User:Susan Hines

I serve as managing director of the Design-Build Institute of America’s Department of Public Relations and Information. DBIA promotes the value of design-build project delivery and teaches the effective integration of design and construction services to ensure success for owners and design and construction practitioners.

I have more than a decade of experience in the A/E/C industry that includes seven years with the American Society of Landscape Architects, where I was founding editor of LAND Online. I have written about design and the business of design as an on-staff writer/editor for Landscape Architecture magazine. I came to DBIA in 2009, from a position as the marketing and public relations director of the internationally-known landscape architecture firm of Oehme, van Sweden and Associates.

I hold a master's degree in American History from the American University where I served as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow with the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project.