Design Build

When circumstances call for non-traditional approaches to construction - such as accelerated schedules, unique financing options or multiple vested partners -alternative delivery methods such as design-build can be the answer. Clients who want to reduce their overall project delivery time, ensure schedule and cost parameters and control risk, or who need an early cost commitment, are turning to design-build instead of the more traditional design-bid-build process.

Design-build brings one entity versed in both design and construction into the process. The primary benefits of design-build are that it allows compression of the project schedule and provides the owner with a single point of contact and responsibility.

Schedule reductions are achieved by the overlapping of design and construction phases. A shorter schedule can translate into lower costs, although savings may also be realized by having a single entity responsible for early cost and value coordination, competitive pricing, keeping constant oversight of cost factors and eliminating the owner's cost of maintaining staff to oversee the operation.