Design/Build a Panacea?-No

摘要

The current trend for large and small public properties to build major infrastructure is to go Design/Build. Owners believe the Design/Build approach will shorten the time from preliminary engineering and environmental clearance to delivery while saving money. For Design/Builders and their engineers this seems to be a false economy and saves neither money nor time and in many cases leaves the Owner's lacking. This paper will examine some of the myths in Design/Build and shifts of risks to the Design/Builder as they go through the protracted and expensive process of developing design to meet project requirements and assume contractual risks that are often either attainable or economical. For the responsible final design engineer it forces vast compromises in design to attain the sometimes unattainable low bid.