Context-Sensitive Solutions in a Design-Build Environment: Some Lessons Learned

Compared to the more traditional design-bid-build method, the design-build delivery method is being increasingly used by state departments of transportation to deliver infrastructure quickly to the public. The incorporation of context-sensitive solutions in a design-build environment takes planning and determining which method to use. There are two general approaches -- an owner-driven or a contractor-driven method, each with inherent strengths and weaknesses. This paper describes several projects using each method, the issues that developed as the result of decisions made, and the lessons learned in the process.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFB40 Landscape and Environmental Design.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Lormand, Jeffrey
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Context sensitive design; Contractors; Design build; Infrastructure; Project delivery; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Highways; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I52: Construction of Pavements and Surfacings;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01515488
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-3895
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 24 2014 8:42AM