ADVANTAGES
The advantage of the DBOM approach is that it combines responsibility for usually disparate functions - design, construction, and maintenance - under a single entity. This allows the private partners to take advantage of a number of efficiencies. The project design can be tailored to the construction equipment and materials that will be used. In addition, the DBOM team is also required to establish a long-term maintenance program up front, together with estimates of the associated costs. The team's detailed knowledge of the project design and the materials utilized allows it to develop a tailored maintenance plan that anticipates and addresses needs as they occur, thereby reducing the risk that issues will go unnoticed or unattended and deteriorate into much more costly problems.