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By Robert R. Smedley, AIA, DBIA Note: This article also appears in the first 2019 issue of Integration Quarterly magazine. You can read the full issue here. To be honest I didn’t expect to learn much from the DBIA certification process. In my 35 years in the industry, I’d seen design-build done right, I’d seen it […]

DBIA’s sector-specific conferences for Transportation/Aviation and Water/Wastewater offer incredible opportunities to learn and grow as a design-build professional. Here are our top five reasons we think you should attend! DBIA delivers what you need. DBIA’s sector-specific conferences provide the best design-build information, education and networking for the Transportation/Aviation and Water/Wastewater sectors. Convenience. With two conferences in […]

Though design-build has grown from an alternative project delivery method into a mainstream delivery method, there are still those who believe myths about what design-build is and what the process looks like. We’ve broken it down for you with five of the most common myths about design-build and the real facts behind them. MYTH: Design-Build […]

The team from Iowa State University felt confident after making their presentation during the 2018 National Design-Build Student Competition. That confidence was well-placed, as the Cyclones took home the top prize in this year’s design-build competition, which takes place every year at the Design-Build Conference & Expo. Iowa State was one of three shortlisted teams […]

CII/Pankow Study Says Design-Build is Faster, With More Reliable Performance and Less Cost and Schedule Growth New research shows that America’s design-build projects continue to deliver faster, and with greater reliability in cost and schedule performance, than other delivery methods. It’s been 20 years since the seminal CII/Penn State research showed that design-build projects consistently […]

DBIA is proud to announce the three finalists in the 2018 National Design-Build Student Competition. Student teams from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Seminole State College of Florida and Iowa State University will advance to the final round of the competition. The three student finalist teams will compete in front of a live jury and audience at DBIA’s […]

DBIA is pleased to share the nine Regional Finalists in the 2018 Design-Build Student Competition. This year, 36 teams from 27 universities entered this competition to exhibit design-build best practices by proposing a delivery solution to design and construct a 2–3 floor student resident hall on an American college campus. The Regional winners will move […]

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men.   …Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  DBIA and the design-build community mourns the loss of one of our nation’s most passionate design-build advocates. As the Assistant Director of LA County’s DPW, Jacob Williams has left an incredible legacy in […]

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.