DESIGN AND BUILD
What is the Design and Build?
Design-Build is a construction delivery method that provides owners with a single point of contact for both the design and construction phases of a project. One entity holds single-source responsibility and contractual risk for every aspect of a build — from estimation, assessments and pre-construction to architecture, schematics, engineering, subcontracting, construction and post-construction. This entity, the Design-Builder, manages all contracts with companies, such as subcontractors, equipment vendors and materials providers.
The 5 Phases of the Design-Build Process
- Team Selection
- Pre-construction
- Architectural Design
- Construction
- Post-construction
The 6 Top Advantages of Design-Build
Successful approach to commercial construction projects that used to deliver high-quality commercial construction for manufacturing facilities, warehouses, office buildings, distribution facilities, religious organizations and sports.
- Early cost, design and materials input from the contractor
- Time is saved by compressing the schedule
- Greatly reduces or eliminates change orders
- Design and contractor fees are kept to a minimum
- Legal fees are kept to a minimum
- Owner can occupy the facility earlier
TEST AND VALIDATE
- These tests should only be executed when the new build is received.
- After every time the build is tested, the results are analyzed and compared.
- If some failure is observed, then the results are sent to the development team.
- The development team should analyze and fix the bugs.
- When the bugs are fixed, a new build is created and we apply the test cases again.
- If it is successful, then the build is passed to the testing team.
- If it fails again, then the results are sent back to the development team for analysis.
