In 2004, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) received one of its greatest contracting challenges. As the Army's agent for military construction (MILCON), USACE needed to execute an unprecedented ...

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Did you know that design-build construction accounts for 40% of all nonresidential construction? There is a reason for that. Unlike the design-bid-build delivery method, the design-build delivery ...

Assigning costs is necessary in every stage of planning, and, ultimately, constructing a building. Sometimes, unfavorable budgets, zoning requirements, or a tricky economy might preclude a building ...

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 ...

Using this method, owners manage only one single source design-build entity contract as opposed to the multiple contracts used in traditional design-bid-build project delivery. Design-build entities ...

There was a time when advocates were proclaiming that design-build would become the predominant project delivery method for most major projects in the U.S. That has not come to pass. But design-build ...

SUSTAINABLE construction requires cross-disciplinary fluency. From regulatory compliance and emerging technologies to unfamiliar materials and climate-specific strategies, green building is not a ...

Owners continue to award more consruction projects under design-build contracts, a new study by the Design-Build Institute of America and consultant FMI concludes. According to the study, if ...

Watch as a group of young engineers use the design process to build a bike trailer. Watch as a group of young engineers at the Acera School use the design process to build a trailer to transport ...