The City Council of Webster City agreed with consultant Snyder & Associates to hire a construction manager at risk — CMAR — to manage the rebuilding of the city’s wastewater treatment plant at its meeting Monday. It marks the first time this method of project management will be employed in Webster City, which previously has used the traditional design-bid-build approach. Use of CMARs to manage large capital projects has been increasing in Iowa. Two examples include the April 2025 announcement by the City of Oskaloosa that it had entered into a CMAR agreement with Carl A. ...