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Design and build (D&B) construction procurement relies on a project's main contractor shouldering the responsibility for creating the design and executing the construction for a project. While the extent of contractor-produced design can vary, this method of construction procurement affords the contractor a greater level of input and responsibility than traditionally procured contracts (where the employer has greater design responsibility). Over the last decade in the UK, it has become clear that D&B contracts are becoming the most popular method for procuring construction projects; often echoing the ways in which contracts for infrastructure and process plant can be procured.
Whilst D&B can provide a greater degree of contractor input for producing feasibility and concept designs, then the detailed design to deliver a project, many clients amend standard forms of D&B contracts to alter the contractors' design input. This can significantly change D&B, deviating from the procedures set out in the standard forms of D&B contract.
This book firstly takes the reader through each stage of a project (based upon the RIBA Plan of Work 2020) to provide guidance on how D&B contracts were intended to operate, then secondly, identifying how D&B contracts and their procedures have changed.
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An ideal resource for contractors, employers, and consultants, as well as those studying construction at university, Design and Build Contracts offers helpful commentary and guidance for how each stage of a D&B engineering or construction project should progress.
Author: Guy Higginbottom
ISBN-10: 1119814820
ISBN-13: 9781119814825
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2023
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d
Guy Higginbottom is an experienced consultant who has spent much of his career working in private practice, including as commercial director for a large, regional building contractor. He has extensive experience of commercial matters and project delivery across many sectors, including using different forms of contract (main contracts, sub-contracts, and consultants' appointments), and in particular those which include contractor's design elements. He is now director of Guy Higginbottom Consultancy Limited, a company providing specialist contract and commercial advice to the construction and engineering industries.
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