Features

Letter from the Chair
Dorwin A.J. Thomas, AIA, MRAIC, DBIA, offers a midyear assessment of Design-Build Knowledge Community activities. In particular, design-build educational programs have been so successful that the demand has rapidly increased for similar presentations and workshops throughout the country in 2006.

Is Your Design-Build Plan Alive?
A well-designed strategy is the key to the success of your design-build operation, but all too often the implementation itself stalls. James P. Cramer, Hon. AIA, offers some guidelines to effective strategy implementation in this first contribution to The Integrated Architect from The Greenway Group.

The AIA's New (and Improved) Design-Build Documents
Good news for the design-build community! The AIA’s new 2004 design-build contracts are a major improvement over the 1996 edition. Find out why in this detailed analysis of the forms by G. William Quatman, FAIA, DBIA.

Resources

Design-Build Links and Resources

Design-Build Institute of America
Design-Build magazine
Buildings.com
Canadian Design-Build Institute

Miscellaneous

Ask The Integrated Architect

To communicate and share knowledge more freely, we are providing a forum for members to ask questions of experts in design-build, and we'll publish the answers in the next issue of The Integrated Architect.

We look forward to hearing from you. Please send questions to Integrated-Architect@aia.org.