For more than 20 years, there has been a constant decline in the market share for traditional project delivery. Construction Management, Design‐Build, and now Integrated Project Delivery are all growing forms of non-traditional project delivery. For Architects and Engineers to survive the current recessionary economy, we must understand how design professionals fit these alternative forms of project delivery, and determine if our businesses will survive the change. Since the AIA introduced the first set of documents for Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in 2008, design professionals have asked how IPD fits their existing business models. This webinar reviews how and why project delivery methods have changed over time and will help the audience understand why there is so much interest in this new, team-based approach to the design and construction process.

 

 

This webinar is best suited for owners and upper level managers of Architectural and Engineering firms who have an interet in strategic planning, market positioning, and cutting-edge project delivery practices.

 

Martin is the president and co-founder of MSA Integrated Project Delivery, a development, design and construction management firm specializing in providing alternative project delivery to a variety of clientele. Marty is also the founder of RKETEK.COM, LLC, a consulting, communications and business strategy firm serving the needs of the design and construction community. He has extensive Design-Build, Development and Construction Management experience. For 14 years – serving at varying times in the roles of Project Manager, Principal in Charge, Director of Marketing, Chief Operating Officer and CEO – Marty, helped grow a 10-person integrated Design-Build firm into a 150 person firm, and one of the Top 20 Commercial Design-Builders in the country. During that time the firm received numerous awards for architectural design, construction project safety, and outstanding business practices. In the five years that he served as COO and CEO, the design-build firm’s sales grew from $35 million to $135 million annually and the firm tripled in size. Marty managed two separate mergers and acquisitions as a part of the rapid growth of the company. With Marty serving as COO and CEO the company experienced the five most profitable years in its history, including 65consecutive months of profits. Marty also managed the rapid growth of an Architect/Developer led Design-Build firm specializing in the hospitality market. In less than four years, he helped build annual sales in the hospitality portion of this organization from less than $20 million to more than $100 million.

 

Marty has been a member of the American Institute of Architects for more than 25 years working in both traditional architectural firms and as a design-builder. He currently serves as the immediate Past-President of AIA Wisconsin and as the Wisconsin AIA150 Champion.

 

In 2002, Marty co-authored the introductory chapter to the Architect’s Guide to Design-Build Services published by John Wiley and Sons in conjunction with AIA. In June of 2003 – Marty was published in Architectural Record magazine in an article entitled “Taking the Brown out of Brownfields” for his work on the Monarch Range Redevelopment project. Currently, he is the author of the history of Design-Build in AIA150 publication “Remembering the Past – Designing the Future.”