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Bridging Method Phases 5 & 6

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Briding Method Phases 5 & 6

CONCLUDING WITH THE 5TH AND 6TH PHASES OF CARRYING OUT A PROJECT BY THE BRIDGING METHOD.

Phase 5. At this point the Owner has the right to terminate the contract without cause by payment of the amount due to the contractor for completion of the CD’s. If the Owner chooses to proceed, the Contractor authorizes construction. Note that (after the proposal has been submitted by the Contractor in Phase 3) the Contractor has no opportunity to adjust the price unless the Owner has approved in writing with a Change Order.

Phase 6. Throughout the construction, the ODC, along with the Owner’s program manager and any other CA specialists the Owner has employed, will observe the work in detail in exactly the same (more…)

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Bridging Method Phase 4

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Bridging Method Phase 4

Phase 4. During the preparation of the Construction Documents (“CD”) phase the Contractor’s AE completes all detailed engineering design and specifications. Any remaining details of the architectural and site development design are completed in accordance with all applicable codes and fully coordinated these documents. The ODC reviews these documents for full and complete compliance with the BCDs and may reject them if (more…)

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Bridging Method Phase 3

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Bridging Method Phase 3

PHASE 3 : THE RECEIPT OF BIDS FOR OR NEGOTIATION OF THE DESIGN-BUILD FORM OF CONTRACT

Phase 3. With the BCDs as the “bidding” documents (see Article 4), the Owner can obtain competitive bids or negotiate with a single selected Contractor for a design-build form of construction contract. This contract price is fully enforceable, with no opportunity for future adjustment in price or schedule unless (more…)

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Bridging Method Phase 2

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Bridging Method Phase 2

PHASE 2 OF CARRYING OUT A PROJECT BY THE BRIDGING METHOD IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT AND SETS THE METHOD APART FROM OTHER METHODS

Phase 2. Design work and specifying done in this phase are referred to as the preparation of the Bridging Contract Documents (BCDs) and involve the ODC developing all important and critical aspects of the architectural design including at least the controlling details of the design. This design work and document preparation for a Bridging project is carried out at the same point in the sequence of design as the Design Development phase of services in the traditional Design-Bid-Build with about the same or somewhat greater overall level effort as in the production of typical Design Development (“DD”) documents. However, the Bridging Contract Documents (BCDs) are substantially different from DD documents. Use of typical DD documents at this point will probably cause (more…)

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Bridging Method Phase 1

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Bridging Method Phase 1

FIRST DESIGN PHASE IN THE BRIDGING METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT DELIVERY

Phase 1. The design work and documents prepared in this phase are the same in every respect in both the traditional Design-Bid-Build and the Bridging methods. Prior to this phase, in both methods, the Owner will have selected the design architect, whether an individual, a team, or a firm. The design architect team or firm will include consulting engineers for at least mechanical, electrical, plumbing and structural (“MEPS”) engineering disciplines. In the traditional Design-Bid-Build method this team is referred to as “the Architect’. In Bridging, this team is referred to as the Owner’s Design Consultant (“ODC”) including the ODC’s engineering consultants. The ODC nomenclature is used in Bridging to make clear that (more…)

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