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Hakim Hawramee is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Bridge Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Proposed Project Title: Development of Standardized Design-Build Project Delivery for Highway Bridges Brief Abstract: Design-build approach is increasingly used in bridge projects because of its reduced project schedule and minimized delivery risk to owner. Multiple State Department of Transportation’s created guidelines for implementing this approach. For example, Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) proposed a document containing instructions to proposers. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) released an innovative bidding toolkit for facilitating expedited post disaster bridge projects. However, there is no nationwide standardized specification for the design-build approach. This research tends to synthesize the guidelines used by various state DOTs and recommends a standard design-build approach for bridge projects in New York State.