Design-Build Delivers Webinar: What Makes Progressive Design-Build Different? (December 11, 2024)

Recorded On: 12/11/2024

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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.

Robynne Thaxton, JD, FDBIA

Attorney, Thaxton Parkinson, PLLC

Robynne Thaxton is a Seattle based lawyer and consultant and a leading expert in construction law and alternative procurement both in Washington State and on a national basis. She is the principal and founder of Thaxton Parkinson PLLC and Progressive Design-Build Consulting, LLC. In addition to being a DBIA instructor since 2005, Robynne served for seven years on the National DBIA Board of Directors and currently serves as the Chair of the DBIA National Progressive Design-Build Committee. She is also in the inaugural class of DBIA “Fellows”. Robynne was a member of the Washington State Capital Projects Advisory Review Board from 2019-2023. Robynne is AV rated by Martindale-Hubble and has been named as a Washington Super Lawyer from 2010 to 2023. Robynne’s practice primarily focuses on developing design-build procurement and contract documents for public owners. In addition to traditional design-build projects, she has worked on more than 30 progressive design-build projects worth over $5 billion. Representative clients include Toronto Transit Commission, Bonneville Power Administration, the Port of Seattle; the Cities of Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Wenatchee; the State of Washington; WSDOT; and Western Washington University. Robynne received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her law degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder School of Law.