SPEAKER: Walker Lee Evey is President of the Design-Build Institute of America, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of integrated design and construction project delivery services.

There are many challenges within the design and construction industry today. Some of those challenges are obvious. Things like rapidly increasing prices, shortages of skilled workers and the need to compress schedules are clear and well known to industry practitioners. Other challenges are less evident but no less real and no less challenging. Mr. Evey’s presentation will address a full spectrum of problems currently facing our industry and will highlight the role that design-build can play in helping to deal with them. The presentation provides as a backdrop the idea that, just as in the famous book by the same name, we face today a “Perfect Storm” of threat laced with opportunity. Within this Perfect Storm environment each element of challenge builds upon other simultaneous challenges to create an environment in which impact is leveraged and risks and opportunities are magnified.