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Cut Your Project Cost With Design-Build Techniques
Through the successful implementation of 'design-build' techniques, the Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Inglewood, Calif., was actually completed for nearly $1 million under the budgeted sum. This article focuses on the roles of the project's five team members (owner, architect, consultant, project scheduler, and contractor). It then points out the time and cost benefits which resulted from the design-build technique. An architectural project coordinator and project architect worked together to monitor progress and resolve problem areas; they were able to identify immediately areas in which there were lags. The project scheduler was responsible for keeping track of such variables as probable material and equipment delivery dates and other factors often overlooked. Special attention was paid to the anticipated impact of approval or denial of new beds by comprehensive health planning agencies. An economic consultant first undertook a financial feasibility study of the project. This study was useful not only in obtaining financing, but in making economic decisions throughout the project. In the early phases, the contractor served as a consultant on material availability, construction trends, and price forecasting. By approving the bid of each subcontractor as he was called into service, the hospital could begin construction before all drawings were completed and before a guaranteed maximum was received. In contrast to similar nonprofit hospital building projects of 4 to 5 years, Daniel Freeman was completed in only 42 months. While other hospitals were constructing facilities in the range of $80 to $100 per square foot, Daniel Freeman's final cost was only $66 per square foot, which meant a savings of more than $1 million.
Cut Your Project Cost With Design-Build Techniques
Through the successful implementation of 'design-build' techniques, the Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital in Inglewood, Calif., was actually completed for nearly $1 million under the budgeted sum. This article focuses on the roles of the project's five team members (owner, architect, consultant, project scheduler, and contractor). It then points out the time and cost benefits which resulted from the design-build technique. An architectural project coordinator and project architect worked together to monitor progress and resolve problem areas; they were able to identify immediately areas in which there were lags. The project scheduler was responsible for keeping track of such variables as probable material and equipment delivery dates and other factors often overlooked. Special attention was paid to the anticipated impact of approval or denial of new beds by comprehensive health planning agencies. An economic consultant first undertook a financial feasibility study of the project. This study was useful not only in obtaining financing, but in making economic decisions throughout the project. In the early phases, the contractor served as a consultant on material availability, construction trends, and price forecasting. By approving the bid of each subcontractor as he was called into service, the hospital could begin construction before all drawings were completed and before a guaranteed maximum was received. In contrast to similar nonprofit hospital building projects of 4 to 5 years, Daniel Freeman was completed in only 42 months. While other hospitals were constructing facilities in the range of $80 to $100 per square foot, Daniel Freeman's final cost was only $66 per square foot, which meant a savings of more than $1 million.
Cut Your Project Cost With Design-Build Techniques
Q. S. Hansen (author)
1978
3 pages
Report
No indication
English
Health Related Costs , Construction , Administration , California , Design , Health care costs , Health care delivery organizations , Health care facilities , Health care technology , Hospital administration , Revisions , State regions , Reprints , Hospitals , Cost control , HRP/QAS , HRP/ZJ , HRP/HH , HRP/UAA , HRPGEO/YCA , HRPGEO/YCN , HRPOCC/XZ
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