Design-build Contracting Handbook
Design-build Contracting Handbook

Author: Robert Frank Cushman

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 0735521824

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Covering all aspects of the design-build delivery system, this valuable guide presents the pros and cons and compares them with the traditional project delivery method. You'll learn how to easily navigate the thicket of licensing considerations, evaluate bonding and insurance implications, and analyze the performance guarantees of the design-build concept. You also get practical suggestions for effective drafting of design-build contracts.

Completing the "Big Dig"
Completing the

Author: Transportation Research Board

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-03-21

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 0309088879

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Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a 7.8 mile system of bridges and underground highways and ramps, is the most expensive public works project ever undertaken in the United States. The original cost estimate of $2.6 billion has already been exceeded by $12 billion, and the project will not be completed until 2005, seven years late. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA), the public steward of the project, requested that the National Research Council carry out an independent assessment of the project's management and contract administration practices, with a focus on the present situation and measures that should be taken to bring the project to a successful conclusion. This report presents the committee's findings and recommendations pertaining to cost, scheduling, and transitioning from the current organization dominated by consultants to an operations organization composed largely of full-time MTA staff. The report recommends that MTA establish an external, independent, peer-review program to address technical and management issues until the transition to operations and maintenance is complete; begin a media campaign now to teach drivers how to use the new system safely; and develop, immediately implement, and maintain a comprehensive security program.

Construction Manager-at-risk Project Delivery for Highway Programs
Construction Manager-at-risk Project Delivery for Highway Programs

Author: Douglas D. Gransberg

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0309143012

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 402: Construction Manager-at-Risk Project Delivery for Highway Programs explores current methods in which state departments of transportation and other public engineering agencies are applying construction manager-at-risk (CMR) project delivery to their construction projects. CMR project delivery is an integrated team approach to the planning, design, and construction of a highway project, to help control schedule and budget, and to help ensure quality for the project owner. The team consists of the owner; the designer, who might be an in-house engineer; and the at-risk construction manager. The goal of this project delivery method is to engage at-risk construction expertise early in the design process to enhance constructability, manage risk, and facilitate concurrent execution of design and construction without the owner relinquishing control over the details of design as it would in a design-build project.

Project Management for Facility Constructions
Project Management for Facility Constructions

Author: Alberto De Marco

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-03-23

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 3642170927

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This book describes concepts, methods and practical techniques for managing projects to develop constructed facilities in the fields of oil & gas, power, infrastructure, architecture and the commercial building industries. It is addressed to a broad range of professionals willing to improve their management skills and designed to help newcomers to the engineering and construction industry understand how to apply project management to field practice. Also, it makes project management disciplines accessible to experts in technical areas of engineering and construction. In education, this text is suitable for undergraduate and graduate classes in architecture, engineering and construction management, as well as for specialist and professional courses in project management.