DBIA in the News: Sept 29 – Dec 31, 2025

By: Kara Brown, DBIA Digital Communications Specialist

DBIA has continued to generate media attention in recent months, with coverage highlighting our strategic regional realignment, Student Competition winners and 2025 Project and Team Award honorees.

DBIA Staff, Leadership, Board of Directors

Lisa Washington, CAE

Executive Director/CEO, DBIA

DBIA Reorganizes Regional Structure to Better Serve Design-Build Community across the Country, Retrofit Magazine, Dec. 5, 2025.

Design-Build is Shaping the Future of American Infrastructure, American Infrastructure Magazine, Dec. 15, 2025.

Thomas J. Foley, P.E., CCM, DBIA

Immediate Past Chair, DBIA National Board of Directors

A Rec Center and a Legacy: Official Reflects on 30 Years of Building NYC, Spectrum News 1, July 22, 2025.

DBIA Applauds Use of Design-build for Military Construction Projects, Retrofit, Dec. 29, 2025.

Brian Skripac, CM-BIM, DBIA

Director of Virtual Design and Construction, DBIA

DBIA Releases New VDC Primer Defining the Project Leader’s Role in Design-Build, US National Times, Oct. 17, 2025.

Digital Builder Ep 125: What Makes Design-Build Different? A Deep Dive With DBIA, Autodesk, Dec. 4, 2025.

Efficiency in Construction Leadership: How Collaboration Drives Innovation, Activating Curiosity, Dec. 9, 2025. 

Brandon Dekker

DBIA National Board Member

Brandon Dekker Joins DBIA National Board, School Construction News, Dec. 3, 2025.

More About DBIA Leadership, Staff and Members

Top 90 University Building Construction Firms for 2025, Building Design + Construction, Sept. 26, 2025.

A Panel of Concrete Insiders: Tech Trends in the Concrete Industry to Watch, For Construction Pros, Oct. 7, 2025.

To Avoid Disputes on Public Jobs, ‘Tell it Like it is’, Construction Dive, Oct. 27, 2025.

DBIA Announces Six New Inductees to the 2025 College of Fellows, US Daily Ledger, Nov. 13, 2025.

Projects Need Builder Input on Design: Q&A with Jacobs’ Alison Landry, Construction Dive, Nov. 17, 2025.

Student Competition/Chapters

Breaking Barriers: All-Female Construction Management Leadership Team Makes History, The Orion, Oct. 15, 2025.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Wins 2025 DBIA National Design-Build Student Competition, 8News, Nov. 12, 2025.

National Project/Team and Leadership Awards

DBIA Announces 2025 Distinguished Leadership Award Honorees, Small Businesses in the News, Oct. 23, 2025.

Turner Projects Honored at 2025 Design-Build Institute of America Awards, NewsWire, Nov. 11, 2025.

DBIA Announces Winners of 2025 Design-Build Project/Team Awards, Retrofit Magazine, Nov. 13, 2025.

Hurricane Ian Cut Off Two Islands; These Contractors Reconnected It –– and Won an Award, WGCU, Nov. 18, 2025.

Kansas City International Airport New Terminal Project Earns Five National Awards (The Weitz Company LLC), WorldNews, Dec. 2, 2025.

More Highlights

How to Create Agile Projects, Smart Brief, Nov. 20, 2025.

Why Prefabrication Delivers for Food Processing Facility Design and Construction, Food Engineering, Dec. 1, 2025. 

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