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WDBC E-NEWS – September 26, 2019
Issue Highlights
New Oklahoma Regional Design-Build & CMAR Education Session
American Water Summit 2019 - Roundtable Led by WDBC President Bryan Bedell
Blog Feature - Attacking Workforce Depletion with Innovation
Schedule Your 2020 Education Session Now
Oklahoma Regional Design-Build Education Session
Thursday, October 24, 2019 7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (lunch included) Hosted by Crossland Heavy Contractors and HDR, Inc. 420 S. 145th East Avenue, Suite K Tulsa, Oklahoma 74108
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 and CMAR for water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
Session topics include:
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.
Interested in hosting an education session of your own? Contact the WDBC office for more information.
Join Bryan R. Bedell, WDBC President and Haskell VP, for a Roundtable Discussion: Is Progressive Design-Build a Win-Win for Water?
The more collaborative and lower risk procurement model has fast become the preferred alternative to fixed-price delivery for water and wastewater projects in the U.S. Bryan R. Bedell discusses the pros and cons.
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.
You can get your team to adopt new technologies and get the millennial workforce excited about craft labor. The key is in your approach to innovation.
Every shop wrestles with the skills gap and a depleting workforce. On one hand, new technology could be a huge draw for the millennial crowd. On the other hand, your team could be slow to adopt innovative changes. Your craftworkers are comfortable with a certain way of doing things, and many are suspicious that automation will replace them. This puts you in a bit of a bind. How can you get the most from innovation without meeting resistance from your team?
Schedule a 2020 Education Session Now
WDBC is now scheduling 2020 education sessions. If your utility or agency is ready to explore all the facets of design-build delivery in the water/wastewater sector, let us help you get started with our 1- or 1-1/2-day education session. We’ll bring everything to you – highly qualified instructors, copies of our Water and Wastewater Design-Build Handbook and workbook, FPDB, PDB, and CMAR procurement guides, and CEU certificates.
Hot topics include preparing to use an owner advisor, integrating collaborative delivery with state revolving funds (SRF), and more.
The Water Design-Build Council stands ready to contribute its expertise, resources, innovation, and enthusiasm to the challenge of strengthening our water and wastewater infrastructure.
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