Category: Progressive design-build

WSU Schweitzer Engineering Hall: Maximizing Value Through Progressive Design-Build Delivery

May 29, 2025
By: Joshua Thomson and Sara Howell
Washington State University’s Schweitzer Engineering Hall will become the new cornerstone of a planned engineering and architecture district when doors open to students in 2026. As the future gateway to the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture on the Pullman campus, it’s also a model for how progressive design-build delivery can maximize value for project… read more

Building Connections: Maywood Hills Elementary Students Put Imprint on Project

December 3, 2024
By: Brian Aske, Education Market Director, FDBIA
This fall, second and third graders from Maywood Hills Elementary School in Bothell, Washington, reached out to our team with artwork and heartfelt thank you letters for the work crews are doing on campus. The students’ letters include thoughtful questions to feed their natural curiosity about how things are built. To show our appreciation and… read more

Progressive Design-Build Case Study: Innovation Hall

July 11, 2024
By Lewis Team
In November 2023, University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College celebrated the opening of Innovation Hall, a shared academic building that allows for the significant expansion in STEM research and education in Washington state. The project is the first academic building in the nation shared by a community college and a university. Using a progressive… read more

Two Higher-Ed Projects Leveraging Progressive-Design Build

October 26, 2023
By: Brian Aske, Education Market Director, FDBIA
The Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce recently featured a pair of Lewis projects in the publication's annual Higher Education special section. Opening this winter quarter, Innovation Hall is set to be the first academic building in the nation shared by a university (University of Washington-Bothell) and a college (Cascadia College). Writing in the DJC, Lewis'… read more

Collaboration and Trust Build Team Culture at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health

December 9, 2021
by: Jordan Gevers, Marketing Manager
Last month, the team behind the Design-Build Institue of America’s 2021 Project of the Year—the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health—sat down with Kim Wright on the Design-Build Delivers podcast to discuss what made the project was so successful. The striking building, hosting three different public health organizations, is the culmination of three years of… read more

Building a Healthier Future at Population Health

April 30, 2020
by Brian Aske, Education Market Director
When we originally won the design and construction of the University of Washington Population Health project, I was not totally clear on what Population Health was, why the Gates Foundation provided a very large grant to the University and why the schedule was so aggressive. Today, we understand the real-world impacts of the project and… read more

Progressive Design-Build on the UW Hans Rosling Center for Population Health

March 27, 2020
by Brian Aske, Director
Learn how the project team at the UW Hans Rosling Center for Population Health is using  progressive design-build to change the future of project delivery.   Designing and constructing a building is a complicated undertaking, leveraging the knowledge and skills of dozens of people and firms including designers, engineers, manufacturers, installers and many other experts… read more

Population Heath: Why is Design-Build Fulfilling?

August 1, 2019
by MacKenzie Junor, Communication Specialist
We asked a member from each major partner working on Population Health, an integrated design-build project for the University of Washington, how this project differs from previous ones, and more importantly, if this delivery method has affected their career fulfillment. What we learned was relatively simple; the collaboration, the innovation and the results are what… read more