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.

Bruce W. Husselbee is the Director of Engineering for the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD). He has worked for HRSD for twenty-two (22) years. Prior to HRSD, he worked in the consulting engineering field for twelve (12) years. His responsibilities include the management of the Asset Management, Design & Construction and Planning & Analysis Divisions. A major role for his department includes implementing HRSD’s $2.5B, 10 Year Capital Improvement Program. Mr. Husselbee has been active with many of the professional organizations in the local area including the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Engineers Club of Hampton Roads and is the current Chair of the ODU Civil and Environmental Engineering Visiting Council. He is also active in the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) and is a DBIA Certified Professional. Mr. Husselbee is the past chair of the Water Environment Federation Utility Management Committee and a member of the VWEA Utility Management Committee. 

Jim is a former member of the Senior Executive Service with over 30 years of broad experience leading Federal organizations in the areas of law, procurement, budget, and design and construction programs. He served as a Deputy General Counsel, Senior Procurement Executive, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, and an Assistant Inspector General.  He is an advisor to the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) in matters involving curriculum and resource development, as well as serving as an instructor for several of their training courses.  He served on DBIA’s Universal Best Practices Subcommittee and led the Federal Sector Best Practices Working Group.  He is currently a member of DBIA’s Core Curriculum and Exam Update Committee. As Principal for ROPE Strategies, LLC, Jim provides advisory services in design-build integrated project delivery and serves as a facilitator for structured partnering workshops. 

Dustin is Vice President and Board Member of Simonson Construction Services, providing best in class construction services for Commercial, Industrial and Institutional construction projects throughout central Ohio.  Mr. Beattie became a minority shareholder of the business in 2016.

Since joining Simonson Construction in 2005, Dustin has proven to be a passionate leader providing Project Executive & Project Management services including developing, monitoring and implementing Project Management and Construction Delivery Best Practices for the organization.  Responsibilities within the company include Project Executive, Project Management, project sales, maintaining client relationships, owner Contract negotiation and review, key RFQ & RFP responses and preconstruction services including conceptual estimating.  Other organizational functions include employee development & mentorship of future leaders as well as creating business strategy and accomplishing corporate goals.   

As a key member of an integrated Design-Build company with extensive progressive Design-Build experience, Dustin has a passion for a collaborative construction process where each team member is a stakeholder promoting the project goals.

Mr Beattie is a member of the DBIA Ohio Valley Region Board of Directors and The Salvation Army Kroc Community Center Advisory Board.  He received a BS in Construction Management from the University of Cincinnati.