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Design Excellence in Design/Build

2023-AAJ01
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Description

This presentation highlights how design and construction can come together to create a stunning structure, such as the new Johnson County Kansas Courthouse. The panel will showcase how design excellence can be achieved through the design-build delivery method.

Course expires 03/27/2026

Learning Objectives

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Harness the power of design-build to create a modern courthouse that excels in both form and function.

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Learn how cutting-edge technology can help craft an innovative, visually striking building with superior functionality for today's justice system.

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Learn about a collaboration of sustainability and well building that created a modern courthouse that maximizes function and efficiency.

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Discover the techniques used to construct a 75-year high-performance courthouse, from design and layout considerations to building practices that ensure its longevity.

Learn how to exceed expectations while managing several stakeholders, adjusting to political pressures, and tackling tight deadlines of a highly visible County project.

This session was recorded live on May 11, 2023.

Instructors
Randy  Bredar

Randy Bredar currently serves as Executive Vice President and a Regional Director for JE Dunn’s Construction’s eight Midwest offices. In this role Randy is responsible for growth strategies and customer service for the company’s largest region, delivering more than $2 billion of construction annually. Randy also co-leads JE Dunn’s national sports facility construction practice.

Gregory Cook
AIA, CCHP

Gregory is a partner with KMB architects in Seattle, Washington, and leads their Justice and Behavioral Health market sectors, leveraging his experience in architecture, facility planning, and client management to support the firm’s mission and core values. Greg is passionate about designing buildings that provide benefits that extend beyond their walls with an understanding the that the impact of the built environment on the psychological and physical wellbeing of a person is central to promoting healthy, equitable communities.

Jeff Lane

As a principal in TreanorHL's Justice studio, Jeff manages projects nationwide. With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, he has worked with various clients and brings knowledge to solving the needs of his clients. He is specifically invested in social reform, and the impact architecture can have on the justice system. Because of this passion, he has dedicated his career solely to justice architecture. Jeff firmly believes that research-based therapeutic design serves the lives of the individuals that step into every building and enhances the communities as a whole. Every project he works on uses architecture as a tool through which the neighborhood's character is uplifted and celebrated. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Jeff is a member of the American Institute of Architecture, the American Correctional Association, and the American Jail Association.

Joe  Waters

Joe Waters joined the County Manager’s Office in 2013 as assistant county manager, having previously served as Johnson County director of facilities for 19 years. A School of Architecture graduate from the University of Kansas, Waters has a decade of private sector executive experience in consulting and facilities management nationwide. His extensive public service began in 1982-86 as an architect and assistant director in the Facilities Planning Office at the University of Kansas. He served Johnson County as director of facilities for two periods beginning in 1990. He left for a director position in the Raytheon Inc. organization in 1995, returning to the county in 1998. Waters has served on numerous community boards, including Sunflower House Child Abuse Prevention Center, Olathe Economic Development Corp., and the Arts Council of Johnson County, as well as committee work with Mid-America Regional Council, American Institute of Architects, Public Technology Institute and the National Association of Counties.