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
Cover Story: Grand Slam
By Christopher Prawdzik
The mainstream media often misses it. Not that they consciously ignore certain facts about construction projects, but the delivery method is often hard to come by in a typical report, whether design-build, design-bid-build or something else.
Bronx on Track
By Christopher Prawdzik
Things move rather quickly in the city: the people, the cars, the trains and most building projects. Residents of the Bronx know this well. A prime example happened nearly 90 years ago.
Education Extra - It’s Academic
By Dave Balz
Jacksonville University (JU) is perched on a rolling bluff, nestled on the banks of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla. The campus follows the curves, elevation changes and oak hammocks that make the land both beautiful and valuable. The challenge for JU was to upgrade an aging portion of student housing inventory to compete not only with other universities, but also with the surrounding private apartments.
Education Extra - Legal Opportunity
In April, McCarthy Building Companies Inc. began construction of the East Natomas Educational Complex (ENEC) in Sacramento. In a partnership with LPA Inc., the two corporations are building the largest design-build public school project in the state so far as a result of a new California law.
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DBIA News
DBIA News
With integrated project delivery’s exponential growth in federal government projects, DBIA’s Super Seminar on June 20 will offer an exclusive and intensive one-day program to ensure that federal owners have the tools to maximize design-build project delivery.
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Departments
Letter from the Editor
People often (correctly) argue that understanding of design-build has evolved. No longer must we explain what design-build is; instead we must explain and describe “What’s next?” and “Where do we go from here?”
Board Reflections
By William K. Flemming
In many ways, sports projects are perfect design-build candidates. They integrate the entire project team — owner, designer, contractor, specialty contractors and vendors — and bring them together quickly to create one point of contact and accountability.
DBIA Book Club
By Patricia Carpio
As DATELINE explores sports, recreational and educational facilities this month, nothing is a more fitting book selection than Building Type Basics series. Founder and editor Stephen A. Klimlent describes the series as a “concise, practical guide for today’s design professional.”
Members in the News
New Members
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