Randy Landers is a Native Texan, married with two grown children and three awesome grandchildren.  He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1977 with a BSc-Architecture.  Even before graduation Randy was working for a Design/Build General Contractor in Fort Worth, managing projects all over the US for several national retailers including a Design/Build program for a home improvement retailer >span class="TextRun SCXW267557688 BCX0" xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US">included 47 stores over an 18-month period.  After a few years “on the road” Randy joined a large regional Design/Build GC in Fort Worth as a project estimator and shortly advanced to Chief Estimator, managing a staff of seven project estimators in Fort Worth, Houston and Dallas and worked on many types of projects with a specialty in conceptual estimating on Design/Build projects.  He has owned and operated his own D/B construction company and was Senior Business Development Manager for a national industrial contractor in pre-construction services primarily on Design/Build projects.  He was group manager for a large national Engineering/Architecture firm heading the Design/Build practice, was the national manager of design and real estate development for a Fortune 100 national LTL trucking company and a senior project manager/regional manager for a national Architecture firm specializing in retail development and transportation projects.  From 2009 through March of 2013 Randy was Portfolio Manager/Architect for the US Department of Homeland Security – Immigration & Customs Enforcement managing real estate and projects over a five state area.  Randy is now Director of Business Development for Speed Fab-Crete in Fort Worth, TX, a 67 year old Design/Build construction and manufacturing firm. 

Randy has been in the business of integrated project delivery for over 40 years and is proud to say that he was in the first class to receive the DBIA Designated Professional title by completing the course work and passing the examination and is a member of the first class of DBIA Fellows.  He serves on the DBIA Southwest Region Board of Directors and has been an instructor in the DBIA Professional Certification program for nearly a decade.  Randy is also a Project Management Professional as certified by PMI, the Project Management Institute.  In his spare time he plays golf, reads, and chases his grandkids. 

Mr. Gidez, a licensed Architect, is the Corporate Director of Design Services for Hensel Phelps.  Prior to joining Hensel Phelps in 2007 Mr. Gidez was a Principal with the Denver firm of Fentress Architects. As the senior design professional with Hensel Phelps, Mr. Gidez oversees corporate design  services including procurement, design build, design assist, and design management.

Mr. Gidez is national speaker on integrated design and construction. He was the 2011 Chair of the Design Build Institute of America Board of Directors, and the 2015 Chair and board member of the AIA Project Delivery Knowledge Community, where he founded the AIA PDKC’s Project Delivery Symposium.

He currently serves on the Charles Pankow Foundation Board of Directors, promoting research in advanced design and construction processes, and is on the Board of Directors for the BIM Forum.

In 2018 Mr. Gidez was named to the College of Fellows at the Design Build Institute of America in recognition for his contributions to industry.

Michael F. Albers is a partner in the Dallas office of Hunton & Williams LLP where his practice focuses on construction law and commercial and industrial real estate development. Mr. Albers has extensive experience in multi-family, office building and shopping center projects, corporate headquarters, hospitals, health care facilities, hotels, resorts and golf courses, as well as manufacturing and industrial plant and facility construction and expansion projects.  He has also handled the design, construction and dispute resolution process for sports arenas and mass transit projects.  His representations include owners, developers, lenders and contractors in construction transactions, documentation and dispute resolution proceedings, as well as project acquisition, financing and development activities.  Mr. Albers is annually recognized by Chambers Directory, The Best Lawyers in America and “Texas Super Lawyers” in Texas Monthly.  Mr. Albers is a member of the Texas, Dallas and American Bar Associations, the Dallas Bar Foundation Bar Fellows and the College of the State Bar of Texas, is on the American Arbitration Association’s panel of neutrals, and also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist University School of Law and on the teaching faculty for the Design-Build Institute of America.  He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Southern Methodist University.