Decades of experience across all sectors and project types have given our industry a time-tested roadmap to success. Design-Build Done Right® Best Practices help you engineer higher quality outcomes by showing you what works – and what doesn’t.
By convening multiple disciplines, Design-Build Done Right® helps power singular success stories with collaboration and innovation that’s driving industry transformation.
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DBIA’s Universal Best Practices is a good place to start your design-build journey. This document categorizes 10 best practices and nearly 50 supporting implementing techniques into three areas:
- Procuring Design-Build Services
- Contracting for Design-Build Services
- Executing Design-Build Projects
The evolution of this document is based on input from DBIA members and the A/E/C industry.
DBIA’s Best Practices are available to download in our online Bookstore for free.
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DBIA offers a number of additional resources to download in our online Bookstore to help deepen your design-build knowledge:
Sector-Specific Primers: The challenges facing sectors can be unique. That’s why industry leaders serving on DBIA’s market sector committees created these targeted resources to address specific issues impacting the Transportation/Aviation, Water/Wastewater and Federal sectors. Start with the Universal Best Practices document and then use these targeted resources to deepen your design-build knowledge.
Deeper Dives: These documents provide a more targeted look at specific topics important to each sector.
Design-Build Manual of Practice: A comprehensive reference manual for Owners and practitioners about all aspects of design-build practice. It provides everything you need to build your design-build foundation, such as: definitions, selection procedures, project execution checkpoints, tenets of professional ethics, risk management guidelines, contract formats, licensure data, and regulatory and legal information.
The Manual of Practice is a DBIA Members benefit. Sign-in with your DBIA online account to download. Non-members can purchase the Manual of Practice in the DBIA Bookstore as individual chapters ($25) or a complete set ($350).