Project Summary
In this project, we will focus primarily on CM/GC method, which is Caltrans’ ADM commonly employed
ADM in various completed projects. Our work plan will consist of the following steps: (i) A thorough
literature review of previous work pertaining to ADMs, specifically those works where CM/GC type ADM
has been compared with traditional methods; (ii) understanding and collecting pertinent publicly
available empirical data; (iii) develop recommendations for data needs, metrics, and a framework to
evaluate CM/GC method, applicable to completed and proposed projects. For (i) we will use best
practices for conducting literature review. For this we will leverage the extensive literature resources
available with UCLA and on the internet. In addition, we will also utilize our network and connections in
the industry and state agencies such as Caltrans, City of LA and County of LA, to conduct informal
interviews with various key entities involved in its design and implementation to understand their
perspectives. For (ii) and (iii) we will access published data sources, and when necessary, reach out to
authors of published studies to collect pertinent data on ADMs. We will evaluate pertinent metrics from
such data to develop a framework which can then be used to evaluate an ADM, specifically CM/GC
method. Where we find that crucial data is currently lacking for completed or proposed projects that
plan to utilize the CM/GC method, we will investigate appropriate performance indictors to serve as
metrics for continual evaluation of CM/GC delivery method.
