Design Build

Design-Build techniques are essential in the Airport Management and Master Planning of airports.  Over the years the Design-Build method has proven successful for airport owners and their design-construction teams. Use and guidance of the Deign-Build process available within the industry, includes research from the Innovative Pavement Research Foundation and Transportation Research Board as well as the FAA. Established pathways for AIP-compliant implementation are outlined by the FAA in the AIP Handbook and its draft advisory circular on Design-Build for airfields.  Our experts utilize this guidance along with relative and exemplary project examples from around the world when evaluating ideas for the Design-Build actions at your airport.

Design-Build offers a few advantages that help the Project Management Team facilitate rapid construction.  These advantages, which are applicable across all project types, not only includes potential for accelerated procurement/construction completion.  It also offers a pathway to innovation in construction techniques. Additional time and cost savings can be reaped through a combination of actions such as expedited mobilization of personnel and equipment, reduced claims due to a collaborative and well-structured relationship between the general contractor, the subcontractors, and the project management team.  The SPA Way involves planning charettes that empower teams and increases contractor responsibility toward delivering their scope of work and defined outcome on-time – every time. In essence, our well-defined, supported, and engineered projects will likely lead to a sustainable team that can execute the requirements well.  Our Design-Build methodology ensures we have the highest potential to save airports time and money and critical resources.

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We are forward thinkers.  We rely on data and a complete understanding of the project, and a well-prepared and experienced team to create the Project Management process and execute it. It takes all our construction partners, pooling their best tools and best practices, most effective strategies, innovative designs and commitment to excellence to deliver in the Design-Build method. SPA Global leads these efforts through advanced software usage and hardware integration.  We do this on-site and off-site – always immersing ourselves into the project.

Our architects and engineers use Autodesk Revit Building information Modeling (BIM) as a primary tool.  Use of BIM provides the team the ability to build the project virtually before physical construction begins.  With our software engineers, the teams area able to analyze the impacts of design modifications, are able to hold brief charettes to work out structural or design conflicts and reduce variables and uncertainty the project actually begins on the ground.

SPA Global leads these team of experts and ensures our highest levels of safety and quality, required for the project, are upfront and executed per the contractual agreements.

Additionally, our team is able to know precisely what our budget is using BIM 4-D (cost) and BIM 5-D (scheduling).  When our projects are completed, BIM served as an as-built model for facilities management and integrated using various software so that the facilities management team can manage the repairs and maintenance with ease.

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