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Clients are no longer requesting, but demanding, a broader array of services as fewer owners have the capacity to manage construction programs from the earliest stages of planning to the operation of the completed facilities.

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

Two key public works projects are moving forward again but running about a year late.

States increasingly are authorizing the use of alternative delivery to help cash-strapped agencies build more efficiently.

The North Carolina DOT’s design-build totals soon will increase to more than 110 projects, with a value of close to $6 billion. That includes the 2.7-mile Bonner Bridge replacement, delayed for four years by lawsuits.

No longer a novelty, the project-delivery method concept is spreading and evolving as transportation agencies look for best practices.