Design-build is a powerful project delivery approach. Actuating such power, however, requires special skill and know-how, and is indeed a trade secret. This is what this book is all about. It provides the design-build professionals and academics with critical design-build knowledge and know-how, as well as with a practical and academically validated innovative design-build methodology, namely, the SAFEDB-methodology. The SAFEDB-methodology consists of three key components, namely, develop design-build solutions, fast-track design-build activities, and control design-build progress. The first component is concerned with evaluating candidate design-build options and selecting the most effective design-build solution. The second component looks deep into overlapping design and construction activities and introduces an effective overlapping strategy enabling maximum safe schedule compression. The third and last methodology component focuses on enhancing the design-build schedule reliability by taking into account potential schedule branching and inadvertent rework loops in a structured and proactive manner. The book is designed to provide the reader with actionable skills that can be applied in real-world business situations. It presents the SAFEDB-methodology in a clear, practical, and step-by-step manner, providing practical examples for the application of the methodology in real-life projects. It also provides a review of the design-build history, how to shape the design-build team, guidelines to winning the design-build competition, connection to the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide (PMBOK® Guide) project management model, in addition to cutting-edge design-build best practices and tricks of the trade for various civil engineering applications and project situations.