5 Ways to Prepare for a Design-Build Project

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By Joe Putnam Imagine this: You’re finishing up a successful project, and your vice president walks in with a new opportunity. This one will use Design-Build – your first with that delivery method. How do you prepare for it? Is it any different, or is all that fuss just for the preconstruction teams to hammer out? Design-Build doesn’t change your role as a superintendent, but it does affect how you go about working with your team and other contractors on a jobsite. Here are five ways to prepare for that Design-Build job. Input is important, especially early Every time you … Read more

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Progressive Design-Build Water Treatment Plant Project Underway in Texas

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In order to meet the needs of a growing population and to shift from reliance on groundwater to surface water as the source for its drinking water, the city of Houston and four regional water authority partners are undertaking a 320 million gallons per day $1.765-billion Design-Build expansion of the Northeast Water Purification Plant. It is the largest progressive Design-Build water treatment plant project underway in Texas and in the United States. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., through the Houston Waterworks Team, was awarded three separate contracts on the project—the early works central plant foundations package, which broke ground in June … Read more

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Design-Build-Led Seismic Renovation of Robert A. Young Federal Building Complete

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An seismic renovation of the Robert A. Young Federal Building—one of downtown St. Louis, Missouri’s largest office buildings—has been completed to improve the historic structure’s seismic performance. The McCarthy Building Companies’-led Design-Build project team included Gensler (lead designer and architect of record), Etegra (associate architect) and Thornton Tomasetti (structural engineer). Other project team members included William Tao & Associates, Integrated Facility Services, Aschinger Electric and Wilson’s Structural Steel. The U.S. General Services Administration, which owns and manages the 20-story, 1-million-square-foot building, undertook the $75-million Design-Build project to provide additional shelter-in-place opportunities and safe exiting for the building’s 3,000 occupants in … Read more

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Ak-Chin Hotel and Casino Expansion Receives Design-Build Award

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The Design-Build Institute of America announces its 2019 Design-Build Project/Team Award Winners, including the Harrah’s Ak-Chin Hotel and Casino Expansion, located in Phoenix, Arizona, which has received a National Design-Build Merit Award in the Rehabilitation/Renovation/Restoration category. The project will also go on to compete for a National Award of Excellence and Project of the Year to be announced at DBIA’s Design-Build Conference & Expo Awards Ceremony in November. Harrah’s Ak-Chin Hotel and Casino project includes an 11-story concrete hotel tower, spa, 20,460 square feet of new gaming space, food and beverage venues, multi-purpose event/banquet center, 750-car parking garage and new bingo hall. … Read more

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Modular Building Completed for Temporary Flying Squadron Facility

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A 17,284-square-foot Temporary Flying Squadron Facility for the 33d Flying Training Squadron at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma is complete. Ramtech Building Systems served as Design-Build firm on the project. The single-story modular building complex will be used for pilot training as part of a program aimed at increasing the graduation rate to address the shortage of pilots that exists within the U.S. Air Force. Ramtech worked with the 71st Mission Support Group and ASRCC, Vance AFB’s Base Operations Support contractor, to develop the project. The L-shaped relocatable modular building provides space for eight training classrooms, 15 offices, … Read more

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