Innovative Delivery Systems for Bridge Preservation Contracts
CM/GC Construction Manager/General Contractor
Designer
Owner
Construction Manager
Owner, Designer, & CM collaboratively work to develop project scope, optimize the design, improve quality, manage costs, and deliver projects early & under budget
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You are a victim of the rules you live by. - Jenny Holzer
adversarial relationships
disputes and change orders
delays and claims
high risk
no incentive for innovation
loss of control
STRESS!
late and over budget projects
Connection
Why Change Systems
Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers Managing Director Kenichi Koyanagi, and W. Edwards Deming
“Management actions are responsible for 85% of all problems.” - W. Edwards Deming
You can’t justify CM/GC for bridge preservation projects…just use low bid or design build.
Pennywash Creek Bridge
Kemper Road Bridge
CM/GC delivery method
Low- Bid system
5 week delivery – 1 week
5 week delivery – 1 month
ahead of schedule 10% under initial budget Designed around pre-fab girder No claims, no change orders
behind schedule 30% over budget Change orders and claims during construction
FDOT / PCL BASCULE BRIDGES
Parker Bridge – Palm Beach $10M Saved ~ 1.5M Successful collaboration with USCG &
N. Palm Beach & 3rd Parties $177K in unused Contingency Significantly Reduced Original Closure Times
FDOT / PCL BASCULE BRIDGES
Atlantic Blvd – Broward $4M
Saved ~ $275k ~40k in unused contingency Significantly Reduced Closures Extensive Innovations Successful collaboration with USCG & Pompano Beach
after
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1.2
4%
13%
Award
Award
1
4%
GMP
0.8
Contingencies & Allowances 0.6
100%
84%
106%
Overruns & Change Orders
Base Cost 0.4
0.2
0
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CM/GC
Design-Build
“It’s Too Much Work for the Benefit”
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity - Rollo May
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
"We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway."
—
William Wiberforce
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Traditional Design Bid Build Design Award
Construction
Design Build Design Construction
RFP Selection of both Designer and Builder
CM/GC RFP Selection of both Designer and CM
Early Construction
Design Construction 28
Early Construction
“THINKING is hard work. It’s Why So Few People Do It.” - Henry Ford
Bitter Creek Bridge Grand County , Utah 100% Plans Originally slated for full replacement at $4.0 M Resulted in simple bridge girder repair Final cost was $400 K 30
“IT’S RISKY BRINGING
A CONGRACTOR “It’s Risky Bringing in IN THATthat EARLY” a Contractor Early”
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D-B-B
CM/GC
Agency Risk
D-B
Contractor Risk Agency Risk
Contractor Risk
Total Risk
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Innovation Reduction of Risk Aggressive Delivery Cost Control Team Selection Constructability Streamlined Plans Quality Early Work Packages Flexibility in Changing Project Scope
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“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step” - Martin Luther King JR.
QUESTIONS
Kenneth E. Atkins, P.E.
Gregg A. Hostetler, P.E.
[email protected] (720) 963-3416 Lakewood, CO
[email protected] (405) 227-0531 Edmond, OK
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein
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