Alternative Delivery for Transportation
Transportation infrastructure owners are under growing pressure to do more with less. Limited staffing is leaving agencies to manage complex, high-stakes projects with lean teams while navigating funding requirements that demand early scope and budget clarity.
Traditional delivery models often push risk back onto understaffed agencies, dragging projects past deadlines and budgets. From departments of transportation to private developers and local municipalities, successful infrastructure development hinges on a delivery partner that can bring capacity, coordination and consistency from the start.
How Alternative Delivery Changes the Script
Design-build, progressive design-build (PDB) and engineer-procure-construct (EPC) are integrated delivery approaches that engage owners, designers and contractors from scoping through ribbon-cutting. As compared to traditional delivery methods, our EPC design-build approaches streamline contracting by:
- Locking in scope and budget early, bringing transparent estimating and open-book pricing to maximize the budget incorporated into your project scope.
- Compressing schedules by overlapping design and construction phases.
- Enhancing innovation by integrating value engineering, constructability and collaboration into every project milestone.
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Your Need |
How We Step In |
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First-time alternative delivery guidance |
We coach owners through procurement, contracting and project execution. |
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Confidence in cost estimates |
Dedicated cost-estimating teams benchmark, validate and refine budgets in real time. |
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Inflation-proof solutions |
Early procurement strategies, prefabrication and supply-chain partnerships rein in material volatility. |
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Capitalizing on funding opportunities |
Strategies to help identify funding opportunities, develop grant applications and guide projects through changing legislation. |
Why Burns & McDonnell?
We’ve delivered highways, bridges, rail-served facilities and port expansions coast to coast using progressive design-build, design-build and construction manager at risk (CMAR) delivery models, tailoring the method to each client’s risk profile and statutory flexibility.
We provide alternative delivery solutions that help you meet tight schedules, manage limited internal resources and align with complex funding requirements. With in-house planning, design, environmental and construction services, our team provides early scope definition, cost clarity, reduced risk and integrated communication from the outset — driving high-visibility transportation projects forward with transparency, flexibility and trust.
Put simply, we:
- Are integrated design-builders, not just engineers of record. Our designers, estimators and constructors work as one team under one roof, backed by decades of alternative delivery experience.
- Have national reach with local insight. We operate nationwide, bringing deep local insight through trusted regional teams who understand each market’s unique dynamics.
- Operate with an owner’s mindset. As an employee-owned firm, every project is personal — we succeed when your community does.
