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DBIA Test Questions -with 100% verified solutions 2024-2025 Project Delivery System - Correct Answer-How team members are organized, establishes when parties engage, determines roles of parties, and determines sequence of design, procurement, and construction (db, cmar, dbb) Procurement Method - Correct Answer-how team members are selected (QBS, best value, low price, sole source) contracting approach - Correct Answer-how team members are paid (fp, gmp, cost reimbursement, target price, unit price) Design-Bid-Build (DBB) - Correct Answer-linear, sequential process, A/E selected on qualifications, GC selected on low price, design is fully completed without input from GC, A/E acting in owner's interests, with a historically strong bond, process is well- established and understood construction manager at risk - Correct Answer-similar org structure to DBB, construction manager selected by QBS or best value, contractor provides precon services, negotiated gmp contracting approach, open book estimating process, potential to fast track project, construction cost determined before design completed, potential issues over what is reasonably inferable from gmp design documents Design-Build - Correct Answer-The owner contracts with one entity (a person or firm) to provide both design and construction services, designer and contractor have a direct contractual relationship, selected by QBS or best value, wide spectrum of contracting approaches and organizational structures, single point responsibility, owner does not manage designer, owner exposure to claims is significantly reduced engineer procure construct (epc) - Correct Answer-similar to design build, in industrial and power generation sectors, systems and performance testing are central to scope, contractor will typically perform engineering with its in-house staff, owner has need for single point responsibility, contracts include plant and process performance guarantees, contract items include performance and schedule liquidated damages and limitations of liability Multiple Prime Contracting - Correct Answer-owner contracts with multiple trade contractors, attributes are typically similar to dbb, owner's ability to schedule and coordinate the work Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) - Correct Answer-multi-party agreement - all parties equal, QBS procurement and target pricing contract approach, private sector use (limited at this time), key: owner's ability to accept risk public-private partnership (p3) - Correct Answer-Instead of government building and maintaining major infrastructure (such as highway, water treatment plant), build and maintenance is outsourced to a private company. Opposed by public sector unions. this is not considered a delivery system but its underlying approaches are delivery systems and typically use DB. multiple procurement and contracting approaches shift left - Correct Answer-intense efforts to establish scope early in the process; drives early team formation to include key trade subcontractors; can enable big decisions to be made early, affect project outcomes at lowest cost, establish a need for co-location and collaboration, and compress time during concurrent design and construction traditional design build - Correct Answer-typically two-phase best value procurement with lump sum contract; owner defines project requirements and scope of prescriptive work; use of performance-based technical requirements with limited prescriptive specifications progressive design build - Correct Answer-design and price are progressively developed after the design-builder is under contract; final project cost and schedule commitment is not established as part of the selection process; two phases: preliminary services and final design and construction services criteria documents - Correct Answer-describe the end result bridging documents - Correct Answer-prescribes how to achieve the end result design bid build paradigm - Correct Answer-prior to bidding, owner undertakes a process to design the project and all of its details to 100% complete plans and specs. the owner is therefore responsible for success or failure of details of the design, and warrants the sufficiency of design to the contractor. the owner is therefore liable to the contractor for any gaps between plans and specifications and owner's requirements for project performance design details responsibility - Correct Answer-the owner should define its performance requirements and award the contract on the basis of preliminary design; this makes the design-builder responsible for completing the design in accordance with the owner's performance requirements. that also causes the design-builder to warrant the sufficiency of the design to meet the owner's criteria and the sufficiency of the design to subcontractors/suppliers that have no design responsibility uniformat - Correct Answer-subdivides project by functional elements, focuses on systems and assemblies, useful for preliminary information and early design phases, aligns with BIM models and conceptual estimating proposal stage - Correct Answer-phase in which team focus and alignment, process commitment, cost model development, and conceptual design take place validation - Correct Answer-phase immediately upon award where you confirm the basis of design and create an integrated design work plan (IDWP) design phase - Correct Answer-phase in which you conduct design management and design commitment co-location - Correct Answer-proximity leads to communication, communication leads to understanding, understanding leads to respect, respect fosters cohesion, interdisciplinary fluency develops one team, one team acts as one team building information modeling (BIM) - Correct Answer-The digital, three-dimensional modeling of building systems, with the linking of model components to a database of properties and relationships. Allows real-time sharing of design evolution, drives early decision-making, defines expectations for design phase deliverables, enables implementation of additional uses for the database interdisciplinary design charrettes - Correct Answer-thinking out loud together, both-and thinking promotes innovation, greater diversity of ideas, thorough systems thinking encouraged, sharing lessons learned, a voice in the design process builds team cohesion, helps to make big decisions early integrated project leader (DB-PM) - Correct Answer-leads project team and manages team dynamics, balances owner needs plus design and construction, and guides project's process designer of record (a/e) - Correct Answer-licensed to protect health, safety, and welfare of the public, leads the overall design effort, or design and engineering of a specific discipline design manager - Correct Answer-facilitates "marriage" between design professionals and cost estimators, advocates for design excellence within the design-build team, and manages the design information flow and deliverables estimator - Correct Answer-must be in step with the designer from start to finish; receives assistance from key trade partners design commitment - Correct Answer-designer of record confirms the documents comply with the owner's project criteria, all codes and standards; design confirmed within budget and schedule; owner's review for compliance has been completed; changes made after this may result in request for equitable adjustment; the owner and DB-er should reach a consensus on this definition and when it occurs during the post- award process integrated design work plan (IDWP) - Correct Answer-identify design tasks and decisions to complete the design of the project; decision making - how and when to make decisions; identify work flow of design deliverables best supporting construction; optimize time for design phase co-location; optimize opportunities for constructability reviews; the initial prelim should be considered in the proposal pre-construction, contract, close-out, and performance evaluation - Correct Answer-four phases of oversight pre-construction - Correct Answer-phase which involves distribution of contract documents, confirm subcontractor flow-down clauses, confirm incremental design packages, confirm what constitutes design commitment, obtain performance/payment bonds, obtain certificates of insurance, confirm attainment of permits and access rights, issue notice to proceed, and schedule initial formal partnering workshop Request for Equitable Adjustment (REA) - Correct Answer-If a change order becomes necessary in a design-build scenario, you can use this to make sure you're payed for the additional work charter, communications matrix, or issue resolution ladder - Correct Answer-formal partnering typically results in mutually developing one of 3 things formal partnering - Correct Answer-commitment between two or more organizations for the purpose of achieving specific business objectives by maximizing the effectiveness of each participant's resources implicit - Correct Answer-cost plus fee, lump sum/firm fixed price, and target price are this type of incentive explicit - Correct Answer-incentive contracts (shared savings--early completion) and award fees (non-cost performance factors) are this type of incentive. it is best practice for owners to include this type of incentive in their design-build contracts design quality - Correct Answer-an objective measure for evaluating a project that is easy to measure design value - Correct Answer-a subjective measure for evaluating a project that is hard to measure; this is determined through the design process, not after the project is completed best value - Correct Answer-(performance + quality) / cost value - Correct Answer-(what you get) / (what you give) Choosing by advantages (CBA) - Correct Answer-A process that lists the advantages of options and helps quickly identify the options with the most advantages. This process avoids the double counting inherent in listing pros and cons when in one option is also the con in another. contingency - Correct Answer-amount of $$ added to the estimate to cover risks associated with the unknown trend management program - Correct Answer-tool used to identify, evaluate, manage, and resolve changes during design, procurement, and construction; encourages proactive approach with the owner to resolve any changes as design evolves; mitigates disputes before they become bigger problems internal trends - Correct Answer-design development changes, work quantity adjustments, changes with constructability or fabrication issues, escalation with materials, labor, or equipment costs, labor and/or equipment productivity adjustments, transportation and storage cost adjustments, and items that may have been included in the scope but left out of the proposal external trends - Correct Answer-client driven scope changes, unanticipated or changes in site conditions, industry standard changes, permitting process changes, unanticipated regulatory constraints, owner or agency specified changes, review board impositions, changes associated with financial, tax, or legal issues, and force majeure events notice, estimate, register, log - Correct Answer-4 trend management tools substantiation - Correct Answer-verification that the design complies with performance requirements in the RFP; validating operation of project systems and achievement of performance requirements design commitment - Correct Answer-construction documents approved by the Designer of Record for construction-validated to comply with RFP and codes; design component priced and confirmed to be within budget; only then is work identified as ready for final owner review (for compliance) quality assurance - Correct Answer-verify conformance; provides confidence that project quality requirements defined in the RFP will be fulfilled quality control - Correct Answer-ensure baseline standards are met; actually fulfilling the project quality requirements defined in the RFP project closeout - Correct Answer-completion of the contract and related validation for owners acceptance of the work; requires collaboration from parties tied to the contract; requires collaboration from parties not contractually tied to the project