted, what type of projects were being studied, and most importantly, the topics being covered within this research and its results. This paper proposes an initial review that will be further developed in a full-length journal paper.