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AIA and DBIA team up to present advanced seminar series
The AIA and the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) have teamed up to present a series of seminars directed at architects and offered in eight cities across the country for 2007. The program will be taught by two leading experts on design-build: Dorwin A.J. Thomas, FAIA, DBIA, an architect who was chair of the AIA Design-Build Advisory Group (in 2004 and 2005), and Craig H. Unger, DBIA, past national president of DBIA and a former Federal Bureau of Prisons executive.