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Experiences of Federal Agencies with the Design-Build Approach to Construction (1993) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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... Many owners reserve the right in their design-build contracts to approve the contractor's ~ The committee is aware that other terms also are applied to such arrangements, such as "design-construct" and "they construction," and that some people recognize subtle differences in the meanings of the different terms; for example, some people use the term "turnkey' only for projects involving a minim al amount of owner input and control. To avoid getting bogged down in semantics, the committee decided to use only the term "design-build." 1
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... In the mid 1980s many owners, including several federal agencies, began experimenting with the use of the approach to procure other types of facilities. The increased interest in the approach probably was stimulated by a number of factors, but especially the following: O Intensified pressure on facility departments from corporate managers and agency administrators to save time and money.
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... The first part of the questionnaire asked for factual information on each project being reported on -- such as: the nature, size, and comple~nt~r of the project, its location and cost, the type of contract awarded, the number of bidders, the type of firm that got the contract and how it was selected, and the extent to which the design of the facility was developed before the contract was awarded. The second part of the questionnaire asked the respondents to assess each project in comparison to a similar project carried out under the traditional design-bid-build process, in terms of the following factors: Functionality User satisfaction Quality of design Quality of materials Quality of workmanship Overall quality Cost of planning and programming Cost of agency contract administration Cost of design 3
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... The other seven agencies submitted information on 27 projects,3 as follows: Department of the Air Force (AF) , four projects; Department of the Army (DA)
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... its findings. Detailed summaries of the questionnaires that were returned are presented in Appendix A
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