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.