Posts for Author: Danielle Hall

Summer 2012 While experienced design-build teams can satisfy the objectives of military construction projects, the work is not without its challenges. By Mike Duffey, P.E. The Sept. 15, 2011, deadline mandated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) commission left no room for delays in project planning, design, scheduling and implementation. The U.S. Army […]

Winter 2011 How Washington State’s Department of Corrections made partnering work on a large design-build prison construction project By Jerry Winkler, AIA, NCARB Completed in 32 months, the $190 million Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, Wash., spans 564,000 square feet and houses 2,048 new beds. It is the largest non-Department of Transportation design-build project […]

Winter 2011 A new UCSF research building overcame extensive site constraints to become an award-winning example of innovation and collaboration. When Michael Saks first saw the building site for a new medical research facility to be constructed on a hillside on the Parnassus campus of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), his first […]

Summer 2011 Design-build’s role in making Dr. King’s national memorial a reality. On August 28, 2011, the 48th anniversary of the momentous March on Washington, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be officially dedicated. Nestled in Washington, D.C.’s Tidal Basin, the memorial to the slain civil rights leader is visually linked with the […]