September 19, 2002

Design-build association opens local chapter

Photo courtesy PCL Construction Services Sound Transit used a design-build contract to build this parking garage in Auburn. The project was completed three months ahead of schedule.

Nine years after its founding in 1993, the Washington, D.C.-based Design Build Institute of America opened its first Northwest chapter in July.

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