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: Time is (Lots of) Money
By Fred Minnick
As world gambling revenues are expected to reach $155 billion by 2012, Las Vegas construction is more than booming. In fact, more than 20 hotels and casinos are in the design, renovation or construction phase. That’s more than $40-billion worth of construction jobs currently underway, with a big piece of that pie going to design-build firms.
The Vegas Look
By Fred Minnick
Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas, has seen the brilliant work of DeRuyter Butler, vice president of architecture for Wynn Las Vegas.
2008 Conference Preview
Find everything from registration rates and transportation to accommodations and even a weather outlook for thisyear's conference.
Region Review
By Christopher Prawdzik
At the end of last year, DBIA saw tremendous progress in design-build legislation. After working with DBIA regions, states increased authority for design-build use in public procurement.
May I ... ?
By Dieter Franz, PE, BCEE, Rodney L. Pope, PE, and Kelly K. Comstock, PE, BCEE
From the very beginning, the clock is ticking against available time for the permitting process in design-build projects. At the Johns Creek Environmental Campus wastewater treatment facility in Fulton County, Ga., for example, the design-build team of Archer-Western Constructors and Brown and Caldwell realized the strict time constraints required for the permitting process.
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DBIA News
St. Anthony Falls
Construction of the new St. Anthony Falls Bridge to replace the Interstate 35W bridge that collapsed in August 2007 in Minnesota is proceeding well ahead of schedule.
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Departments
Letter from the Editor
What happens in Vegas … is obviously design-build this month. DATELINE has a lot invested in this hot little strip of land this year with our climax coming this fall at the 2008 Design-Build Conference and Expo. This issue, in part, is your 2008 Las Vegas introduction.
Letter to the Editor
DATELINE welcomes letters to the editor that address content within the journal or timely issues affecting design-build and building design and construction. Letters should include name, daytime phone number and e-mail address of the author. Please limit letters to 250 words or less. DATELINE reserves the right to edit all letters for publication. Please e-mail letters to cprawdzik@DBIA.org and put “Letter to the Editor” in the subject line of the e-mail. We look forward to your comments.
Board Reflections
By Bob Nartonis
As design-build project delivery has grown in popularity, the dialogue about its virtues and challenges has also increased. Proponents laud its efficiency, its resultant cost and schedule advantages and the impact it has had on effectively delivering our industry’s ingenuity and will to succeed to the unique benefit of each owner’s project.
DBIA Book Club
By Patricia Carpio
Summer readers now can fill up their book bag with deep DBIA discounts on some of our best titles through the end of August. DBIA Summer Sale titles include an array of topics that only serve to increase your design-build knowledge. Just make your way to the DBIA Bookstore.
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