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Applied sciences; Building--Design and construction; Communication and the arts; Construction contracts—Evaluation; Design-bid-build; Design-build; Public universities; Requests for proposals (Public contracts); Universities and colleges--Design and construction
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Comparison Of Design-Build And Design-Bid-Build Performance Of Public University Projects, James David Fernane
Comparison Of Design-Build And Design-Bid-Build Performance Of Public University Projects, James David Fernane
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
With an unsure market and scarce work, owners across the United States, especially universities, are finding themselves in situations where they are unable to complete their projects within cost and schedule using the traditional delivery method: Design-Bid-Build (DBB). Under the DBB project delivery method, many competent contractors are electing to send low bids on projects just to keep work on their books, with plans to receive change orders once the project is underway; this practice is leading to cost and schedule overruns. Public universities across the United States are beginning to elect to use Design-Build (DB) as an alternate project …