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Gary is the Director of Structures & Bridges as well as the Director of Transportation Design Build at the Timmons Group. Focusing his career on bridges, he has designed complex structures in multiple states and has experience with nearly every aspect of bridge analysis, inspection, and design. His extensive experience with design-build projects gives him […]

By his estimation, Rich Benton has taught more than a thousand students in his twelve-plus years as an DBIA Certification instructor. In addition to his teaching duties, Rich is a member of the Design-Build Certification Board and has advanced design-build certification by helping revise DBIA’s course and exam content to align with ‘Design-Build Done Right’ […]

An experienced construction industry business executive and attorney for almost forty years, Thomas Porter has used his diverse professional experience to serve DBIA at virtually every level. As the co-founder of the Michigan DBIA Chapter, a national Executive Committee member and Board Chairman, Tom contributed to DBIA’s strategic focus on integrated services and helped DBIA […]

Barry Bannett has spent his entire career advocating for design-build on everything from writing design-build publications and presentations to soliciting politicians to push design-build legislation through. Winner of the 2008 Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award, Bannett taught and lectured nationwide for DBIA for more than a decade.

Greg Gidez has had a diverse career that has allowed him to work with the industry’s best professionals in the design and construction sectors. The 2011 Chairman of DBIA’s Board of Directors, Gidez has worked on design-build projects for nearly 30 years, including two DBIA Projects of the Year (2015, 2017).

William Green helped form the Rocky Mountain Chapter, eventually becoming the chapter’s founding president. A former member of DBIA’s Board of Directors, Green has also been a judge in the National Student Competition since 2008.

Known as an expert and leader in design-build, Robert Hartung has been involved in several facets of DBIA, including his instrumental role in the passage of landmark design-build legislation in California in 2001. A senior instructor for DBIA, Hartung is also a former President of the Western Pacific Region and member of DBIA National’s Legislative […]

William (Bill) G. Hasbrook, Jr., FDBIA, MEMS, TCFM is an industry-recognized advocate of the design-build (DB) procurement method for both public and private entities. His decades of experience include DB projects for transportation departments, utility and energy providers, commercial, industrial, food and beverage, pharma-chem, and manufacturing clients, as well as the Departments of Defense, Energy, […]

Currently Preconstruction Manager/Design Manager for Federal and Non-Federal work that includes work at Tampa VA Hospital, Tyndall AFB, Columbus MLS Stadium and NYCFC MLS Stadium. I have over 25 years in Field Operations as Superintendent, Project Manager and Project Executive. I am part of Turner’s Federal Group in developing the Market Segment as Federal Business […]

Barbara Jackson is well-known for many things in the design-build community as a former practitioner, educator, and author. Author of Design-Build Essentials and Construction Management Jumpstart, Jackson is also known for promoting the importance of making the mental shift in design-build, developing the first DB University curriculum, and creating the first DBIA Educator Workshop in […]