The June 2, edition of ENR.com has rankings of the top 100 design-build firms and top 100 CM-at-risk firms. Virtually identical 2010 volume of $78.3 billion is reported for design-build firms and cm-at risk firms. This reperesents an almost identical decline of 12% in volume from 2009, and a 20% drop in volume compared to 2008 for each type of firm .
The article notes a trend among owners towards traditional design-bid-build in order to take advantage of the competitive bid environment. Collaborative models face a particular challenge for winning over owners in such an environment.
I wonder how closely this equal distribution between design-build firms and CM-at-risk firms corresponds to actual delivery models; i.e. are all project done by the nominal D-B firms actually D-B, or do some of those firms undertake projects with CM-at-risk, or traditonal D-B-B?
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