Cal Poly’s New Series of Design-Build ‘Boot Camps’ a Success

SAN LUIS OBISPO – The California Center for Construction Education at Cal Poly and the Design-Build Institute of America recently hosted the first Design-Build Professional Designation Boot Camp, May 8-12.

The boot camps were designed to speed up the certification process for professional design-build designation, which typically requires individuals to travel to various U.S. cities to complete core courses over several months, or even years.

The design-build method is the interdisciplinary collaboration of design and construction, with architects, engineers and builders working together from conceptualization through final construction.

The boot camp takes place over one week at a single location and includes three required core design-build courses, an exam prep course, and the design-build professional designation exam.

Two more boot camps are planned for later this summer. The Aug. 6-12 session is full; however space is still available for the Sept. 10-16 program.

Construction management Professor Barbara Jackson is the director of the CCCE and leads the camps.

Jackson was honored last year with the Design-Build Institute of America’s Distinguished Service Award for going "above and beyond the call of duty" to promote design-build practices and the DBIA.

The CCCE is made possible through a grant from the Charles Pankow Foundation. For more information contact Tana Anastasia in Cal Poly’s Construction Management Department at (805) 756-6381 or ganastas@calpoly.edu.

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