Event

Paul Monte, Vice Chair of P&A and Chair of the firm’s Infrastructure Practice Group, will be joined by Francois Wasselin, Head of Infrastructure at American Global, Ante Petricevic, Senior Vice President at American Global, and Anthony Gonzales, Managing Principal at Spire Consulting, for a joint panel discussion, “Progressive Design Build: Lessons Learned and Best Practices to Foster Successful Collaboration with Owners and their Consultants.”

These panelists will explain that as more New York public owners consider progressive design build (PDB) as an alternative procurement model, contractors must learn to adapt to an open-book preliminary design and early works approach (phase 1) with a switch later to fixed-priced/guaranteed maximum price (GMP) design-build for project execution (phase 2). In this model, owners defer obtaining price, schedule, and performance commitments until after the design has been sufficiently defined, requiring contractors to be open about their pricing with the owner’s independent cost estimator (ICE), and avoiding an “off-ramp” should the owner reject the contractor’s price or other commercial terms.

The event will be hosted at the Paramount Club in New York City on Tuesday, June 23rd. Breakfast will be served from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and the program will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Click HERE to learn more and register.