VHB’s roadway and structural engineers, landscape architects, and environmental scientists are routinely called upon to be part of design-build teams. VHB has served as designer for numerous high-profile roadway design-build projects, including the first Massachusetts Highway Department, Rhode Island Department of Transportation, Vermont Agency of Transportation, and Virginia Department of Transportation roadway design-build projects, as well as numerous bridge, office, retail, and institutional design-build projects.

Benefits of design-build include:

• Having a single point of responsibility for quality, cost and schedule adherence allows the client/owner to focus on scope, timely decision-making and accountability, rather than on coordination between engineers and contractors.
  
• Working together, design and construction personnel are able to evaluate alternative materials and construction means and methods with the objective of conserving cost. 
  
• By overlapping design and construction activities and eliminating the traditional construction bidding periods and redesign, the total design and construction time is reduced significantly.
  
• In providing performance-based specifications, design-build procurement documents clearly define requirements and expectations.