Design-Build (DB) delivery is expected to account for nearly 45% of all non-residential construction spending in the U.S. in 2021, an increase of 18% from only three years earlier. This growth creates a need for resources that leverage the role of the design-phase manager to facilitate design and construction integration. These design-phase managers are currently tackling emerging trends in the industry, such as design-assist through specialty trades, BIM execution planning, offsite construction techniques, and the growing use of DB beyond the building sector. In addition, owners are demanding more from the design of their projects and are now emphasizing sustainability, resilience, and value as key performance measures beyond the traditional cost and schedule considerations. This project will specifically address these trends, empowering design-phase managers, owners, and specialty trades to bring forward innovation in their projects through collaboration with project supply chain partners. Three categories of resources will be jointly developed with industry experts: updated and expanded “Professional’s Guide to Managing the Design Phase of a Design-Build Project” to reflect the state-of-practice and a path forward, with common principles that apply to all DB projects and market sectors, with specific guidance for the Building sector, (2) new “playbooks” that provide targeted design management guidance for additional construction sectors, such as Light and Heavy Industrial, Water and Wastewater, Aviation, Highway, and Federal, and (3) a common glossary of terms regarding DB contracting mechanisms that are consistent for both U.S. and international audiences.
The Charles Pankow Foundation
This research seeks to re-define construction tasks by translating the means and methods of trade work into common actions that can be interpreted and performed by robotic systems, and explore how robotic systems can be integrated into current and future human-robot construction teams, as an integral part of the worker, knowledge, task, and resource networks on the jobsite.
This research effort provides new benchmarks for design-bid-build (DBB), construction manager at risk (CMR) and design-build (DB) performance by repeating the same methodology employed by the authors of the 1998 CII report with a data set of contemporary projects.
The research seeks to identify a “recipe” for the successful formation and management of cross-functional teams (CFTs) found in collaborative project delivery methods, such as design-build and IPD. The results will be developed into a resource, envisioned as a playbook for owners, designers, and contractors, that will highlight tactics reliably found to improve the performance of these teams.
This research explores the application of flexibility in the Manufacturing and Life Sciences (MLS) sector and creates a structured approach for developing flexible, long lead facilities without full knowledge of the facility requirements or the product manufacturing process housed within.
