Join our team at the 2025 Design-Build Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. Principal and Higher Education Leader Jackie Eckhardt, AIA, LEED AP BD+C will present a session titled “Executing on an Owner’s Vision – Aligning Perspectives During Design Build.”

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.

Their session will be held on Thursday, November 6 from 3:00 to 4:15 PM.