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.
You can also read the issue in digital format.
Featured Stories
Cover Story: Up on the Roof
By Joshua Gray
High above Chicago, an island of green flourishes, an oasis of verdant cool on a hot August day. Perched atop the recently renovated Chicago City Hall grows a rolling landscape of shrubs and groundcover, punctuated with walkways. It’s called a green roof, and it’s the creation of Roofscapes Inc., one of the foremost practitioners of green roofing in the country.
Design-Build, BIM, LEED and the Transformation of Design and Construction
By Hill Burgess, AIA, LEED AP, DBIA
The times, they are a changing,” Bob Dylan soulfully sang in the 1960s. The pace of change seemed to have quickened during that turbulent decade. Similarly, the recent past has brought significant alterations to the design and construction industry.
Design-Build Helps Rebuild School Without Walls
By Mary Lou Jay
What happens when an owner has a must-meet deadline for a building and a major specialty contractor, working under a traditional design-bid-build contract, and is unable to meet its commitments? If you’re the District of Columbia Public School system, you turn to a project delivery system that you know will get you into a building on time — design-build.
A Bright Future
By Racquel Palmese
Community colleges find themselves at the nexus of change. Charged with retraining workers for 21st century jobs, community colleges also cope with swelling ranks of students and funding cutbacks. But the bond-driven building and energy retrofit projects underway at California’s community colleges are a win for everyone.
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DBIA News
DBIA News
By Keith Molenaar, Douglas Gransberg, Nathaniel Sobin and Tamera McCuen
Residential and commercial building sectors are responsible for approximately 7.9 percent of carbon dioxide emissions globally and approximately 40 percent of energy consumption in the U.S.
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Departments
Leadershp Reflections
By Greg Gidez, AIA, DBIA, LEED AP
It is my pleasure to introduce the sustainability issue of Design-Build Dateline. Over the past decade, the design and construction industry has seen a revolution in the development of high performance buildings.
Legislative Update
By Richard Thomas
2009 is looking more and more like a milestone year for expansion of design-build project delivery. And with the passage of Alabama’s new design-build law, Rhode Island remains the only state that that prohibits all forms of design-build project delivery.
DBIA Book Club
By Patricia Carpio
Barbara Jackson, Ph.D., DBIA, gives us a first look at her new Design-Build Library composed of four titles. Below, she discusses the first book in the series, Design-Build Essentials, which is being released January 1, 2010, and is already available for purchase at the DBIA Online Bookstore.
Members in the News
Projects to Watch
New Members
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