Design/Build Facts

• Wisconsin is among 18 states the Design-Build Institute of America considers as having "broad sweeping design/build legislation." The others are Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.
  
  
• The DBIA estimates that between $135 billion and $138 billion worth of public work -- one-third of the value of all construction work nationwide -- is done using design/build.
  
  
• The advent of the use of design/build on federal projects can be traced back to World War II military housing. But the delivery method evaporated from the scene until the '50s, when the National Space and Aeronautics Administration used it for rapid delivery of launch and research facilities. The Department of Housing and Urban Development use it later to obtain housing faster. The Department of Defense, as well, used it for the same reason; in fact, the DOD used it to construct Israeli airbases in the Negev Desert after the Camp David Accords.
  
  
• The Military Construction Codification Act of 1982 was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 12, 1982. It removed from every military construction authorization bill the requirement to use "competitive-bid, award to the lowest bid" system.

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