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Cover Story: Delivering Design-Build Healthcare Projects in CA
By Victor Sanvido, Ph.D., DBIA
Though many participants in healthcare projects in California have experienced some satisfaction and success, an increasing number have experienced dissatisfaction, budget overruns, and schedule delays. Why is this?
The Impact of Single-Source Integrated Design-Build on Successful Healthcare Facilities
By Douglas A. Furry, P.E.
Single-source design-build delivery has traditionally implied an approach in which one firm provides architectural design, engineering services, and construction management. While historically thought of as a process best suited for rapid, cost-effective development of commercial and industrial facilities, single-source firms specializing in focused market sectors such as healthcare can offer clients significant advantages over teaming arrangements of independent firms.
Healthcare Facilities: Some Lessons Learned
By Dave Hagan
The acts of design and construction are never ending learning experiences – and that certainly has been the case with our design-build healthcare project here in Southern California.
New Healthcare Construction Projects: Why Use Design-Build?
By Kirk Warden, AIA
There are three main reasons that have led the healthcare industry toward consideration of the design-build delivery method in some form or another for new construction projects:
Applying Lean Construction Principles on Healthcare Projects
By Paul Reiser
During the past several years a transformation has occurred in manufacturing. By implementing Lean Production Management developed by the Toyota Motor Company, and moving away from mass production, many firms in the U.S. and throughout the world have found the key to drastically reducing cost while increasing value to the customer.
Industry News - Study Lauds Design-Build for Highway Projects
By Douglas Jeffe
A major new review of design-build contracting on major highway projects throughout the country shows clear advantages over traditional design-bid-build in terms of schedule, cost, and quality.
Taking the Design-Build Pulse in the Healthcare Industry
By Gene Thibault
In any business, at any given point in time, opportunity is where one finds it. But once found, opportunity needs to be exploited. Nowhere is this more evident than in the vast construction marketplace that is driving the economy of the United States.
Industry News - A Meeting of Design-Build Minds
If you are a design-build professional in Southern California, the place to be in late September every year is the annual Design-Build Symposium, sponsored by the University of California, Irvine, held at the prestigious Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering, adjacent to the campus.
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Award Competitions
The 2005 Design-Build Awards Competition attracted the second highest number of entries in its ten-year history. The awards jury reviewed the entries August 4-5, honoring 28 projects with awards. The results of the competition will be announced at the Minds and MasterWorks: A Celebration of People and Projects in Design-Build gala, November 9, 2005. This prestigious affair, sponsored by the Foundation for integrated Services, has become one of the most significant events to honor excellence in our industry.
Welch Heads DBIA Advocacy Team
Cara Woodson Welch, Esq. is DBIA’s new Vice President, Advocacy. She brings to the position a wealth of design and construction experience as well as over 12 years of association management, government affairs, and legal experience in increasingly responsible positions.
Saluting Our Authors
DBIA would like to thank the following distinguished writers for their efforts in researching and writing the articles that have made DATELINE the serious, well-regarded publication that it is today.
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Editor's Notes
It is not surprising that the healthcare facilities sector is a fertile ground for design-builders. With dramatic improvements in medical technology, increasing consumer demands, and the requirements of an aging “boomer” generation, there is an obvious need for new facility construction as well as repair and retrofit. So how does design-build fit into this elemental trend?
Board Reflections
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Come one come all to the most exciting and awesome integrated engineering and construction conference of the year! DBIA’s annual conference is shaping up to be one of the best conferences we have ever held.
Editorial Forum
By Valentine A. Satko, AIA
Advances in healthcare are being made at an awesome rate. Ideas are turning into reality nearly every day. A hospital’s design must keep up with changing technology as well as the attitudes of staff and patients. One such concern is the design of operating rooms and associated space as Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) becomes prevalent in today’s surgical environment.
Legislative Update
Finally, after nearly two years and 12 extensions of the previous transportation authorization law, Congress has approved the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation Equity Act – A Legacy for Users, H.R. 3, and otherwise known as SAFETEA-LU. The conference report was approved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 412 to eight and in the Senate by a vote of 91 to four. The President signed the bill into law on August 10. This $286.4 billion bill authorizes transportation expenditures over six years (Fiscal years 2004-2009).
Chapters on the Move
The Ethics Advisor
By G. William Quatman, Esq., FAIA, DBIA
Studies have shown that design-build is most successful when there is a high degree of trust. Trust is built on honesty, integrity and fairness – three essentials of ethical conduct. This is the first in a series of articles that will address ethical issues that arise in design-build for the owner, the designer, the contractor, and the entire design-build team. The first installment addresses the broad topic of “Conflicts of Interest.”
First Principles
By Barbara Jackson, Ph.D., DBIA
In 1922 Sir Claus Moser declared that “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” In the design-build game the cost of ignorance can be mighty high. That is why education is the cornerstone of DBIA’s effort to effect change in the industry and promote and encourage the growth of the design-build delivery process as a high quality project delivery system.
Publication Focus
In recent years, the healthcare industry has experienced significant growth in the proliferation of wellness centers. Unlike hospitals, conventional healthcare facilities that focus on the healing and treatment of illnesses, the goal of wellness centers is to provide guidance on health maintenance and illness prevention.
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