The Department of Transportation has unveiled the Project Delivery Center of Excellence at the Volpe Center to simplify the contracting process for transportation and infrastructure development and improvement projects.
The new center aims to provide newer grant recipients with an off-the-shelf model for ensuring consistency and quality in design and construction contracts and cultivate a central repository of national best practices for project development, project delivery and cost containment efforts, USDOT said Monday.
Mitch Landrieu, senior adviser to President Biden and White House infrastructure coordinator, said the Project Delivery Center of Excellence will be key to enabling the exchanging of ideas, knowledge and best practices to continue to improve the U.S. transportation system.
Initial plans for the center also include hosting webinars and training to facilitate peer-to-peer information exchange to share best project delivery methods and practices.
The American Society of Civil Engineers and Association of Consulting Engineering Companies will work with the center to create and disseminate templates and model language for transportation construction contracts.
