The August 2024 Southwest Ohio Chapter Roundtable topic was: Project Decisions Forced Early: Making Them “Stick” and Avoiding Calamities Generic project life-cycles and key decisions for Built-Environment projects were presented. Audience polling revealed that nearly 80% of projects are forced to go “faster”. Reasons for why owners want to accelerate projects and the related problems that …
SWO: Mastering Project Success: Developing Natural Laws for Great Construction Projects
The June 2024 Southwest Ohio Chapter Roundtable topic was: Developing Natural Laws for Great Construction Projects The program begin with a look at what ChatGPT lists as the 12 Natural Laws for Project Success Utilizing Mentimeter attendees ranked these laws in order of importance to their projects Small group breakouts created their own Top “Laws” …
NEO: Private Sector Development Challenges and Construction Industry Partnerships
At our May 2024 NEO Roundtable we looked at the private sector development challenges and the construction industry partnerships. We engaged in small groups to discuss the challenges and what we can do as an industry to breakdown the challenges. Survey/Breakout session Please see the attached COGENCE NEO Presentation 2024-05-15 (PDF) and the Breakout Session …
NEO: Cleveland Guardians Renovation Project
At our April roundtable will shifted gears and focused on the Cleveland Guardians renovations project. The roundtable included representation from project ownership, construction and design partners and discussed: 1.Vision at the beginning with the Guardians and goals for the project 2.Process for the design phase and working collectively as an integrated team 3.Process for the …
SWO: Dealing with Scarce Resources on Your Project
The April 2024 Southwest Ohio Chapter Roundtable topic was: Dealing with Scarce Resources on Your Project Learning objectives included: Understanding scarcity issues as design evolves and scope decisions are made; Tactics to consider when construction labor shortages are predicted; Sharing knowledge of current material scarcity and ways to cope with them; General “think tank” of …
Central Ohio: Project Delivery Methods – Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), part 4 of 4 part series
At our March 21 Central Ohio Chapter Roundtable, Larry Arndt and Shannon Brokenshire from Barton Malow shared insights and experiences working on projects utilizing IPD contracts, as well as projects utilizing IPD principles (albeit without an IPD contract). Jack Baumann, Independence Construction, shared how IPD principles are being utilized in the absence of an IPD …
SWO: Communicate for Project Success
The February 2024 Southwest Ohio Chapter Roundtable topic was: Communicate for Project Success Tommie Jo Brode from Venice Solutions Group was the guest speaker Communication best practices across each lifecycle phase of a project were explored Learning objectives included: Learn or gain a better appreciation of the formal and informal communications that need to occur …
NEO: 2024 Inspire and Engage
At our January 2024 NEO Roundtable we took a moment to reflect on the past, then turned our sights to the future as we worked together to Inspire and Engage in our collective mission to transform our industry. We worked in small groups to tackle identified issues and worked to find resolutions that we can …
Central Ohio: Project Delivery Methods – Design-Bid-Build, part 3 of 4 part series
At our January 18 Central Ohio Chapter Roundtable, James Miller, Administrator Design & Construction, City of Columbus Recreation & Parks, shared insights about why Design-Bid-Build is a delivery method of choice. Breakout groups discussed and developed comprehensive lists of challenges associated with D-B-B, and then developed strategies to overcome these challenges. View the presentation here: …
NEO: Risk – An Industry Update
At our November 2023 NEO Roundtable Debbie Beebe and Kathie Krozser from Oswald presented “Risks” in our industry. We discussed a Design Build case and broke into small groups examine the case. The small groups then reported out their findings which were very similar to the original outcome of the case. Partners earned 2 AIA/CES …