Research on Profit Distribution of IPD Project’s Participants Based on Cooperative Game Theory

Abstract

Developing IPD (Integrated Project Delivery) in projects requires the operable implementation scheme that can improve productivity and earn more profits. And it is important to provide incentives tied to achieving project goals. This paper suggested cooperative game theory as the method for analyzing profit distribution in IPD project and determined the designer, construction contractor, owner, BIM consultant as the key participants according the degree of importance in IPD projects. The main purpose of this paper is to: (1) Building the framework of BIM platform and using information sharing to guarantee the achievement of IPD project. (2) Exploring the profit distribution model of IPD according to various cooperative game theoretic solution methods. (3) Using the Shapley value to achieve the distribution of profits and the FCE (Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation) methods to quantize the risk of each index, while the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) was used to give the weight. (4) Exploring the application of the identified allocation rules based on the case study of Autodesk Inc.