COVER STORY Teamwork Tames Risk On Critical Utah State Capitol Projects Complex teaming arrangements facilitate $236.6-million state capitol building project, including new construction, seismic improvements and exterior restoration.
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FEATURE STORIES Mission-Oriented Architect Drives Construction Success When Rebekah G. Gladson took over as associate vice chancellor and campus architect at the University of California’s Irvine (UCI) campus in 1994, she found herself riding herd on a program saddled with more than 70% of its construction projects in litigation.
Integrated Project Delivery Takes Some Special Skills A quiet revolution now is taking place on the idyllic campus of California Polytechnic State University (Cal-Poly), San Luis Obispo. Engineering, architecture, construction management and business undergraduates are all coming together in three interdisciplinary courses to build virtual projects, learn about alternative delivery systems and explore design-build project management.
Community Outreach Wins Over Arizona Skeptics A timely change in Arizona’s public procurement laws helped one county beat a court imposed deadline and overcome strong neighborhood opposition to a street widening project. Lessons learned from the groundbreaking design-build job now are being incorporated into all the county’s construction projects.
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