Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed

To further serve the northern Denver metropolitan area and provide a regional solution for wastewater treatment and transmission, the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District used progressive design-build delivery to achieve schedule savings, cost certainty and collaborative owner-contractor delivery for its Northern Treatment Plant Facilities. Use of progressive design-build enabled the Metro District to maintain a high level of control and input on facility design, appropriately assign project risks, and build a project delivery partnership that promoted capital savings and design innovation while adhering to budgetary goals.

Summary

The Northern Treatment Facilitates Project is a regional project helping solve wastewater treatment needs for the northern Denver metropolitan area and highlights how a progressive design-build delivery achieved schedule savings and cost certainty for the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District. The Metro District and its owner advisor worked with the design-builder to develop a project partnership that promoted team collaboration and project risk assignment that met the District’s facility, budget and schedule goals.

Design-Build Team

Client/Owner: Carollo Engineers, Inc. (Owner’s Advisor)
Design-Builder: CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd.
General Contractor: CH2M Hill Companies, Ltd.
Architect: Lintjer + Haywood Architects (Design-Builder Subconsultant)
Engineer: CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd. (Design-Builder)
Specialty Contractors: Garney Construction (Design-Builder Subcontractor), McDade Woodcock, Inc. (Design-Builder Subcontractor)
Specialty Consultants: Carollo Engineers, Inc. (Owner’s Advisor), McDade Woodcock, Inc. (Design-Builder Subcontractor)
Duration of Construction: 52 months
Project Cost: $280,102,681