Challenges and opportunities in environmental planning and permitting on transportation design-build projects

Hannon, David

Title:

Challenges and opportunities in environmental planning and permitting on transportation design-build projects

dc.contributor.advisor	Ashuri, Baabak
dc.contributor.author	Hannon, David
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Haymaker, John A.
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Kenig, Michael E.
dc.contributor.committeeMember	VanMeter, Darryl D.
dc.contributor.department	Building Construction
dc.date.accessioned	2013-09-20T13:25:50Z
dc.date.available	2013-09-20T13:25:50Z
dc.date.created	2013-08
dc.date.issued	2013-07-03
dc.date.submitted	August 2013
dc.date.updated	2013-09-20T13:25:50Z
dc.description.abstract	Environmental planning and permitting for transportation projects is often seen as one of the top reasons for project delay. On design-build projects, this process is often treated as the critical path to advertising the project and on all transportation projects many critical phases of the project such as right of way acquisition, final design, and construction cannot begin until the environmental planning process is complete. The objective of this research is to identify challenges to the environmental planning and permitting process and opportunities for managing those challenges. To identify these challenges and opportunities, a synthesis of transportation and design-build research was done along with interviews with agencies leaders at seven State Departments of Transportation (DOTs). Once these challenges and opportunities were identified, example environmental planning documents and requests for proposals were reviewed from various State DOTs to document their usage. Additionally follow up interviews were conducted with environmental planning experts with experience on design-build projects from six of the State DOTs that were previously interviewed. This research contributes to the state of knowledge through providing comprehensive information on environmental planning and permitting challenges that must be managed on design-build transportation projects and opportunities for managing these challenges. Managing the identified challenges by utilizing these opportunities provides transportation agencies with opportunities to make the environmental planning and permitting process on design-build projects more efficient. This research contributes to the state of practice of transportation agencies through providing opportunities for streamlining environmental analysis and permitting that is vital to transportation agencies who strive to accelerate the delivery of design-build projects.
dc.description.degree	M.S.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49057
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject	Design-build
dc.subject	NEPA
dc.subject	Environmental permitting
dc.subject.lcsh	Environmental permits
dc.subject.lcsh	Transportation and state
dc.subject.lcsh	Transportation Planning
dc.title	Challenges and opportunities in environmental planning and permitting on transportation design-build projects
dc.type	Text
dc.type.genre	Thesis
dspace.entity.type	Publication
local.contributor.advisor	Ashuri, Baabak
local.contributor.corporatename	College of Design
local.contributor.corporatename	School of Building Construction
local.relation.ispartofseries	Master of Science in Building Construction and Facility Management
local.relation.ispartofseries	Building Construction Graduate Program
relation.isAdvisorOfPublication	61494ab3-3f45-44e8-abe2-b57df371eada
relation.isOrgUnitOfPublication	c997b6a0-7e87-4a6f-b6fc-932d776ba8d0
relation.isOrgUnitOfPublication	45be5867-cf11-4a7f-b0de-7cd1fc348427
relation.isSeriesOfPublication	4b19e5c4-5030-482e-bc43-9aef564e1c91
relation.isSeriesOfPublication	1ae3308a-2b56-4c89-8669-a4c987e93f4c
thesis.degree.level	Masters