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Over the years, design firms hamstrung by, among other things, the stringent mandates of their insurance companies and errors and omission policies, are precluded from doing anything related to means and methods. But you can’t practically separate design from means and methods. They are, in many ways, two sides of the same coin. A design firm typically does not provide any input on how to perform the work or how the means and methods will be executed. It’s problematic because what to do (the product) has bearing on how to do it (the process), and how things can be done has bearing on what is possible.
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Todd R. Zabelle (Built to Fail: Why Construction Projects Take So Long, Cost Too Much, And How to Fix It)