New Healthcare Project Delivery Conferences

The Design Build Institute of America is hosting four conferences to expose healthcare clients and the planning, design and construction community to current market issues and to present several techniques to help facilitate successful project delivery.

Join DBIA for one–or all four–offerings of our Healthcare Project Delivery Conference to participate in the booming Healthcare marketplace. Each location has something unique to offer both practitioners and owners.

Like DBIA’s other highly successful specialty conferences, the healthcare conferences are "owner-driven" events that include program sessions focused on exploring design-build from the viewpoint of the owner and targeted to the designer, builder and end user. Sessions will emphasize lessons learned, best practices and "how-to" approaches to successful project delivery. These conferences are exceptional opportunities to gain valuable knowledge about the healthcare marketplace, and how design-build delivery can be used to keep pace with the growing demand for healthcare services. Attendees will:

Each conference will feature sessions covering critical success factors for project delivery and best practices for integrated project delivery. Various multidisciplinary panels will present and discuss lessons learned in managing the design and construction processes. Panels will include industry leaders such as Sutter Health, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Catholic Healthcare West, The University of Texas System, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Hartford Hospital, Buckyrus Community Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio), and many others. For more program details or to register visit www.designbuildhealthcare.com.

Joint Committee Workshop Charts New Activities

Get involved in the discussion, development, and implementation of policies and procedures that affect the future of design-build and DBIA. Join other DBIA members who are renewing old acquaintances and making new friends during the Joint Committee Workshop on Monday, November 7, 2005, at the Las Vegas Hilton immediately preceding the DBIA annual conference.

During this full day workshop, over 20 committees will meet to participate in the discussion of numerous cutting-edge matters that affect the future of DBIA and the entire design-build industry. Now’s the time to get involved!

For more information, to register for the workshop, or sign up for a committee, please seek additional information at www.dbia.org or contact mcahill@dbia.org.
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Important Advocacy Work

DBIA continues its strong advocacy for increasing the utilization of design-build in the states and the federal government. More than 200 bills pertaining to design-build project delivery were introduced in the states during the 2005 legislative cycle–a record high. Significant design-build legislation has already passed in Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Arkansas and Nevada. Efforts to advance design-build legislation in California and Illinois continue. In addition, DBIA achieved a major success in advocating for an amendment in the federal highway bill that was approved in the Senate and in joint conference with the House that will increase design-build usage on federal highway projects.

A summary and the full text of 2005 state design-build laws passed, as well as the DBIA-supported amendment to the federal highway bill can be found on DBIA’s Website, www.dbia.org.