DESIGN-BUILD Process Risk Assessment

Benefits• One Stop Shop for Owner• Increased Collaboration• Increased Efficiency• Decreased Change Orders• Increased Sustainability• Elimination of Finger Pointing

Between Design and Construction Team

Disadvantages• Architect and Contractor on

Same Team, Owner is Not.• Aspirational Rather than Value

Based

DESIGN-BUILD Process Team Composition

• Skills• Technical Expertise• Problem Solving/Decision Skills• Interpersonal Skills

• Diversity• Experience & Knowledge• Creative Tension

• Size (5-9)• Small = efficient = 4 or 5• Large = creative <=12• Smallest team necessary

• Personality• Collaboration (1/3 not collaborative)• Command and Control• Firm Culture

DESIGN-BUILD Process Team Organization

• Cross-Functional Teams• Interdisciplinary• Systems or Areas

• Discrete Whole• Cost, Scope and Responsibility

• Design, Construction, Cost, Schedule, Commissioning

• Duration• Dependent on function• Package work to teams, not teams to work

• Teams within Teams• External or Internal Coordination

DESIGN-BUILD Process Team Agreement

• Mission Statement• Value Statement

• What is most important to team• Behaviors

• Process & Strategy• Measurable Goals

• Value • Goals• Target• Metric

• Communications• Teams

• Leadership• Cross-functional

DESIGN-BUILD Process Resolving Conflict

• Business Negotiations• Project Management• Senior Executive

• Mediation/DRB• Neutral• Non-binding

• Arbitration• Decision binding• Appeal only for procedural error

• Litigation• Cost• Length of time• Appealable