Posts for Archives: Project

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed As a growing company in a fast-moving marketplace, Nutrabolt needed a facility with flexibility and options; the design-build team delivered on this need. The project required a creative, collaborative construction approach to deliver a facility with a unique design and challenging site conditions. The site was situated on clay-type soils, […]

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed Design-build allowed Michelin to achieve its product delivery obligations by overlapping and phasing the design and construction activities to meet their fixed start-up date. There were 109 deliverables on the project, with 38 areas that each had multiple phased completion dates. To make things more difficult, an incredible 20 inches […]

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed With University Medical Center construction underway, steam plant completion was expedited to ensure availability of adequate steam service. Design-build delivery helped meet that demand. Late in the design schedule, the owner requested the building orientation be rotated 90 degrees. This challenge required quick coordination and action by both the design […]

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed Frequent funding losses, cost overruns and leadership changes drove the use of design-build to streamline the process and efficiently complete the project on budget. For example, a delay in the county’s execution of the contract required the team to strategize different alternatives to its accelerated schedule. The team developed a […]

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed The client turned to design-build to streamline delivery and reduce the risk of their capital improvement projects. As a result, the design-build team conducted constructability reviews of design documents, which enabled the team to formally identify high-risk areas of potential conflict to resolve prior to construction. The design-build model was […]

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed GSA chose a design-build delivery approach to minimize risks related to design and construction coordination by having a single point of accountability for both components. Summary The Hensel Phelps design-build team worked collaboratively with the General Services Administration (GSA), Social Security Administration (SSA) and JACOBS throughout the design and construction […]

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed One of the biggest challenges for the owner was the ability to maneuver to other options once design and construction began. This was directly addressed by implementing a GMP (Guaranteed Maximum Price) contract and ensuring that the owner’s program manager had funding set aside in a contingency fund. These provisions […]

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed At the time, GSA was “testing” the design-build delivery method for this program type (it was one of three courthouses being built). Summary The John M. Roll Federal Courthouse sustainably reinterprets and updates classical American courthouse design for the community of Yuma, Arizona. The LEED Gold 60,000-square-foot building won a […]

Challenge Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed The alignment between the design and construction schedule was established on day one with an integrated project schedule that included design, submittal, fabrication, delivery, construction and close-out activities. The Hathaway Dinwiddie team provided an accelerated 23-month completion schedule to allow the building to open for the Fall start of the academic […]

Challenges Design-Build Project Delivery Addressed The owner chose design-build project delivery to mitigate anticipated phasing, occupational and site utilization challenges by engaging the general contractor early in the process. Summary The See Forever Foundation creates learning communities in under-served urban areas where all students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional schools, can strive […]