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VENDOR/BUYER CONFERENCE

BY DON HARRIS
Professor Tells How to Shorten

Construction Projects, Save Money

WYLIE BEARUP

ASU Professor Wylie Bearup conducted a crash course led the effort to change state procurement codes in 2000,
on Alternative Project Delivery Methods for attendees in a giving public entities the ability to use Alternative Project
breakout session Jan. 26 at AASBO’s Vendor/Buyer Conference Delivery Methods.
and suggested some best practices to avoid problems. Before alternative methods were approved, schools and
Bearup, a professor at ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of other public entities used Design Bid Build. It was traditionally
Engineering and Executive Director of the Alliance for referred to as the low-bid process, under which each step had
Construction Excellence, told how efforts of the Alliance to be completed before the next one could start. “It resulted
provided school districts with additional procurement options in the longest project duration and adversarial relationships,”
for construction projects. The Alliance, created in 1992 as an Bearup said. “There is no opportunity to compress the duration
industry outreach arm of Del E. Webb School of Construction, of the project.”

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