Project Delivery Blog
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: September 06, 2011 10:58 AM
AGC of America's updated textbook, Project Delivery Systems for Construction, 3rd Edition, has just been released. We added 3 new chapters, Procurement, Basis of Reimbursement and IPD. I would really welcome comments on the book. If you go to this link, you can see the Table of Contents and download Chapter 1 for free. (Please know that I do not get any of the proceeds from the sales of this book!) If you do purchase it, be sure to at least get the "member" discount! http://store. ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: June 03, 2011 8:05 AM
The answer: It depends on where you are!For those interested in keeping up with the project delivery trends… As many of you know, I have been tracking every year, the updated project delivery figures put out by ENR based on their Top 100 firms. See the ENR Project Delivery Numbers through 2010 which shows both the total numbers (which for 2010, was an EXACT tie… both were $78.32 billion)
AND new this year, I have graphed the domestic number comparison for the last three years (check out t ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: October 11, 2010 10:04 AM
The following two charts show the latest approach to helping people determine their own list of delivery options.
These two charts are similar showing the Delivery Method by Selection Types.
Chart 1: Delivery by Selection WITH Best Value as a "Delivery Method"
Chart 2: Delivery by Selection WITHOUT Best Value as a "Delivery Method"
Chart 1 includes "Best Value- Total Cost" as both a "selection type" AND a "delivery method".
Chart 2 ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: July 06, 2010 5:16 PM
Just released, this new publication, IPD for Public and Private Owners, does a nice job of capturing the current uses of the term, "integrated project delivery (IPD)".
With the terms "integration" and "collaboration" being used almost interchangeably, the publication introduces three typical levels of collaboration. The three levels represent the evolution that owners go through starting with "level one collaboration" or the way many owners have bee ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: June 07, 2010 2:25 PM
For those long time followers, I have been tracking the total revenue by delivery method of the Top 100 CM at-Risk and Top 100 Design-Build firms as reported by Engineering News Record each year along with their annual rankings.
I have updated a chart each year showing how the total of CM at-Risk Revenue compared to the Design-Build Revenue.
I started this to show that though ENR's story headlines kept promoting Design-Build as taking over the world, their own reported numbers disput ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: February 01, 2010 3:04 PM
AIA just produced some great case studies on Integrated Project Delivery, go to AIA Case Studies!
AIA asks you to fill in a little information before you can download the document, but it's worth the few seconds it takes! ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: November 30, 2009 1:42 PM
Article: Building Capital Projects in Tough Times
There has been quite a bit of discussion about this being "a good time to be a buyer of construction." This article, from an Owner's perspective, articulates many of the points that many are thinking about trying to determine if now is the time to low bid their projects.
The key points I take away from this article are:- As an owner, if you have a project that can benefit from fast tracking or collaboration, you don't have to th ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: November 09, 2009 12:33 PM
Research sponsored by Pankow Foundation and DBIA shows that CM at-Risk is the most successful delivery method when measuring the number of projects that met or exceeded the original sustainability goal:
Using the metric of what percentage of projects achieved either their original LEED goal or higher, CM at-Risk was highest at 94% (Design-Build was 82% and Low Bid was 77%) and
Looking at the other way around, measuring the number of projects that came in LOWER than their original est ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: November 05, 2009 2:31 PM
When someone says, "design-build" you have to stop them and ask, "Which Design-Build? Which selection type?"
Everyone talks about Design-Build as if it is the same "delivery approach" regardless of how you do it. Though there are probably infinite ways you could do Design-Build, it is my experience that you can generally categorize it based on the selection type you use when you go about the final selection of your Design-Builder.
The four selection types ...
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WRITTEN BY: Mike Kenig
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POSTED: September 25, 2009 1:46 PM
For those following the never ending vocabulary debate, here is an article from George Heery where he takes CM at-Risk and spins it into a new delivery method, "Bridging/CM"
Here was my original letter to the Editor of ENR:
ENR Editors:
A "new project delivery system"?!
Though I respect and appreciate the creativity and vision that George Heery has brought to our industry and his profession, his ongoing attempt to package Bridging as a "new project delivery s ...