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WCDA Blog
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.
Starting with the End Users in Mind
When building a team for a design-build project, it’s common for agency owners (specifically engineering managers) to prioritize the obvious resources: project managers and owners advisors. What often gets overlooked is the opportunity to include the perspective and expertise of the end users during the design and construction process.
Benefits of Construction Management at-Risk from an Owner’s Perspective
HDR and Garney recently conducted an interview with the UG project team to gain insight into some of the tangible benefits it has realized through its recent CMAR procurements.
THE “STAND, WALK, RUN” APPROACH TO CLOSING OUT WASTEWATER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
As construction projects at wastewater treatment plants near completion, everyone involved usually has a bit of fatigue.
Designing for Procurement Can Help Alleviate Supply Chain Headaches
The design-build project delivery approach continues to deliver value to municipal water utilities. From a single point of responsibility and integration to cost certainty and timely delivery, design-build can help create a more streamlined and seamless project experience.
An Owner’s Top 3 Action Items for Organizational Preparedness
Do you have a one-time mega-project that you don’t have the capacity or capabilities to deliver? Is your capital improvement program growing quickly and you need to equip your staff with the right skills and relevant knowledge to keep up with the rising demand? Do you need to decrease your average project delivery time due to rate-payer or political pressure? All of the above?
Using Collaborative Delivery to Mitigate Supply Chain Disruption
When we emerge from the extreme days of the COVID environment, there will be some lingering effects that become a permanent part of our way of doing business. Management of the supply chain is probably one of the most significant.
Developing the Right Team for Success on Your Next Design-Build Project
Pursuing, winning, and successfully executing design-build projects requires having the right team in place for the project. The “right” team has the experience and diversity to foster creativity and increase the quality of solutions for the owner while identifying and addressing the unique challenges associated with the project.
Why You Should Consider Progressive Design-Build for Your Next Water/Wastewater Project
Do you have an upcoming project where cost and schedule certainty are critical? Are project costs increasing on your design-bid-build projects? Do you have the funding to build projects, but not enough in-house project management staff? Do you want to take your projects to the next level with total collaboration? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, progressive design-build might be the ideal collaborative-delivery method for your next water/wastewater project.