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Featured Stories
Cover Story: Model Methods 
By Robert J. Hartung, DBIA
Consider the benefit achieved when a specialty contractor, working with a manufacturer, provides design information into the process at the early stages: Fabrication information in the form of shop drawings may begin for the specialty contractor at the design development phase, and the principal designer has enough information to avoid costly conflicts that usually become change orders and claims if found during the construction phase.
Collaboration Technology
By Carl Azar
With continuing innovation in construction technology and design goals such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification, the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) industry is experiencing rapid increases in design complexity. Firms are grappling not only with how to address traditional concerns of raising productivity in the face of this and worker shortages, but also how to collaborate effectively under a proliferation of project delivery methods.
D-B IN 3-D
By Mark P. Shambaugh, P.E., DBIA
Little technology was involved when Teresa Marzetti wanted to start a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, in 1896. The Florence, Italy, immigrant just wanted to serve good food and did.
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DBIA News
Texas-Sized Conference one of DBIA’s Best Yet
By Christopher Prawdzik
If design-build is known for combining all components under the same roof, the same could be said this year at the 2007 Design-Build Conference and Expo in Grapevine, Tex., just outside of Dallas, from Oct. 31 through Nov. 2.
Ethics and Integrity
By Christopher Prawdzik
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Contributors
Letter from the Editor - Cream of the Crop
For those who want to meet a design-builder who started out constructing turkey shelters, see 26 award-winning design-build projects featuring everything from a local health club in Kansas City to three different projects in Montenegro, and get the latest updates on information technology in design-build, this is the place.
Board Reflections - You are Power
By Walker Lee Evey, DBIA president
As I travel around the country and meet DBIA members, DBIA leaders, state and local government leaders, owners, managers, executives, practitioners, legislators and others, I recognize that they are a great bunch of folks and a real testament to the virtues of living up to a slightly out-of-fashion set of principles and values.
Legislative Update - Appropriation Atrophy
By Christopher Prawdzik
It’s slow going for appropriations bills moving their way through Congress. As of Thanksgiving the president had signed only one appropriations bill — defense — and vetoed the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education bill, saying the bill was $6 billion more than Congress appropriated last year.
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