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Corps Design Shift Worries AEC Firms

Publication Date: 20-MAY-09
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Efforts by the Army Corps of Engineers to streamline design costs on similar types of military facilities now being built and planned on bases around the U.S. have industry firms worried the agency is backing away from use of design-build and aims to manage more design work in-house. Critics claim the strategy could hike the government’s level of risk and expense.
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