Call for Entries: 2025 Rocky Mountain Region Design-Build Project Awards

We are excited to announce the opening of our "Call for Entries" for the annual Design-Build Rocky Mountain Region Project Awards! This prestigious competition celebrates the most outstanding Design-Build projects in the Rocky Mountain Region, recognizing excellence and innovation in project delivery.

Submission Deadline: February 14th, 2025

We look forward to seeing your exceptional projects and celebrating the best in Design-Build!

The DBIA Rocky Mountain Design-Build Award winners set themselves apart as the nation’s best design-builders. Their projects are diverse, but they share one common element — excellence. Now’s the time to share your Design-Build project success by submitting your entry into the Annual Rocky Mountain Design-Build Award competition.

We invite you to submit your highly successful Design-Build project(s) for our 2025 Regional Design-Build Awards competition.

Objective: To acknowledge and celebrate the most outstanding Design-Build projects in the Rocky Mountain Region by promoting and recognizing the use and efficiency of Design-Build as a project delivery method.

What qualifies as a Design-Build Project? Design-Build project delivery ultimately transfers the design and construction risk to a single prime contracting entity, such as the Design-Builder or an Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) contractor. Thus, winning submissions must be carried out under a Design-Build or similar contract, but the use of a DBIA-sanctioned contract document is not required.

How to Submit: Download the PDF to see the submittal requirements and process.

Schedule:

• Submissions Due Date: February 14th, 2025
• Awards Announced: April 15th, 2025
• Award Celebration: The physical award will be presented at the 2024 Rocky Mountain Regional Conference in May.

For submission details, please download the appropriate award prospectus.

• Download Project Award Prospectus 
• Download Individual Award Prospectus 

2024 Region Award Winners

Jim Dent Leadership Award

Joe Willich, PE, PMP, DBIA, MB

BIOGRAPHY

• Nearly 40 years of experience in environmental program and project management.
• A total portfolio of contracts worth more than $800 million, with individual projects in
• excess of $100 million.
• Experiences as an Owner Advisor (OA), design engineer, and prime/at-risk design-builder.
• Active contributor to the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA).
• Implements DBIA best practices to help project teams and owners capitalize on the
• advantages of collaborative delivery.
  

SAMPLE DESIGN-BUILD PROJECTS

• Downstream Reservoir Water Storage Program Aeration System Design-Build, Denver
• Water, Denver, CO
• 7 Mile/Nevada Water Transmission Main Renewal Progressive Design-Build, Great Lakes
• Water Authority, Detroit, MI
• Garland-Hurlbut-Garland Water Transmission Main Renewal Progressive Design-Build,
• Great Lakes Water Authority, Detroit, MI
• Suquamish Wastewater Treatment Plant Thickening Upgrades Design-Build, County of
• Kitsap, Port Orchard, WA

Award of Merit

NREL Research and Innovation Lab (RAIL)

Owner: US Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Design-Builder: Mortenson

Architect:  Davis Partnership

Award of Merit

One Platte

Owner: The Nichols Partnership

Design-Builder: The Beck Group

Architect: The Beck Group

Award of Distinction

Children's Hospital Colorado North Campus

Owner: Children's Hospital Colorado

Design-Builder: GH Phipps

Architect: Treanor

Engineer: The RMH Group 

Award of Distinction

Roosevelt High School 

Owner: Weld RE-5J School District

Design-Builder: Adolfsen & Peterson

Architect: Treanor