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Water and wastewater utility owners across the country are facing significantinfrastructure replacement, upgrade and expansion projects. The traditional modelfor delivering water and wastewater capital facilities in the United States hasbeen the design-bid-build (D-B-B) model. The traditional model doesn't alwaysmeet the owner's specific project delivery needs. Therefore, owners areconsidering alternative delivery approaches, including design-build (D-B),design-build-operate (D-B-O), design-build-maintain (D-B-M), and constructionmanagement (CM). Each of these alternative project delivery methods havestrengths and weaknesses. While the traditional design-bid-build model hasserved, and generally still does serve the water and wastewater industry well,there is clearly room for improvement. The purpose of this paper is to provideutility owners with a 'new and improved' project delivery model, theCollaborative Design-Construct-Operate (D-C-O) method of project delivery. TheCollaborative D-C-O method builds on the long-time proven success of thetraditional design-bid-build approach, by incorporating many of the strengths ofalternative project delivery methods. The Collaborative D-C-O method integratesthe expertise of the designer, the constructor and operations and maintenance(O retaining thebenefits of an independent design consultant, representing the owner's bestinterests; and preserving competitive bidding to ensure that the owner pays afair and reasonable price for the project. Includes figures.

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Edition: Vol. - No. Published: 01/01/1999 Number of Pages: 7File Size: 1 file , 220 KB