Impact of Project Delivery Methods on Texas Construction Projects

Competitive Bidding, Competitive Sealed Proposal, Construction Management Agency, Construction Management at Risk, Design-Build, Design-Build-Bridging, and Job Order Contracting are seven project delivery methods (PDM) that are commonly used in the state of Texas today. This book empirically compares the cost, schedule, and change order management performance of these project delivery methods (PDM) through in-depth analysis of selected construction projects that are chosen from the State of Texas by Engineering News Record (ENR) as the Best Construction Projects of the year 2009. Detailed information on research methodology, survey instrument, performance metrics, results, interpretations, and conclusions of the analysis are presented. Also presented are the "Lessons Learned", provided by the project participants.