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"A
Global View of the Construction
Industry"
Bob
Wilson with
Bruce D’Agostino and Ted Garrison |
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Construction
is truly a worldwide industry with U.S.
contractors being comparable to European
contractors and substantially ahead of
China, Indian and SE Asian contractors.
Listen to Bob
Wilson give his perspective on the
differences around the world and where
there is a growth market for construction.
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"Program
Management"
Chuck
Thomsen with
Bruce D’Agostino and Ted Garrison |
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Program
Management fills a critical role in today’s
construction industry and provides a critical
service for especially the repeat customer.
Therefore, listen to Chuck
Thomsen explain why and how Program
Management can have a significant impact
on the construction process. Program Management
takes the construction process to a different
level.
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"The
Value of Certification"
Bob
Hixon
with Bruce D’Agostino and
Ted Garrison |
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In
today’s highly competitive construction
industry it’s critical that owners
are able to evaluate practitioners on
an objective basis, because this critical
to evaluating them based on the value
they deliver to the process. Therefore,
it’s important for contractors and
owners to listen to Bob
Hixon, why the CMAA designation is
an important and meaningful difference
for contractors.
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"Becoming
a Collaboration Leader"
Chris
Reseigh with Bruce D’Agostino
and Ted Garrison |
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Chris
Reseigh stated, tough trust is essential
to successful projects. The best way to
convince owners that collaboration works
is to demonstrate success on past projects
and then focus on success instead of potential
problems. Listen to Reseigh explain why
a Construction Manager can help give the
owner greater comfort that his or her
interests will be projected and a collaborative
strategy can be implemented.
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"Balancing
Bids and Budgets"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Michael Dell’Isola |
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With
the construction industry facing rapidly
rising prices it’s critical the
both contractors and buyers of construction
services understand how to best protect
themselves from broken budgets. Listen
to Michael Dell’Isola; PE, CVS,
FRICS; a Senior Vice President of Faithful+Gould,
offer valuable advice on how manage this
critical process for best performance.
This is a program that every practitioner
should listen to.
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"Managing
Across Generations"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Christopher Lee |
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Everyone
has been frustrated at times dealing with
the different generations whether at work
or in just dealing with his or her own
children or parents. It’s not that
the other generations are crazy; it just
that they are just different. Therefore,
to be an effective manager it’s
essential that you understand the other
generations. Listen to Christopher
Lee, President and CEO of the Los
Angeles-based CEL & Associates, Inc.,
one of the nation’s leading consulting
organizations specializing in strategic
planning, compensation, satisfaction and
opinion surveys and performance improvement;
as he provides insights into how each
generation thinks and processes information.
He then provides strategies to tap into
each generation’s strengths.
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"Inside
The Change Order Profit Strategy"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Barry LePatner |
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In
the book Broken Buildings, Busted
Budgets, Barry
LePatner describes what he believes
are the “major causes of cost overruns,
delays, and change orders that plague
many owners.” Listen to LePatner
explain how the construction industry
must change. His book is a stimulating
debate on the issues facing the construction
industry and is a must read for everyone
in the industry.
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"Trust:A
New Approach to More Profits"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Stephen M.R. Covey |
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Stephen
M.R. Covey states, “That far
from being a soft, social virtue, trust
is actually a hard-edged economic driver,
a learnable and measurable skill that
makes organizations more profitable, people
more promotable and relations more energizing.”
Listen to Covey, the co-founder and CEO
of the CoveyLink Workwide, explain how
you can use trust to improve your performance
and your company’s bottom line.
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"Understanding
What Owners Want"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Jim Lutz |
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While
price is always a factor because everyone
is in a competitive marketplace, price
consists of more than the number presented
in the bid. Listen to Jim
Lutz, senior vice president of development
for Liberty Property Trust, explain how
Liberty Property evaluates contractors
and how contactors can improve their chances
of doing business with them or get themselves
banned from future projects.
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"Managing
Construction Risks"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Chris Brasco, JD |
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The
construction industry is surrounded by
potential and too often the industry attempts
to dump all that risk on the contractor.
However, if the industry truly wants to
minimize risk, it must allocate it the
entity best able to mitigate or minimize
the particular risk. Listen to Chris Brasco,
a partner at Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald,
L.L.P., provide valuable advice on how
contractors can minimize their risk on
their projects. This is a program that
every practitioner should listen to.
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"THE
VALUE OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Judith Kunoff |
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Often innovation
is resisted in the construction industry
and that may be one of the reasons that
Building Information Modeling or BIM is
not universally accepted. However, Listen
to Judith Kunoff, AIA, Chief Architect
at MTA of New York City Transit, explain
why those that of used have experienced
great success. She clarifies the mysteries
of BIM and why it should be the wave of
the future.
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"THE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP"
Bruce
D'Agostino- interviewed by
Ted Garrison |
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Effective
leadership is the key to high performing
construction projects, yet too often there
is a lack of leadership. Listen to Bruce
D'Agostino, Executive Director of the
Construction
Management Association of America
(CMAA), explain why it’s the construction
manager’s role to provide project leadership
in order to help coordinate the subcontractors
and assist the owner in better defining
its requirements.
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"Delivering
More Value to Clients"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Randy Larson |
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Unfortunately,
many clients and contractors misunderstand
the role of the construction manager.
Listen to Randy Larson, Executive Vice
President and National Director of Development
for PBS&J and certified construction manager
explain the role of the construction manager
and how the construction can deliver more
value to the client.
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"SELLING
VALUE VERSUS PRICE"
Ted
Garrison & Bruce D’Agostino
with Mack Hanan |
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If contractors
want to prosper while delivering their
clients maximum value they need to master
the concepts of consultative selling.
Listen to Mack Hanan, the author of the
best selling book, Consultative Selling,
explain how contractors can increase their
profits by selling value instead of price
while at the same time delivering greater
value and improving client satisfaction.
This program is a must for any contractor
that wants to avoid competing solely on
low price.
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CMAA Radio Network is
presented in affiliation with New Construction Strategies.
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