Since the late 1990s, public agencies across the US have increasingly relied upon the use of collaborative project delivery methods, commonly referred to as alternative project delivery methods (APDMs), to deliver construction projects. While agencies have realized many benefits from implementing APDM, there remains an ongoing basic misunderstanding about these methods and their application, affecting experienced users and newcomers to APDM alike. The basic principle many agencies miss is that there is an overarching project delivery strategy comprising three key components, and that delivery method is only one of these. To truly use any of the delivery methods effectively, an agency must make a decision about each of these components—delivery method, procurement approach, and contract type—which combined make up the project delivery strategy for each construction project. This process gets more complicated by the proliferation of new names for each twist on a delivery method or procurement approach, as well as for different management strategies that masquerade as delivery methods. Attendees in this session will learn the differences between delivery methods, delivery strategies, contract management strategies, and more, allowing them and their agencies to use these collaborative project delivery methods more successfully to deliver their design and construction program.
After this session, participants will be better able to:
• Differentiate between the basic project delivery methods and how to select the best one for each specific project.
• Identify the different procurement approaches available for each delivery method and the differences between them.
• Compare the different contract types available for each delivery method and which best applies to each delivery method based on the project being delivered.
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Jeffrey Kramer-Partner, VP, Program & Project Management Division Director
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