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DBIA is proud to present our organization’s highest individual honor to our 2021 Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Mark Shambaugh. We’ve also honored four incredible design-build leaders for their commitment to innovation and collaboration with a 2021 Distinguished Leadership Award while inducting five new members to the esteemed DBIA College of Fellows.  All were recognized […]

After months of negotiations, the House has passed the $1 trillion infrastructure funding package. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a historic investment, no matter how you measure it. In addition to providing the largest infrastructure funding in decades, the bill also shores up the struggling Highway Trust Fund, codifies rules reducing the time […]

As Design-Build Grows, So Does Our Commitment to Transform the Industry The Design-Build Institute of America is excited to announce the hiring of two new positions to ensure DBIA remains at the forefront of a rapidly changing industry, including continually advancing methods to optimize the value of Design-Build Done Right®. Brian Skripac, CM-BIM, DBIA, CDT, […]

Project Complexity, Delivery Schedule and the Need to Innovate Drive Design-Build Utilization When researchers at FMI first looked at design-build utilization in 2018, the news confirmed what many in the industry knew first-hand, design-build wasn’t an “alternative delivery process” anymore. New market analysis forecasting the next five years, 2021-2025, shows that is especially true today […]

Today’s Senate passage of a historic $1 trillion infrastructure plan marked an unusual moment of bipartisanship that led even the most jaded Congress watchers to sit up and take notice. The Associated Press reports: “With a robust vote after weeks of fits and starts, the Senate approved a $1 trillion infrastructure plan for states coast […]

The Senate vote to consider a bipartisan nearly $1 trillion infrastructure package, including $550 billion in new physical infrastructure spending, marks a major milestone in the debate over how best to spur a post-COVID economic recovery. A White House fact sheet details the Senate agreement including the largest share of the package, $110 billion, for highways, […]