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
Realigned 
By Lt. Col. Andrew Carlson, AIA, DBIA, and Maj. J. Kevin Dyer, DBIA
In 2000, the Oklahoma Legislature enacted HB 1564, an amendment to the Public Building Construction and Planning Act, which allowed design-build procurement, enabling the qualification-based selection of a joint-venture firm to design and construct a dome on the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Managing Design
By Barbara Jackson, Ph.D., DBIA; John Steele, MEng, Ph.D., CEng, MIED; and Paul Waskett, BEng, Ph.D., CEng, MIED
The design-build design process is one of the most difficult functions to manage because of its iterative nature and the large numbers of interdependent activities that must be aligned with the construction schedule. Consequently, designers and project managers often become frustrated at the time spent in iterative loops and rework cycles throughout the design process.
Quick Concrete
By Christopher Prawdzik
At Fort Irwin, Calif., the Army needed to build more than 50 buildings as part of a Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) facility.
Ripe, but Risky
By Sean Haynes and George Woods
Since 2006, annual military construction budgets have increased about 33 percent a year, cumulating in a 2009 budget of more than $24 billion. This bright spot in the overall architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, which recently has seen considerable reductions in growth, is even better for design-builders, as 80 percent of this work is projected to be design-build.
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DBIA News
DBIA News
Nationals Park, Minnesota Bridge Update, Transportation Conference Proposals.
2008 Design-Build Conference & Expo
Show Hours, Featured Speakers, Awards Program & Entertainment, Sponsors, Exhibitors
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Departments
Letter from the Editor
No one needs convincing that national security and defense issues have dominated the media for nearly a decade.
Legislative Update
By Mark Dickson
Those in the water and wastewater treatment plant design and construction market face a major hurdle when trying to couple the use of an alternate project delivery methodology, such as design-build or construction manager (CM) at-risk with state revolving fund (SRF) monies.
DBIA Book Club - Site Security
By Patricia Carpio
Members in the News
New Members
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