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Lump-sum contract
- Most common method
- Contractor gives the owner a lump sum price
- Change orders adjust the lump sum amount
- Contractors normally paid on a monthly basis
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Cost, Plus a fee, "cost plus," "time material"
- When scope of work is difficult to define
- Contractor reimbursed for cost on site
- pluss a fee that includes indirect overhead and profit
- "Cost" normally refer to labor, material, equipment, subcontracts and direct (on-site) overhead
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Cost plus, with a guarenteed maximum price GMP
- Hybrid of lump sum and cost plus
- Contractor bids GMP and then proceeds with cost plus
- Usually splitting the savings with the owner
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Unit price contract
- List quantities for components of the project that are priced per unit by the contractor
- Total of the product of the quantity and the unit price is then added to determine the lump-sum price for the bid.
- Payment is based on completion of quantities for each line item
- Common in civil engineering projects
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Contractual Responsibilites: D-B-D Owner
- for work contracted to architect and contractor
- providing coordination for the contractor
- provides the site
- architect with whatever he needs
- providing contractor with adequate construction document descibing what the project scope
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Contractual Responsibilites: D-B-D Architect
- provide owner with design of the project and the construction documents
- providing constructionadministration for the project (owners agent)
- interpetation of the contract documents
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Contractual Responsibilites: D-B-D Contractor
- Labor, material, equipment, and expertise
- developing the means and methos of acooomplishing the work
- sequencing, labor plan, equipment and schedule
- coordinating the work, including hiring the subcontractors, and paying all labor, material, and subcontracts
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Major Parties involved: D-B-D Owner
- capital projects officer
- financial officer
- owners representative
- woners inspector
- testing agency
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Contractual Responsibilites: D-B-D Architect
- pricipal in charge
- project manager
- project architect
- contract administrator
- sub consultants
- specialty coordinators such as
- project coordinator
- mechanical coordinator
- electrical coordinator
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Contractual Responsibilites: D-B-D Contractor
- officer in charge
- project manager
- superintendent
- project engineer
- field engineer
- formen
- cratspeople
- subcontrators
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According to Book: CM Agency
- Involves the use of amangenager as anagent to the owner without design or construction repsonsibilities
- works on a fee basis with the owner
- providesthe ower with specialized managment to control, project duration, project budget, and cost
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Multiple Primes
- no general contractor
- trade contactors, execution contractors, or speicalty/subcontractor
- managed by the constuction manager
- does not have contractural relationship with subs but rather non-contractual working relationship
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CM at Risk
- Similiar to GMP in traditional system
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- construction manager is incolced in the conception and design
- procides the onwer with a mazimum price for the project
- functions like a contractor would in D-B-B
- Role of CM are different in this method then in D-B-B
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Owner: roles for the CM system
- Still responsible for paying for project and providing site
- owner still makes the decisions about the project but is advised by
- construction manager
- owner has little day to day involvement
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Construction manager: roles for the CM system
- administrations of the construction contract during the
- construction phase of the project.
- liaison with the architect for advice on intent of the documents
- schedules and manages the submittal process
- scheduling
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Architect: roles for the CM system
- design the project and prepare construction documents
- reference and adviser
- administration of the project
- reviewing submittals and shop drawings
- involved on a daily basis
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Contractors: roles for the CM system
- act like a subcontractor in a the D_B_B method
- may be awarded large elements of the work or small
- Smaller elements that just pertain to one trade are called trade constracts
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Roles of the CM Project Team: Project Manager
- resonsible to the owner fo the success of the project
- in charge of all of the CM employees
- oversees the constuctiton process
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Roles of the CM Project Team: Design Manager
- involved with architect durring the desing and conctruciton processes
- decisions conscerning contract packaging, earlypurchase of materials, and project strategies
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Roles of the CM Project Team: Construction adminstrator SKA construction manager
- in charge of the construction process for the CM firm
- contact person for the contractors project managers
- delegation repsonsibilites to to construction superintendent and field engineers
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Design Build Delivery Method
- single source procurement for the owner
- sometimes provides site
- savings split clause
- provides project that meets owners needs in a short period
- of time
- facilitator for designers and constructors in the design build team
- Four main configerations
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