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WDBC E-NEWS – April 10, 2018
Issue Highlights
WDBC Education Sessions for April and May
WDBC 2018 Market Trends Research Study
Does CMAR Cost More Than Design-Bid-Build? Read What Chris Has to Say!
Are you and your project team prepared to do a collaborative delivery project? Don’t put it off any longer – plan to attend one of WDBC’s 2018 Education Sessions in your region!
APRIL 11 OR 12, 2018 (same program) – St. Louis, MO – Host Sponsors: Goodwin Brothers Construction and Core & Main; Co-Sponsors: Missouri AWWA, Missouri Water Environment Association, and DBIA Mid-America Region APRIL 17, 2018 – CWEA Collaborative Delivery Workshop 101- Sacramento, CA – Featuring Leofwin Clark and Mark Alpert as workshop leaders MAY 2, 2018 – Pittsburg, PA - Hosted by Evoqua Water Technologies MAY 9, 2018 – Dallas, TX – Hosted by Balfour Beatty
The use of collaborative project delivery for water and wastewater projects is increasing. Are you and your team prepared to define what drives your project to success? Evaluate which delivery method is best for your project? Know the procurement steps for each delivery method?
WDBC can address these topics for you in our specialized one-day education sessions that focus on the best practices of collaborative delivery methods and the steps required to achieve a successful water and wastewater infrastructure project. WDBC’s sessions employ an experiential learning process – where an actual project is used as a model for each of the steps required from planning through implementation. Attendees’ learning needs are assessed through a pre-session questionnaire. These sessions are designed specifically for water and wastewater utilities and agencies – addressing the procurement and contracting practices for fixed-price design-build, progressive design-build, and construction management at-risk (CMAR).
WDBC Launches 2018 Market Trends Research Study – Updating the Demand for the Use of Design-Build Delivery Methods. Owner Participation Requested
At its March meeting in Aurora, CO, the WDBC Board of Directors approved contracting with Rubin Mallows Worldwide to update the 2017 research report with data on:
Recent trends in numbers of projects, dollar volume, and percent of market for progressive, fixed-price, and CMAR projects, all within the broad envelope of water and wastewater collaborative delivery;
Forecasts of the same market segmentation to the extent that can be reasonably estimated for both growth in the broader collaborative delivery market and three sub-segments; and
Why these trends are occurring and, given that they are, whether they are likely to continue, potentially from the perspective of owners and suppliers.
This work will include a series of interviews with selected industry utility owners examining the basis on which decisions and choices were made for fixed-price, progressive, and CMAR collaborative projects. It will also examine projects of member firms, updating the 2016/2017 database with new projects. The results of this study are anticipated to be completed late summer 2018 with a report to be released early fall.
Research Committee Chair Ed Wetzel says, “We believe this will be the first attempt at disaggregating the collaborative delivery market into the various delivery methods, including CMAR and progressive design-build, and we are excited to learn from owners how and why they choose a method for their projects.”
Design-Bid-Build (DBB) vs. Construction Management at-Risk (CMAR) -- Does Construction Management at-Risk (CMAR) Cost More?
A common misconception is that DBB is the most cost-effective approach to designing and building a public works project. A majority of this misconception comes from a comparison at a point in time on the project that may not accurately capture all aspects of the total project cost.
Have you downloaded the 2017 State of the Demand for Design-Build Delivery in the Water/Wastewater Sector research report?
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