Design-Build Project Delivery: Managing the Building Process from Proposal Through Construction
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Design-Build Project Delivery: Managing the Building Process from Proposal Through Construction
By Sidney Levy
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
* Number Of Pages: 372
* Publication Date: 2006-02-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071461574
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071461573
Product Description
Design-build is widely recognized as the most profitable method of project delivery for non-residential construction. Design-Build Project Delivery offers real-world examples and advice from a wide variety of industry experts on every aspect of design-build project delivery. Complete with checklists and forms, this is the most practical and comprehensive resource on design-build project delivery available.
From the Back Cover
UNDERSTAND EVERY STEP OF THE DESIGN-BUILD PROCESS FOR THE MOST PROFITABLE PROJECT DELIVERY POSSIBLE
Being able to offer the design-build method of project delivery is now a necessity for any professional involved in nonresidential construction. Written by an author with more than four decades in the field and enriched by examples and advice from a wide variety of industry experts, Design-Build Project Delivery covers every essential aspect of the process -- from determining how, when, and where to use it, to proposals, bids, and contracts including the valuable checklists and forms.
Turn to the most practical and comprehensive resource on design-build for a thorough understanding of:
* The advantages and disadvantages of design-build: where, when, and how to use it
* Developing a design-build capability
* How to define roles and assemble a design-build team
* Marketing design-build services in the private and public sectors
* The cost-estimating process
* Contracts, bonding, and insurance issues
* Green buildings -- their time has come
* Project management methods
* The CM approach to design-build
* Building information modeling
Complete with practical, real-world techniques and valuable case studies, Design-Build Project Delivery provides the hands-on guidance you need to stay competitive -- and profitable -- by offering design-build services.
Summary: Just About All There Is To Know About Design-Build
Rating: 5
The traditional method of building a building was to have the owner contract with a designer, and subsequently to contract with a builder to do the actual construction. The problem comes from the fact that there was often confusted communications between the designer and the builder. Of course the designer and the builder had differing agendas, they each had different capabilities, different jobs. The result was unhappiness, if not law suits.
One answer to this conflict was the concept of using one contractor to both design and build the building. The result has been a 6% lower cost, and 12% faster (33% faster if design time is included) than design-bid-build projects.
This book is a survey of design-build from his history, a description of how it works, a report on numerous projects from the real world, legal/insurance/contract information, off shore design, new advances in technology such as RFID and GPS.
In short this is a book to take the owner/designer/contractor to a level of understanding where he can work in a design/build environment.
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