Comparison of Contracting Strategies for Reducing Project Construction Time

摘要

The objectives of the study were: to develop criteria for evaluating alternativecontracting strategies and make comparisons of the advantages and disadvantages of these strategies for different types of projects and situations, to evaluate ongoing and completed projects that use alternative bidding strategies and high liquidated damages based partially on user costs, and other alternatives for reducing project completion times, to evaluate techniques for estimating user costs during construction for different types of projects and situations. The HEEM-III and QUEWZ computer programs were used to estimate motorist costs for use in liquidated damages and for costs of lane closure.