DBIA Design Build Principles Objective Assessment
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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1. Project Delivery System - Correct Answer: How team members are
organized, establishes when parties engage, determines roles of parties,
and determines sequence of design, procurement, and construction (db,
cmar, dbb)
2. Procurement Method - Correct Answer: how team members are
selected (QBS, best value, low price, sole source)
3. contracting approach - Correct Answer: how team members are paid
(fp, gmp, cost reimbursement, target price, unit price)
4. Design-Bid-Build (DBB) - Correct Answer: linear, sequential process, A/E
selected on qualifications, GC selected on low price, design is fully
completed without input from GC, A/E acting in owner's interests, with a
historically strong bond, process is well-established and understood
5. construction manager at risk - Correct Answer: similar org structure to
DBB, construction manager selected by QBS or best value, contractor
provides precon services, negotiated gmp contracting approach, open book
, estimating process, potential to fast track project, construction cost
determined before design completed, potential issues over what is
reasonably inferable from gmp design documents
6. Design-Build - Correct Answer: The owner contracts with one entity (a
person or firm) to provide both design and construction services, designer
and contractor have a direct contractual relationship, selected by QBS or
best value, wide spectrum of contracting approaches and organizational
structures, single point responsibility, owner does not manage designer,
owner exposure to claims is significantly reduced
7. Engineer procure construct (epc) - Correct Answer: similar to design
build, in industrial and power generation sectors, systems and performance
testing are central to scope, contractor will typically perform engineering
with its in-house staff, owner has need for single point responsibility,
contracts include plant and process performance guarantees, contract items
include performance and schedule liquidated damages and limitations of
liability
8. Multiple Prime Contracting - Correct Answer: owner contracts with
multiple trade contractors, attributes are typically similar to dbb, owner's
ability to schedule and coordinate the work
9. Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) - Correct Answer: multi-party
agreement - all parties equal, QBS procurement and target pricing contract
approach, private sector use (limited at this time), key: owner's ability to
accept risk
,10.public-private partnership (p3) - Correct Answer: Instead of government
building and maintaining major infrastructure (such as highway, water
treatment plant), build and maintenance is outsourced to a private
company. Opposed by public sector unions. this is not considered a delivery
system but its underlying approaches are delivery systems and typically use
DB. multiple procurement and contracting approaches
11.shift left - Correct Answer: intense efforts to establish scope early in the
process; drives early team formation to include key trade subcontractors;
can enable big decisions to be made early, affect project outcomes at
lowest cost, establish a need for co-location and collaboration, and
compress time during concurrent design and construction
12.traditional design build - Correct Answer: typically two-phase best value
procurement with lump sum contract; owner defines project requirements
and scope of prescriptive work; use of performance-based technical
requirements with limited prescriptive specifications
13.progressive design build - Correct Answer: design and price are
progressively developed after the design-builder is under contract; final
project cost and schedule commitment is not established as part of the
selection process; two phases: preliminary services and final design and
construction services
14.criteria documents - Correct Answer: describe the end result
15.bridging documents - Correct Answer: prescribes how to achieve the
end result
, 16.design bid build paradigm - Correct Answer: prior to bidding, owner
undertakes a process to design the project and all of its details to 100%
complete plans and specs. the owner is therefore responsible for success or
failure of details of the design, and warrants the sufficiency of design to the
contractor. the owner is therefore liable to the contractor for any gaps
between plans and specifications and owner's requirements for project
performance
17.design details responsibility - Correct Answer: the owner should define
its performance requirements and award the contract on the basis of
preliminary design; this makes the design-builder responsible for
completing the design in accordance with the owner's performance
requirements. that also causes the design-builder to warrant the sufficiency
of the design to meet the owner's criteria and the sufficiency of the design
to subcontractors/suppliers that have no design responsibility
18.uniformat - Correct Answer: subdivides project by functional elements,
focuses on systems and assemblies, useful for preliminary information and
early design phases, aligns with BIM models and conceptual estimating
19.masterformat - Correct Answer: subdivides work by results/trades,
focuses on building materials, products, and activities, useful for detailed
information during final design and construction phases, and aligns with
detailed estimating
20.functional requirement - Correct Answer: a specific business need or
behavior as seen by an external user of the system; describe what
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!!
Current Update!!
1. Project Delivery System - Correct Answer: How team members are
organized, establishes when parties engage, determines roles of parties,
and determines sequence of design, procurement, and construction (db,
cmar, dbb)
2. Procurement Method - Correct Answer: how team members are
selected (QBS, best value, low price, sole source)
3. contracting approach - Correct Answer: how team members are paid
(fp, gmp, cost reimbursement, target price, unit price)
4. Design-Bid-Build (DBB) - Correct Answer: linear, sequential process, A/E
selected on qualifications, GC selected on low price, design is fully
completed without input from GC, A/E acting in owner's interests, with a
historically strong bond, process is well-established and understood
5. construction manager at risk - Correct Answer: similar org structure to
DBB, construction manager selected by QBS or best value, contractor
provides precon services, negotiated gmp contracting approach, open book
, estimating process, potential to fast track project, construction cost
determined before design completed, potential issues over what is
reasonably inferable from gmp design documents
6. Design-Build - Correct Answer: The owner contracts with one entity (a
person or firm) to provide both design and construction services, designer
and contractor have a direct contractual relationship, selected by QBS or
best value, wide spectrum of contracting approaches and organizational
structures, single point responsibility, owner does not manage designer,
owner exposure to claims is significantly reduced
7. Engineer procure construct (epc) - Correct Answer: similar to design
build, in industrial and power generation sectors, systems and performance
testing are central to scope, contractor will typically perform engineering
with its in-house staff, owner has need for single point responsibility,
contracts include plant and process performance guarantees, contract items
include performance and schedule liquidated damages and limitations of
liability
8. Multiple Prime Contracting - Correct Answer: owner contracts with
multiple trade contractors, attributes are typically similar to dbb, owner's
ability to schedule and coordinate the work
9. Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) - Correct Answer: multi-party
agreement - all parties equal, QBS procurement and target pricing contract
approach, private sector use (limited at this time), key: owner's ability to
accept risk
,10.public-private partnership (p3) - Correct Answer: Instead of government
building and maintaining major infrastructure (such as highway, water
treatment plant), build and maintenance is outsourced to a private
company. Opposed by public sector unions. this is not considered a delivery
system but its underlying approaches are delivery systems and typically use
DB. multiple procurement and contracting approaches
11.shift left - Correct Answer: intense efforts to establish scope early in the
process; drives early team formation to include key trade subcontractors;
can enable big decisions to be made early, affect project outcomes at
lowest cost, establish a need for co-location and collaboration, and
compress time during concurrent design and construction
12.traditional design build - Correct Answer: typically two-phase best value
procurement with lump sum contract; owner defines project requirements
and scope of prescriptive work; use of performance-based technical
requirements with limited prescriptive specifications
13.progressive design build - Correct Answer: design and price are
progressively developed after the design-builder is under contract; final
project cost and schedule commitment is not established as part of the
selection process; two phases: preliminary services and final design and
construction services
14.criteria documents - Correct Answer: describe the end result
15.bridging documents - Correct Answer: prescribes how to achieve the
end result
, 16.design bid build paradigm - Correct Answer: prior to bidding, owner
undertakes a process to design the project and all of its details to 100%
complete plans and specs. the owner is therefore responsible for success or
failure of details of the design, and warrants the sufficiency of design to the
contractor. the owner is therefore liable to the contractor for any gaps
between plans and specifications and owner's requirements for project
performance
17.design details responsibility - Correct Answer: the owner should define
its performance requirements and award the contract on the basis of
preliminary design; this makes the design-builder responsible for
completing the design in accordance with the owner's performance
requirements. that also causes the design-builder to warrant the sufficiency
of the design to meet the owner's criteria and the sufficiency of the design
to subcontractors/suppliers that have no design responsibility
18.uniformat - Correct Answer: subdivides project by functional elements,
focuses on systems and assemblies, useful for preliminary information and
early design phases, aligns with BIM models and conceptual estimating
19.masterformat - Correct Answer: subdivides work by results/trades,
focuses on building materials, products, and activities, useful for detailed
information during final design and construction phases, and aligns with
detailed estimating
20.functional requirement - Correct Answer: a specific business need or
behavior as seen by an external user of the system; describe what
