The DBIA Mid-America Region's Website seeks to inform, educate, and promote our four state region (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska) to visitors. We encourage you to explore our site to learn more about our organization, programs, and Design-Build.
What is Design-Build?
The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) is a membership organization founded in 1993 to advocate and advance single source project delivery within the design and construction community. The design-build method of project delivery embraces architecture/engineering and construction services under a single contract, thereby re-integrating the roles of designer and and constructor. DBIA members include practitioners from all project phases, plus public- and private-sector project owners.
DBIA focuses its efforts on increasing the successful use of innovative design-build teams on non-residential building, civil infrastructure and process industry projects. Best practices are disseminated through educational programs and converences, publications such as the monthly DATELINE newsletter and the Design-Build Manual of Practice, the Designated Design-Build ProfessionalTM program and legislative efforts at the federal and state level. The presitgious annual National Design-Build Awards competition highlights successful design-build projects across all sectors. DBIA's sixteen chapters provide membership benefits at the local level, while also reaching out to owners to promote the use of design-build.
DBIA supports research and education on the design-build process through its affiliation with the non-profit Foundation for Integrated Services.
