NWCCC Past Presentations

Introduction

NWCCC encourages all presenters at the monthly meetings to provide their presentations for inclusion on this website. The presentation titles are listed below in alphabetical order. Clicking on a title will take you to a bio of the presenter and date of presentation. From there, you can download the presentation in its native format or in Adobe Acrobat format.

Many of the presentations are PowerPoint files. Others are Microsoft Word documents. Since some of you don't have PowerPoint or Word, the presentations are also provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The PDF formats are often small in size, which makes for a quicker download.

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Presentations marked with:

  Advantage2000  are from the Advantage2000 conference held in September 1999.

ADVANTAGE2001 are from the Advantage2001 conference held in October 2000.

CCE2001 are from the Construction Conference and Exposition held in November 2001.

CCE2002 are from the Construction Conference and Exposition held in November 2002.

2005 are from the 2005 Annual Conference dealing with "Execution".

2006 are from the 2006 Annual Conference.

Presentation Summary

Tom Owens
Principal and General Counsel
NBBJ
March 21, 2008

Tom has been with NBBJ for nine years reviewing contracts, developing negotiation strategies and negotiating contracts, all in partnership with the design professionals at NBBJ and their clients.  Tom has 25 years in the construction industry, twelve as an electrical contractor in California and thirteen as a lawyer in Washington.  Tom helps design teams throughout NBBJ in meeting clients’ needs by helping to identify client concerns and finding acceptable solutions.  Tom began his career as a lawyer representing owners and contractors soon after receiving a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Washington in 1994.

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Tom Saelid
Senior Capital Budget Assistant to the Governor
Office of Financial Management
General Administration
State of Washington
July 11, 2008

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Chatt is currently Manager of Project Controls for the Jacobs Engineering Houston Office. In addition he is the Project Controls Coordinator for the Central Region which includes Houston, Baton Rouge, LA, and Cypress-Los Angeles offices. He has over 27 years of experience in the petrochemical and E&C industries where he has worked in both the owner and contractor communities for BP Amoco, Stone & Webster, and Jacobs Engineering. His jobs have included engineering and management positions in operations, maintenance, economics, supply and logistics, project controls, and engineering and construction.

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4D CAD combines a 3D CAD model with the construction schedule to simulate and display the construction sequence of a project with the computer. First developed about 10 years ago, 4D CAD is now increasingly used to communicate construction schedules more effectively to all project stakeholders and to try out alternative designs and construction approaches before actual construction.

Martin Fischer is an associate professor in the Construction Engineering and Management Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on project management. His current active research projects include: Model-based constructability analysis, collaborative 4D modeling, managing coordination and dependence among firms within a virtual corporation, concurrent product process and organization engineering. Dr. Fischer received his MS and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Stanford. He was listed among ENRs Top 25 Newsmakers for 1996 and holds membership in a broad spectrum of industry organizations.

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Cheri Ruf, is the capital procurement manger for Weyerhaeuser Engineering Services. Ms. Ruf is responsible for major capital project procurement in the US and Canada. she is the principal point of contact for key consultants, contractors and major equipment suppliers. She is also responsible for key supplier management master engineering services agreements and providing resources for Weyerhaeuser capital projects. She has been with the Weyerhaeuser Company for more than a dozen years and holds a BS degree in Business.

Ms. Ruf's presentation is available in Acrobat format and PowerPoint format.

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Stanford's Center for Integrated Facility Engineering is exploring new possibilities for professionals to work together with computing and interaction devices. These technologies include linked smartboards to create interactive workspaces, CAVEs, and interactive 4D CAD tools. See how these new technologies were applied to Walt Disney Imagineering projects and to the Frank Gehry-designed EMP and Disney Concert Hall.

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Mr. Kovalcik is a professional engineer with 27 years of experience in energy, facilities, and construction management. Mr. Kovalcik has extensive experience in contracting, construction management and project implementation. His Navy career includes serving as Director of Public Works for 180 Navy installations that delivered $1.8 Billion of services annually. His contracting experience includes successfully negotiating approvals for the U. S. government for Navy facilities overseas, including a new Navy Base in Naples. Applying his skills to the private sector, he established a division of a Public Utility to provide services for large governmental, commercial and industrial customers which generated $25 million in sales in the first two years of operation.

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J. Woolsey McKernon is director, business development and marketing for Cephren, Inc., Palo Alto, California. Mr. McKernon attained his early experience with the company managing the worldwide roll-out of the company's flagship product, ProjectNet, at Bechtel Group, Inc. Proir to Cephren, Mr. McKernon was Director, Information Technology, for the largest general contractor in the San Francisco Bay Area, Webcor Builders. Prior to Webcor, Mr. McKernon worked in corporate business development at Autodesk, Inc., the world's fifth largest software company. Some of Mr. McKernon's achievements at the company included a partnership with Construction Market Data Group and McGraw-Hill, as well as associations with other technology providers.

Mr. McKernon's presentation is available in PowerPoint format.

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Bob Wicklein
Principal
Seneca Real Estate Group
February 24, 2005

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Kristine K. Fallon, FAIA, is President of Kristine Fallon Associates, Inc. in Chicago. Her firm assists corporate facilities groups and A/E firms of all sizes with technology strategy, product selection and implementation. One area of in-depth technical specialization is legacy CAD system conversion. Her firm has assisted four of the world's largest CAD vendors in analysis of the UD design and construction market. Fallon is a licensed architect who worked for 15 years in large A/E firms. She began her career at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, where she developed the documentation, training program and support group for SOM's proprietary CAD software, later marketed by IBM. Fallon is a recognized leader, lecturer and author in the field of applying information technology to architecture, engineering and facility management. In 1995, she was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. She is currently serving on the national CADD Standard Committee and as an industry advisor to the "Fully Integrated and Automated Project Process" team of the Sloan Program at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Author of I See What You Mean, Persuasive Business Communication. 

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Jon C. Vanden Bosch, P.E, is the associate director for research at the Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas in Austin, a position he has held since 1992. Mr. Vanden Bosch graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1955 with a BS degree. He received his M.S. in Engineering from Princeton University and served in the US Army Corps of Engineers from 1955-1979. Mr. Vanden Bosch concluded his service with the Corps as District Engineer at Galveston, Texas. From 1979-1992, Mr. Vanden Bosch was employed as vice president with two design and CM firms, and for over five years was the Director of Public Works for the City of Houston.

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Michael C. Loulakis is a Senior Shareholder in Wickwire Gavin, P.C., Vienna, Virginia a law firm that specializes in the representation of domestic and international clients on construction-related matters. Mr. Loulakis has extensive and diverse background in advising clients on project delivery systems --particularly in the design-build process. He has represented owners, contractors and design professionals on design-build projects in the multi-family housing, power, telecommunications, health care, public facility, and transportation sectors of the construction industry. His role on these projects ranges form advising owners about the right project delivery system to use on the projects to contract drafting, claims administration and dispute resolution. Mr. Loulakis also provides strategic planning advice to contractors and design professionals who are interested in participating in the design-build contracting arena.

Mr. Loulakis is a national speaker on construction management and design-build and is the author of over 40 publications on project delivery systems and construction law. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) and is currently chairman of the DBIA Manual of Practice committee, which recently published DBIA's standard form design-build contracts.

One of Mr. Loulakis' most recent works is the development of a highly acclaimed interactive CD program entitled Construction Project Delivery Systems: Evaluating the Owner's Alternatives, produced and distributed by A/E/C Training Technologies. This program provides a comprehensive review of all major project delivery systems, as well as a selection methodology for owners who are interested in an analytical approach to determining the best way to deliver the project.

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Pirayeh Long is a project manager with URS Construction Services, based in Seattle. She has 15 years experience in project construction management. Pirayeh has acquired a broad background in construction/project management of transportation (transit), manufacturing, industrial, and educational facilities. She has had full responsibility for completion of projects on schedule and within budget. Her professional responsibilities have included: managing the development of technical design documents and specifications; acquisition of permits; awarding and administering contracts; resolving field issues; monitoring contractors daily activities; negotiating and issuing change orders; administering cost and schedules; and negotiating claims; and closing-out projects.

Prior to joining URS two years ago, Pirayeh worked with The Boeing Co., Coffman Engineers and Heery International. She earned he BS in Civil Engineering from Portland State University and a Project Management Certificate from the Battelle Institute. She holds professional memberships in the Project Management Institute and the Council of Educational Facility Planners, International.

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Steve Franklin, Cost Engineer, Harris Group, Inc., Portland, Oregon. Steve has more than 22 years of experience in civil engineering and construction management. His experience includes both home office and on-site project control monitoring of construction costs, engineering costs, scheduling, estimating and budget preparation. He has expertise in all project control functions for total engineering, procurement and construction projects; including reports and procedures from estimate preparation and workforce/construction schedules to financial productivity and cash flow analysis. He has worked in both client-server (centralized) and PC-based (local) computer system environments with a variety of spreadsheet, database and scheduling software.

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Within the process industries, what are the primary drivers for project success? What can other types of capital construction learn from these industries? Does the type of project delivery and contracting strategy play a significant role in project outcomes? Independent Project Analysis, Inc. draws on its database of over 4,000 process projects to empirically answer these questions.

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John Battle is the Director of Worldwide Facilities Design and Construction in Microsoft's Real Estate and Facilities Department. The Design and Construction group includes overall project management, as well as the design of the facilities, the furniture and the infrastructure (communications, electrical mechanical and structural strategies). This group is directly responsible for the delivery of space on campus, as well as the large number of complicated projects in the domestic and international markets. 

John joined Microsoft in 1995, after serving as a management consultant for two years. Previously, he was vice president of operations of H.S. Wright (a.k.a. Fletcher Wright) a local building contractor with divisions throughout the Pacific Rim. In this capacity, he was responsible for projects from LA to Alaska and was a consultant to Fletcher's projects in California and Hawaii.

Originally from Virginia, John attended Middlebury College in Vermont and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture in NYC. He resides in Seattle, with his wife and three children.

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Paul Doherty, CDT, CSI, AIA
Executive Vice President & CIO
The McLain Group
November 8, 2004

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Jeffrey Busch is a Vice President of Pinnell/Busch, Inc. Mr. Buschs consulting experience encompasses the following types of construction projects: highways, bridges, industrial and commercial buildings, utilities and treatment plants, as well as military and nuclear sites. He has implemented systems and provided project management training for contractors, and owners alike. With national recognition as an expert in project management, Mr. Busch has emerged as a leading West Coast consultant and has presented management seminars and training workshops throughout the U.S. as well as in Japan, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.

Pinnell/Busch has graciously provided a copy of Steve Pinnells paper, Dispute Management Programs - Partnering, Claims Management and Dispute Resolution, that he presented at the Project Management Institute's 25th Annual Seminar/Symposium, October 17-19, 1994. Steve has taught several hundred seminars and authored numerous papers on construction methods and management, public works management, contract methods, claims, and dispute resolution.

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Chuck Lynch
Senior Manager Construction Management NW Region
Boeing
March 28, 2007

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Author of I See What You Mean, Persuasive Business Communication. 

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Richard is Manager of Technical and Engineering Services for The Industrial Company (TIC).  This division provides in-house start-up and engineering capabilities to one the industry's leading constructors.

Prior to joining TIC, Richard was President of the Ben Holt Company, a Pasadena-based engineering company involved in power and process facility design.  During his 23 years at Holt, Richard also served in a variety of other roles including Process Engineer, Project Manager, and Start-Up Manager.

Richard has also been President of the Geothermal Resources Council, Director of the International Geothermal Association, and Chairman of the Southern California Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.  Richard has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Caltech, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from UC Davis.

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With more than 25 years experience in the fields of energy demand analysis and forecasting, Dr. Morlan addresses Northwest regional economic forecasts, electricity demand forecasts, forecasts of energy prices and analysis of the economic structure of power markets. In addition, Dr. Morlan offers an economic evaluation of fish and wildlife recovery actions currently ongoing in the Northwest. Learn what we can expect on energy and conservation fronts in the years ahead.

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Ms. Sherrell has been a Contracting Officer and team leader for Military Programs for the Corps of Engineers since 1997. Before joining the Corps of Engineers, she worked for The Department of Defense Medical Command as a Contracting Officer for the Tricare Contract in Region XII. Her contracting experience includes working for Director of Contracting at Ft. Lewis, Washington, and working for the Corps of Engineers as a contract specialist.

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As director for e-procurement services, Mr. Haight leads business process reengineering studies, e-commerce and joint venture evaluations, and software reviews. For the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology site project, Mr. Haight helped develop a baseline of the existing procurement system, including procurement process mapping, measurement of cycle times, spend analysis, vendor mapping, and characterization. He led an e-commerce evaluation that included an industry and software review, RFP development, and selection/ implementation of the selected system at Rocky Flats ETS. Mr. Haight is also CH2M HILL's national technology leader for decision support models and software.

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Since Fall, 1999, Dr. Jorge Vanegas is the Fred and Teresa Estrada Professor in the College of Engineering (CoE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). [Note: This is a five-year appointment.] In this capacity, he is currently developing a focused, multi-disciplinary, and self-sustaining institutional infrastructure for education, research, and outreach in sustainable affordable housing and related civil infrastructure systems, for the U.S. and the Americas; and mentoring and advising the Hispanic Student Community within the CoE, and other colleges as the Faculty Advisor for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Student Chapter at Georgia Tech.

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Mr. Lynch is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Washington in both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. During his 22 years with the Department of General Administration, he has managed numerous design and construction projects statewide for community colleges, the Departments of Social and Health Services, Corrections, and other state agencies. Mr. Lynch also has supervised a team of construction project managers for both the Departments of General Administration and Corrections.

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Martin Fischer, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) group. His research interests include applying advanced computer technologies to foster integration among project participants with a special focus on the design construction interface, cost estimating and construction scheduling. Fischer joined the Stanford faculty after completing his Ph.D. in the Stanford CEM Program in 1991. Dr. Fischer has been involved in projects in Europe, North America and the Far East.

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Steve Pinnell is a civil engineer and principal with Pinnell Busch, Portland.  Steve has over 30 years of experience in the management of engineering and construction projects.  He has worked as a contractor's superintendent, estimator and project engineer and as a resident engineer, designer and project manager for consulting engineers.  His work experience includes projects in the San Francisco Bay area, Alaska, Korea, Chile and the Pacific Northwest.  As a Construction Consultant he has helped contractors with a wide range of on-site and corporate management issues including estimating, scheduling, cost accounting, jobsite management, contract administration, productivity improvement, claims and dispute resolution.  As a Construction Manager, he has planned and supervised the design and construction of manufacturing facilities, commercial and institutional buildings, and a wide range of civil works.  As a Public Works Management Consultant, his experience includes federal, state and municipal agencies with a focus on productivity improvements, organizational structures, training, program management systems, and implementation of large capital construction programs.  Steve holds a M.S.C.E., Construction Management from Stanford University and a B.S., Civil Engineering from the University of Arizona.

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Recipient of ENRs Award of Excellence for Most Significant Individual Achievement in the Construction Industry, 1998

Using todays best technologies and 30 years of construction industry experience, John Voeller will give us his vision of an ideal industry. Using what weve learned and what we can recycle, hell paint a picture of the new frontier for construction.

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Fred Biery has over 20 years experience in project risk analysis for commercial and government clients. At IPA he has focused on the analysis of downstream projects from large megaprojects to smaller revamp projects to marketing projects (service stations / convenience stores). He has also performed project assessments for several large oil sands development efforts in Canada, refinery upgrades, steel mills, and paper mills. Along with many project assessments he has led project system benchmarkings and project workshops for various clients.

Fred is also focused on IPAs work benchmarking retail projects (e.g., service stations, retail stores). Prior to joining IPA Fred was with The Analytic Sciences Corporation were he led numerous project risk assessments and cost analyses of advanced technology projects, including leading cost analysis efforts for the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (the Star Wars program) and other national security programs. He led the Congressionally mandated cost risk analysis of the air traffic control system modernization efforts, provided analytical support to the Presidents Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, and the National Defense Panel.

Mr. Biery was a Seminar XXI M.I.T. Fellow and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from American University.

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Ken Marzocco
President & General Manager
VECO Engineers
February 24, 2005

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Karl V. Sturm is the Manufacturing Analyst for Global Refining with Texaco, Inc. in Harrison, New York. Karl has been with Texaco since 1980 and has served in a variety of roles on domestic and international projects, including: project management; management of cost engineering activities; project capital cost estimating; development and maintenance of project control systems; and civil/structural analysis and design. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from the University of Houston.

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