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2024 Design-Build VDCLEx: Paperless Builders, AI and Digital Twins –– Oh My!

While November 5 may have been Election Day in the U.S., it didn’t slow the attendance at the second annual VDC Leadership Exchange (VDCLEx). The event continues to grow, attracting both VDC professionals and newcomers alike. With a wide range of topics on the agenda, Owners and practitioners are eager to elevate digital innovation within […]

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DBIA Elects Bill Quatman, Esq., FAIA, DBIA as Board Chair

DBIA Announces 2016 Board of Directors; Bill Quatman, General Counsel for Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company will serve as DBIA’s National Chairman of the Board November 12, 2015 Washington, D.C. – The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), the only organization that defines, teaches, and promotes best practices in design-build, has announced that G. William (Bill) […]

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DBIA Announces 2015 National Design-Build Student Competition Finalists

Three finalists include teams from the University of New Mexico, University of Washington and University of Colorado – Boulder. October 26, 2015 Washington, D.C. – The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), the only organization that defines, teaches and promotes best practices in design-build, has announced the three finalists in its 2015 National Design-Build Student Competition. […]

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Dear Owners: A Primer on Delivering Small Public Design-Build Projects

Richard Shelton, P.E., DBIA, CHC  |  Issue 3 of 2015 Richard Shelton, PE, DBIA, CHC is an accomplished DBIA instructor specializing in federal government project delivery.  He is a past president of the DBIA Mid-Atlantic Region. He is also the president of a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business design-build firm.  “If only I had known that […]

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2015 National Design-Build Student Competition Regional Finalists

October 7, 2015 – The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), the only organization that defines, teaches and promotes best practices in design-build, has announced the nine Regional finalists in the 2015 National Design-Build Student Competition. This year, 31 teams from 26 universities entered the competition to demonstrate design-build best practices by proposing a delivery solution to […]

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Ready for Some Football? Better Use Design-Build

Andrew Ausel  |  September 15, 2015 Interested in building an NFL Stadium these days? Well, it will likely cost you upwards of $1 billion. And that’s just the baseline price; if you want to really get a picture of what it will cost, you’d have to figure in financing interest, which I will not venture […]

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Why DBIA Cares So Much About Regions

Andrew Ausel | August 14, 2015 Over the past quarter, the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) has taken strategic steps to foster coordination and enhanced communication to its 14 Regions and local chapters. In the process of implementing this strategy, I can’t help but notice the tapped potential for state policy. States love to do […]

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