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  • Business Plan for Professional Design Consultant Services

    Business Plan for Professional Design Consultant Services

    This document is intended as the formal business plan for a professional design consultant to provide architecture, engineering and construction management services to owners, clients and contractors. Greater complexity, increasing costs and current labor shortages throughout the industry require more dedicated and responsible individuals with technical knowledge and relevant experience to meet obligations and ensure…

  • Integrated Project Delivery Using Building Information Modeling

    Integrated Project Delivery Using Building Information Modeling

    Design and construction continue to experience low productivity and underperformance. Some of this can be attributed to improper communication and poor management. Adopting a collaborative approach through multi-party agreements will lead to greater project success. Integrated project delivery emphasizes teamwork and cooperation. Building information modeling provides for a shared and centralized virtual resource. As these…

  • An Investigation of the Design-Build Project Delivery Method

    An Investigation of the Design-Build Project Delivery Method

    Material costs, labor shortages and tight schedules are forcing architects, engineers and contractors to explore alternate project delivery methods. Overlapping design and build operations in varying degrees has the potential to reduce construction time and production costs. Integrated project delivery and multi-party agreements allow project teams to work in collaborative ways not envisioned by traditional…