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Partnering: It’s No Kumbaya
In the weeks leading up to a partnering session, you are almost guaranteed to hear the usual quips: “It’s a joke. At least we get lunch. Can’t wait for the big group hug and then back to business as usual. We sing ‘Kumbaya,’ eat lunch, and nothing changes.”
Advantages to Selecting a CMAR Early
With the overarching goal to design and construct a high-quality project within budget and on time, the construction manager at-risk (CMAR) delivery method is becoming a popular option for many owners when evaluating the various collaborative delivery processes.
How To Do More With Less Using Progressive Design-Build
The pandemic may be over, but we have yet to recover. Across the US, there is a shortage of skilled labor. As a result, industries are struggling to find ways to do more with less, without sacrificing quality, safety, or performance.
Document Control: An Essential Piece of a successful Collaborative Delivery project
In real estate, the mantra “location, location, location” means choosing the wrong site for a development could cost you dearly later. In construction, the same can be said for document control.
How Cost Transparency, Using Collaborative Delivery, Can Manage and Mitigate Escalation
It is well known that the economic conditions of the last few years presented enormous global challenges across multiple industries. Supply chains have been strained to their breaking point and costs of goods climbed to their highest levels.
Benefits of Selecting a Joint Venture Team to Execute Progressive Design-Build Projects
Joint ventures (JVs) are strategic business agreements between two or more firms to create a new entity for a specific pursuit. In a fully integrated JV, the companies involved share all risks, profits, losses, assets, and liabilities.
How Can You Attract Qualified Design-Builders for Your Projects?
The booming water/wastewater market is keeping design-builders busy, so much so that the economic equilibrium is off-center, slanted toward a place where demand often exceeds supply. It’s a design-builders’ (bidders) market.
Progressive Design-Build Makes Complex Change Possible
The method by which a construction project is delivered often makes all the difference in its outcome. A project with a straightforward scope can be very successful completed via a design-bid-build delivery.
Three Steps to Overcoming Your Fear of Collaborative Project Delivery Methods
People generally don’t like change. Several reasons exist for this, but mainly from a fear of the unknown. When people do leave their comfort zone, however, it can be liberating to achieve results far better than what they have seen in the past.
Accelerating the Development of Water and Wastewater Projects
It’s no secret that water and wastewater utilities face several complex challenges. There’s the perpetual aging infrastructure problem and growing concerns over a graying workforce.