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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
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Nov. 5, 2007

UNM’s Gallegos Receives Design-Build Leadership Award

The Design-Build Institute of America conferred its annual Distinguished Leadership Award for excellence in higher education on Phillip Gallegos, research associate professor, University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning.

The award was given to Gallegos based upon his accomplishments in creating a graduate certificate program at the University of Colorado Denver for the department of architecture, where he was both a faculty member and former chair. The certificate program included extensive classroom work, fieldwork and an architecture design studio that terminated in award of a certificate after four courses. It currently is one of five national programs, including the DBIA program, to award certification in design-build project delivery.

Gallegos was recently appointed director of community outreach in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning where he directs community design and design-build programs in New Mexico communities as well as to the architecture and construction professions.

The Design-Build Institute of America is the nation’s most significant organization advocating innovation in the design and construction industry by combining multi-disciplinary teams in providing single source project delivery.

In the summer of 2008 Gallegos and others in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning plan to provide professional course work in establishing design-build theory, practice and tools.

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