Project Summary
This project will focus primarily on Caltrans’ Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) method, which is a commonly employed Alternative Delivery Method (ADM). The work plan will consist of the following steps: (i) A literature review of previous ADM work, specifically those works where CM/GC type ADMs have been compared with traditional methods; (ii) understanding and collecting publicly available empirical data; (iii) developing recommendations for data needs, metrics, and a framework to evaluate CM/GC method, applicable to completed and proposed projects.
For (i) the research team will utilize network and connections in the industry and state agencies to conduct informal interviews with key entities. For (ii) and (iii) the investigators will access published data sources, and when necessary, reach out to authors of published studies. This project will evaluate metrics from the data to develop a framework for evaluating an ADM, specifically CM/GC method. Where it is found that crucial data is currently lacking for completed or proposed projects that plan to utilize the CM/GC method, the team will investigate appropriate performance indicators to serve as metrics for continual evaluation of CM/GC delivery method.
