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What Is Single Responsibility Contracting?

Known as "design-build" or "turnkey", Single Responsibility is a system of contracting under which one entity performs both architectural/engineering design and the actual construction work.

In the "traditional" contracting approach, the owner commissions an architect or engineer to prepare drawings and specifications, and separately selects a construction contractor or construction manager either by negotiation or competitive bidding.

The Single Responsibility team is closely involved in producing a product which meets the owner's needs rather than merely acting as professional advisors to the owner. The owner deals with a unified design-construct team working together in his behalf.

Single-source design and production of industrial and consumer products, both large and small, has long been the norm throughout our economy. Now, quite understandably, design-build has moved to the fore-front of the construction industry.

Advantages of Single Responsibility
Single responsibility contracting provides a unique set of advantages not available in any other delivery system:

Undivided Responsibility. Single responsibility contracting provides both architecture/engineering and construction resources under a single contract. The owner looks to a single entity responsible for cost control, quality assurance, schedule adherence, and performance of the finished project. This results in clearly fixed responsibility, maximum cost control, and immediate responsiveness.

The client can exercise his desired degree of control over design, with the added advantage of continuously knowing the cost implications of each decision. The client's control of the entire process is strengthened by contracting with a single firm unconditionally committed to the success of his project.

Early Knowledge of costs. The design-build team, working closely with the client, accurately conceptualizes the completes project at an early stage. Continuous and concurrent estimating during the development of design results in knowledge of firm overall cost far sooner than is traditionally possible.

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