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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 …
Material And Energy Flow Analysis Of The Irish Construction Sector, Rachel Woodward
Material And Energy Flow Analysis Of The Irish Construction Sector, Rachel Woodward
Theses
A national flow model for concrete was developed using the framework of material and energy flow analysis. Using this framework, the Irish concrete material and energy cycles for the year 2007 were constructed by firstly analysing the material life cycle of concrete which consists of the three phases of production (including extraction of raw materials and manufacture of cement), usage into stock (ready-mix and other concrete products), and waste management. In this year, approximately 35Mt of raw materials were extracted to produce both 5Mt of cement and 33Mt of concrete, with 4.5Mt of cement going into the production of concrete. …