Chris Rust-D'Eye This is Me

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1. 1. McGraw-Hill Construction Design-Build

   www.designbuildmag.com/feature - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/1/2004   Last Visited: 8/1/2004

   Meanwhile, "the Home Office had its own team of architects working with [the contractors] to ensure we got a sensible standard," says Chris Rust-D'Eye, the ministry's senior project manager. As a government office, the design standard had to be good, but not lavish. "You don't have marble floors, [but] you have stone," he says.
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   While the construction team refined designs, the Home Office continued tweaking plans as user needs became better understood, says Rust-D'Eye.
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   With most construction uncertainties now eliminated, Rust-D'Eye estimates the extra cost of all the change orders at about $18 million, which he believes is modest for a project of this size.
   
   The procurement approach used on the Home Office project transfers more of the risks to the contractors than simple design-build, says Rust-D'Eye. While the owner is charged with securing zoning permission, for example, the contractor must negotiate all of the resulting details. And while on design-build, "you have quite an integrated approach in terms of design development, here, the risk stays with AGP," he says.
   
   The author lives in London. He is ENR's long-time European correspondent. He also regularly writes the In The News pages of Design•Build Magazine.

2. 2. McGraw-Hill Construction Design-Build - Bold Thinking Wins Big U.K. Office Project

   designbuild.construction.com/f - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2004   Last Visited: 11/4/2007

   Meanwhile, "the Home Office had its own team of architects working with [the contractors] to ensure we got a sensible standard," says Chris Rust-D'Eye, the ministry's senior project manager. As a government office, the design standard had to be good, but not lavish. "You don't have marble floors, [but] you have stone," he says.
   ...
   While the construction team refined designs, the Home Office continued tweaking plans as user needs became better understood, says Rust-D'Eye.
   ...
   With most construction uncertainties now eliminated, Rust-D'Eye estimates the extra cost of all the change orders at about $18 million, which he believes is modest for a project of this size.
   
   The procurement approach used on the Home Office project transfers more of the risks to the contractors than simple design-build, says Rust-D'Eye. While the owner is charged with securing zoning permission, for example, the contractor must negotiate all of the resulting details. And while on design-build, "you have quite an integrated approach in terms of design development, here, the risk stays with AGP," he says.
   
   The author lives in London. He is ENR's long-time European correspondent. He also regularly writes the In The News pages of Design-Build Magazine.