Project Delivery - CM Agency or Multi-Prime
D. Brown Management
January 13, 2019
Project Owners can minimize the markups for overhead and profit by contracting directly with the specialty contractors and hiring a Construction Management (CM) firm to work as their agent. This project delivery method is called CM Agency or Multi-Prime.
Project Delivery - CM at Risk
D. Brown Management
January 12, 2019
The Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) delivery model combines the best elements of Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build and eliminates many of the negatives.
Project Delivery - Design-Build
D. Brown Management
January 11, 2019
The Design-Build method of project delivery eliminates a couple of the major negatives inherent in the Design-Bid-Build method, integrating construction and design by putting the contractor fully in charge of the process.
Project Delivery - Design-Bid-Build
D. Brown Management
January 10, 2019
The Design-Bid-Build (DBB) method of project delivery is easily the most familiar to owners, architects, and contractors. No contractor should ever lose their ability to compete, win, and build profitable projects using this method of delivery.
Aligning Strategic Market Choices and Project Delivery Methods
D. Brown Management
January 9, 2019
Choosing which market(s) to compete in and which to avoid are the most highly leveraged decisions the leaders of construction businesses make. Integrated with those is choosing the optimum project delivery method(s) to focus on.
CMAR market strategy project delivery
Planners vs. Doers
D. Brown Management
January 6, 2019
To understand why everything from project plans to business development plans to career plans don’t always work as intended, it is important to understand the psychological concepts of ego depletion and decision fatigue.
Executive Toughness and Focusing on Process
D. Brown Management
January 5, 2019
When leading any team to victory, you can’t underestimate the value of strategy or that burning desire to win built deeply within yourself and everyone else on the team. They only represent a small part of what it takes to win consistently.
Alignment and Ownership and Creating Value
D. Brown Management
January 4, 2019
As a construction company grows, it becomes increasingly important to align everyone on the team. Alignment comes from being transparent with your guiding principles or values and living them every day, starting with ownership.
Sundt and Growth of Wealth
D. Brown Management
January 3, 2019
One of the most common and dangerous misconceptions we hear about ownership in a construction company is that it’s all about the perks owners get. The biggest “perk” to being an owner of a construction company is the opportunity for a great investment.
Succession - There is No One Best Way
D. Brown Management
January 2, 2019
As systems become more complex (or V.U.C.A.), such as operating a company or succession planning, there is not a single “One Best Way” that will work in all situations.
