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April’s Design-Build News Summary — In Case You Missed It

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Here’s this month’s summary of DBIA news on our Design-Build Done Right® blog, just in case you missed it. DBIA’s Design-Build Student Competition is Underway Each year university students nationwide compete in DBIA’s Design-Build Student Competition. to be named the best design-build student team in America. DBIA is proud to offer these future leaders of … Continued

Join DBIA for the Nation’s Only Federal Design-Build Event

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Each year design-build Owners and industry interested in federal sector projects (including those funded with federal dollars nationwide) come together in August for the Federal Design-Build Symposium. Registration is now open, and we hope you’ll join DBIA from August 22–23, 2023, in Arlington, Virginia. The Timing Couldn’t Be Better Over $200 billion in federal infrastructure … Continued

Get the Updated DBIA Owner Advisors Contract

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As the use of design-build grows and evolves, so has the skillset needed to be a successful Design-Build Done Right® Owner Advisor. As a result, DBIA’s Standard Form Of Contract For Design-Build Owner Advisor Services (#501) has now been updated to reflect today’s increasingly integrated and innovative design-build project needs. DBIA’s Contracts Committee and Owner … Continued

Design-Build Certification: What it Means and Where it’s Heading

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  Design-Build Certification: What it Means and Where it’s Heading April 2023 As the use of design-build continues to grow, Owners are looking for design-build certified teams to deliver their projects. Practitioners are also looking for design-build certified team members. DBIA certification has never been more valuable than it is today. It’s no surprise that … Continued

What Makes a DBIA Award-Winning Design-Build Project?

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That answer can be as diverse as the projects themselves, but DBIA National award-winners share a few common elements, including a commitment to collaboration and project excellence. From the Aviation to Water/Wastewater sectors and everything in between, national design-build project/team winners are diverse, innovative, complex and, most of all, impressive. Whether you’ve committed to submitting … Continued

New Design-Build Research Shows Continued Growth + Opportunities to Mitigate Market Challenges

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Design-build market research by FMI Consulting forecasts continued design-build growth over the next three years, despite recent industry challenges and market volatility. Analysts project design-build will account for 47% of construction spending and 22.5% growth in total design-build spending by 2026. “With the positive projections reported by FMI in this update, design-build will be integral … Continued

Everything Design-Build Teams in the Water/Wastewater and Transportation/Aviation Sectors Need is Now Available on Demand

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  Even if you suffered FOMO (fear of missing out) during last month’s DBIA sector-specific conferences in Seattle, have no fear. DBIA’s got you covered. For those who couldn’t attend our Design-Build for Water/Wastewater and Transportation/Aviation conferences or for those attendees who might have missed a session or two, you can now enjoy all of … Continued

Getting Down and Dirty with BIM for Design-Build projects

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We have all heard it before. How great BIM is. How it is revolutionizing our industry. How it is changing virtually everything. However, maybe you haven’t drunk the Kool-Aid just yet. You see a lot of hype and discussion, and maybe even some cool presentations, but you are missing the everyday practicality of it. You … Continued

DBIA’s Design-Build Student Competition is Underway

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  Each year university students nationwide compete in DBIA’s Design-Build Student Competition. to be named the best design-build student team in America. DBIA is proud to offer these future leaders of our industry this incredible opportunity to show off their design-build skills to design-build professionals across all disciplines. 2023 Design-Build Student Competition This year’s competition … Continued

It’s Time for a Design-Build Best Practices Update

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It has been almost a decade since DBIA published its first Universally Applicable Best Design-Build Practices. That document has helped more teams than we can count deliver Design-Build Done Right® projects of all types and sizes. But, as we all know, design-build continues to evolve and grow. So must our best practices and their implementing … Continued