The U.S.’s largest progressive design-build project 

Achieving the city’s goals for rapid water supply growth with an ambitious schedule required extensive collaboration between all players involved, making this project ideal for a progressive design-build approach. “We all worked together to make this effort successful,” said Randy Rogers, the project’s engineering manager. “In our collaboration center, we brought together members of the Houston Waterworks Team, staff from the city of Houston and their advisors, representatives of the regional authorities and their advisors—all together under one roof. Every time we modified or progressed the design, our constructors provided input and gave us feedback on the cost and schedule impacts. Our experts constantly traded ideas and found ways to improve the design. Working with each other and with the city, we were able to deliver all the benefits of design-build and make the city’s vision a reality.”