2025 Virtual Progressive Design-Build (September 15)

2025 Virtual Progressive Design-Build (May 16)

For the past six years, industry analysts at FMI completed comprehensive assessments of the nonresidential construction market. This important research provided the most comprehensive look at design-build’s market size, direction, trends and drivers seen in years. With such rapid change occurring in our industry, FMI updated this research in 2024. This webinar will focus on the results of this latest study, including the utilization of design-build, CMAR and DBB, as well as market drivers influencing Owners’ design-build decisions.

2025 Progressive Design-Build (January 24)

Once considered “an alternative form of project delivery,” Design-Build is now the fastest growing and most commonly used project delivery system. Nearly half of all design and construction projects in the U.S. are being delivered using some form of Design-Build. One reason for the popularity of Design-Build, including Progressive Design-Build (PDB), is the flexibility it offers as to how Design-Build services are procured and provided. While this flexibility is primarily a consideration of procurement methods and contract format, Design-Build project delivery remains the constant common denominator among the most prominent variations of its implementation. In this Design-Build Delivers Webinar, we’ll first overview the most common project delivery systems – Design/Bid/Build (DBB), Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) and Design-Build – and highlight differences between performance and prescriptive specs. We’ll then take a deeper dive into the basics of PDB, which uses primarily a qualifications-based selection, followed by a process whereby the Owner then “progresses” toward a design and contract price with the team.

The complexity of projects and how we engage to deliver them continues to increase. However, even as the Design-Build Done Right process has evolved and become more effective, our leadership capabilities have not kept pace. Leadership touches every aspect of project performance and teaming effectiveness, but it’s hard to shake the old command and control modes of engagement and it is keeping us from optimizing the full potential that Design-Build Done Right offers. A team cannot perform at a higher level than the consciousness of its leadership. In this webinar we will begin to explore how to raise the consciousness of our collective leadership as design-build professionals.

Progressive Design-Build allows for strong engagement with project owners and stakeholders throughout the design process. It is also important that the project team has a governance and decision-making structure and process to assure decisions are arrived at during the proper times and within established parameters which could include budget, schedule, quality and performance. An owner, architect and design-builder will share insights and lessons learned from two highly successful, national awarding winning, Progressive Design-Build projects.

The DBIA Progressive Design-Build Deeper Dive introduces a new phase in the progressive design-build project: the Validation Period. This webinar will provide insight into how all parties to the progressive design-build project use best practices to manage the risk of the project by aligning the parties’ expectations at the outset. Webinar participants will learn the intent of establishing the Validation Period and how to best incorporate the Validation Period into the contract. In addition, the panelists will provide a step by step analysis of how to successfully achieve early consensus and alignment on the project’s scope, cost, and schedule.

Progressive Design-Build (PDB) has seen expanded use and interest across the country. PDB uses primarily a qualifications-based selection, followed by a process whereby the Owner then “progresses” toward a design and contract price with the team. In this Design-Build Delivers Webinar, we’ll examine DBIA’s new PDB Deeper Dive document and take a closer look at the key characteristics of this approach and how to determine if PDB is right for a project. • Discuss characteristics common to all variations of design-build that are drivers to PDB success. • Understand key considerations in determining if PDB is right for you and/or your project. • Gain an understanding of the Validation Phase, a key distinguishing factor of PDB. • Hear recommended practices that drive successful PDB outcomes.