The Power of Design-Build

CHAPTER 3

Design-Build Best Practices and Success Strategies

Preface

Design–build is a powerful process that has proven over the years to be able to bring about outstanding benefits and efficiencies. This does not happen automatically, and not every design–builder can really deliver the design–build promise. This chapter provides a range of design–build best practices and success strategies that can be very useful to all design– builders, whether seasoned or new to the process. Aiming to match how the business really goes in practice, the chapter is structured into two distinct parts addressing the two typical project stages, namely, the precontract award stage and the post-contract award stage. Each of such two stages has its own features, issues, ...