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CASE SPRING RISK MANAGEMENT CONVOCATION Schedule:
- Thursday CASE RMP Dinner with War Stories
- Two Friday plenary sessions
- Eight Friday technical sessions
Earn up to 6 PDH’s by participating in the CASE Spring Risk Management Convocation Program.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
CASE Spring Risk Management Convocation Dinner with War Stories
Come for the dinner, stay for the stories! The CASE Spring Risk Management Convocation Dinner will feature “war stories,” as seasoned engineers recount past experiences and lessons learned from the annals of structural engineering.
Moderator: Edward Pence
War Story #1: The "Dirty" Secrets of Arbitration
Ronald J. LaMere, BKBM Engineers
War Story #2: Communication Critical to Risk Management
Joseph C. Gehlen, Kramer Gehlen and Associates, Inc.
War Story #3: The Importance of Evaluating Your Client's Client
C. Nelson Williams, IV, Dunbar Milby Williams Pittman & Vaughan, PLLC
This is separately ticketed event.
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008
8:30 am – 10:00 am
CASE Plenary Session I:
Building Information Modeling (BIM): The Promise and The Reality for A/E/C Firms
Gregg E. Bundschuh and David Collings, Ames & Gough
This session will examine BIM as a concept, demonstrate how it is being put into real life practice by the interacting professional teams involved and how your firm can best prepare for a BIM future. Includes transition plans, IT budgeting, and legal issues and risks.
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Breakout Sessions
Construction Administration as a Risk Management Tool
Eric L. Singer, Ice Miller LLP
Moderator: Terrence M. Lindsay
Bad projects seldom start out that way, and are frequently the result of many factors occurring after completion of design and well outside the control of the design professional – bad contractor – bad owner/client – bad karma. Most often, these factors have more to do with unreasonable expectations and poor communication than with design error. But they all lead to lost deductibles, lost policy limits, lost productivity in your practice and lost sleep at home. Some of these factors can be controlled, some can be limited and some can be avoided altogether. All can be documented in a way that will help provide you with a legally compelling defense when your client hires a lawyer. Analysis of other “projects from hell” can help you navigate and avoid claims. Examples from actual claims and litigated cases will be presented for discussion, with emphasis on recognition of the factors leading to each disaster. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own stories for discussion or to email them to the presenter in advance (eric.singer@icemiller.com). Submissions will be kept anonymous.
Ways to Make Your Life Easier and the World a Better Place: Scope, Contracts and Contract Document Tools
Art Johnson and John E. Grenier
KPFF Consulting Engineers Grenier Engineering
Moderator: Chuck Whitaker
The CASE Risk Management Program’s Tool Kit Committee will be presenting its latest tools to mitigate risk. The first is a tool to create a scope of work for your project. The second is a program to highlight the “red flag words” in your contracts. The final tool will be a supplement to the CASE document “A Guideline Addressing Coordination and Completeness of Structural Construction Documents.”
Risks Associated with the Latest Structural Engineering Software
James C. Parker
Those who provide structural design for new building structures know well that the art of designing buildings is much more than computing stresses and strains for the structural members. Structural design includes integrating creative structural concepts into the architecture, coordination with mechanical systems, material selection, analysis, design checking, and documentation; and then, developing complete and coordinated construction documents. This has to be accomplished in concert with the architect and other designers on the team, often at a fast pace with design iterations and changes, and always with real-time understanding of how the design decisions affect the final project cost. Early use of computers was generally limited to only a part of this process - the analysis of large and/or complex structures to provide the engineer with member stresses and deformations. Today, there is a proliferation of commercial computer software to assist the design engineer with various facets of the overall design process including analysis, design and code checks, optimization, and document development, to name a few. Increasingly, software developers are attempting to integrate more and more of the design process into one computer tool. This provides efficiency and simplification for the user but also brings new challenges with respect to transparency, technical validation, staff training and, ultimately, quality of design.
Staying Ahead of the Curve – Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Jim Jacobi and Marcello Sgambelluri
Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc. John A. Martin & Associates
Moderator: Chuck Whitaker
Clients are demanding the use of BIM, and structural engineering firms want to provide it. Implementing BIM into the office, coordinating the BIM model with the architect, and fabricating from the BIM model geometry has many challenges. However, firms are still able to benefit financially from the BIM process, reduce their risk, and cope with the legal issues of BIM provided that all the expectations and contract language of each BIM project are clearly defined.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Breakout Sessions
Closed Claims – “Lessons Learned”
Douglas N. Elliott, PE and Nils V. (Val) Ericson, PE,
Elliott, Leboeuf & Associates The Di Salvo Ericson Group
Moderator: Val Ericson
This session will explore several closed professional liability insurance claims brought against structural engineers to analyze what was done that caused each case to become a claim. Each case to be discussed is based on actual events. In addition to reviewing these claims, the presenters will also discuss a methodology founded in the CASE Ten Foundations for Risk Management to assist attendees in the prevention of future claims.
Ways to Make Your Life Easier and the World a Better Place: Scope, Contracts and Contract Document Tools (REPEAT)
Risks Associated with the Latest Structural Engineering Software (REPEAT)
Staying Ahead of the Curve – Building Information Modeling (BIM) (REPEAT)
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
CASE Plenary Session II
Do Different Types of Clients Pose Different Types of Risks?
Samuel J. Miur, Attorney at Law, Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart, LLP
Moderator: Chuck Whitaker
CASE SPRING RISK MANAGEMENT CONVOCATION
IIncluded in Your Friday CASE Convocation Registration:
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CASE PLENARY SESSION I
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 4 CASE BREAKOUT SESSIONS
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EXHIBIT HALL LUNCH
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM 4 CASE BREAKOUT SESSIONS
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CASE PLENARY SESSION II
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM STRUCTURES CONGRESS NETWORKING RECEPTION
Earn up to 6 PDH’s by participating in The CASE Spring Risk Management Convocation Program.
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