Congress Asks, We Answer

by Louis J. Jenny  |  March 13, 2014 Recently, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held the first hearing of its Panel on Public-Private Partnerships (P3s). While the focus was on the use of P3s in transportation projects, the Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Representative Bill Shuster (pictured), joined the hearing specifically to […] Read more >

FHWA Accepts DBIA Comments in New Rules

by Richard Thomas  |  February 27, 2014 DBIA is happy to announce that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has recently published final rules on regulations related to the use of alternative technical concepts (ATC) in design-build delivery of U.S. highway projects. The final rules eliminate the requirement to submit a base proposal when a contracting […] Read more >

Federal Design-Build Legislation Evolves

by Louis J. Jenny  |  February 14, 2014 Recently, some proposed amendments have emerged to a federal bill DBIA has been working to pass into law.  The Design-Build Efficiency and Jobs Act (H.R. 2750) would codify a DBIA Design-Build Best Practice for federal two-step design-build projects, and limit the use of single-step design-build. (Read about […] Read more >

Design-Build Delivers Super Bowl XLVIII

by Geoff Corey  |  January 28, 2014 This weekend, the Super Bowl comes to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The stadium choice is noteworthy for two reasons. Not only is it the first open-roof stadium in a northern city to host the Super Bowl in decades, but the project was successfully delivered using design-build project […] Read more >