Nearly 100 attendees participated in the 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Building Contractors Conference held June 10-13, 2009, at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Va.聽 This Conference brought聽together many of the top building construction firms, specialty contractors, service and supply companies and owners to focus on the theme "Guiding Your Firm Through Challenging Economic Times" through informative presentations, interactive panels and dynamic discussions.聽 Many presentations from the conference are now posted at .聽
Presentations included:
- The Current Health and Future Outlook of the Capital and Credit Markets-Rob Nichols, The Financial Services Forum
- Strategy in the Eye of the Storm-How Contractors Can Weather the Storm-Scott Winstead, FMI Corporation
- Economic Stimulus: Impact and Implementation-Chuck Hardy, U.S. General Services Administration & Paul Parsoneault, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Tools for Tough Times Panel
- What Contractors Can Do To Reduce Their Carbon Footprint-Christopher Gorthy, DPR Construction, Inc.
- Not Business as Usual-Changes to Labor Laws are Here...With More on the Way-Steve Shapiro & Dirk Haire, Holland & Knight
- Building Information Modeling: An Owner's Perspective-Allen Ware, Intel Corporation &聽 Mike Pape, University Mechanical & Engineering Contractor (UMEC)
- Prepared for the Worst: Contingency Planning for a Project Shutdown and/or an Owner Default-Milton Smith, McGriff Seibels & Williams, Inc.
- The Current State of the Surety Industry-Todd Loehnert, Wells Fargo Insurance Services
- Utilization of the JA Biz Town to Enhance the Construction Industry's 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Alternatives-Tom Weise, Intel (Retired) & Joyce Richards, Junior Achievement, Arizona