Timothy D. Matheny, Partner in the firm’s Dallas office will be a featured speaker at the Design Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) Joint OKC-Tulsa Chapter Dinner Event on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the Greens Country Club in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The presentation will include an overview of the national trends and developments in the legislation and use of Design-Build & Public Private Partnerships with a special focus on the developments in Oklahoma and surrounding Southwest Region states. Mr. Matheny serves as the Legal/Legislative Committee Co-Chair of DBIA-Southwest Region.

Oklahoma has expanded the use of integrated delivery methods including design-build and Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) to state and local government agencies. Public owners nationwide have found allowing innovation and collaboration to flourish on design-build projects has delivered projects with consistent cost and time savings, resulting in fewer changes, fewer claims and less litigation. More than 40% of the nation’s projects are delivered using design-build with widespread or full design-build authority provided in 42 states.

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