CMAR Project Delivery For Public Works Projects In California: Benefits And Risks Under Current Statutory Structure

Based in part on the significant national expansion of public works projects in the middle of the 20th century, the country's method of procuring infrastructure has historically relied on a single project delivery system, design-bid-build (DBB). Over roughly the last few decades, however, various federal and state entities have revived or created several alternative forms of project delivery systems for public works projects, including design-build (DB), public-private partnerships (PPP or P3), integrated project delivery (IPD), design-build-operate-maintain (DBOM), build-operate-transfer (BOT), lease/leaseback, and, as relevant to this article, construction management at-risk (CMAR). (CMAR is also referred to by several other names and acronyms, including, most commonly, construction manager/general contractor or CM/GC.)