COVER STORY Government Center Blends Bridging, CM and PLA The new $113.5-million Solano County Government Center combines smart growth with LEEd certification, bridging documents and a project labor agreement.
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FEATURE STORIES North Carolina Creating New Culture For Road Projects North Carolina Dept. of Transportation officials are working to revolutionize their design-bid-build process. They are making major changes to their bread-and-butter delivery system by incorporating lessons learned from design-build to construct projects more quickly and more efficiently.
AIA Teaching Architects To Lead Design-Build Teams As design-build project delivery continues to become more popular, contractors are plunging in to take the lead on the vast majority of the work because they are used to taking on and managing risk. Architects, who generally shun construction risk and are ethically opposed to changing traditional roles, increasingly are being relegated to subcontractor roles. Now some architects are saying it is time for a change.
Coastal Communities Turning To Vacuum Sewers Teaming designers and builders in integrated project delivery has streamlined work on numerous building and road construction projects, saving time and money and freeing owners from change orders and multiple contracts. Now, design-build project delivery also is showing up on underground pipe-laying projects where contractors work side-by-side with designers in developing optimal plans before digging in.
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