The Design-Build (DB) Knowledge Community is the recognized voice for the advancement of best practices related to the architect's role in the design-build process and supports the sharing of knowledge with AIA members, allied professions, academia, and owners regarding the design-build project delivery method.
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Highlights
How to Be an Effective Partner in a Contractor-Led Entity: Learning Opportunities for Architects
October 15, 2009, 2–3:30 p.m. ET, 1.5 LUs
How to Make Inroads into Government Design-Build Projects
November 17, 2009, 2–3:30 p.m. ET, 1.5 LUs
See a complete listing of 2009 Web seminars and 2008 Web seminars. Past Web seminars are available for purchase: History and Introduction to Design-Build; How to Start an Architect-Led Design-Build Entity; A History of Design-Build; Risks and Rewards in Architect Led Design-Build; Transitioning to Architect Led Design-Build; Design Build: Contract Forms, Legal Risks, Legislation and Roles; Design-Build: Educating architects in a time of changing project delivery, BIM, and sustainable design.
Changing Times | Time for Change: Practice, Productivity and Effectiveness
September 24–26, 2009 | Chicago
Architects practice in a world that is changing at a breathtaking rate, requiring near-constant reassessment of business models and professional practices. “Changing Times | Time for Change” will explore the major areas of challenge and opportunity that are reshaping architecture practice. Network now!
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Recieve a free set of Contract Relationship Diagrams including a Design-Build diagram to help determine the appropriate AIA Contract Documents to use for a design-build project.
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Interested in Integrated Project Delivery?
Integrated Project Delivery is a collaborative project delivery approach that fully integrates all stakeholders early on in the process. This approach allows participants to optimize project results, increase value, reduce waste, and maximize efficiency throughout the project lifecycle.
Architecture Knowledge Review Podcast Series – Practice
Architecture Knowledge Review is a podcast series for design professionals, featuring interviews, discussions, and best practices by architects and other design professionals who are at the forefront of the profession. Visit this page often for more information on specific topics and presentations. Podcasts are available for download as XML, iTunes, and MP3 files.
Featured Podcasts
Owner-Driven IPD: Putting Theory into Practice
Markku Allison speaks with Phil Bernstein about the difference between traditional project delivery approaches and IPD and the relevance of turning theory into practice. Phil is Vice President of Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) Industry Strategy and Relations at Autodesk, the world’s leading creator of 2D and 3D Design software.
Introduction to the AIA’s Integrated Project Delivery Guide
The AIA and AIA California Council collaborated to produce Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide, which covers principles and techniques of integrated project delivery and, particularly, how to use such methodologies in designing and constructing projects. In this podcast, three drafters of the Guide - Forrest Lott, AIA, Zigmund Rubel, AIA, and James Suehiro, AIA - discuss integrated project delivery.
Design-Build in the U.S. and the UK
Two design-build experts compare the design-build project delivery methods in the United States and the United Kingdom. The podcast has been created in conjunction with the joint AIA- and DBIA-sponsored international conference, “Design Excellence/Design-Build,” in London, September 27–29, 2007.
AIA Design-Build Summit 2007: Doing Great Design
Gary Lapera, AIA, Principal/Studio Head, Michael Graves and Associates, spoke with G. William Quatman, FAIA, 2007 Chair, AIA Design-Build Advisory Group about his firm's design-build projects, how architects can produce great design in a design-build setting.