Baabak Ashuri is Associate Professor and Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Fellow in the School of Building Construction and the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech where he directs Construction Research Center (CRC). Dr. Ashuri’s educational, research, and consulting activities focus on Project Analytics, Construction Engineering & Project Management, Investment Valuation, Economic Decision Analysis, and Innovative Project Delivery Systems (Design-Build (DB), Design-Build-Finance (DBF), Public-Private Partnership (P3), Construction Manager/General Contractor (CMGC), and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)). His work has implications for improving long-range planning and integrated decision-making process for delivery of resilient and sustainable infrastructure systems.

David Hannon is a Professional Engineer with more than twelve years of highway design and project management experience.  David has a Bachelors in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Building Construction both from Georgia Tech.  David is currently serving as the Chief Infrastructure Officer for the I-77 Mobility Partners concessionaire company.  In this role, David is overseeing the design and construction of 26 miles of new HOT lanes along I-77 in North Charlotte.

Prior to joining Cintra, David spent four years working at HNTB and with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), as a program manager for GDOT’s Design-Build program. While serving as a program manager David was invited by Georgia Tech to participate in a unique research project identifying efficiency opportunities in Design-Build project delivery and management. This research included interviews with seven leading State DOTs on best practices for managing Design-Build projects and writing a guidebook on management strategies that was be published in the Fall of 2013.