The Progressive Design-Build (PDB) model reconfigures decision-making, risk, and collaboration across a capital project.

Suggested Citation: "2 Literature Review." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Open-Book Pricing Practices for Construction Manager/General Contractor and Progressive ...

In 2018, Tipton County, a community in north central Indiana, broke ground on one of the most significant building projects since 1895. Like many communities around the nation, the county needed to ...

Free resource responds to rapid growth as PDB now represents one-third of design-build procurements nationwide WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, March 3, 2026 ...

Earlier this year, the American Institute of Architects (“AIA”) released updated form contract documents for traditional design-build (“Traditional DB”) construction projects and introduced a new set ...

The Tennessee Department of Transportation has awarded the state's inaugural Progressive Design-Build (PDB) contract to expedite the reconstruction of two bridges destroyed by Hurricane Helene. This ...

"Construction costs are increasing and the contractors face the impact," said Fitch analyst Anubhav Arora. Contractors in fixed-price contracts are under pressure from escalating project costs, Fitch ...

WATSONVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Granite (NYSE:GVA) announced today that Sand Ridge Constructors, a joint venture of Granite and W.W. Clyde & Co., has been awarded the $16.5 million construction ...

Market uncertainty related to federal policy changes raises the stakes for project delivery firms after a year of strong revenue growth Top 100 Project Delivery Firms saw demand for design-build and ...

On January 28, 2026, Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey submitted a bill entitled “An Act Making Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2027 for the Maintenance of the Departments, Boards, Commissions ...

When describing the difference between construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC) and progressive design-build (PDB), some authors posit that PDB is merely CM/GC in which the contractor holds the ...