Preparing for Design-Build Projects: A Primer for Owners, Engineers, and Contractors is a professional reference that covers the basics of developing a design-build project. The authors focus on learning modules that break down the decision-making process and reassemble it as a straightforward method for DB projects from the owner's standpoint.

This book acts as a timely guide on developing DB requests for qualification and requests for proposals. It also assists the reader in interpreting these documents in order to prepare a responsive DB proposal or to evaluate a series of proposals and make a source selection decision. 296 pp.

Preparing for Design-Build Projects: A Primer for Owners, Engineers, and Contractors - Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction to Design-Build Contracting
  • Design-Build What and Why
  • Historical Perspective
  • Why Use Design-Build
  • Design-Build Success Factors
  • References
• Developing Design-Build Project Scope
  • Design-Build Project Characteristics
  • Influencing the Development of Design-Build Project Scope
  • Design-Build Contract Model
  • Formalizing Project Scope
  • Summary
  • References
• Writing Design-Build Performance Criteria
  • Owner Objectives
  • Performance Criteria Development
  • Management Criteria
  • Technical Criteria
  • Using Abductive Reasoning to Write Performance Criteria
  • Cost Performance Criteria
  • Cost Breakdown Criteria
  • References
• Preparing Design-Build Requests for Qualifications or Requests for Proposals
  • Design-Build Risk Types
  • Applies Risk Management in Design-Build
  • Contracting Strategy
  • RFQ/RFP Content
  • RFP Components
  • Design-Build RFP Contract Clause Considerations
  • Design-Build Award Events
  • Summary
  • References
• Design-Build Request for Proposal Case Studies
  • Case 5-1: To Spec or Not To Spec, Is That the Question?
  • Case 5-2: Keep Looking until You Find the Right Answer
  • Case 5-3: All the Right Moves
  • Case 5-4: Trust Me, I Know This Will Work
  • Summary
• Selection Process Request for Qualification or Request for Proposal Evaluation Planning
  • Award Methods
  • Selection and Award Processes
  • Comparison of Methods
  • Evaluation Criteria
  • Scoring/Rating Systems
  • The Rating Process
  • Evaluation Documentation
  • Summary
  • References
• Design-Build Proposal Evaluation Case Studies
  • Case 7-1: Let Me Really Strut My Stuff
  • Case 7-2: Making a Passing Grade
  • Case 7-3: A Bracing Thought
  • Case 7-4: Bait and Switch?
  • Case 7-5: Defending the System
  • Summary
• Preparing Design-Build Proposals
  • Design-Build Proposal Preparation Sequence
  • Proposal Preparation by the Builder
  • Proposal Preparation by the Designer-of-Record
  • Preparing the Price Proposal
  • Closure of the Proposal Preparation Process
  • Summary
• Summary of Design-Build Contracting
  • Design-Build Basic Concepts
  • The Future of Design-Build
    • Appendix 1: A Design-Builder's Perspective on the Design-Build RFP Process in the Transportation industry
    • Appendix 2: A Design-Builder's Perspective on the Design-Build RFP Process in the Building Construction Industry
    • Appendix 3: Design-Build Contract Documents
• Index
• About the Authors