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Eat the Frog Early: Advice that Drives Delivery

Eric Meisgeier of Stacy Witbeck shares strategies for successful teamwork on design-build projects.

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Transportation Leaders Honored for Advancing Innovation in Project Delivery, from Faster Completion to Higher Quality

Washington, D.C., March 18, 2015   DBIA Honors the North Carolina DOT, Rex Huffman and Virginia DOT’s Shailendra Patel for Leadership in Advancing Design-Build Best Practices The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), the only organization that defines, teaches and promotes best practices in design-build, has announced the recipients of its 2015 Design-Build in Transportation Leadership […]

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Public-Private Partnerships and DBIA

Issue 1 of 2015 by Jim Whitaker According to several industry sources, the pent-up demand for infrastructure in the U.S. is measured in hundreds of billions of dollars. Roads, bridges, schools, courthouses, jails, utility systems, the list goes on and on. Public-private partnership (P3) enabling legislation is beginning to take hold in many state houses […]

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Milwaukee School of Engineering Wins DBIA National Design-Build Student Competition

Issue 4 of 2014   On the last day of the 2014 Design-Build Conference & Expo, DBIA’s Executive Director/CEO, Lisa Washington, CAE, took the stage to announce the winner of DBIA’s National Design-Build Student Competition. Flanked by the three finalist student teams – from the University of Oklahoma, the University of Washington and the Milwaukee […]

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Explaining DBIA’s Position on LPTA

by Louis J. Jenny and Geoff Corey  |  January 13, 2015 Federal regulations lay out a number of ways the government can negotiate and contract with the private sector to provide services or goods. One of these methods is known as Lowest Price Technically Acceptable, or LPTA. While there are situations when LPTA makes sense, […]

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DBIA Elects Peter M. Kinsley 2015 National Board Chair

Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2014 DBIA Announces 2015 Board of Directors; Peter M. Kinsley, President of Haskell’s Government & Public Services Group will serve as DBIA’s National Chairman of the Board The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), the only organization that defines, teaches, and promotes best practices in design-build, has announced that Peter M. Kinsley […]

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Public-Private Partnerships: Design-Build Revolution or Evolution?

By William T. Eliopoulos (right), Co-Chair Construction Practice Group, Rutan & Tucker, LLP and a member of DBIA’s Legislative and Legal Committee The 21st century has ushered in a revolution in construction delivery methods in the United States away from the separatist traditional design-bid-build method and toward a more integrated approach of which design-build is […]

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