Project Delivery Options: Pros and Cons
Design-Build
Pros Cons
Provides a single point of Not as well understood and can be responsibility for design and more complex (as compared to construction, minimizing owner traditional design-bid-build) risk and responsibility Design, scheduling, and Interactions between GC and construction are interwoven, architect are better coordinated, making it difficult for the owner to which saves time. The owner participate in decision-making provides input at an early stage, Owner may not have the time or and once the design-builder is expertise to prepare adequate bid hired, owner involvement is selection materials, thus decreasing limited the advantages of design-build Related to the above, time- Architect does not directly serve as consuming meetings and the owner’s agent, but is contracted paperwork may be reduced, (or employed) by the design-build since the architect and firm, shifting the architect’s contractor are on the same team allegiance away from owner to the Early cost estimates in this design-builder approach can be advantageous Design-builder’s cost commitment in terms of project budgeting may not be based on full design and and financing documentations since the designer Time delays due to scheduling and builder are working together. problems and change orders may Disagreements with the owner may be reduced since the architect arise over what was implied in the and contractor closely documents, and design changes coordinate activities required by the owner can add costs Potential for conflicts between Deliberations about cost-savings architect and contractor are strategies take place with the eliminated design-build team, which may lead to reductions in building quality without input from, or knowledge of, the owner
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