Industry Research

DBIA promotes educational and scientific research to stimulate the development of new knowledge, information, programs, and products to help address future trends in integrated design and construction processes and their impact on high performance design and construction.

Various existing studies are available to illustrate the current use of design-build and the current best practices in design and construction.

• The National Institute of Standards and Technology:Thomas, Stephen R., Macken, Candace L., Chung, Tae Hwan, and Kim, Inho, Measuring the Impacts of the Delivery System on Project Performance-Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/publications/gcrs/02840.pdf (2002)
• The Federal Highways Design-Build Effectiveness Study (2006) http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/designbuild/designbuild.htm