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EMO / ArC
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Design Build
This type of contract places ArC
Masterbuilders, as the Design/Build team, directly in a partnership with the
owner. The owner relies on our team, as the industry professional, to convey
accurately to the design team and subcontractors the goals and needs of the
project. During this process, it is vital for our Project Managers to expertly
manage the possible projected risks, all participants’ responsibilities and the
provided budget.
What is Design Build?
Design-build is an integrated
delivery process that has been embraced by the world’s great civilizations. In
ancient Mesopotamia, the Code of Hammurabi (1800 BC) fixed absolute
accountability upon master builders for both design and construction. In the
succeeding millennia, projects ranging from cathedrals to cable-stayed bridges,
from cloisters to corporate headquarters, have been conceived and constructed
using the paradigm of design-build.
Return to the time-honored approach of the Master Builder, where a single source
has absolute accountability for both design and construction. When the citizens
of classical Greece envisioned their great temples, public buildings and civil
works, master builders were engaged to both design and construct these
monumental structures. Master builders accepted full responsibility for
integrating conceptual design with functional performance. To assume anything
less than complete accountability for delivering a project was unthinkable.
Throughout each massive logistical undertaking, they commanded skilled
craftsmen, procured time-tested materials, and controlled every aspect of the
project. A master builder with the chief architect, engineer and builder molded
into one. Enduring structures such as the Parthenon and the Theatre of Dionysus
are testimony to an age and a process that are greatly admired, though the
process was thought to be virtually abandoned by modern designers and
constructors.
Today, however, there is a resurgence of the master builder’s approach in the
new world. Informed owners have begun asking practitioners to take more than
just an artistic (and more than simply a means and methods) interest in their
facilities. Steeped in the work ethic exemplified by the ancient master
builders, today’s design-build process offers reassurance that the design and
construction industry can deliver comprehensive services. This valued assurance
can only be provided by a singular source.
Design-builders want full accountability for architecture, engineering and
construction. In fact, like the ancient Greek master builder, they insist on it.
By knowledgeably pursuing design quality, and by effectively controlling costs
and schedule, a design-builder makes certain that concept-to-completion is more
than idle discourse. It is a reality carved in stone.
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