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Successful design-builders are collaborators. We know early integration of the entire team delivers the best results and yet…are we fully engaging our supply chain on design-build projects? Are we maximizing the full benefit of early collaboration or is there a kink in the design-build supply chain? New research on supply chain engagement in design-build will help provide answers to those questions. In this episode of “Design-build Delivers” we talk to DBIA Water/Wastewater Committee member and Victaulic Vice President, Ernie Maschner, about this FMI research and the challenges and opportunities facing design-build teams in fully engaging their supply chains.

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Design-build has come a long way since DBIA first began working in the legislative arena helping to draft Design-Build Done Right® bills in states from coast to coast. In 1993, only three states had design-build public authority --now only two states are design-build holdouts. Every year, there is important legislative debate in statehouses which directly impacts how design-build teams deliver their public projects. The 2020 legislative season is now in full swing, so in this episode of our Design-Build Delivers podcast we talk to DBIA’s State/Local Legislative Affairs Director, Richard Thomas, about the legislative landscape.

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Let’s start the New Year off right by beginning this year’s design-build conversation at the beginning of the process – procurement. What does it take to practice Design-Build Done Right® procurement? How do you get your team on the same collaborative page from the very start of the process? In this episode, long-time federal procurement professional and DBIA instructor Rich Formella provides a “how-to” for successful procurements. He also gives us a look into the nation’s first design-build for procurement training courses, created with the National Institute for Public Procurement (NIGP).

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Whether you’re an Owner new to design-build or an old pro…choosing the right delivery method for each project is the vital first step to success. Not only do Owners need a good understanding of the available choices, they must translate how those methods might meet the unique needs of the project and the Owner itself. Sometimes that can be easier said than done. In this episode of Design-Build Delivers, we talk to Bruce Husselbee, Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s Director of Engineering, about HRSD’s growth and evolution as an experienced design-build Owner delivering billions of dollars in water/wastewater projects while also garnering national accolades at the same time.

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Not all industry conferences are created equal. If you’re going to take the time away from your projects, we know you better come home with new design-build tips and tools, network connections and insights that can be put to work immediately. That’s the recipe for DBIA’s conference success. In this episode of Design-Build Delivers, DBIA’s Executive Director, Lisa Washington, CAE, gives listeners an inside look at what you can expect from a DBIA conference.

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It’s no surprise -- design-build qualifications help drive our industry’s most successful teams. As the use of design-build continues to grow nationwide, so has the competition and that means teams must demonstrate in quantifiable ways their design-build expertise. DBIA Certification has become a vital part of how successful design-build teams win projects. In this episode of Design-Build Delivers, we talk to former DBIA Certification Board Chair Keith R. Molenaar, Ph.D., FDBIA about the spectacular growth in Design-Build Certification and how it’s benefiting thousands of design-builders nationwide.

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As the use of design-build continues to grow nationwide, so has the need for new project tools to help collaborative teams share vital information. On big projects and small, BIM has become valued not only for its three-dimensional illustration of a design but also for its ability to help measure impacts that possible changes could have on cost and schedule. It’s no surprise that the use of Building Information Modeling or BIM has become so popular among design-builders. As Brian Skripac, CM-BIM, LEED AP, the Director of Virtual Design + Construction at CannonDesign tells us, BIM helps fuel design-build’s collaboration and innovation.

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Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) in many ways looks and feels like design-build. However, in addition to those commonalities, there are some important differences. In this episode we talk to Haskell Infrastructure President Peter Kinsley, CBC, DBIA about the power EPC delivers in the industrial marketplace. Whether it’s complex processing plants utilizing the latest industrial equipment and processes to innovations in the aeronautics industry, EPC like design-build, is leveraging collaboration to deliver impressive project results.

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Whether you call it big data or smart water, the digitization of the water/wastewater sector is transforming the industry by providing innovative solutions to challenges including rising water rates, aging infrastructure and overall water stress. Reese Tisdale, the president of Bluefield Research talks about what’s ahead for the industry and what role will design-build can play in helping foster the innovations this digital transformation will bring.

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The latest design-build research predicts 5.8 percent annual growth in design-build spending in the education sector between 2018-2021. In fact, with 15 percent of the nation’s future design-build spending expected in the educational sector, education joins manufacturing and highway/street as among the top design-build markets. Design-build is already helping educators nationwide maximize their capital budgets in impressive ways. In June’s episode of Design-Build Delivers we talk to two experienced education sector design-builders, Brett Mitchell, who’s now the Facilities Planning Manager at the University of California, Davis and Eric Smith Associate Vice Chancellor for Capital Program Management University of California, San Diego about the past, present and future of design-build in education.

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