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Design-Build Momentum05-03-07 | News

Design-Build Momentum

ValleyCrest notes a recent study at Pennsylvania State University found that design-build delivered, on average, a 30 percent improvement in project delivery speed, a 13 percent reduction in unit cost, a greater chance of finishing within five percent of budget, and a higher probability of achieving quality objectives.

CALABASAS, Calif., (April 16, 2007)?EUR??,,????'??+A year ago, ValleyCrest Companies announced its new multi-studio landscape architecture division, the ValleyCrest Design Group. One year later, the company reports the decision to grow its design-build sector via third-party landscape architects has resulted in $30 million in significant new, large-scale design-build projects.

Those projects and the landscape architect studios involved include:

Historical mitigation and landscape construction at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. (SiteWorks Studio, landscape architect).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Eli Broad Gallery and Sculpture Garden (Comstock Studio, landscape architect), architect Renzo Piano, environmental artist Robert Irwin.

Kenilworth Sports Complex, Coolidge, Ariz. (Logan Simpson Design, landscape architect).

Kennecott Land?EUR??,,????'???s sustainable, master-planned green community and park system, South Jordan, Utah (G. Brown Designs, landscape architect).

Johns Creek Environmental Campus, Roswell, Georgia (HGOR, landscape architect).

Other studios within the design group are HRP Studio, Orange County, Calif.; JamesHyatt Studio, Denver, Colo.; and Phil Graham Studio, St. Petersburg, Fla.

?EUR??,,????'??Clients are responding to our unique ability to offer an integrated set of services, from concept through build, for large, complex landscape projects,?EUR??,,????'?? said Tom Donnelly, ASLA, president of ValleyCrest Landscape Development.