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They came to Washington, D.C. to take advantage of a unique opportunity…they’re the first class to take DBIA’s updated Certification Workshop curriculum and Exam. 35 design-build Owners and practitioners signed up as beta testers and took the new 3-day certification curriculum followed by the updated exam. “With design-build now accounting for nearly half of all […]

New Research Shows Design-Build Will Deliver Nearly Half of all Projects Nationwide While design-build’s project successes can be seen in communities from coast to coast and the rapid growth in design-build utilization is apparent across virtually every sector, there hasn’t been hard data on this market growth for years. Until now. Respected industry analysts at […]

DBIA Delivers Design-Build Done Right to New York What do you get when you bring together over 200 of New York’s leading design and construction professionals plus the agency and project leaders who are blazing trails in New York?  You get the truly energizing design-build conversation we saw at the “Delivering a New New York” […]

In these days of tight budgets and growing infrastructure needs, state transportation leaders have increasingly turned to design-build to innovate and collaborate, delivering projects more efficiently to communities nationwide. Design-builders know first-hand the importance of cooperation and communication to delivering successful on-time and on-budget projects. DBIA is proud to honor some of the nation’s most […]

This article also appears in Issue 3 of Integration Quarterly. At DBIA, certification and education often go hand in hand. Becoming DBIA certified requires taking core courses and passing a comprehensive exam, and education is essential to any professional who wants to be in the know about the latest in design-build. We spoke with Managing […]

By Chris Hornbeck, AIA, AGC, MBA This article also appears in Issue 3 of DBIA’s magazine, Integration Quarterly. Chances are, if you’re in the design-build industry you’ve also encountered lean construction principles. The design-build and lean construction movements share many commonalities, going back to their roots in the Total Quality Management (TQM) revolution of the 1950s. […]