As the overall market continues to grow in the U.S., so has the market for alternative project delivery. Owners increasingly have been looking for means to squeeze conflicts and inefficiencies out of the construction process and see the old system of looking for the lowest first costs in the traditional design-bid-build procurement process as failing to address these concerns. This dissatisfaction with the old delivery systems is shown by the growing volume of state legislation authorizing public agencies to use alternative project delivery methods.