An Inside Look: How DBIA’s Design-Build Award Winners Redefine Project Excellence

So, you’ve done the hard work as a team and delivered a design-build project to be proud of. Now what? Now is the time to share your success by entering that project in DBIA’s 2023 Design-Build Project/Team Awards. 
 
 In this podcast episode, long-time DBIA awards jury chair Barbara Jackson, 

gives us a look inside the jury deliberation process and what it takes to be a DBIA award-winning project. 

 Guest

Barbara J. Jackson, Ph.D., FDBIA -Chair, DBIA Project/Team Awards Jury 

President & CEO-Barbara Jackson, LLC

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Chapters

• 2:32 An inside look at Design-Build Project/Team Awards deliberations.
• 9:09 The evolution of design-build projects over recent years.
• 11:00 Leadership is driving Design-Build Done Right® project Success.
• 12:10 Award winners don’t just tell jurors “our team collaborated.” They also show how collaboration impacted the project.
• 14:30 DBIA’s Awards program has evolved to fit changing times and project challenges.
• 17:20 Small and large projects alike win design-build project/team awards.
• 19:47 Jurors look for how projects have delivered triple-bottom line success.
• 24:28 Why Owner’s letters are so important to an award entry.
• 30:22 The “how’s and why’s” make the difference between a good project and an award winner.
• 33:09 Successful teams have used the awards process as a part of their project debrief.