Like many firms, our company has been very busy and has grown significantly in recent years. With growth comes numerous hurdles to jump. Three obstacles that companies have had to overcome in these prosperous times have been: hiring the best people, maintaining these people, and being profitable in an employee marketplace.
Mix this dilemma with a changing industry where consulting engineers have begun to overshadow their architectural counterparts in so many of the new business opportunities. Simultaneous with this booming economy, design-build (D-B) has resurfaced as the process of choice for so many building programs. While D-B was passing the more traditional building processes – plan-bid-build and construction management – as the delivery process-of-choice, D-B transformed into program management, a single-source concept that includes programming, engineering, construction, and facility management.