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the association for the advancement of cost engineering |
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North Florida Section |
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Current Meetings 2012-2013
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Regular meetings held on third Thursdays, except during summer months, unless otherwise noted. Everyone is welcome, membership is not required. |
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Program: First Annual CCTS Space Coast Robotics Day, with Keynote Speech “The History of the Robotic Exploration of Mars” presented by Gary Dahlke, NASA Kennedy Space Center
For the September Section meeting, plans have been made to support the First Annual CCTS Space Coast Robotics Day event on Saturday, September 22, 2012. We do this by inviting members to attend this event instead of holding our usual Section meeting, originally scheduled for September 20th.
Taking place at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, 1400 Minuteman Causeway, Cocoa Beach, Florida 32931, Robotics Day is a day-long event from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with speakers, workshops, robotics and Logo team demonstrations, and other events. Admission is free, with donations accepted. Families are invited to enjoy the education and fun.
Luncheon will be available at the event for an additional cost, but attendees are free to come and go, and local restaurants are nearby. Proceeds support student robotics teams.
*Note: If you are certified and want technical meeting attendance credit for re-certification, you must attend the keynote speech on The History of the Robotic Exploration of Mars featuring speaker Gary Dahlke from NASA (scheduled for 1:15 to 2:00 p.m.). You must also initial the appropriate column on the attendance sheet testifying you did indeed attend the keynote speech.
As you may know, North Florida AACEi is a member of the Canaveral Council of Technical Societies (CCTS), the umbrella organization for 31 technical associations from the Space Coast and Central Florida. Our Section has been actively involved in planning and supporting this Robotics Day event, and is one if its co-sponsors.
Everyone is welcome. Invite your friends, colleagues, or anyone who may be interested.
Questions? E-mail meetings@nflaace.org. |
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Dinner with the AACE International Board of Directors, with presentation "State of the Association" by AACEi President Marlene M. Hyde, CCE, EVP, PMP and AACEi Region 3 Director Jay Carson, CCC, CEP.
The next Section meeting will take place on Friday, October 19th, 2012. It will feature a combined dinner with the AACE International Board of Directors at the Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort at Bonnet Creek, followed by a special presentation entitled State of the Association by AACEi President Marlene M. Hyde, CCE, EVP, PMA, and AACEi Region 3 Director Jay Carson, CCC, CEP.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to dine, mix and mingle with your AACE International association leaders as we combine our Section meeting presentation with dinner at the quarterly AACE International Board of Directors meeting events.
The special presentation by two of the top AACEi leaders will describe many of the exciting new and important programs, activities and initiatives now being offered or planned by your professional cost engineering association.
Be among the first to learn about all the newest features and benefits offered by AACEi. Also take this special occasion to offer your comments, questions and opinions directly to the top AACEi insiders.
Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort at Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL, Dinner 6:30 p.m., Presentation 8:00 p.m. Meeting is free and guests are welcome. Optional dinners at extra cost per person with advance reservations. Questions? E-mail meetings@nflaace.org. |
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Training Project Managers in Small Aerospace Businesses to Increase Sustainability, with NASA’s Dr. John C. Leavitt DBA-ISM; PMP-PgMP-CIPM
In this presentation, Dr. Leavitt will discuss the value of training project managers in small businesses, how to accomplish this at a low cost, and how training small businesses to think about the project management methodology will provide for better proposal activities. This, in turn, provides the basis of estimates that are more believable. Therefore, through increasing the P-WIN of the small businesses, we are helping them remain more sustainable for the future.
Speaker: Dr. John C. Leavitt DBA-ISM; PMP-PgMP-CIPM; SAIC, KLXS Program Independent Assessment Team, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL, 6:30 p.m. Optional dinners at $5.00 per person with advance reservations. Questions? E-mail meetings@nflaace.org.
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Human Beings, Not Buildings, Make Great Projects, with speaker Alan Haughey, Co-Founder, ConTech Restoration, LLC.
This session will explore how managing the human elements can influence the outcome of a restoration or similar project every bit as much as proper repair technique, state-of-the-art materials or a good estimate and planning schedule. Restoration and other similar projects vary in size and scope, but they all share common issues with the people involved.
Most projects have an inherent tension among the various stakeholders. Owners are wary of the contractor, are unsure of what needs to be done, and fearful that they will be taken advantage of. The contractor is squeezed by tight budgets, a murky scope of work, and unreasonable schedules. The team that won the International Concrete Repair Institute Project of the Year 2011 shares their award-winning formula.
Attendees will learn how to implement a cost-saving but viable project management structure that ensures alignment of objectives, builds trust and confidence, promotes quality and safety, and creates a legacy of repeat business.
Speaker: Alan Haughey, Co-Founder, ConTech Restoration, LLC.
Alan Haughey started working as a concrete laborer on a residential crew at the age of nineteen. Within one year he had started his own business and landed his first production home subdivision pouring basements and driveways in Cincinnati, Ohio. Alan quickly moved into the commercial concrete market and his company grew into one of the largest concrete subcontractors in Cincinnati. He sold that company to Baker Concrete where he worked for three years as head of their Orlando Florida Division.
Always the entrepreneur, Alan founded ConTech Construction with his wife Joan in 1993. Starting with only four employees, the company has grown to a workforce of over sixty. ConTech has worked with high profile clients like Disney, Universal Studios, and SeaWorld. Projects have ranged from slabs at Nuclear Power Plants to the Ice Floor Slab at the Orlando Magic’s Amway Arena.
Alan and his firm have been performing restoration work for over eighteen years, mostly on Coastal Resorts. Beginning with simple concrete repairs they now perform total makeovers of building facades. Their largest project was the $6.5 million dollar restoration of the Royal Floridian Resort that won the ICRI 2011 Project of the Year.
Affiliations include: Currently Vice President of the ICRI Central Florida Chapter, President of the Central Florida Chapter of ACI 1995, Member International Concrete Repair Institute, Member of American Concrete Institute, Member Sealant Waterproofing Repair Institute.
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL, 6:30 p.m. Optional dinners at $5.00 per person with advance reservations. Questions? E-mail meetings@nflaace.org.
Note: This will also be our annual Holiday Dinner Celebration, featuring a gourmet dinner, presentation of the North Florida AACEi “You’re a Star” Award, plus other special holiday festivities. Spouses and guests are also invited. |
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Estimating Accuracy: Dealing with Reality, with speaker John K. Hollmann, PE, CCE, CEP, (DRMP pending), Validation Estimating, LLC.
This presentation will review over 50 years of empirical cost estimate accuracy research and compare this reality to common but unrealistic management expectations. The empirically-based accuracy research of John Hackney, Edward Merrow, Bent Flyvbjerg and others on large projects in the process industries will be summarized. The program will then highlight risk analysis methods documented in recent AACE Recommended Practices that yield outputs based upon and comparable to empirical reality.
Tragically, many cost engineers are facilitating management’s collective and sometimes willful biases regarding accuracy by using flawed, unreliable risk analysis methods; those who use empirically valid practices face the fate of Cassandra. This presentation is intended as a fundamental reference on the topic of accuracy as well as a call for our profession to use reliable practices and speak the truth to management. Attendees will gain an understanding of estimate accuracy reality, the risks that drive it, management’s biases about it, and methods that analyze risks and address the biases in a way that results in more realistic accuracy forecasts, better contingency estimates and more profitable investments.
Speaker: John K. Hollmann PE CCE CEP, (DRMP pending)
John has over 30 years of design and cost engineering experience, including all practice areas of cost engineering and project control. John is Owner of Validation Estimating LLC (www.validest.com) which he founded in 2005 to help owner companies improve their Cost Engineering capabilities. Before that, John managed the downstream cost and schedule metrics and research programs of Independent Project Analysis, Inc (a project system benchmarking firm). Prior to that he had senior estimating and project control positions at Kodak and Fluor Daniel respectively. He began his working career as a mining engineer in the Pennsylvania coal mines.
John is a Fellow and Life Member of AACE International and recipient of AACE’s highest honor--the Award of Merit. John’s most recent AACE role was as co-chair of the task force to develop the Decision and Risk Management Professional (DRMP) certification program which held its beta exam in December. This recent focus has resulted from John’s increasing concern with this client’s poor competency in quantitative risk analysis.
In addition to publishing and presenting many papers and articles, John was editor and lead author of AACE International’s technical foundation text titled the Total Cost Management (TCM) Framework; An Integrated Approach to Portfolio, Program and Project Management. He was also a contributing author to the Engineer's Cost Handbook published by Marcel Dekker and AACE’s Skills and Knowledge of Cost Engineering, 5th Edition.
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL, 6:30 p.m. Optional dinners at $5.00 per person with advance reservations. Questions? E-mail meetings@nflaace.org. |
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An Overview of Developing a Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Master Schedule and Budget, with speaker Anthony James, PSP, Project Controls Analyst, CDM Smith, Orlando.
Developing a CIP program provides entities with multiple benefits which include; forecasting major capital needs, matching project revenues and bonding capacity to fund capital needs, and to develop institutional controls to forecast and monitor project budgets and schedules usually over a five (5) year duration. This presentation will focus on identifying the traditional cost and schedule constraints during the budgeting cycle and will give a overview of institutional controls a program can initiate to marry the two.
Speaker: Anthony James, PSP
His daily responsibilities at CDM Smith are to facilitate early project planning and project execution schedule review meetings with integrated D/B teams for small to large projects, creating detailed WBS and work plans, developing cash flows and progress reports, and monitoring project performance. He is proficient in Critical Path Method (CPM), Primavera P6, Microsoft Project Professional Server 2010, P3, SureTrak, and Primavera Contract Manager. Also during 2012 he earned his professional certification as a PSP from AACE International, and was awarded the Quality Auditor Certification from ASQ. In addition to providing Project Controls services at CDM Smith he is now the Regional Quality Auditor for construction projects in the Southeast.
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL, 6:30 p.m. Optional dinners at $5.00 per person with advance reservations. Questions? E-mail meetings@nflaace.org. |
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Why Cost Engineers Should Consider the PMP (Project Manager) Exam and How to Prepare for It, with speaker Dr. John C. Leavitt DBA-ISM; PMP-PgMP-CIPM; Technik Inc, IT PMO SR. Project Manager/Deputy Managing Director of the ITSS Contract on Kennedy Space Center, Florida
This presentation is an overview of why the PMP is a good certification to obtain and how it is compatible with AACE International. Dr. Leavitt will cover the background of PMI, the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) 5th ed., the PMI certifications and why the PMP is called the $12,000 pin. Additionally, some of the lesser known standards will be discussed briefly such as the Governmental Extension to the PMBOK, the Construction Extension to the PMBOK and just a few of the practice standards such as the Practice Standard for Scheduling and the Practice Standard for Project Estimating. Next the discussion will turn to the layout of the PMBOK itself how it relates to the general skills and how it is used for assessments of relevant skills.
Speaker: Dr. John C. Leavitt DBA-ISM; PMP-PgMP-CIPM; Technik Inc, IT PMO SR. Project Manager/Deputy Managing Director of the ITSS Contract on Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Dr. John Leavitt has just been awarded his Doctoral in Business Administration concentrated in Information Systems Management from Walden University. He also holds an MBA and Masters in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering Technology from the University of Central Florida. Dr. Leavitt has worked in the aerospace and communications fields for almost 30 years where he held several interesting positions from Communications Engineer to Communications Launch Controller. John also teaches Small Business Entrepreneurship, and Project Management classes, at Brevard Community College, DeVry University, and the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. John is involved in several charitable organizations such as Angel Flight Southeast, PMI, Give Kids the World and the March of Dimes. He is also a North Florida AACEi member.
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL, 6:30 p.m. Optional dinners at $5.00 per person with advance reservations. Questions? E-mail meetings@nflaace.org.
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What is the Value Methodology and What It Can Do for You, with speaker Richard L. Johnson, PE, DEE, CVS, Managing Principal with PMA Consultants LLC.
This presentation will explain the origin and history of value engineering both in the US and internationally. It will define the value methodology and the prescribed phases of a study that lead to improved, more efficient, and less costly projects, products or processes.
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL, 6:30 p.m. Optional dinners at $5.00 per person with advance reservations. For details and to register, see meeting notice. Questions? E-mail meetings@nflaace.org.
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Note: The May meeting concludes our 2012-2013 program year. After the summer break, be sure to join us again in September for a new series of quality educational presentations. Watch this page for upcoming programs for the fall and beyond, and visit our Web site often for the latest Section news and activities. We welcome your ideas and suggestions on possible topics and speakers. Please send them to programs@nflaace.org.
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Program: A Basic Survey of Florida’s Construction Law, with speakers Gregory S. Martin and Frank J. Hild, Attorneys-at-Law with Gregory S. Martin & Associates, P.A.
Presented in an interactive format between speakers and attendees, this seminar will be an overview of Florida Construction Law. While designed for those in the construction industry, it is intended to provide a foundational understanding of legal issues that may arise and the applicable law.
1. Florida Lien & Bond Law Overview and Legislative Update 2. Professional Liability 3. Contractual Limitations of Liability 4. Indemnification a. Contractor b. Design Professional 5. No Damages for Delay 6. Home Office Overhead 7. Coverage for Construction Defects 8. False Claims
Attendees are encouraged to participate during the presentation.
Speakers:
Gregory S. Martin is a shareholder in the law firm of Gregory S. Martin & Associates, P.A. Earning his J.D. in 1990, he has limited his practice to representing those in the construction industry since 1993 and is Board Certified in Construction Law by The Florida Bar. In addition to an undergraduate degree in Building Construction from the University of Florida, he has been recognized in Chambers and Partners as a leader in Construction, Super Lawyers® - Construction (Florida and Corporate Counsel Edition), Best lawyers® - Construction and Orlando’s Top Lawyers. He is also AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Martin’s practice has included representation of owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors and design professionals, nationally and internationally, in both state and federal court as well as various administrative proceedings and arbitration. Mr. Martin is also a Certified Circuit Court Mediator by the Florida Supreme Court; a member of the AAA Commercial Panel of Neutrals; and a LEED® Green Associate.
Frank J. Hild is an associate attorney at the law firm of Gregory S. Martin & Associates, P.A. Earning his J.D. in 1999, he has limited his practice to representing those in the construction industry since 2007 when he earned a Masters of Science in Building Construction from the University of Florida. Mr. Hild was president of the UF Rinker CMAA Chapter, as well as a member of the SLX International Construction Honor Society. He practiced criminal, commercial and insurance law for more than seven years until beginning pursuit of his interests in the construction industry starting in 2005. |
