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Number two: Which of the following project delivery methods would be the most logical and cost effective for a typical town library project? So, one of the things you'll find is that as we go through a few of these questions, there's a couple of keywords that are really what the question is actually about. If we were thinking about what those keywords were, obviously, one of the keys is gonna be project delivery.
That is a term that you should absolutely feel comfortable with. Project delivery just means what's the manner that the project is going to move forward. So, is it design build? Design build would mean that there is one contract between the owner and the designers and builders. That's a very particular way of doing it. It's a pretty popular way of doing it, but it's still probably only about maybe 15% or 20% of the time, something like that.
Another one would be design bid build, which is one of our potential answers. That's the more classic, where owner hires an architect, they go through a very long process of designing and going through schematic design, design development, C.D.'s, and then eventually to the bid process. And then a bidder is chosen, so you have a bid process.
And then from there, it's now the contractor's project, and your role is in construction and administration, CA. So that's a very long drawn out way to deliver a project, but there are certain benefits to that. If you think about just design build compared to design bid build, with design bid build, by the time we actually have a contractor chosen, we have a very clear idea because we've gone through a lengthy design process and vetting all the issues.
We've gone through a bidding process, so we now have a very clear set of relationships from multiple bidders. And we can absolutely say, "Well, out of these bidders, this is the low, this is the high. We've got a range of what's possible." All of that level of understanding puts you in very good stead to know that you're getting a good deal on your project, and then you have to build it out. So those are probably the two most common.
Design bid build, definitely closer to 50% of the time. It's by far the most common. If it's not specifically mentioned, and you're curious about what project delivery method it is, design bid build would absolutely be the assumption. You could see how you start to go through these things and see that, "Well, okay, so, design bid build, the advantage there is I get to know what the low cost is, what the low bid is." Design build, however, the weird thing about design build is I make the deal if I'm the owner, the client. I make that deal very early in the process, and so I have to choose that single entity.
The big advantage to the client is, when something goes wrong, when there's a dispute, it's one phone call. It's one set of relationships. So, design build is very useful from that standpoint, if you're an owner. But the downside is, there's very little...you haven't designed the whole thing out before you start getting the bids and getting the contractors involved.
You're actually doing that before anything's been designed. So, it has certain downsides. It's hard to judge exactly what you're going to get out of it. So, certain times, design build makes sense. Other times, design bid build makes sense. And then a couple of other terms that are interesting to note. One would be multiple prime. Multiple prime is interesting because what that's referring to is that I have multiple prime contractors. So, that means I don't just have a general contractor, I have, say, two or three or four general contractors.
But since not one of them is the overall general contractor, none of them get called that, they all get called prime contractors. So, the example to make this hopefully a little more understandable, would be, imagine you're a university and you're building a laboratory building. You have a set of architects that you've been working with and they've been doing a bunch of university buildings, so you want them because they're really knowledgeable about the university. And you want them to do the exterior and deal with how it creates a courtyard and how all the walkways work and the landscaping [inaudible 00:14:34] back and forth into the building and all of that, but they're not experts in laboratories, and laboratory takes a lot of very specific expertise.
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