The Design-Build Conference & Expo is the largest design-build event in the nation. In addition to the largest number of education tracks, we also name our national design-build project winners at our annual awards dinner, honor our design-builder of the year and host our annual membership meeting. It’s a jam-packed three-day session that leaves everyone energized and equipped to deliver the best design-build projects possible.

Hosted by the Water Collaborative Delivery Association: 

Join the WCDA and Polsinelli Law Firm for a comprehensive classroom course focused on risk allocation and contract principles for CMAR and design-build projects. Building on the recently revised sixth edition of the Water and Wastewater Collaborative Delivery Handbook, new material in this offering provides an in-depth survey of industry-standard contract templates, key state-by-state regulations, and the dynamics of risk allocation and performance accountability.

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Who Should Attend?

This course is focused on public sector attorneys and outside counsel who may be supporting public sector entities on drafting and implementing CMAR and design-build contracts. Legal support professionals, senior procurement administrators, project managers, and agency executives will also benefit from this curriculum.

Content Overview

This is a full-day session that covers detailed risk allocation and performance requirement principles for collaborative delivery projects, including specific commercial language, sources/content of contracts, and commonly accepted practices for construction management at-risk (CMAR), progressive design-build (PDB), and fixed-price design-build (FPDB) contracts. Building on the sixth edition of the Water and Wastewater Collaborative Delivery Handbook, this in-person session is expanded to cover:

• An overview of common terminology and collaborative delivery practices in the water/wastewater market
• How performance risk allocation and related contractual terms are viewed through a performance accountability lens for collaborative delivery projects
• What additional contract terms must be included to support effective two-phase, open-book CMAR and PDB contracts with an off-ramp option
• How specific statutes in key states may affect collaborative delivery plans
• How federal requirements for grants and loan programs apply to the procurement and delivery of collaborative delivery projects
• An overview of recent DBIA contract forms changes, the newly available WCDA CMAR contract template, and other widely used sources for collaborative delivery contracts

Please visit the WCDA's website to register. $995 / per person