Primarily due to efficiencies with schedules and the overall work process for both utility owners and municipalities during the past five years, the use of design-build and CMAR delivery for water and wastewater projects has increased. As the WDBC’s recent research report revealed, the use of collaborative delivery methods is continuing to gain significant momentum in the water sector because of the education process. The other good news is that WDBC’s research data shows that external impediments – such as legislative and regulatory requirements - are decreasing and progress continues within the states on that specific challenge.
Linda Hanifin Bonner, Ph.D, Executive Operations Manager of Water Design-Build Council
Recent Posts
How Can Education Address Impediments in Using Design-Build/CMAR Delivery for Water and Wastewater Projects?
Topics: Collaborative Project Delivery
What 5 Steps Should You Never Neglect in a Design-Build Delivery Project?
Achieving a successful design-build project requires a collaborative environment that begins with the owner’s commitment to be the leader of internal preparations. Before initiating the procurement process or identifying the delivery method to be used, key decisions need to be made by the owner.
Topics: design-build, water design-build project
WDBC's Board of Directors welcomes Michael C. Loulakis, President of Captial Project Strategies, LLC, as an "At-Large Director"
A nationally-recognized expert on project delivery systems and author of several books on the subject, Michael has worked on some of the country’s most complex public sector design-build projects in the transportation and water/wastewater sectors. Some of his notable engagements include DC Water’s Clean River and Biosolids programs, the City of Houston’s Northeast Water Purification Plant Expansion Project, and Metropolitan Wastewater District’s Northeast Treatment Plant.
Topics: WDBC Admin
How Do You Successfully Effectuate a Design-Build Project?
“How do you successfully effectuate a design-build project? Our city has done several design build construction projects which have resulted in delays, lawsuits, and other problems. Clearly, we are not doing something correctly!”
Topics: design-build
A Collaborative Delivery Method with 2 Variations
One of the frequent questions occurring in the Water Design-Build Council's education session is understanding how to apply the terms – prescriptive and performance – in a “fixed-price” design-build project.
Topics: design-build, water design-build project, Collaborative Project Delivery, Owners
Top Project Spotlights from 2016
In this last of our series of blog recaps, we highlight three projects that are prime examples of how the design-build process works, and how these collaborative approaches helped bring these projects online faster than a traditional design-bid-build contract - within or significantly under budget - and with numerous obstacles overcome through proper risk management.
Topics: design-build
Top Design-Build Insights from 2016
The Water Design-Build Council’s namesake is at the center of this week’s blog recap. Design-build is a delivery method in which an owner enters into a single contract with a design-builder to design, permit, construct, test, and commission a project.
Topics: design-build
Top Construction Management at-Risk Insights from 2016
This week’s blog recap focuses on construction management at-ris
Topics: CMAR
Top Collaborative Project Delivery Insights from 2016
Achieving a successful collaborative project for the water and wastewater infrastructure – for both owners and industry members, is the underlying value of the Water Design-Build Council.
Topics: Collaborative Project Delivery
Interview: Insights for Industry Organizations Pursuing a Design-Build Project
An interview with Ryan Adler of Crossland Heavy Construction.
Topics: CMAR, water design-build project