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Ted Garrison, Your NCS Radio Host

Ted Garrison provides insights into what is occurring in the construction industry in his 5 Predictions for 2009 - Are You Prepared to Take Advantage of Them?
#1—U.S. Economy: The U.S. recession is only going to get worse with a decline in gross national product of more than 1 percent in 2009 and unemployment reaching double digits. Listen in for more on this and other predictions for 2009.
Solutions for Our Nation’s Failing Infrastructure
ASCE’s 2009 Report Card on infrastructure gives our nation a D grade on its infrastructure. By interviewing industry leaders and topic experts, these programs provide the insights and information to develop strategies to fix this problem. To listen to these free NCS radio interviews, click here.
Economic Crisis Impacts the Construction Industry
The nation’s economic crisis is having a significant impact on the construction industry. Therefore, we have assembled a series of interviews on the economic crisis. By interviewing economists and business leaders, these programs provide both insight and information. To listen to these free NCS radio interviews, click here.
Best Value – An Approach to Better Construction
Best value is often misunderstood, but simply stated best value includes both performance and price in the evaluation and selection process. The true benefit of this approach is it drives up performance, because the best improve performance is reward performance. The net result is a better construction product because projects come in on-time, with high quality and no contractor generated change orders. To learn more about the best value to construction you are invited to listen to a series of free interviews on this topic. Click here.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS (for members only):

Will Lichtig
"Ramping Productivity With Lean Project Delivery"
The U.S. construction industry is the nation’s only significant industry that hasn’t increased productivity during the last several decades. Will Lichtig offers sound advice to both contractors and owners on how to improve productivity. For example he emphasizes the importance of focus on the overall project instead of the price of individual items, something that Edwards Deming argued for since the 1950’s.
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FREE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT
Click here for access to print or download your free assessment from guest Brent Darnell.
UPCOMING INTERVIEWS:
- Fiedner-Phillips: Why a CFO to Go Makes Sense
- Barbara Jackson w/Evey: The Integrated-Build Mindset
- Barbara Jackson w/Evey: What Makes the Design-Build Project Manager Unique?
- Robyne Parkinson w/Evey: How to Address Legal Issues in the Integrated Construction Process
- Roger Liska: Continuous Improvement – Using Satisfaction Surveys and Rating Forms
- Clark Silcox: How to Protect Your Company from Counterfeiting Products
- Grant Gable: Why Going Green is In Your Best Interest
- Barry LePatner: How to Fix the Construction Industry
- Lee Dodson: Contractors Often Get an Underserved Bad Rap
- John Beck: Financial Crisis Impacts Infrastructure
- Wayne Jensen: Why Safety Maybe the Best Investment in an Economic Downturn
- John Cross: Why is Collaboration More Important Today
- Betsy del Monte: Why Sustainability is Essential in Current Financial Crisis
- Greg Howell: Why Lean Construction is the Answer into Today's Crisis

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