Practical Steps and New Tools for Design & Construction: Achieve More Reliable Budgets and Better Cost Control
Minimize your exposure for cost overruns by preparing an accurate budget and plan upfront.
This valuable CD will guide you through practical steps to build a reliable budget and get your
construction project started on the path to profitability!
Learn best practices for developing accurate construction project budgets from this 90-minute CD -- Practical Steps and New Tools for Design & Construction: Achieve More Reliable Budgets and Better Cost Control.
This program will provide guidance to help you develop effective procedures for developing construction budgets that are accurate and reliable to guarantee you achieve the bottom-line results on your projects that you are expecting.
In the current difficult economic climate it is more important than ever to tightly control the costs of construction projects. In this seminar, an experienced construction manager
and an experienced construction lawyer discuss practical steps that owners and developers (and their contractors) can take to achieve more reliable budgets, and then effectively reduce the risk of overrunning those budgets. The seminar will examine:
- Fundamental elements of "integrated project delivery" that can improve project realism and overall efficiency
- More effective avoidance of scope of work disputes -- and resulting delays and cost overruns
- Realistic and effective fast-tracking practices
- Project delivery choices and contract provisions that promote better "real time" cost management, in both the pre-construction and construction phases
- Use of BIM to improve the accuracy of cost estimating, avoid overruns due to design error, design clashes, rework, and allow more intelligent "real time" assessment of costs due to directed changes and unforeseen conditions
- AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
Your Presenters:
Joyce K. Hackenbrach
Joyce K. Hackenbrach is a partner in the Construction and Government Contracts Law Practice Group at Pepper Hamilton LLP and a member of the firm's multi-disciplinary Sustainability, Clean Tech and Climate Change Team. She has more than 20 years' experience representing owners, developers, engineers, design-builders, construction contractors, construction managers, and major subcontractors and suppliers in the full range of matters relating to construction. She is an experienced negotiator and contract drafter, dispute resolver, and AAA arbitrator. Ms. Hackenbrach's experience extends to industrial, infrastructure, and commercial projects of all kinds, both large and small. She has, for example, served as the principal negotiator and drafter of all major contracts for a $2 billion biopharmaceutical facility in Ireland and also as the contract negotiator for warehouse expansions, hospital renovations, and commercial office fit-outs. Ms. Hackenbrach emphasizes developing contracts that reliably and reasonably protect clients, without making the deals overly costly or uncompetitive. Ms. Hackenbrach is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a magna cum laude graduate of the Wharton School. |
Michael Hanley
Michael Hanley is a managing consultant in Navigant Consulting’s Construction Practice with more than 20 years of experience in construction and consulting services. He is responsible for the provison of Building Information Modeling services, ranging from preconstruction, implementation and optimization of BIM’s potential, to BIM/CAD management and training, as well as complete BIM services for the construction project lifecycle. Mr. Hanley also provides scheduling expertise using both CPM and line-of-balance methodologies. Mr. Hanley has provided BIM and/or scheduling services for owners, developers, contractors, real estate investors, design firms and federal government agencies involved in the construction of various facilities. |
