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ConsensusDocs Releases a New Agreement for Design Professionals Amid 15 Percent Increase in Use in 2012

Construction Business Owner

(January 22, 2013) – ConsensusDocs is releasin its first standard agreement for a lead architect or engineer to subcontract certain design work to other design professionals and consultants.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders… possible? Design-Bid-Build. Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) delivery process with design, bidding, and construction in separate, sequential steps.

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ConsensusDocs Unveils Standard Federal Design-Build Agreement

Construction Dive

A new standard agreement from the ConsensusDocs coalition is expected to make it easier for design professionals and design-builders to contract on federal design-build projects. It is believed to be the first standard design-build agreement for design professional services on federal projects.

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Texas Central signs design-build agreement with Salini Impregilo-Lane JV for $20B high-speed rail project

Construction Dive

The contract for the Houston-to-Dallas line adds to existing engineering, design and preconstruction work the team has done under the management of Bechtel in the hopes of starting construction next year.

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Public Procurement of Construction Services

Job Order Contracting

Collaboration, Integrated Information and the Project Lifecycle in Building Design, Construction and Operation.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Kim, Y., References: AIA (2007). Integrated Project Delivery: Case Studies, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Washington, DC Construction Users Roundtable (CURT).

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Specifications for design-build projects

Construction Specifier

Specifications originally intended for design bid-build (DBB) projects require significant revisions to be suitable for design-build or integrated project delivery (IPD). Greater challenges arise when adapting DBB source documents for design-build. Design-build contractual relationships. Images courtesy HDR.

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ASCE, NOAA Sign Agreement to Work Toward a 'Climate-Ready' Future

ENR Construction

The American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration signed a memorandum of understanding outlining plans to help ensure the nation’s infrastructure is designed to be more resilient and “climate-ready.”