The Design-Build Process

When you choose the design-build process, rather than the traditional design-bid-build process, you get a seamless delivery method that reduces risk through single-source accountability. The design-build process is the simplest route to rooftop performance:

• Owner guides DBS in creating market surveys to define the scope of work
• Owner negotiates with DBS, establishing Guaranteed Pricing, Guaranteed Delivery, and Guaranteed Performance
• DBS delivers project in budget, on time, with single-source responsibility for performance

Step-by-step, design-build delivery optimizes owner control for performance-driven outcomes every time.

With design-build delivery, the Design-Builder warrants to the owner single-source accountability for meeting all design specifications, as well as project construction, including delivery dates and budgets. Costly and time-consuming redesigns, with their associated change orders, are eliminated.

With traditional project delivery, the owner hires an Architect/Designer under a design contract for approximately 8-10% of the total contract cost. The Architect/Designer design is then submitted to a General Contractor under a separate contract, which is typically low-bid. This process creates two separate trails of accountability and makes the owner, rather than the designer, responsible to the General Contractor for ensuring appropriate specification and design.