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2000
Editor's Note
Some on Team D/B are deciding they came to play - just as others are thinking that given what design/build would mean to their businesses. They can't win for losing.
By the numbers
1999 Zweig White & Associates national survey of 96 contracting-company presidents, CEOs and chief financial officers focused on growing design/build markets and builders' attitudes toward project-delivery innovations.
Ask the professor
Top educators say defining design/build is all academic
Define the following
Contractors answer a few "trick" questions.
Do the waive
Wisconsin's Building Commission has its own limited-bidding game plan
Know your Building Commission
Current members of Wisconsin's Building Commision and accompanying biographies.
The letter of the law
State Building Commission waives competitive-bidding laws and proceeds with alternative delivery methods, what statute does it cite?
Exceptional work
A look at some large state projects given the green light for contracting alternatives
The Consensus builders
From legislators to lobbyists, the partisans hint at what it would take to make a deal
Family album
Industry and government adopt the design/build cause.
WUCA's war
Underground contractors, MMSD take their skirmish from the Capitol to the courts
"Design/build" always demands definition
"There is nothing, absolutely nothing, good about design/build"
Willing to deal
"There is nothing, absolutely nothing, good about design/build"
Where, oh where?
Design/build pervasiveness is tough to pin down
Private property
Established design/builders guard against contracting trespassers
Options open
Would-be, public-sector design/build customers say they wouldn't rush to limited bidding
The house design/built
Custom home builders align themselves with architects
Call me irresistable
CAllure of lucrative jobs tempts contractors toward design/build gold rush
1999
Editor's Note
As the possibility of state-sanctioned limited bidding for public projects moves closer to reality, I get the sense that its proponents are conflicted over whether the victory would be all that sweet.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know...
As our reporters researched the boom in design/build construction, we found some facts that just didn't add up. We turned to Dick Snow and his decades' experience as an industry leader for his insight.
What is Design/Build?
Broadly, "design/build" refers to concentrating the design and construction of a project in a single entity. Easier said than done.
No Cookie Cutters
Architects say no two design/build jobs have to be alike
Do we have an understanding?
Groups with competing interests draft boiler-plate contracts
Public money, private matter?
Without bidding, observers wonder how taxpayers will know that the process is honest
Is it me?
Encouragement and cautions for contractors who want to try design/build on for size
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