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
Work Load
By Christopher Prawdzik
In January the Department of Commerce reported a 3.3 percent drop in overall construction spending. This included a 4.3 percent drop in nonresidential construction, the biggest drop in 15 years. Reported by the Associated Press, this included a 2.3 percent drop in overall government construction spending and a whopping 6.6 percent decline in federal construction spending.
Pinpoint Precision
By Sean Fitzpatrick
As a boring machine cuts through the ground beneath Second Avenue in Manhattan to carve a new line to ease subway traffic in New York, a lot of unforeseen movement can happen.
Project Spotlight: Metro-North Maintenance
Skanska USA Civil Northeast, in a joint venture with ECCO III and Jacobs, was awarded a $280 million design-build contract from Metro-North Railroad to expand a service and maintenance facility for trains in New York. The design-build contract covers the third phase of an expansion and renovation of the Croton-Harmon Yard north of New York City.
2009 Design-Build for Transportation Conference
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DBIA Announces Media Partnership with Naylor, LLC; Education Tour is Your Ticket; Get the Online Manual of Practice
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Departments
Letter from the Editor
If anything, the first few months of 2009 indicate a lot of movement in the year to come. The question for a lot of design-builders is: “In what direction?”
Board Reflections
By Rex D. Huffman
Three years ago I wrote a Board Reflections column entitled “Transportation Design-Build — The Past Decade.” The focus of that column was an illustration of recent design-build growth in civil/infrastructure markets as well as specific initiatives within DBIA.
Legislative Update
By Shawna Bray
President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Feb. 18, which potentially creates nearly $68 billion in construction projects. According to the procurement code governing the projects, states will have the choice to use design-build.
DBIA Book Club
By Patricia Carpio
Members in the News
Projects to Watch
New Members
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