High Performance Outcomes

NREL's First DB Project If you missed my discussion on DBIA Best Practice #1 and the introduction of this series, now is the time to review . Moving on to BP#2 An owner should implement a procurement plan that enhances collaboration and other benefits of design-build and is in harmony with the reasons that the owner chose the design-build delivery system. Right off the bat, this practice charges the owner with fostering a procurement plan that enhances “collaboration”: a prominent opportunity and result of Design-Build Done Right. However, the beneficial affects of collaboration do not move from opportunity to result without a determined effort on the part of the owner. To pause here, and go deeper into collaboration, consider that this requires the owner, designer and builder to make commitments, and keep them. The owner is, and must be, the guardian of the collaborative effort: because the project owner is uniquely positioned as the default “governor” of th...

If you are interested in “green” buildings (irrespective of how you define that), and want to change your project’s outcome to achieve your definition of “green”, then you may find this post interesting. If you are interested in “ugly” buildings (however you may define that), and want to create the world’s most “ugly” building, then you too may find this post interesting. In other words: if you are interested in (fill in the blank) buildings, and want to create the most (fill in the blank) building in history, then you should definitely find this post interesting.

Practice Makes Perfect Now that the design and construction 'world' is taking in Design-Build Institute of America's ( DBIA ) 10 Best Practices for Design-Build , I want to take time and convince all that this "living" document of practices is, indeed, a sort of magic.  I say 'magic', because to follow these practices is to transform an otherwise adequate outcome into a High  Performance  Outcome … and that is what I'm here to advance. I'm not going to recite the 10 BP's: you can read them for yourselves. What I want to do in this blog-series is share my  experience with  each: gained over the past 15 years, on how I've applied them (before & after their systemization)  and either succeeded or failed with each. In this way I intend to give you, the reader, a practical perspective of each, and how they have accomplished their goal implicit in the document's introduction: