Lisa Washington is the Executive Director/CEO of the Design-Build Institute of America, where she has worked since 2004. She joined DBIA as vice president of education and conferences and worked to expand the institute’s education and certification programs. A graduate of the University of Maryland with a masters degree in management, Washington was named to her current position at DBIA in 2009. She talked recently with ENR Deputy Editor Richard Korman about design-build’s record on project cost, research on project delivery methods and progress on state-level enabling legislation to allow alternatives to traditional project delivery.
ENRWe recently published a story about an ASCE journal article whose authors stated that design-build succeeded in saving time to project completion but that half the projects went over budget. The authors have since backed away from the finding about budget, but what bothered you most about the study and the article?