Formerly Water Design-Build Council
As water/wastewater infrastructure becomes more complex and densely arranged, underground utility installation presents opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Roy, you are retiring at the end of this year after 41 years in the industry. What is the biggest change you have seen over that period?
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.
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.
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.