Design-Build

Planning Through Development

Design-Build (D-B) - the project delivery system in which one firm contracts to provide all of the architectural, engineering, and construction services on a project - is expected to dominate the market by the year 2005. Studded with illustrative case histories, Design-Build: Planning Through Development, by Jeffrey Beard, Michael Loulakis, Esq., and Edward Wundram, is the first book to cover every legal, technical, and administrative aspect of Design-Build. Whether you're a design or construction professional or an owner, this authoritative and up-to-date manual gives you the across-the-board, real-world answers you need for timely, glitch-free, and cost-effective projects.

Expert architectural and engineering advice on

- Procuring services
- Developing RFQs and RFPs
- Organizing and managing contracts
- Estimating
- Allocating risks
- Obtaining insurance and bonding
- Much more

Every aspect of design-build-legal, technical, and administrative

The first book to cover every aspect of design-build-legal, technical, and administrative. This authoritative and up-to-date manual gives design and construction professionals and owners real-world, across-the-board answers needed for timely, glitch-free, and cost-effective project delivery. Dominant by the Year 2005.
Expected to dominate the market by the year 2005, this increasingly popular system, where one firm takes responsibility for all architectural, engineering, and construction services on a project, offers many advantages-and some new challenges.

How to smoothly handle new requirements

This book, Design-Build, helps you realize all the system's benefits and shows how to smoothly handle new requirements. Design-Build Answers You Can Use. Studded with illustrative case histories and written by leading experts, this book gives you a brief, informative history of design-build methodology, then provides authoritative and comprehensive guidance on: New roles of project participants; Procuring services; Developing RFQs and RFPs; Organizing and managing contracts; Conceptual estimating; Allocating risk; Obtaining insurance and bonding; Cost-effective solutions for each phase of project delivery; And more.

Essential design and construction industry tool

This handbook is certain to become an essential design and construction industry tool, the definitive source of design-build answers far into the next century.

Design-Build

Design-Build: Planning Through Development by Jeffrey L. Beard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 0070063117

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