DBIA believes that cost/price evaluations should not dominate the owner’s best value process when selecting a design-builder. While cost/price can play a role in the selection process, prioritizing technical, design, management, past performance and other non-cost/price qualitative factors maximizes the likelihood of project success.
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Successful design-build entities — however organized — structure the design-build team as early in the process as possible and encourage collaboration within the design-build team as well as full and open communication between the design-build team and the owner.
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Design excellence is integral to all successfully executed projects and is not the exclusive domain of any one contractual relationship or delivery system. In fact, design-build has delivered design excellence on some of the most high-profile projects in the nation.
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The Position Statement reaffirms DBIA’s belief that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) are fundamental principles that drive excellence and innovation in the architecture, engineering and construction industry. Diversity in perspectives, backgrounds and experiences drive us to better serve society, enrich the design-build process and move us toward a more equitable and inclusive future.
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Research continually shows that in addition to outperforming design-bid-build and construction manager at-risk in cost and schedule performance, design-build project delivery enhances teamwork and innovation and leads to better project outcomes when performed in accordance with the principles of DBIA’s Design-Build Done Right®. Design-Build Done Right® refers to both best-value and progressive design-build, and all applicable combinations of the procurement and contracting approaches performed in accordance with best practices.
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Although both the design-build single-entity model and the Integrated Project Delivery multi-party model have features in common, including the goal to achieve effective integration, there can be substantial differences between these systems.
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DBIA believes Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) does not provide best value to the government or the taxpayer. Technical solutions, quality, schedule, past performance and innovation should be the key value components governments use to determine who will deliver services to communities.
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The Position Statement reaffirms DBIA’s belief that successful design-build procurements minimize the use of prescriptive requirements and maximize the use of well written performance requirements that establish the project’s goals, desired outcomes and performance metrics. The use of extensive prescriptive design and bridging documents eliminates many of the advantages inherent in design-build delivery, including the design-build team’s ability to meet or exceed the Owner’s needs through innovation and creativity.
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DBIA supports public-private partnerships as a potentially effective and efficient method to help address our nation’s infrastructure financing and delivery challenges. To be executed properly, a key component of a successful P3 is the implementation of design-build best practices as defined by DBIA, collectively referred to as Design-Build Done Right®.
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Owners who choose their design-builders based largely on qualifications reap substantial benefits — such as increased teamwork, proactive behavior and collaboration — that help achieve project success.
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Building resources are, and always have been, limited. Design-build’s inherent collaboration and innovation help ensure sustainability and project resiliency are vital goals for design-build teams.
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DBIA supports the use of stipends to help cover a portion of the design-build proposal costs and provide an effective financial incentive to increase competition.
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DBIA believes VDC is a people first approach – followed by process and technology – that optimizes the design and construction process while providing greater certainty of the outcome. Virtually designing and simulating the work before construction begins enhances the environment of collaboration, trust and sharing; increases team productivity; and eliminates redundancy and rework.
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