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Water Design-Build News
September 29, 2021
Issue Highlights
COMING SOON - New WDBC Research Report
Three Education Sessions Left - Still Time to Register
Blog Feature - Why You Should Consider Progressive Design-Build for Your Next Water/Wastewater Project
Legislative Corner - Infrastructure Negotiations
WDBC 2021 Phase I Research Report
Coming Soon!
How do owners define success (and failure)? Are there key steps in the project delivery process that lead to success if managed well or failure if managed poorly? In 2020, the WDBC Research Committee initiated a two-phase project to better understand the elements of successful collaborative delivery projects in the water and wastewater sector. Phase I of this work is now complete and results will be published very soon! Stay tuned to this space and your inbox for details on how to get your copy of Collaborative Delivery of Water and Wastewater Projects: Advancing Project Success and Avoiding Failure.
Join Us for the Last Three Online Education Sessions of 2021
Join the WDBC for the remaining three lessons in our six-session package of online education sessions designed for owners and practitioners in the water industry. Officials, managers, and engineering and O&M staff of public water/wastewater facilities who are looking to gain essential knowledge needed to procure and deliver design-build and CMAR projects should attend these classes.
Don't just take our word for it, see what some of our attendees have said:
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Each morning session will include a review of the principles and best practices of collaborative delivery followed by the topic of the day in the afternoon:
October 28: Conducting the Procurement Process
November 18: Managing and Implementing Collaborative-Delivery Projects
December 16: Getting to Project Completion & Transition
Time: 10:00 - 1:30 p.m. MST (break 11:30 - 12:00 MST) All sessions will be conducted on Microsoft Teams
First session includes a hard copy and PDF of the 5th edition Water and Wastewater Design-Build Handbook. Additional sessions can be purchased a la carte.
Do you have an upcoming project where cost and schedule certainty are critical? Are project costs increasing on your design-bid-build projects? Do you have the funding to build projects, but not enough in-house project management staff? Do you want to take your projects to the next level with total collaboration? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, progressive design-build might be the ideal collaborative-delivery method for your next water/wastewater project.
Pelosi Sets Infrastructure Vote as Democratic Leaders Seek to Unify Caucus Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday announced the House will vote Thursday on President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill, as Democratic leaders race to unify their fractious caucus ahead of a critical week. Pelosi told her members Sunday night that the vote will now take place Thursday, the same day that a slate of surface transportation programs expire, rather than Monday as originally planned. Debate on the infrastructure legislation will begin Monday, Pelosi said — the date she and a group of moderates had originally agreed upon in August. Pelosi and her leadership team had signaled for days that the vote could slip past Monday, with dozens of progressives threatening to block it without action on Biden’s separate multitrillion-dollar policy bill. But moderates have fiercely resisted a delay much longer than 24 hours, vowing to ditch the party-line talks altogether if leadership broke the commitment. "Let me just say we're going to pass the bill this week," Pelosi said on ABC's "This Week" earlier Sunday, declining to offer specifics about the vote timing. She later added, "I'm never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn't have the votes." Some of those centrists who sought that Sept. 27 deadline were privately fuming Sunday night over Pelosi's announcement, according to people familiar with the conversations. Some of those tensions are likely to flare Monday evening, when House Democrats meet for a private caucus meeting. The last-minute schedule change comes as Pelosi and her leadership team enter one of the most consequential legislative weeks in years. House Democrats will attempt to pass not only the public works bill with $550 billion in new spending, but also a mammoth domestic bill with a price tag up to $3.5 trillion. Pelosi announced Saturday that lawmakers will vote on both packages this week, guaranteeing a frenetic timeline as lawmakers and staff scramble to finish drafting that broader policy bill — and get the full caucus in line behind it. Pelosi and her leadership team are still racing to lock down the votes for both bills, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions. With just three votes to spare, Democratic leaders are counting on the White House to flex even more whip muscle in their already expansive operation.
*Article provided by WDBC advocacy consulting firm, Venn Strategies
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