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Plan for Success: Navigating the Roles of Program Managers and Owner Advisors
Municipal water and wastewater utility managers face increasing challenges with delivering major treatment and infrastructure projects that meet regional growth, regulatory requirements, strained budgets, and stringent delivery schedules.
Optimizing Project Efficiency: The Synergy of Collaborative Delivery and SUE
As water/wastewater infrastructure becomes more complex and densely arranged, underground utility installation presents opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
It’s Your First Collaborative Delivery Project—Don’t Panic!
You’ve heard the buzz; it seems like every water/wastewater utility or owner is using progressive design-build (PDB) or construction management at-risk (CMAR) for its upcoming infrastructure projects.
Is Your Organization Ready for Successful Collaborative Delivery?
During the annual DBIA Water/Wastewater Conference in Cincinnati earlier this spring, both owners and panelists expressed a recurring theme: More and more owners are recognizing the need to effectively train internal staff who will be directly involved in collaborative delivery.
How Collaborative Delivery Optimizes the Project Warranty Process
We’ve often been told that we need to “begin with the end in mind” to have a successful project. But what about after the end of the project?
Building a Sustainable Future: How Collaborative Delivery Can Help Achieve Sustainability goals
The construction industry faces a significant challenge: achieving ambitious sustainability goals while delivering projects on time and within budget. Traditional, siloed project delivery methods often struggle to address these goals effectively.
Building Success: The Crucial Role of Unified Teams in Progressive Design-Build Projects
The first step in a successful progressive design-build (PDB) project is to focus on building a unified team. In traditional design-bid-build projects, the owner, engineer, and contractor often work individually, each driven by their own goals and expectations.
Plunging into Success: Reflections from an Award-Winning Owner’s First Progressive Design-Build Program
In 2017, after years of planning, Silicon Valley Clean Water embarked on a journey that would become the organization’s largest accomplishment to date: using PDB to deliver the Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade (RESCU) program.
Deeply Engrained Paper Use Is Impeding Construction’s Digital Shift
It’s not news that the construction industry has been undergoing a digital transformation journey. Digitizing the industry comes with the novel mission of creating safer workplaces, increased margins, and better quality.
When Is Collaborative Delivery Faster than DBB—and When Is It Slower?
Considering the topic, this has the potential to be a very short blog post. After all, we’re looking at comparing the schedule of collaborative delivery versus design-bid-build delivery.