WDBC E-NEWS – November 18, 2020

Message from WDBC President Larry Johnson, PE, DBIA, PMP "Collaborative-Delivery Home Cooking"

Fall weather has fully engulfed North America as we all prepare to finish off this crazy COVID year. We’re making safe plans for the upcoming holiday season and strengthening ourselves with healthy eating and exercise. This is the time of year we enjoy those home cooked comfort foods and family recipes like your grandmother’s homemade soup. This past weekend I was thinking how collaborative delivery is much like a family soup recipe, refined and improved as it is passed down from generation to generation. Our water industry is a soup pot of all the necessary ingredients, including technical challenges, projects, stakeholders, owners, designers, and builders, each providing a unique characteristic by themselves, but they work better together. Collaborative delivery provides additional ingredients and techniques that blend together to create beneficial results. The collaborative-delivery methods the WDBC supports provide knowledge, research, best practices, tools, and techniques to enhance and provide variations to the project delivery recipes passed down to us from our predecessors. We embrace the past, but always look for different perspectives, techniques, and ingredients that deliver healthy projects for our owners and stakeholders. Be safe, eat well, and enjoy the upcoming holidays!

WDBC Education Sessions from the Safety of Home or Office

The Water Design-Build Council has adjusted to the challenges that COVID-19 has presented to our education program by providing online sessions via Microsoft Teams. Though not the same as our 1- or 1-1/2-day in-person sessions that allow for face-to-face interaction, we have found that the Teams format provides for an effective method of delivery.

Using our 5th edition Water and Wastewater Design-Build Handbook as a guide, we can customize an education session for your organization using one or more of these module topics to fit in your allotted time and audience requirements:

• 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.

In addition, the Council is working with consultants to create professional recordings of our education modules that will allow participants to watch on their own schedule. Stay tuned for more details on this initiative.

For more Information or to customize a program for your organization, please contact WDBC Business Operations Manager Bob Golden.

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