Steve Goldblatt is associate professor and former chairman (1982-91) of the Department of Construction Management and former associate dean for external affairs (2002-04) in the College of Built Environments at UW. His teaching and research focus on design and construction law, with a secondary emphasis on construction labor law and policy. He holds adjunct appointments in the departments of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering and has served as an advisor to the University’s Executive Vice President, Capital Projects Office, and Attorney General’s Division. Previously, he was a faculty member at Purdue University following nine years’ experience in California as an engineer, attorney, and consultant.

Steve served as president of the Associated Schools of Construction (1989-90) after six years as founding editor of ASC’s Construction Education Chronicle. He also helped form ASC’s contracts and law special interest group and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s law and practice group.

Author of many articles and book chapters, Steve is editor of a book, 1991 Wiley Construction Law Update, and was responsible for four other pieces of Wiley’s former Construction Law Library—the 1989 and 1990 supplements to both Construction Industry Contracts: Legal Citator and Case Digest and Construction Industry Forms. He served as a contributing author to the Instructor’s Guide for the American Institute of Architects’ 1988 Handbook of Professional Practice.

Steve is a member of the Seattle School District’s Building Excellence Programs Oversight Committee (2007-), the American Bar Association and its Construction Industry Forum and Section of Public Contract Law, the State Bar of California (inactive), the Washington State Bar Association’s Construction Law Section (as an affiliate), The Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, and the American Institute of Architects (as an associate). He was a member of Sound Transit’s Citizen Oversight Panel (1997-2003 and its first chair 1997-99), King County’s Commission on Governance (2003-04, as co-chair), Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s board of trustees (1998-2004), the 2200 Residential Association board of directors (2007-08 and its first president 2007), and the 2200 Association board of directors (2008, as president).

For the Faculty Senate, Steve has served on the Executive Committee (1984-88, 89-91, 94-98), Committee on Planning and Budgeting (1984-86), Special Committee on Legislative Matters (1983-98), Campus Master Plan Advisory Committee (1998-2001), Advisory Committee on Faculty Code and Regulations (1995-2008), and Special Committee on Faculty Women (1983-85); chaired the Councils on University Relations (1996-98), Student Affairs (1989-91), and University Facilities and Services (1987-88), and the Faculty Appeal Board (1988-89); and served as Faculty Legislative Representative (1985-86) and Deputy (1984-85) in Olympia.

As a Washington State Public Policy Fellow (Summer 1990), Steve proposed to the state legislature procurement alternatives for public agencies’ design and construction services. He served as a contributing author to the state’s general conditions for public works (1992) and alternative public works contracting procedures law (1994), and was a member of the Washington State Public Works Advisory Board (1983-85). He has mediated and arbitrated many Northwest construction disputes and has served on many dispute review boards in Washington, including Seattle City Hall (as chair), Seattle Central Library (as chair), Safeco Field (as chair), the Spokane Arena, and WSU’s CUB and Student Recreation Center (as sole neutral). He holds a BSEE degree from the University of California, Berkeley (1971), and a JD degree from Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco (1977).