Conference Program - Tuesday, April 29, 2008

100 - Introduction to Project Management: 12 Steps to Ensure Success and Avoid Construction Disputes

More than ever before, companies need to be able to respond quickly, focus resources and deliver projects on time and within budget. If you are a building owner or manager, you need to acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies to help you be an effective project manager/team leader. From this mini-course you will learn:

• How to properly initiate a project; define and validate project goals, requirements, and objectives
• people, process, and product management
• quality planning and control; contract and procurement management
• manage performance, relationships and expectations

There will be a review of the key responsibilities in project plan development; project plan execution and integrated change control. The key elements of cost and schedule management; how to apply practical risk management techniques in the planning and control of your project and how to keep your team committed throughout the project will also be discussed. Handouts will be provided.

BOMI/REIC = 3.0 credits

101 - Architectural Keynote Panel: FACT or FICTION? Achieving a Net Zero Footprint for Architecture, Construction and Design

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In our contemporary world debate rages on the nature, severity and implications of climate change + global warming. Undeniably central to the equation is the role of buildings and construction regarding environmental impact, energy consumption and resource depletion. While buildings prove a major factor in the ecological footprinting of cities, they also offer a remarkable opportunity to turn the tide. Architects and builders are actively pursuing goals of net zero impact and carbon neutrality in design and construction. Significant strides are being realized and impressive innovation being exercised in the quest for built environments that do no harm, or that give back even more than they take. The Architectural Panel considers the situation at hand, points to obstacles and opportunities on the path, and underscores initiatives underway that reach towards Net Zero. Net Zero: Fact or Fiction?

Brian R. Sinclair

Birol Fisekci

Vivian Manasc

Jim Sawers

Tom Sutherland

BOMI/REIC = 2.0 credits

102 - Colour Trends in Living Spaces

Discover the latest colour and design forecasts as well as the origins of the trends that inspired them. In this session you will also gain greater knowledge of the emotional impact of the leading colour families based on recent research conducted by the speaker, Leatrice Eiseman. Lee is author of seven books on colour, the latest; Colour Messages and Meanings. She is colour consultant to many industries, the executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute as well as the Eiseman Center for Colour Information and Training on Bainbridge Island WA. Fortune Magazine has named her one of the ten top decision makers internationally.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

103 - Building Maintenance: Life Cycle Costing Programs

Today’s building owners’ and managers’ sophistication levels are indicated by their ability to be able to compete successfully in a marketplace by using practices such as Predictive Preventive Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, and Mechanically Efficient Design Costing (MED-Costing).

Scrutiny of design (value engineering) results when considerations of life cycle costing considers capital costs plus maintenance costs over the life of the component. These practices result in proactive monitored maintenance that can greatly increase the longevity of building components, reduction of energy consumption, reduction of carbon footprints for carbon offsets, and minimization of operating costs.

We will cover topics with significant return on investment such as: Roof Area Management, Building Envelope Inspections, Preventive Maintenance Programs Mechanical Equipment Performance Optimization, Parkade Preventive Maintenance Programs, and Energy Audits.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

104 - Builders Liens

Who is entitled to file a builders' lien? Is the estate and interest of Governments lienable? What are the proper times within which to file a builders’ lien? What is a prevenient arrangement? Can a change of title defeat a claim for lien? How do the major lien fund and minor lien fund work? If they don’t work under your contracts, how can you redraw your contracts to minimize the possibility of builders’ liens being filed, but still protecting your interests as the owner or contractor? Are arbitration clauses enforceable when builders’ liens are filed? How does one remove a builders’ lien from a certificate or title? Are there limited trust provisions in Alberta and how does one protect one’s self from ensuring that one can properly make progress payments without bearing double jeopardy if builders’ liens come on title to the property? These are the questions, the answers of which will be provided at this seminar, which are extremely important to all members of the construction industry.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

105 - Conquering Workplace Stress

People react differently to living in a pressure cooker, some become aggressive; others passive; and some shut down altogether. Regardless of the reaction, the results are the same; productivity grinds to a halt and momentum vanishes. This seminar zeros in on real-world issues. You will take away practical formulas to reduce your own stress and help create a more productive work environment for your group, department, or organization.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

106 - Best Practices for Managing Others

How do they do it? It seems like some managers have a "way with people" that allows them to get the most out of others. So, how do they do it? What gives them the ability to get peak results from others without appearing to work too hard? Successful mangers the world over have found that it less about ability than it is about doing the right things -- and doing them well. This program will help you discover the right things and learn how some of the most noted managers in the world do them.

Topics

Managers, supervisors, and soon-to-be leaders attending this fast-paced seminar will:

• Develop positive practices to overcome any obstacles placed in the path of the team’s success -- no matter who put them there.
• Decipher the difference between agreement and support -- and practice the seven steps to build true team consensus.
• Gain a new understanding of what motivation really is.
• Recognize the pitfalls and possibilities of managing peers and friends.
• Understand the numerous roles excellent mangers play.
• Study the qualities of successful leaders outside the business world and commit to applying the same powerful approaches to your environment.
• Decide on the discipline style that works best for each person on your team.
• See delegation in action and learn what keeps us from delegating well.
• Learn what makes a team goal something we reach instead wish for.

Benefits

More productive staff, greater efficiency, a happier work environment -- excellent managers accept these things as a matter of fact. You owe it to your team to practice the best skills with them that you can. Learn those skills and discover how to practice them at this tip-filled seminar.

BOMI/REIC = 2.0 credits

107 - The Real Estate Outlook for the Edmonton Market

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A panel of leading real estate senior executives will offer their insights on the strategic issues facing the real estate market in Edmonton and Alberta as a whole. Specific references will be made to the office, industrial, retail and multi-unit residential markets. The panelists will discuss where they see the real estate cycle leading over the next four quarters, and how long this continued growth will continue.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

108 - The Law of Tendering

This session will cover the rights and obligations of all of those involved in the tendering process. What are the obligations of those parties who submit tenders and what are the obligations of those parties who call for tenders? Can the person calling for tenders accept a non-compliant tender? Does a tender have to have all the i’s dotted and the t’s crossed to be a compliant tender or is a substantially compliant tender sufficient? What is a substantially compliant tender? What damages is the tenderer liable for who refuses to ender into Contract B? Is the tender-calling authority responsible for damages and, if so, how much if the tender-calling authority wrongfully awards a tender? Can a tender-calling authority bid shop after tenders close? Does the privilege clause (the lowest or any tender will necessarily be accepted) give the tender-calling authority any rights? Can that tender-calling authority amend a tenderer’s tender after tenders close if the tender package permits the tender-calling authority that right?

These are all questions of interest, not only to the construction industry, but to any party involved in the tender process. The tender process of course includes requests for proposals and thus can cover a wide range of commercial transactions.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

109 - BUILDING CODE: Fall Protection - An Overview and Recent Changes to Code

Recent changes to the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Code requires that provisions be made for people that are working on buildings where there may be a risk of falling more than 3 m. The Alberta Building Code, the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Code and CSA Standards imposes safety obligations on building owners, designers, property managers, contractors and workers. Also, fall protection systems require annual certification by a professional engineer. This seminar will review the code requirements and provide a basic understanding of your obligations under these various codes and standards.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

110 - Colour & Emotion: What is Fact and What is Fiction?

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In this fascinating and informative session, you will learn about the newest directions on the emotional aspects of color; what is fact and what is fiction? Is red always exciting and blue eternally restful? How does today’s consumer/client relate to yellow? Does public perception about color change and if so, what provokes the change? The answers to these questions and many more are critical to designer’s choices.
 
Please join us to hear color specialist Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute and Director of the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training present her current findings on color and emotion as reported in her recent book, Color: Messages and Meanings.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

111 - LEED for Construction

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The LEED Green Building Rating System continues to build momentum across Canada, with an estimated green building market penetration of 6.6 million m2. More than 2800 practitioners from all sectors of the industry in Canada are now LEED accredited professionals. As more and more public and private sector owners commit to building to the LEED Canada Green Building Rating Systems, it is generating a wealth of opportunities for those that can participate and support the green building process.

BOMI/REIC = 4.0 credits

112 - Project Management 201: Troubleshooting and Managing Project Risks

Please note that this session builds on concepts presented in Session 100 “Introduction to Project Management”. Participants are recommended to attend this session in order to gain the most benefit from this follow-up workshop.

Effective project management includes the ability to anticipate and forestall problems that could derail your project. The project manager’s success is often linked to his or her ability and skill in managing risk and minimizing the impact of changes to both the project scope and product scope. Usually this ability is developed and the skills honed only through prolonged exposure to the project management environment. This course will give you a head start at developing the necessary trouble-shooting skills you need.
You will learn:

• The key elements of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, and how to use them as a tool for tracking and monitoring the health of a project;
• The six detailed processes critical to effective risk management;
• The most effective strategies and techniques to use to avoid problems and mitigate risk;
• What to look for and what questions to ask to get a true picture of the status of your project(s).

BOMI/REIC = 3.0 credits

113 - BUILDING CODE: Introduction and Overview to the 2006 Alberta Building Code

The latest version of the Alberta Building Code is in-force in Alberta as of September 2, 2007. The Alberta Building Code 2006 includes a number of technical changes from the Alberta Building Code 1997 as well as an objective based format. This session will familiarize the participants with some of the more important technical changes as well as provide a brief overview on the use of the objective based codes in the latest Alberta Building Code.

BOMI/REIC = 2.0 credits

114 - Best Practices for Customer Service

Today’s discerning customer demands service at a level never before expected. As standards rise, so must our performance. To continue to survive and grow in any business, employees, managers, and even owners have to demonstrate the qualities of the best customer-service driven organizations. This program will show you what they are doing and tell you how to do it yourself.

Topics

The best practices in customer service will help you to:

• Define your customer as you never have before.
• Hear the six demands your customers bring with them – and what happens when you do not meet them.
• Understand the communication cycle and how barriers can break the process down.
• Learn five techniques practiced by the world’s top organizations to build rapport with even the most difficult customer.
• Demonstrate the verbal and non-verbal skills the experts say set us apart.
• Transform yourself from untrained, habitual listener to polished, professional communicator.
• Discuss why customers get upset and learn 10 positive steps to take when they do.
• Discover what trigger words are and why they are lethal to positive perception.

Benefits

BOMI/REIC = 2.0 credits

115 - Green for Existing Buildings: Using Go Green and LEED EB to Develop a Road Map for Your Building

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The increasing availability of new, LEED certified buildings is putting pressure on existing building owners and managers to green their buildings in order to stay competitive in the leasing market. The majority of the green building information in the market relates to new buildings. Existing buildings require different strategies from new to achieve this goal. Learn about the differences between BOMA Go Green and LEED-EB and how they can be used in combination to efficiently move your building up-market.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits

116 - How to Tender: Best Practices, Protocols and the Process

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John Droog is a Senior Project Manager with PCL Construction Management Inc. located in Edmonton, Alberta. He has been with PCL for almost 16 years and has been involved with many projects such as the Coliseum Renovations, TD Tower Re-cladding, BHP Accommodations Complex (NT), and the North Slave Correctional Facilities in Yellowknife. Recently he completed the LEED Gold Certified Government of Canada Building in Yellowknife, and the Maintenance Facility in Eureka, NT, PCL’s most northern project located at the 80th parallel.

BOMI/REIC = 1.5 credits