Your article on the Miami Performing Arts Center, "Deal Cut to Expedite Miami Arts Center Job," is a good report on a troubled project thats been set right through Agency Construction Management (ENR 8/30-9/1 p. 12). In one respect, though, it adds to the confusion in the construction industry about what CM is and is not.
One of the key players in the project compares agency CM to "a design-build type collaboration." In agency CM, the construction manager works directly and solely for the project owner, providing advice and services with only the projects success in mind.