Advantages of Integrated Project Delivery
This presentation provides a fairly comprehensive list of the advantages of integrated project delivery for the owner, architect and contractor.

A Primer on Industrial Design-Build Construction Contracts
This article published in the April 1994 edition of The Construction Lawyer, explains the basics of EPC (Engineer-Procure-Construct) contracts to lawyers who are familiar with construction but not specifically with design-build in an industrial context.

Legal Issues Unique to Design-Build
An article for Dateline, the newsletter published by the Design-Build Institute of America, intended to remove some of the mystery surrounding the law of design build by identifying the legal areas in which it differs from traditional design-bid-build construction.

The Law and Business of Design-Build
This presentation accompanied a national lecture series, sponsored by a major construction publisher, that I gave in six cities. It assumes that the viewer/attendee was an experienced construction professional, knowledgeable about traditional project delivery methods, but unsure about the differences between traditional methods and design-build. The lecture and its PowerPoint accompaniment identified seven legal/business issues in which there were significant differences between traditional and design-build methods of project delivery.

This file should be viewed in conjunction with the paper titled Legal Issues Unique to Design-Build available elsewhere on this page.

Design-Build Options for Public Projects
This presentation accompanied a video lecture, sponsored by a Michigan engineering firm, that I gave simultaneously to several Michigan municipalities on the subject of how design-build methods of project delivery would solve or prevent many of the problems with public construction about which municipal officials complain. It also describes a variation of designer-led design-build which complies with most jurisdictions' public procurement laws.

Checklist of Recommended Contractual Provisions for Design-Builders
An outline from the design-builder's perspective of the issues that should be included in a complete design build contract.

Design-Build Update
A newsletter from Schiff Hardin's Construction Law Group regarding recent developments in the law of design-build construction.

Design-Build — The Single Entity Option
An article published in Independent Energy magazine describing the advantages and disadvantages of design-build methods of project delivery for power plant construction.

Design-Build — Legal Obstacles and Solutions
This is an article published in the Journal of Management and Engineering that describes the differences between design-build and traditional project delivery methods.

Don't Proceed Too Fast For Conditions
This is a description of the Marshall Contractors, Inc. v. Brown University case where the Supreme Court of Rhode Island was faced with the problem of deciding what the parties' contract was when the design-build project proceeded more quickly than the contract negotiations.