Mr. Walker Lee Evey

Design-Build Institute of America

Walker Lee Evey is president of the Design-Build Institute of America, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of integrated design and construction project delivery services. Lee possesses a personal commitment to design-build project delivery coupled with an extraordinary and varied background in both the public and private sectors. He has been an outspoken advocate of integrated project delivery, demonstrating the effectiveness of innovative partnering and teaming approaches. Prior to joining DBIA in June 2004, Lee was senior vice president of 3D/International, Inc., a design, management, and construction company that employs 600 professionals in 18 offices nationwide. While at 3D/International, he took a leave of absence to serve as senior advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Housing and Construction in their rebuilding efforts. For five years before coming to 3D/International, Lee was the program manager for the 10-year, $4 billion Pentagon Renovation Program. He also successfully led the Phoenix Project, which rebuilt in only one year the Pentagon areas damaged by the 9/11 terrorist attack. Lee served as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense for all matters relating to the Pentagon Renovation Program. In that capacity, Lee championed the use of design-build delivery, achieving significant cost savings and rapid project completion. Mr. Evey was the top civilian Air Force contracting official at the Pentagon prior to joining the Pentagon renovation effort, and also held a variety of key positions with NASA. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967 and served as an infantry platoon leader and company commander in Vietnam, participating in numerous combat operations. Lee entered federal service in January 1974 as a member of the Air Force Copper Cap Training Program at Patrick Air Force Base. Lee was recently honored with the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award for "sustained extraordinary accomplishment in management of programs of the United States Government and for leadership exemplifying the highest standards of service to the public, reflecting credit on the career civil service." He is a member of the Senior Executive Association, the Air Force Association, and the National Contract Management Association. Mr. Evey received a B.A. in psychology and M.A. in special education from the University of South Florida, and a M.S. in management science from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Dr. Mete A. Sozen

Purdue University

Mete Sozen graduated from Bogazici University with a degree in civil engineering and continued his education at the University of Illinois in Urbana. In 1957, he started teaching at Urbana and remained there until 1993 when he joined the faculty of Purdue University. He has worked on a wide range of problems in the field of structural engineering with emphasis on dynamic effects in earthquakes, explosions, and impact. Mete Sozen is an honorary member of the Turkish Society of Scientists and Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Concrete Institute. He has been given honorary doctorates by Bogazici University (Istanbul), J. Pannonius University (Pecs), and the Georgian Technical University (Tbilisi). He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2006 he was selected as one of the top seismic engineers of the 20th century by Engineering News Record and the Applied Technology Council.