The Design/Build Difference

Over $200 billion of construction nationwide, including 50% of all private industrial/commercial construction, will be performed on a Design/Build basis by the year 2008. The explosion of growth of the time tested Design/Build delivery method has been fueled by owners' demand for single point of contact and responsibility, guarantees for price and schedule, demands for accelerated project completion, and a positive partnering approach to project delivery.

 

The advantages of our Design/Build practice include:

• Time Savings
• Engineering and Construction Cost Savings
• Earlier Knowledge of Cost "Up Front"
• Value Engineering "Up Front"
• Constructability Review "Up Front"
• Communication and Partnering
• One-Source Responsibility
• Reduced Owners Risk

 

We have taken stock of this and offer our clients something that can rarely be found in the construction industry - "self performed" true single-source engineering and construction. Shambaugh's "self performance" delivers all of the inherent cost and schedule advantages of design/build plus:

 

• Avoidance of double markups of multiple subcontractors
• Streamlined control of quality, communication, cost and schedule
• Reduced owner coordination cost
• Additional schedule and cost savings
• Modular prefabricated construction approach

 

Design/Builder of Four U.S. Food Plants of the Year:

2007 T. Marzettis

1998 Wyandot, Inc.

1992 Indiana Packers Co. (Runner-up)

1990 Mazza Cheese Co.

 

"A variety of market forces have conspired to reintroduce owners to Design-Build, and they are now asking for it on a wider range of projects than ever before. What the owners apparently want is certainty, and they want it sooner in the construction process. They want single point of contact and responsibility. They want guarantees, for price and schedule. The most powerful forces in U.S. industry today invariably seem to favor Design-Build."
ENR, June 6, 1994

 

View Construction Industry Institute's design/build research study results.