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ROBERT J. GILBERT

DBIA

Chief Operating Officer
"Learn from everyone you work with, take the best attributes and work ethics and mold it into your own person. True to your own interest, ethics, judgements, and beliefs, independent of the influence of others, but always commit to the Lord and your plans will be established."

Robert Gilbert is Chief Operating Officer at the Collage Companies and a certified design-build designated professional (DBIA) with decades of outstanding construction management and engineering experience . His expertise includes more than $3 .5 billion in constructed costs and over a decade of alternative project delivery experience totaling $2 .5 billion . He has consistently demonstrated success in developing and delivering infrastructure, water, wastewater and industrial projects to federal, industrial and municipal clients on schedule and within budget . Specialized in alternative project delivery, Mr . Gilbert is responsible for a diversified range of key, large- scale water and wastewater design-build, design-bid-build, and construction management at-risk projects and business development . Bob oversees the company’s operations for a variety of sectors, including commercialtransportationparks and sportshospitalityeducation and religious.

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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University
  • Design-Build Designated Professional

Honors

  • Project Manager of ASCE “Landmarks in American Civil Engineering History”– Hyperion WWTP Treatment Facility.
  • Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach Waste to Energy ASCE “National Project of the year”.
  • Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach Waste to Energy ACE “Grand Scepter” National Project of the Year.
  • Adjunct Lecturer @ Georgia Southern University & University of Florida for Alternative Project Development.
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  • Multiple DBIA National Project of the Year Awards.

Professional Activities

  • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Member, Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA)
  • Member, American Water Works Association (AWWA)
  • Member, Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)