House Passes Bill Aimed at Streamlining Hydropower Licensing Process
Legislation recently passed by the House would modify the licensing process for hydropower facilities in a bid to promote development of this renewable energy source....
Contract Documents
As with any civil works project, the bid and contract documents prepared by the owner and the engineer should provide the contractor with the necessary information to prepare bids, to...
Measurement and Payment
The owner shall establish a bid schedule to obtain pricing for all work associated with the microtunneling installation. This bid schedule provides the bidders the opportunity to establish...
General Terms and Conditions
DB commercial contract terms can differ from conventional design-bid-build project terms, depending primarily on the owner's objectives, the level of risk that is to be assigned...
The Pentagon Project
The renovation of the Pentagon, now under way, is one of the most ambitious, complex, and challenging construction undertakings in contemporary history. It entails the equivalent of demolishing...
The Ethics of Contributions
Whether or not it is ethical for a consulting firm to contribute money to a political campaign or cause depends on the motive. If the purpose is to curry favor with a candidate and gain...
Betting on the Baseline (Available in Geoenvironmental Special Issue only)
In construction contracts, new deductive differing site conditions (DSC) clauses provide for credits to owners when contractors encounter better-than-anticipated subsurface conditions....
A Tale of Two Bids
In early 1992, the Escambia County Utilities Authority determined that its 2 mgd Avondale Wastewater Treatment Plant should be expanded to 8 mgd to meet the growing needs of the Pensacola,...
New Spin on Bid Sets
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' electronic bid set (EBS) system involves putting drawings and documents on CDs to save time, money, and effort. For example, the Corps typically...
Pulling Ahead
Instead of waiting for RFPs, the most aggressive design firms pursue business by getting to know potential clients ahead of time. Proactive consulting firms decide whom they want as clients,...
Managing Mobilization Costs
Owners may not realize it, but contractors know that things don't get easier once a bid has been won. The next step is to mobilize equipment and materials for the project,...
Market Research
In order to have an effective marketing program you should only solicit prospects who really need your services, who are genuinely interested in doing business with you, and who have the...
Documenting Design-Build
For engineers more familiar with the traditional design�bid�build process, design�build might present some unforeseen risks and responsibilities. To define and allocate these, the Engineers...
The Job-Order Contracting Solution
A new method of contracting, Job Order Contracting, combines many contracts into one administered by one project team. They are competitively bid, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity,...
Interpretive and Modelling Problems of Risk and Uncertainty in Bidding Techniques
This paper considers the implementation of policy, strategic and tactical bidding and the processes of devolution of the risk and uncertainty in a corporate management context....
Creating and Abstracting Lessons-Learned from BCO Reviews
This database allows reviewers searching for relevant past expertise access to a relatively small set of comments that have been retained frequently for past reviews. The ability to order...
Optimal Markup Policy in Sequential Competitive Bidding
Construction firms encounter resource constrains in their business operations. However, current competitive bidding models fail to consider the impact of a firm's constrained resources...
Space-Frame Pyramid
The world's largest space frame pyramid, completed at California State University in Long Beach in late 1994, proved to be a lighter weight and more economical alternative...
Geotechnical Baseline Reports
The greatest percentage of disputes in underground construction results from subsurface conditions that are different than from what is indicated in the contract. Adding geotechnical baseline...
Deliverance
Through the years, the low-bid has been the traditional contracting method for American public sector construction. Increasingly, a number of government agencies are experimenting with...
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