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  • Straightforward Maintenance and Repair Strategy A Clear Winner Chelsea, Mass (USA).  Five separate postings in the Barchan Foundation project database illustrate how an uncomplicated repair and maintenance strategy has produced significant administrative savings for the City of Chelsea (MA, USA), while improving service levels and lowering life cycle cost for the City's water/sewer/drain and street networks, parks, and city vehicles. John B Miller Tuesday, 13 July 2010
  • Financial Crisis Leads to Predictable Focus on DBOM Public entities are turning to Design Build Operate Maintain (DBOM) Alternate I as the competitive engine for reducing costs AND raising levels of service.  The DBOM Alt. 1 strategy is one of the Six Key Delivery Methods (see www.barchanfoundation.com home page) in the MIT Framework and has been in use across the world for over two centuries.  Search the Barchan Foundation database for "DBOM" to view recent posted projects in Quadrant I. John B Miller Wednesday, 10 March 2010
  • Canadian Governments Shine as Flexible Sponsors of Improved Public Infrastructure More than thirty (30) projects registered on the Barchan Foundation site to date provide a sound indication of the success that Canada's provincial and local governments have had in flexibly delivering a variety of recent public infrastructure facilities. Barchan Foundation Staff Thursday, 03 December 2009
  • Brazil Uses Full Range of Project Delivery Options Major Brazilian projects registered in the Barchan Foundation database show that governments at all levels continue to rely on the full range of project delivery and finance alternatives in arranging for infrastructure renewal and expansion.  These projects include a mix of road, airport, rail, transit, energy, water, wastewater, and prison projects.  Barchan Foundation Staff Thursday, 26 November 2009
  • Point of View: Choosing a Project Delivery System (PDS) in a Multi-Project Environment A question regularly facing public agencies is: which PDS should be used to develop a specific infrastructure project?  Y.Y. Chih and Prof. C. William Ibbs Wednesday, 25 November 2009
  • Welcome to Barchan’s Infrastructure Community Site! Across the world, governments are struggling with how best to deliver and finance badly needed public infrastructure facilities. Experiments continue for procuring and delivering roads, transportation, water supply, wastewater treatment, schools, hospitals, and other public facilities. Lessons learned from these efforts – both good and bad – are not being properly collected and shared in practical or helpful ways. John B Miller Tuesday, 06 October 2009
  • Comparing and Understanding Infrastructure Delivery and Financing Infrastructure projects are mapped into a simple framework of quadrants developed within MIT’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the 1990’s (the MIT Framework). The MIT Framework distinguishes between Direct and Indirect financing strategies, and Segmented and Combined delivery strategies. John B Miller Tuesday, 06 October 2009
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