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This episode discusses the latest state legislative developments impacting design-build, featuring insights from Richard Thomas and Erin Looney.

Have thoughts? Text us! State legislative sessions are wrapping up across the country, and design-build continues to gain momentum. In this episode of Design-Build Delivers, DBIA’s Richard Thomas joins Erin Looney to break down the biggest state legislative developments affecting design-build, including expanded authority, progressive design-build activity, sunset extensions and removals and the growing role of DBIA regions in legislative advocacy. Richard discusses why transportation remain...

People in this episode

Host: Erin Looney

Guest: Richard Thomas

Topics covered

• state legislative developments
• design-build authority
• transportation
• legislative advocacy
• progressive design-build

Keywords

• design-build
• legislation
• transportation
• DBIA
• state authority
• progressive design-build
• advocacy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DBIA

Places: United States

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