The Minnesota Department of Transportation issued an RFP to five design-build teams on June 3.  The project is the Highway 52 Elk Run Interchange.  The teams are: C.S. McCrossan Construction, Inc. Duininck, Inc. Hoffman Construction Company Peterson-Reily Constructors, LLC Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. Technical proposals are due August 13, and price proposals are due August [...]

The Cleveland Medical Mart and Convention Center and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, have awarded a design-build contract for a new convention center to a team headed by Turner Construction Company and URS.  http://www.onlinetmd.com/medical-device-manufacturing-cleveland-medical-mart-052110-tmd.aspx.  The center will provide trade show and conference facilities for the medical industry. LMN Architects was previously retained as the design-criteria consultant.

The Washington (State) Department of Transportation recently commenced a competition to find the most qualified design-build teams for the SR 520 Eastside Transit and HOV Project.  The estimated $325M to $425M project is for “highway and environmental improvements from Medina to Bellevue.”  http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/News/2010/04/13_SR520_EastsideRFQ.htm  Design-build teams are invited to attend a voluntary meeting next week. When: [...]

One of the Illinois’s public design-build leaders - The Korte Company – recently won a procurement competition to design-build four U.S. Armed Forces Reserve facilities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Puerto Rico.  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/baker-design-build-team-awarded-armed-forces-reserve-centers-contracts-by-usace-louisville-district-2010-04-05?reflink=MW_news_stmp Come meet Dennis Calvert of The Korte Company at the next DBIA Chicago Chapter meeting on April 20 when Dennis – and the Illinois Capital Development [...]

Touting the speed offered by design-build (MDOT reached the construction phase 8 months earlier than it would have with design-bid-build), MDOT will start a new Stimulus Fund design-build projects April 12.  http://www.michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192-29907-234692–,00.html