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How can a self-performing GC help optimize the design process?
Self-performing GCs can enhance the design-build process and help optimize design by filling constructability gaps and ensuring seamless project execution.
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How can a self-performing GC positively influence the design process?
Marc Ness, DPR’s SoCal business unit co-leader, describes how self-performing general contractors can partner with the design team to influence and optimize the design process by filling in any gaps on constructability.
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How can a self-performing GC help optimize the design process?
Marc: Yeah, there's a lot to be said about that in terms of being able to influence the design to make it the most constructable. That really is a challenge nowadays, not just to make it the most constructable, but to make the information as complete as possible, because that's probably the second biggest challenge we have is just getting complete and accurate information. So when we have the opportunity to influence design-build, we have a lot more influence, we have a lot more time, we have a lot more just general capabilities to fill in all the gaps that might, you know, normally exist.
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Posted on March 27, 2025
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