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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Risk = Dollars: Minimizing Owner Cost through the Sharing of Risk
We have certainly lived through some extraordinary times since March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
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Utilizing Prefabrication to Reduce risk in Collaborative Delivery water Projects
Using collaborative delivery for water projects addresses the growing demand in the United States for sustainable and efficient water infrastructure.
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Maximizing the Value of Collaboration During Design
An essential benefit of collaborative delivery is the ability for the designer and contractor to interact during the design phase.
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How to Solve Project Budget Challenges
Has anyone been left scratching your head wondering, “Why is my project over budget? What could I have done better to align project budget and cost?”
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Strategic Partnering: Benefits of Onboarding Key Suppliers Early
In an effort to pinpoint what makes a successful collaborative delivery (CD) project, numerous blog posts and research papers have identified common elements that should be pursued. Elements such as trust, transparency, teamwork, and strategic…