WDBC E-NEWS – August 28, 2019

Education Program Updates - Schedule Yours Now

September 8, 2019 - PNCWA 2019 Pre-Conference Workshop on Collaborative Delivery - Portland, OR
10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (lunch included)

This inclusive education and training session will help attendees make sense of the range of collaborative-delivery options in use in the water market. From CM/GC (GC/CM in Washington, also known as CMAR), to progressive design-build, lump-sum design-build, and design-build-operate, these models can offer improvements to traditional design-bid-build. But not every model is right for every project or every client. Project success is dependent on many factors, including procurement methodology, contract terms, and organizational culture and support.

This workshop will utilize Water Design-Build Council training materials designed to educate owners and practitioners about collaborative-delivery models. The training will provide essential knowledge needed to plan for, procure, and manage collaborative-delivery projects.

Michelle Green, PE, Jacobs (WDBC Education Committee Instructor)

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September 16, 2019 - Atlanta Regional Design-Build Delivery Education Session: Special Focus on Legal and Procurement Topics
9:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m. (lunch included)
Hosted by City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management
72 Marietta Street, Atlanta, GA 30303

This one-day inclusive education and training session for city and county officials; managers and staff of municipal, private, and governmental organizations; and private industry will provide essential knowledge needed to plan for, procure and manage design-build for water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

Session topics include:

Legal and Other Topics in Deciding to Implement a Collaborative-Delivery Project presents key components of strategy, tactics, and implementation on what is required to build internal understanding and consensus about a project’s goals, priorities, and drivers, with special emphasis on the role and responsibilities of an owner advisor.

Principles and Best Practices of Collaborative Delivery describes the relationships of the core collaborative-delivery methods—construction management at-risk, progressive design-build, and fixed-price design-build—the differences as well as advantages and distinctions.

Risk Management and Contracts addresses the areas of risk that are typical for water and wastewater projects: common project risks and allocation principles, managing risks, addressing liability and risk in the collaborative-delivery contract, contract commercial concepts, industry-standard contract forms, and cautions for consideration.

Conducting the Procurement Process describes the major steps in the procurement process from preparing the request for qualifications and request for proposals to selecting the design-builder or CMAR firm.

Managing and Implementing Collaborative-Delivery Projects focuses on core activities for three distinct areas.

     1. Team Structure for Effective Collaborative Delivery
     2. Developing a Collaborative Working Environment
     3. Implementing a Project Management Plan

Getting to Project Completion and Transition provides a roadmap of activities essential to the success of the final project stages that allows all stakeholders to view the project with the most balanced risk profile and clear understanding of critical success factors.

Check our events calendar for current activities.

Interested in hosting an education session of your own? Contact the WDBC office for more information.

How to Do More with Less - Luncheon Panel with WDBC Members and Georgia Water Utility Executives

Water utilities across the state are looking at how to do more with less when addressing their aging infrastructure. They are evaluating how to deliver capital improvement projects quicker and for a lower cost while not jeopardizing quality or losing control. That evaluation often includes whether to use the traditional design-bid-build method or collaborative-delivery methods, such as progressive design-build or construction management at-risk. This luncheon will feature a panel of Georgia water utility executives sharing their experiences with progressive design-build on recent water or wastewater treatment facilities. The panel will also include contractors discussing the lessons learned from these programs.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2019
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Sonesta Gwinnett Place Atlanta
1775 Pleasant Hill Road
Duluth, GA 30096

Join an Upcoming Seminar on Collaborative Delivery

WDBC Participating in the Utilities of the Future Workshop, hosted by Ovivo, During WEFTEC 2019
Sunday, September 22, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Chicago, IL

WDBC Executive Director Mark Alpert will join a panel of industry experts to answer an essential question posed to water and wastewater practitioners: Do collaborative-delivery models offer the power to choose?

With the industry now in a paradigm shift – driven by owners’ project priorities fueled by opportunities to innovate and the ability to fast-track a project – the benefits of collaborative-delivery models are changing the way owners do business. This significant trend – using construction management at-risk (CMAR), progressive design-build (PDB), and more – affords owners the opportunity to have more decision-making power with less liability, as well as greater flexibility and transparency throughout the entire project, all of which are driven by the owners' project priorities.

While addressing the pros and cons of these delivery models, the panel will also define how each stakeholder can adapt and thrive in this new way of doing business.

To be invited, please contact Elena Bailey, M.S., P.E.

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WDBC is Partnering Bronze Sponsor for American Water Summit 2019: Leadership for a Sustainable America

November 12-14, 2019
Omni Houston Hotel
Houston, TX

Bringing together the leaders from across the public and private sectors, the American Water Summit addresses the challenges facing water in America today. Each year these challenges get broader: climate change, demographic change, political change, economic change are all putting pressure on the way water works. But in these challenges there is an opportunity: Can water provide leadership for a sustainable America?

The American Water Summit gathers the most influential figures in water for two days of debate, networking, and decision-making at the highest level. It shapes the direction of the North American water sector and is the leading water business event in the region. The Summit gives you a seat at the table with key stakeholders as we discuss all of the major issues and developing circumstances in all areas of the water industry in North America, and how you can take advantage of them. Widely considered an essential calendar event for water industry executives, it is a truly unmissable event for anybody working within the North American water market.

Considerations When Seeking Indicative Pricing for Water/Wastewater Projects

By John Awezec, PE, DBIA, WDBC Board Member

There is no doubt that today’s water/wastewater market is booming. The magnitude of the many W/WW projects currently underway in the United States is so great that the marketplace is experiencing craft labor shortages, escalating material and equipment costs, fewer bidders on hard bid projects, and fewer proposers on collaborative-delivery projects. Not surprising, conventional delivery projects are experiencing low bids that are exceeding the owners’ budgets. This is also the case on collaborative-delivery projects where fixed-price and GMP proposals are greater than what an owner has been anticipating.

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