Below is a listing of the stories in this month's DATELINE, organized by categories. The full text is available to DBIA members through the mail.
Featured Stories
What You Need to Know Before Meeting with Your Professional Liability and Surety Underwriters 
By Catha Pavloff and Casey Warnecke
Mainstreaming Environmental and Professional Liability In Design-Build Risk Management
By Diana Eichfeld
Is anything ever really cut and dried? Crystal clear? Black and white? If there is such clarity anywhere, it certainly is not found in the construction industry.
Design-Build Design Liability: The Claims Keep Coming
By Eric E. Myers, CPCU, RPLU, and Paul V. Riccardi
On a design-build project, it is the design-build entity that is fully responsible for the design and construction. The client has the right to rely on the design to meet the client's criteria and the construction to meet codes and standards.
Challenges for Bonding and Warranty for a Design-Led Design-Build Firm
By Barry E. Bannett, R.A., AIA, DBIA
Insurances have become an integral part of running any business. The list of required insurance has become extensive. Bonding is only one of the many requirements.
Capital Notions
By Mark E. Reagan
Owning and running a construction company presents an unending stream of complex and difficult challenges. Estimating, bidding, winning, and successfully executing highly-engineered projects demands decisions from construction executives trying to build and grow their companies. Directly or indirectly, each decision involves the deployment and utilization of capital.
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Departments
Editor's Notes: Finance, Insurance, and Risk - Key Challenges for the Design-Build Community
Recent issues of Design-Build DATELINE have focused on risk allocation, clearly one of the most contentious issues within the design-build community. This month we broaden that focus, looking at finance, insurance, and risk issues for the design-build community.
Board Reflections: Owners Take Note
By Tom Porter
An old proverb states: It doesn't work to leap a 20-foot chasm in two 10-foot jumps. Yet owners commonly choose that approach by hiring a designer and a builder separately.
Legal Briefs: Insurance Carriers Limiting Their Exposure to Liability for Construction Defects
By L. Griffin Tyndall
Construction is replete with a variety of risks. On any construction project, the design-builder always faces the risk of performing faulty or defective work. How does the design-builder protect himself against this risk?
Members in the News
Projects to Watch
Publication Focus: Informative Guide Delineates Key Design-Build Risk Management and Insurance Policies
Risk allocation remains a significant challenge for design-build practitioners. Contractors who lead a design-build project team will take responsibility and liability for design concerns in addition to construction and thus will assume additional risks and liabilities.
The Ethics Advisor: DBIA Policy Statement #11 - The Code of Professional Conduct
By G. William Quatman, FAIA, Esq., DBIA
In December 2005 Michael M. Holland, CEO of the American Council for Construction Education, wrote a letter published in Engineering New- Record calling for an industrywide code of ethics, urging that "associations must take the lead in developing a code of conduct."
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