State of the Construction Defect Industry: What's the Same and What's New

Introduction

Pete Fowler Construction Services, Inc. has been talking, presenting and writing about construction defects (CD) and CD litigation for a long time. In 2011, we presented a program called The Construction Defect Lifecycle. Lots has happened since then. So we’re back to present "State of the Construction Defect Industry: What's the Same and What's New."

Learning Objectives

• Introduction to Construction Defects (CD) and the strange world of CD Litigation.

• Discuss the history of the CD industry.

• Discuss building performance standards, investigation practices, and how they relate to Construction Defects.

• Explore where the industry is headed and how we're going to get there.

• Discuss Building Information Modeling and the role it plays in the industry.

Program Outline

1. Introduction

2. Where Have We Been?

3. What's New?

4. Where Are We Going?

5. How Do We Get There?

6. Conclusion

Resources

• This presentation was given on 10/19/2017 by Alex Prokop

  • Comments from attendees:

    • "I thought both speaker did an excellent job! One of the best seminars this year!"

• This program was presented at AAMA Western Region Winter Summit in February, 2017

• Building Information Modeling: What is B.I.M.?

• Building Information Modeling: Why Everyone Who Deals with Buildings Should Care about B.I.M.

• Building Information Modeling: B.I.M. and Building Lifecycle Management (BLM)

• Construction Defect Lifecycle