Michael C. Loulakis

Mr. Loulakis is presenting Workshop T6, “Procuring and Contracting for Large Capital Projects,” on Tuesday afternoon. He is the founder of Capital Project Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in providing procurement, contracting, risk management, and contract administration advice to those involved in the construction of both public and private sector projects. Prior to forming Capital Project Strategies, Mr. Loulakis had a 28-year career with Wickwire Gavin, a national construction law firm headquartered in the Washington, D.C., area, where he served as president and chairman until its merger with Akerman Senterfitt in 2006.

Mr. Loulakis is nationally recognized for his expertise in design-build, and he has played a leading role on some of the most visible and challenging design-build and public-private partnership (P3) projects in the country. He is currently representing the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, owner of the Dulles Corridor Rail Project, one of the largest and most complicated P3 projects being developed in the United States. He is also currently assisting the Virginia DOT in its P3 and design-build program and has provided contracting and procurement advice to the Southern Nevada Water Authority on the Lake Mead Tunnel. Mr. Loulakis has broad experience in contracting for the construction of domestic and international power, petrochemical, and process projects.

In addition to his client work on design-build, Mr. Loulakis has also been actively involved in the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA). He was a member of its board of directors for 8 years and served as chairman of DBIA's Manual of Practice Committee. Mr. Loulakis had principal responsibility for drafting the DBIA Contracting Guide and DBIA's standard form design-build contracts and subcontracts.

He is a highly acclaimed speaker and author on project delivery. Among his publications is a series of books he began writing in 1995 titled Design-Build Lessons Learned, where Mr. Loulakis reviews all of the caselaw in a given year affecting design-build relationships. He is also the coauthor of Construction Management: Law & Practice and author of an interactive CD-ROM program titled Construction Project Delivery Systems: Evaluating the Owner's Alternatives, produced and distributed by A/E/C Training Technologies. Mr. Loulakis also writes on design build liability legal trends for IRMI.com.

He received a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, in Civil Engineering from Tufts University in 1976 and a juris doctor degree from Boston University School of Law in 1979.