With selecting the Design-Build delivery method, the responsibility for the project design and construction, including cost control, quality control and scheduling, is borne by a single company.

The principal cost and schedule advantages include the following:

• "Value engineering" from the inception of the project, optimizing value, getting the "Best bang for your buck"
  
• "Fast track" overlapping of the design, permitting and construction activities to reduce the total time to occupancy
  
• Early guarantee of price
  
• Possibility of early financing commitments
  
• Early identification, specification, and order of long lead time, critical path items

The Design-Build process provides numerous advantages to the Owner:

• A "Team Approach" that eliminates competing goals and conflicts - eliminates designing without consideration - "Everyone is on the same page"
  
• Reduces administrative burden
  
• Removes Owner from role of referee between Architect and Contractor
  
• Transfers risk from the Owner to the Design-Builder

Additional advantages with Commerce Construction:

• Design-Builder with an "Owner's Perspective" and a "Build and Keep" mentality
  
• A True design build team with the Architect and Contractor under the same roof
  
• Eliminates duplication of effort