Innovative Delivery Systems for Bridge Preservation Contracts

CM/GC Construction Manager/General Contractor

Owner Construction

Manager Designer

Owner, Designer, & CM collaboratively work to

develop project scope, optimize the design,

improve quality, manage costs, and deliver

projects early & under budget 3

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

- Jenny Holzer

adversarial

relationships

disputes and

change orders

delays and claims

high risk

no incentive for innovation

loss of control

STRESS!

late and over budget projects

Connection

Why Change Systems

“Management actions are responsible for 85% of all problems.”

- W. Edwards Deming

Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers Managing Director Kenichi Koyanagi, and

W. Edwards Deming

You can’t justify CM/GC for bridge

preservation projects…just use

low bid or design build.

Pennywash Creek Bridge CM/GC delivery method

5 week delivery – 1 week ahead of schedule

10% under initial budget

Designed around pre-fab girder

No claims, no change orders

Kemper Road Bridge Low- Bid system

5 week delivery – 1 month behind schedule

30% over budget

Change orders and claims during construction

Parker Bridge – Palm Beach $10M Saved ~ 1.5M

Successful collaboration with USCG & N. Palm Beach & 3rd Parties

$177K in unused Contingency

Significantly Reduced Original Closure Times

FDOT / PCL BASCULE BRIDGES

Atlantic Blvd – Broward $4M

Saved ~ $275k

~40k in unused contingency

Significantly Reduced Closures

Extensive Innovations

Successful collaboration with USCG & Pompano Beach

FDOT / PCL BASCULE BRIDGES

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Design-Bid-Build CM/GC Design-Build

Contingencies & Allowances

Overruns & Change Orders

Base Cost

100%

13%

106% 84%

4%

4%

Award Award

GMP

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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice,

it is conformity - Rollo May

“It’s Too Much

Work for the

Benefit”

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister

"We are too young to realize that certain things are

impossible... So we will do them anyway."

— William Wiberforce

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RFP

Award

Design

Construction

Design

RFP

Design Build

Traditional Design Bid Build

Early Construction Selection of both Designer and Builder

CM/GC Design

Early Construction Selection of both Designer and CM

Construction

Construction

“THINKING is hard work. It’s Why So Few People Do It.” - Henry Ford

Bitter Creek Bridge Grand County , Utah

100% Plans

Originally slated for full replacement at $4.0 M

Resulted in simple bridge girder repair

Final cost was $400 K

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“IT’S RISKY BRINGING

A CONGRACTOR IN

THAT EARLY” 31

“It’s Risky Bringing in

a Contractor that

Early”

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Total Risk

Contractor Risk

Contractor Risk Agency Risk

Agency Risk

D-B-B CM/GC D-B

1. Innovation

2. Reduction of Risk

3. Aggressive Delivery

4. Cost Control

5. Team Selection

6. Constructability

7. Streamlined Plans

8. Quality

9. Early Work Packages

10. Flexibility in Changing Project Scope 34

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to

see the whole staircase. Just take the first

step” - Martin Luther King JR.

Kenneth E. Atkins, P.E.

kenneth.e.atkins@dot.gov

(720) 963-3416

Lakewood, CO

Gregg A. Hostetler, P.E.

ghostetler@go-iei.com

(405) 227-0531

Edmond, OK

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“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of

thinking we used when we created them.”

- Albert Einstein