Archive for the ‘Design-Build Case Studies’ Category
Design-Build Case Study: Drew County Hospital Authority
Sunday, March 18, 2012 21:42 No CommentsIn the Drew County case, a public hospital authority in Arkansas incurred more than $100,000 in design fees from the design-builder before realizing its design-build contract was prohibited by Arkansas competitive bidding statutes. Id. at 5-6. The hospital refused to pay the design-builder, arguing that it was neither a licensed contractor nor a licensed design professional. Id. The court concluded the design-builder did [...]
Design-Build Case Study: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Bars PennDOT From Conducting Design-Build Competitions
Sunday, February 12, 2012 18:25 No CommentsThe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently rejected the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Innovative Bidding Tool-kit, including its best-value design-build process for failing to comply with competitive bidding laws. Nearly four years ago, and not long after the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, PennDOT determined it needed to rebuild two stretches of bridges along I-90 in Erie [...]
Congressional Budget Office Releases Highway Study on Public Private Partnerships and Design-Build
Sunday, January 29, 2012 13:38 No CommentsEarlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office published a study entitled Using Public Private Partnerships to Carry Out Highway Projects. http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12647 The study addresses two issues: 1) can design-build and PPP models provide additional funding for highway projects? and 2) does design-build provide a faster and more cost effective model for delivering highway projects? See Preface. A post [...]
Water Design-Build Council Releases Updated Handbook
Sunday, February 20, 2011 20:44 No CommentsThe Water Design-Build Council (www.waterdesignbuild.org) has released the Second Edition of its Municipal Water & Wastewater Design-Build Handbook. The Handbook is an educational tool for owners. It discusses basic concepts and best practices for executing design-build and construction management (at-risk) projects on public water and waste-water projects. From defining design-build through managing the design-build contract, the Handbook offers a thorough discussion of design-build project delivery. The [...]
AIA’s IPD Case Studies Include Cronkite Design-Build Project
Monday, March 22, 2010 18:01 No CommentsMany of you know that the American Institute of Architects (AIA) published what it calls Integrated Project Delivery research papers and model contracts (see link at the right of this page). There is some ambiguity in AIA’s conclusions for the ideal delivery method for executing IPD projects. AIA’s research focuses on delivering integrates services (without [...]