Design-build method viewed by public agencies in southern Nevada compared to Arizona and Utah

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Area is the fastest growing large urban area in the United States. Between 1990 and 2000, the population expanded 83.3 percent. To meet the growing population in the Las Vegas Valley, local agencies struggle to construct public facilities such as community centers, schools, municipal buildings and transportation facilities. The most common construction contracting method being used by local agencies consists of local municipalities hiring a design professional, usually an architect or engineer, under one contract, and then bidding the construction services out to a general contractor; An innovative form of construction contracting now exist, where only one entity provides an owner with both the design and construction services needed to meet the needs of an owner. Thus, there is no need for a bidding process, and the owner is provided with both design and construction services under one contract from a single source. This form of construction contracting has become known as the Design-Build Contracting Method; The goal of the research is to two-fold; first, to analyze the weaknesses of the statutes currently in use in Nevada and compare them with other states that are successfully using Design-Build, and second, to suggest improvements to the statutes intending to make Design-Build an option to be considered by public agencies when starting a new project.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

2003

Author dc:creator

• Oliveira, Jose W

Contributors dc:contributor

• Neil D. Opfer

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1539

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2538