The trend toward using design-build as a project-delivery method continues to increase both regionally and nationally. In 2002, Minnesota approved design-build legislation, allowing public entities to ...

Design-build delivered projects will account for nearly half of all construction spending by 2025, according to the consulting and investment firm FMI’s latest market research on design-built ...

How small is too small for design-build? This question was asked at last year’s Design-Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) Federal Project Delivery Symposium, and it stumped the panel of federal owner ...

WASHINGTON — A new study analyzing the design-build project delivery method in the U.S. shows it was used on average in more than 40% of non-residential construction projects in 2010, a 10% increase ...

Joe Gimse, incoming chair of the state Senate Transportation Committee, wants to peel back the covers on design-build construction projects. Design-build is being used for the controversial Highway 52 ...

In 2022, Shoreline voters approved a parks bond, funding, among other things, improvements to eight local parks using the progressive design-build delivery model. The team of Forma Construction and ...

Building on FMI’s 2021 report on design-build utilization, the new survey reexamined the industry following the challenges of the past three years, including the COVID-19 pandemic, labor shortages and ...

Big design-build infrastructure projects often turn out to be money-losers for design-build contractors, preventing contractors from covering their overhead, much less earning a profit, according to a ...

Architecture began as a practice of design and construction. The word itself is derived from the Greek architektōn, or “chief carpenter.” During the Pax Romana, Vitruvius described an architect as a ...

In the annals of construction disputes, it is a blip, not a blast. After a Flatiron Construction-Zachry Group joint venture struck out on most of its arbitrated claims against engineering firm ...

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