Abstract: Progressive design-build (PDB) is being successfully executed in water and wastewater and airport construction projects. Building on the success in these sectors, highway agencies are judiciously utilizing PDB on a ...

Abstract: Although agencies design and construct the vast majority of federally funded highways through the traditional design-bid-build (DBB) method, the use of construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC) and design-build (DB) ...

Abstract: A best practice tool to enhance design-build best-value procurements is stipends, yet there is very little literature dedicated to this topic. Cited benefits of stipends include incentivizing the level of effort put forth ...

Abstract: Controlling construction change orders and associated cost growth can be a challenge for highway agencies and is a topic of interest for both practitioners and researchers. Change-order management is particularly crucial ...