This month, the DBIA Book Club features two new publications. Both are written by experienced authors with insightful authority on design-build as a project delivery method.
Design-Build Project Delivery
Sidney M. Levy is a construction consultant with more than 40 years’ experience in the industry. The author of 15 previous books, including several devoted to international construction and the award-winning Project Management in Construction, Mr. Levy is the owner of a construction consulting firm in Baltimore, Maryland.
Being able to offer the design-build method of project delivery is now a necessity for any professional involved in nonresidential construction. Written by an author with more than four decades in the field and enriched by examples and advice from a wide variety of industry experts, Design-Build Project Delivery covers every essential aspect of the process — from determining how, when, and where to use it, to proposals, bids, and contracts including the valuable checklists and forms.
Turn to the most practical and comprehensive resource on design-build for a thorough understanding of:
- The advantages and disadvantages of design-build: where, when, and how to use it
- Developing a design-build capability
- How to define roles and assemble a design-build team
- Marketing design-build services in the private and public sectors
- The cost-estimating process
- Contracts, bonding, and insurance issues
- Green buildings — their time has come
- Project management methods
- The CM approach to design-build
- Building information modeling
Complete with practical, real-world techniques and valuable case studies, Design-Build Project Delivery provides the hands-on guidance you need to stay competitive — and profitable — by offering design-build services.
Design-Build Project Delivery
by Sidney M. Levy
Hardcover: 372 pages
Order Number: 5018
Member Price: $74.75
Non-Member Price: $93.44
Preparing for Design-Build Projects: A Primer for Owners, Engineers, and Contractors
Douglas D. Gransberg, Ph.D., is the Sam K. Viersen Jr. Presidential Professor of Construction Science at the University of Oklahoma. While stationed with the US Army Corps of Engineers in Turkey, Dr. Gransberg pioneered the use of design-build contracting to deliver facilities in remote locations.
Preparing for Design-Build Projects: A Primer for Owners, Engineers, and Contractors is a professional reference that covers the basics of developing a design-build project. The authors focus on learning modules that break down the decision-making process and reassemble it as a straightforward method for design-build projects from the owner’s standpoint. This book acts as a timely guide on developing design-build requests for qualification and requests for proposals. It also assists the reader in interpreting these documents in order to prepare a responsive design-build proposal or to evaluate a series of proposals and make a source selection decision.
Preparing for Design-Build Projects: A Primer for Owners, Engineers, & Contractors
Authors: Douglas D. Gransberg, Ph.D., James E. Koch, Ph.D., P.E., Keith R. Molenaar, Ph.D.
Order Number: 5048
Member Price: $74.75
Non-Member Price: $93.44
WHERE TO BUY: DBIA (www.DBIA.org)