The old rules of thumb never looked so important as now.
…Ciro Cuono P. E., is the founding Principal of Cuono Engineering PLLC, a structural engineering firm located in White Plains and Manhattan, NY and is an Adjunct Instructor at Manhattan College. He has over 24 years of experience in structural design of new buildings and renovations and restorations of existing historic structures. He may be reached at (ccuono@cuonoengineering.com).
The old rules of thumb never looked so important as now.
…Design-Build, though not new as a delivery method for building projects, appears to be on the rise. Traditionally known as the Master-Builder method, it is a means of building where one party holds responsibility for both the design and the construction. The Master-Builder method was the only method before the now ubiquitous design-bid-build project structure. The Romans for example, famous for their roads, aqueducts, and amphitheaters, did not design a project, bid it out to subcontractors, and then select the low bidder to build it, but rather designed and built structures in a collaborative, somewhat simultaneous fashion. …