Dive summary:

• Compiling data from 2012, the group that advocates for design-build contracts in commercial projects calculates that the unified approach accounted for 40% of the nonresidential market nationally, and it was as high as 59% in the Pacific region.
• The report, which the Design-Build Institute of America commissioned from Reed Construction Data/RSMeans Market Intelligence, also tracks design-bid-build and the construction manager at risk approaches to projects and finds design-build gaining on design-bid-build since 2005 while the third way remains basically flat.
• The military is a big booster of design-build, which cuts down on the steps a project owner has to handle, using it for 81% of its projects.

From the article:

In a study of 48,640 project specifications across nine building sectors and geographic regions, DBIA found commercial building was the second largest sector, followed by medical building for design-build project delivery in 2012.  ...