Construction Management Fundamentals - Part 2 of 4

Explore design-build, where the owner hires a design-builder that combines design and construction under one roof, often enabling early construction and fast tracking while managing risk.

Compare major project delivery systems—design-bid-build, design-build, CM at risk, multiple prime, and integrated project delivery—and highlight their advantages, disadvantages, collaboration, and risk allocation.

Explore project delivery systems, including public-private partnerships, and how finance, design, build, operate, and maintain megaproject decisions. See a Denver-area example showing how owners evaluate delivery options in early planning.

Assess delivery systems for a cookie-cutter fast-food restaurant, considering geotech, soils, water table, climate, and codes. Choose design-build and bid to finish the design and start flipping burgers.

Assess a land development project’s earthwork, utilities, pavement, and landscaping while comparing delivery systems like design-build, CM at risk, and multiple prime, including an owner's rep adviser.

Explains time and material contracts for short-term, ill-defined scopes, including verifying labor, equipment, hours, and materials, and outlines rates, overhead, and not-to-exceed pricing versus cost-plus.

Concludes part 2 by comparing payment and procurement options, and detailing cost estimating, contract types, and scheduling as core construction management skills.