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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

Vernon Distribution Center over a weekend and hand-delivered the proposal to Walgreens’ Headquarters in Chicago on Monday morning to edge out five other competitors that had a two-week head start. . In the traditional design-bid-build, architects were selected on their design abilities and recommendations from past clients.

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Specifications - "or equal" - patent infringement

Construction Lawyer

Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular construction law column for The Construction Specifier.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

This is so that the project that is procured would economically viable through its entire life span. Certainly, there is a need to relate capital cost with operation and maintenance costs in order to procure buildings that present value for money invested to the clients. The modern procurement system (i.e.

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DBIA turns 25

The Korte Company

It started in 1993 when a group of around 35 representatives of national construction firms gathered in Chicago to discuss forming an organization that would push the federal government to recognize Design-Build as an option they could choose from during procurement.