Ripe, but Risky
By Sean Haynes and George Woods
Since 2006, annual military construction budgets have increased about 33 percent a year, cumulating in a 2009 budget of more than $24 billion. This bright spot in the overall architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, which recently has seen considerable reductions in growth, is even better for design-builders, as 80 percent of this work is projected to be design-build.
Quick Concrete
By Christopher Prawdzik
At Fort Irwin, Calif., the Army needed to build more than 50 buildings as part of a Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) facility.
Managing Design
By Barbara Jackson, Ph.D., DBIA; John Steele, MEng, Ph.D., CEng, MIED; and Paul Waskett, BEng, Ph.D., CEng, MIED
The design-build design process is one of the most difficult functions to manage because of its iterative nature and the large numbers of interdependent activities that must be aligned with the construction schedule. Consequently, designers and project managers often become frustrated at the time spent in iterative loops and rework cycles throughout the design process.
Realigned
By Lt. Col. Andrew Carlson, AIA, DBIA, and Maj. J. Kevin Dyer, DBIA
In 2000, the Oklahoma Legislature enacted HB 1564, an amendment to the Public Building Construction and Planning Act, which allowed design-build procurement, enabling the qualification-based selection of a joint-venture firm to design and construct a dome on the Oklahoma State Capitol.
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