Question

Question 31. If you were a state personal how would you convince your manager to adopt a design build approach despite risks that are associated with this method?

Answer 1

I would convince the manager to adopt the design build approach by explaining its advantage and risk management.

Design build approach

It is a method project delivery in which one entity -the design build team works under a single contract with the project owner to provide design and construction services. It is also known as design/construct and single-source responsibility. Its a notion that the owners sit at same table with architects, builders, engineers and estimators and thus great ideas are born. The one entity- the design build- manages all contractswith companies such as sub contractors, equipment vendors and material providers.

There are three distinctive characteristics in design build approach. They are

1) communicating instantaneously: this speeds the whole process which improves your project schedule.

2) single source responsibility: owner has to contact one man to know the status of the project

3)producing customized projects: the ability to quickly produce products that are custom and not your prototypical replications.

Advantages

1) team work

2) Total accountability

3) continuity

4) expertise

5) professional guides

6) owner involvement

7) collaboration

8) open/ transparent communication

9) time savings

10) cost savings

11) eliminates adversarial conditions

12) not restricted to building types

13) fast project delivery

The risk of delays are avoided in design build method because they are directly responsible for design, they can be more accurate with their completion date and cost estimates. We can't the performance aspects of quality, cost and delivery time are clearly defined and responsibilities/risks are appropriately balanced. The risk management activities can include are super fast track approach, abstractions of actions by PDPC analysis ( Process decision program chart) .