With an unprecedented amount of federal aid anticipated for highway, bridge and transit projects, the transportation industry is also starting to move further toward progressive design-build.
Communication skills and emotional intelligence are critical not only to successful design-build delivery projects but also to attraction and retention of new talent in the A/E/C industry.
The evolution of design-build for transportation projects in the U.S. has had ups and downs, with many agencies pushing for “progressive” design-build and a few states—and contractors—still resistant to the basic idea.
