A Design-Build Experience

Comparative analysis of design/build and design/bid/build project delivery systems in Lebanon

Design/bid/build and design/build are two principal project delivery systems used worldwide. The performance of each project may differ with the type of procurement system used. This study has two aims: firstly, to assess and compare the performance of design/bid/build and design/build projects in Lebanon; secondly, to compare the results with the performance of equivalent systems in the Far Ea...

Empowering Students with Design-Build

Design-Build: An Alternative Construction System

Design-build is a construction delivery method that is relatively new to state and local government. Seventeen statutes have been enacted since 1993 authorizing its limited use by the state and local agencies. In this report, we look at the experience of these agencies and examine the advantages and disadvantages of the design-build method compared to the traditional design-bid-build method. We...

Software Agent for Design-build Process Cooperation

This paper describes a research project that attempt to develop a process integrating method and finally to create a multi-agent system to support the cooperation in a design-build team. The approach taken is to apply Business Process Reengineering (BPR) philosophy for providing a process-based fast-tracking execution mechanism for design-build teams. An Integrated Design-Build Framework (IDBF)...

Design for Verification Using Design Patterns to Build Reliable Systems

In commercial software development, components are mainly used to reduce time to market. While some effort has been spent on formal aspects of components, most of this was done in the context of integration into programming languages or operating system frameworks. As a consequence, increased reliability of composed systems is merely regarded as a side effect of a more rigid testing of pre-fabr...