DESIGN-BUILD

Design-build projects now account for about 35% of nonresidential construction spending in the U.S., up from about 25% in 1995, according to the Design-Build Institute of America, Washington, D.C. The corporate downsizing of construction and engineering staffs that started in the process industries has spread to a broad variety of industries, driving much of the trend toward design-build.

Parsons is eminent in planning, design, and construction of government facilities, air traffic control facilities, water and wastewater treatment plants, tunnels, airports, parking, systems installations, and ports.

Parsons success is due to the production and use of the Project Execution Plan. The plan integrates design, procurement, and construction into a unified approach with the overall goal. Key elements of the plan are:

• Quality assurance and quality control
• Integrated project and construction staffing
• Mobilization schedule
• Scopes for self-performed and subcontracted construction
• Construction offices and temporary facilities requirements assessments
• Efficient and effective communications systems
• Design progress tracking and change control
• Critical-path long-lead procurement
• Constructibility analysis
• Design packages to meet construction dates schedule
• Total scope construction work packages
• Materials control
• Just-in-time delivery to minimize staging and storage space plan
• Project safety plan and hazards analysis
• Construction waste minimization plan

Hiring highly trained and productive trades on self-performed construction projects is critical. Parsons has earned one of the strongest reputations in the engineering and construction industry in developing fair and equitable labor relationships. Since 1955, we have provided labor relations and labor agreements throughout North America in both the government and private sectors. We maintain national agreements with the fourteen largest Building and Construction Trades Unions in Washington, D.C., and have negotiated on a local and project basis in nearly every state in the U.S.