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This week marks the six-month anniversary of signing the historic $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure legislation. The infrastructure bill includes $110 billion for roads and bridges; $65 billion to expand broadband access; $66 billion for rail; $55 billion for water infrastructure, $ 25 billion for airports, $39.2 billion in new transit spending and $5 billion for […]

It’s that time of the year when university students in architecture, engineering and construction programs nationwide start their journey as design-build competitors in DBIA’s National Design-Build Student Competition. The competition is as rigorous as the rewards are meaningful for students hoping to begin a career in the AEC industry. Each year DBIA chooses a unique […]

Your team has secured a contract or a grant for a large project and your team is ready to get to work on preliminary planning. Both you and the Owner have a vision of the desired outcome, but what does a highly effective design-build project look like? On Time. While unanticipated setbacks can impact deadlines, […]

Gray, Inc., one of the nation’s leading design-build firms, and the Gray family, including DBIA Founding Father and Kentucky Department of Transportation Secretary, Jim Gray, have donated a transformative $5.2 million to build a new home for the University of Kentucky’s College of Design. In addition to bringing together the university’s five design programs into […]

Commercial office leasing analysts are getting a clearer picture of what “returning to work” might look like for cities across the nation. However, according to the Commercial Edge National Office Report, that picture varies significantly depending on the region with just six markets delivering more than half of U.S. office sales. “Nationally, $18.9 billion in […]

Harold L. Adams, the longtime CEO of RTKL and DBIA’s Chairman of the Board in 2005, died after a brief illness at his home in Texas. Adams was an architect, design-build influencer and educator who worked on federal projects in the 1960s during the Kennedy administration and ultimately transformed RTKL into a global design practice. […]