DBO future cloudy while DB looks sunny
- From: Vol 6, Issue 5 (May 2005)
- Category: General
- Region: Americas
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- Related Companies: Alternative Resources, Aquarion, Black & Veatch, CH2M Hill, Earth Tech, Hawkins Delafield and Wood, Holland & Knight, Metcalf & Eddy, Montgomery Watson Harza, OMI, Southwest Water Company, US Filter and Veolia
Even the most basic level of private sector participation faces a struggle in the US market. US correspondent Larry Chertoff examines the challenges.
Retreating foreign investors have left a marketing vacuum for long-term, big city contract operations. The sluggish growth of con-ops (see GWI, March 2005) has its stateside proponents searching for a way to pump up the market. Design-build-operate had been the great bright hope.
The more aggressive companies promoted the design-build-operate model to sell the operations segment by packaging it with ...
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