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JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
卷 139, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000746
关键词
Delivery system; Design-bid-build; Design-build; Project; Cost; Duration; Comparison; Contracting
The choice of construction delivery system is one of the most important decisions that a public highway agency will make with regard to a highway, bridge, or transit construction project. Although several research projects have been conducted on the subject of comparing costs and project duration, there has been no study that statistically analyzes these factors specifically for transportation projects, much less one that eliminates the largest variable of all: different public agencies. The objective of the research reported in this paper was to determine which of two delivery methods, design-bid-build (DBB) and design-build (DB), delivers highway and bridge construction projects at the lowest cost and in the shortest time period, and to back up the findings with a rigorous statistical analysis of the data. Data were taken from the databases of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and arithmetically and statistically compared through Levene's test, the independent samples t-test, the Welch unequal variances t-test, and the Mann-Whitney U test. In fact, this paper's unique contribution is its rigorous statistical analysis of data gathered directly from FDOT, comparing the performance of the two delivery systems in Florida over a finite period of time. In this comparison, DBB projects performed significantly better in terms of cost according to all statistical and arithmetic tests. DBB projects did not compare as favorably in terms of duration. Some tests showed a statistically insignificant advantage to the use of DB over DBB, whereas other tests showed no difference between the two. Other public agencies can replicate the research and determine whether the same findings hold true in their situation.
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