The project delivery approach is not always the optimum one, said speakers at the Transportation Research Board forum, which focuses on sector improvement and recently concluded in Washington, D.C.
An insurer claims manager told a risk conference audience four years ago that “in case you’ve been on another planet, there have been hundreds of design-build lawsuits.”
What some state offcials chracterize as an apparent politically motivated act temporarily leaves a much-delayed bridge replacement short of needed dollars.
The article “Walsh-Granite Lawsuit Against HDR Cited Standard of Care and Quantities” (ENR 2-6/13, p. 24-25) by Richard Korman contains false and misleading statements regarding me and my firm, O’Connell & Lawrence Inc.
Building on a tight site for the Elliot Hospital Emergency Department Expansion while keeping the ED operational required careful team planning and nimbleness, especially when Covid brought the sudden, unexpected need for to redesign the Manchester, N.H. hospital project.
Construction will wrap at the end of September on a $35-million renovation and expansion of Second Line Stages, a film and TV production facility in the heart of New Orleans, and those involved say effective communication and collaboration played an important role in the speed of this design-build project.
In Iowa, CM at-risk would be allowed on all vertical construction but universities could not use DB project delivery, under state legislation passed by both houses.