Four improvement team’s recommendations and actions:

Four improvement team’s recommendations and actions:

The first Partnering for Innovative Efficiencies meeting resulted in four teams:

• Alternate methods of project delivery
• Best practices
• Earlier completion of projects
• Employee recruitment and retention

Alternate Project Delivery Team

MoDOT does not use alternative project delivery enough in design and construction.  This team was charged to consider:

• Develop a process to involve contractor/industry in the scoping process of a project
• Identify opportunities to streamline the environmental process
• Identify strategies for accelerating utility relocations

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Best Practices Team

This team meet to look into utilizing best practices, especially to:

• Develop a proposal to expand Practical Design and Value Engineering

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Earlier Completion of Projects Team

This team’s mission was to identify ways to implement innovations, methods and incentives for early completion of projects, which included:

• Identify ways to shorten the time between bid opening and the notice to proceed
• Develop improved work zone processes for hours of operation and road closures
• Develop a proposal to close roads more often to accelerate construction
• Develop incentive/disincentive proposals for earlier completion of projects

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Employee Recruitment and Retention Team

The challenging task for this team was to:

• Identify strategies to attract and retain qualified MoDOT employees in critical decision-making positions