Join our team at the 2025 Design-Build Conference & Expo in Las Vegas.

• Executing on an Owner’s Vision – Aligning Perspectives During Design Build
  Thursday Nov. 6 | 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM
  Principal and Higher Education Leader Jackie Eckhardt, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
  
  What happens when healthcare experts, designers, engineers, and builders unite around a shared mission and a fully integrated delivery model? This session explores how the 63-20 Progressive Design-Build approach empowered a diverse, multidisciplinary team to reimagine a complex nursing facility that reflects both the owner’s vision and the end-user’s needs. Drawing on insights from local and national partners – as well as direct feedback from nursing and operations staff – the team developed a tailored, cost-effective solution for Washington State’s Department of Social and Health Services. The 63-20 PDB model delivered early cost certainty, schedule reliability, and real-time constructability, while its public-private structure allowed the state to defer capital costs and finance the project over time through a lease-back agreement. Attendees will gain key takeaways on how integrated delivery and innovative funding models can drive better outcomes for owners, users, and communities alike.
  Jackie will be accompanied by Sean Miller, senior vice president of development at Anchor Health Properties, Keith Ramick, project executive at Kiewit Building Group, Inc., and Larry Covey, director, office of capital programs at Washington State’s Department of Social and Health Services.

• Clackamas County Courthouse: First P3 Delivery in Oregon
  Thursday, Nov. 6 | 9:45 AM to 11:00 AM
  Senior Associate and Architect Mitchell Hein, Assoc. DBIA, AIA

  The Clackamas County Courthouse is one of the first courthouses in the U.S. delivered through a Public-Private Partnership model and offers a case study in managing risk, fostering collaboration as well as long-term sustainability. The session will focus on how the different types of P3 contracts relate to this project’s competitively procured Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain contract. Perspectives from the owner will provide insight into the County’s decision to adopt the P3 model, and explain the assessment and stakeholder engagement process. The panel will also discuss how collaboration and communication around the onboarding process were essential to project success within this unique delivery model.
  Senior Associate and Architect Mitchell Hein, Assoc. DBIA, AIA will be joined by Jon Kindrachuk, design build manager – construction manager, PCL Construction; Nancy Bush, MBA, MA, county operating officer, Clackamas County; Debbie Spradley, trial court administrator, Clackamas County Circuit Court, 5th Judicial District.