FAST AND INNOVATIVE DELIVERY OF HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDING: DESIGN-BUILD DELIVERS WITH LESS OWNER LIABILITY

摘要

This paper provides the argument that sustainability and high performance design and construction are best delivered through the design-build contracting method. Sustainability is predicated on innovative design and a life cycle approach to project planning. High performance design and construction requires a systemic approach to design and construction. The design-build method of infrastructure delivery capitalizes on the synergy between the designer and builder, rather than exacerbating the traditional antagonism between designers and builders common with the design-bid-build method. Taken together, sustainability, high performance and design-build concepts are all founded on the principle of performance specifications. In further argument for design-build, the owner is no longer at risk for the "implied warranty" for design accuracy and receiving only "substantial" compliance in its delivered facility. The owner is vulnerable to both with design-bid-build. Thus, in the new sustainable and high performance environment, design-build is the contracting and project delivery method of choice.