Posts for Author: Danielle Hall
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Iowa State University Wins 2018 National Design-Build Student Competition
The team from Iowa State University felt confident after making their presentation during the 2018 National Design-Build Student Competition. That confidence was well-placed, as the Cyclones took home the top prize in this year’s design-build competition, which takes place every year at the Design-Build Conference & Expo. Iowa State was one of three shortlisted teams […] -
New Research Shows Design-Build Continues to Deliver Project Most Efficiently
CII/Pankow Study Says Design-Build is Faster, With More Reliable Performance and Less Cost and Schedule Growth New research shows that America’s design-build projects continue to deliver faster, and with greater reliability in cost and schedule performance, than other delivery methods. It’s been 20 years since the seminal CII/Penn State research showed that design-build projects consistently […] -
2018 National Design-Build Student Competition Finalists Announced
DBIA is proud to announce the three finalists in the 2018 National Design-Build Student Competition. Student teams from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Seminole State College of Florida and Iowa State University will advance to the final round of the competition. The three student finalist teams will compete in front of a live jury and audience at DBIA’s […] -
2018 National Design-Build Student Competition Regional Finalists Announced
DBIA is pleased to share the nine Regional Finalists in the 2018 Design-Build Student Competition. This year, 36 teams from 27 universities entered this competition to exhibit design-build best practices by proposing a delivery solution to design and construct a 2–3 floor student resident hall on an American college campus. The Regional winners will move […] -
Remembering Jacob Williams
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men. …Henry Wadsworth Longfellow DBIA and the design-build community mourns the loss of one of our nation’s most passionate design-build advocates. As the Assistant Director of LA County’s DPW, Jacob Williams has left an incredible legacy in […] -
Delivering a New New York
DBIA Delivers Design-Build Done Right to New York What do you get when you bring together over 200 of New York’s leading design and construction professionals plus the agency and project leaders who are blazing trails in New York? You get the truly energizing design-build conversation we saw at the “Delivering a New New York” […] -
DBIA’s 2018 Transportation Leadership Award Winners
In these days of tight budgets and growing infrastructure needs, state transportation leaders have increasingly turned to design-build to innovate and collaborate, delivering projects more efficiently to communities nationwide. Design-builders know first-hand the importance of cooperation and communication to delivering successful on-time and on-budget projects. -
Collaboration Between Design-Build and Lean Construction
By Chris Hornbeck, AIA, AGC, MBA This article also appears in Issue 3 of DBIA’s magazine, Integration Quarterly. Chances are, if you’re in the design-build industry you’ve also encountered lean construction principles. The design-build and lean construction movements share many commonalities, going back to their roots in the Total Quality Management (TQM) revolution of the 1950s. […] -
Washington State University Wins 2017 Student Competition
Competing in front of a live jury and audience at the Design-Build Conference & Expo in Philadelphia, the shortlisted teams from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, University of Oklahoma and Washington State University defended their design and construction plans for a student health and wellness facility on a liberal arts college campus in the […] -
2017 National Design-Build Student Competition Finalists
DBIA is proud to announce the three finalists in its 2017 National Design-Build Student Competition. Student teams from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, University of Oklahoma and Washington State University will advance to the final round of the competition. The three student finalist teams will compete in front of a live jury and audience at DBIA’s […]