Water and wastewater utility owners across the country are facing significant
infrastructure replacement, upgrade and expansion projects. The traditional model
for delivering water and wastewater capital facilities in the United States has
been the design-bid-build (D-B-B) model. The traditional model doesn't always
meet the owner's specific project delivery needs. Therefore, owners are
considering alternative delivery approaches, including design-build (D-B),
design-build-operate (D-B-O), design-build-maintain (D-B-M), and construction
management (CM). Each of these alternative project delivery methods have
strengths and weaknesses. While the traditional design-bid-build model has
served, and generally still does serve the water and wastewater industry well,
there is clearly room for improvement. The purpose of this paper is to provide
utility owners with a 'new and improved' project delivery model, the
Collaborative Design-Construct-Operate (D-C-O) method of project delivery. The
Collaborative D-C-O method builds on the long-time proven success of the
traditional design-bid-build approach, by incorporating many of the strengths of
alternative project delivery methods. The Collaborative D-C-O method integrates
the expertise of the designer, the constructor and operations and maintenance
(O&M) personnel into the design process, while: maintaining the owner's
involvement and control to make sure issues of quality, reliability, operability,
constructibility and life-cycle costs are properly balanced; retaining the
benefits of an independent design consultant, representing the owner's best
interests; and preserving competitive bidding to ensure that the owner pays a
fair and reasonable price for the project. Includes figures.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
| File Size : | 1
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| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 7 |
| Published : | 01/01/1999 |
