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cAse stuDy sIDeBAr// the Joint chiefs of the Memorial By Susan hines photo courtesy of Michael carpenter whILe JoINt veNtures ( JVs) are not unusual on design-build projects, a joint venture between a designer and a general contractor is less common. Why? Because design firms usually do not have the financial and bonding capacity to carry the risk of a major construction project. In addition, construction companies have more control over schedule and cost factors and as a result, can better manage the associated risks. The Pentagon Memorial is an exceptional project on many levels, including the JV partnership between Balfour Beatty Construction (formerly Centrix) and Lee and Associates, LLC, a Washington, D.C., landscape architecture and planning firm. Jeff Lee, FASLA, founding principal of Lee and Associates, met his future JV partner at an event held by the Pentagon Renovation and Construction Program Office (PENREN), where the owner explained how the two-phase, best-value designbuild procurement would work for the Pentagon Memorial project. Lee’s firm had not submitted a concept design because it had advised the USACE on the design competition and commented on the ways in which the memorial could facilitate the healing process for the stakeholder families. Still, because his firm had significant experience with PENREN, Lee wanted to compete for the design-build of the memorial. Because he had not been involved in jury selection for the competition and had no ties to the design-build selection committee, the Pentagon allowed Lee to move forward. After forming the JV with his construction partner, Lee and Associates took on the bulk of the risk for the following four months of proposal preparation, with his consultants accepting their proportion of risk. As Lee put together his design “dream team” based upon successful past experiences and fruitful collaborations, his construction partner did the same. The venture emphasized quality from the beginning. Lee and Associates and Balfour Beatty dbia.org committed to assembling the very best team, developing a collaborative approach that was appropriately sensitive to the project while addressing the technical and constructability challenges of the design concept creatively. T he prop o s a l pro c e s s culminated in an oral presentation made to PENREN on July 9, 2003. Six weeks and a round of proposal revisions later, Balfour Beatty and Lee and Associates learned that their efforts had paid off and signed the contract in August. “We were not the lowest price, but we broke the record on technical scoring and creativity and design,” Lee says. For such a high-prof ile Officials dedicate the Pentagon Memorial on design-build project in which Sept. 11, 2008. aesthetics and construction qualit y were key, Lee says establishing a JV between a design firm and a construction firm proved to be a competitive advantage. “It showed that we were a design-build entity that would not compromise on either design or construction,” he says. “I’m sure the selection committee saw that and thought, ‘If the GC is willing to do this, then these guys must be serious.’” SuSan hInES IS DBIa’S ManaGInG DIrEctor of puBLIc rELatIonS anD InforMatIon anD EDItor-In-chIEf of DBIa’S IntEGratIon QuartErLy. ShE ovErSEES thE InStItutE’S ELEctronIc anD prInt coMMunIcatIonS, aWarDS proGraM anD MEDIa rELatIonS. summer//2012 21 http://www.dbia.org

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