Andrew Winston is founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and helps leading companies use environmental thinking to drive growth, consulting with Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America, Cisco, HP, and IKEA. He is co-author of the bestseller Green to Gold, which highlights what works – and what doesn’t – when companies go "green." Andrew is a globally recognized expert on green business, and has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The New York Times, ABC News, and CNBC.
Andrew is a sought-after and engaging speaker, providing audiences with a timely and dynamic view on how companies turn green to gold. He delivers thought-provoking keynote addresses and also moderates panel discussions at events of all sizes and venues. Andrew’s audiences have included executive retreats with the top management of the world’s largest companies; industry conferences, associations, and trade groups with thousands of attendees; and leading non-profits and universities.
Andrew bases his work on significant on-the-ground, in-company business experience, including executive positions and P&L responsibility at global companies, start-ups, and dot-coms. With the Boston Consulting Group, he helped Fortune 500 companies grow and prosper. He also served as Marketing and Development Director for Time Magazine, Director of Business Development for MTV and VH1, and VP of Marketing and Business Development for the online arm of a national retailer.
Andrew was previously the Director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale’s renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He received his BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale. Andrew lives in Riverside, CT with his wife and two sons.
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Warren B. Causey, has been a researcher, writer and consultant working with technology and innovation for more than 30 years. He has specialized in the utility industry since the early 1990s. He was involved in several major computer systems installations in the 1970s and 1980s, and was working on the ARPANET, the military predecessor of the Internet, when it still was a closely guarded military secret. He is a prolific author of more than 30 books and hundreds of magazine articles, including virtually all of the leading utility industry publications.
Causey is a frequent keynoter and speaker at major industry conferences, as well as being in demand for specific, contracted targeted advice sessions with utilities and vendors across the U.S. and abroad. Causey founded Warren B. Causey, Ltd. in 1996 and led it to become one of the most respected research/publishing/analysis firms in the industry, before merging it with Energy Central in 2005.
He is retired from the U.S. Army Reserve, a decorated veteran of the first Persian Gulf War, a private pilot, and a part-time United Methodist pastor. He and his wife Brenda live outside Atlanta, GA. They have a son, a daughter and a grandson.
Utility Challenges, Insights into the Growing Market for Utility Enterprise Systems
As utilities gradually emerge from the shocks delivered on the industry in the first few years of the 21st Century, they are once again turning their attention to a myriad of business and regulatory challenges. As they do so, they are once again beginning to envision a technological future that will enable them to meet future challenges more effectively and more rapidly.
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Steve Cabano is President and Chief Operating Officer of Pathfinder, LLC. Steve has led and assisted in many of Pathfinder's consulting efforts in areas such as Master Planning, Project Controls, Project Execution Planning, Procurement, etc. He has experience in both domestic as well as international CPI project assignments and domestic commercial/infrastructure projects. In his previous role as General Manager of Pathfinder’s training division, the International Project Management Academy (IPMA), Steve was responsible for all training functions as well as being one of IPMA's lead instructors. He is also Pathfinder's expert in the area of Project Management Work Processes and Project Management Manuals, having developed and reviewed over 50 such assignments. Steve has written several articles and papers on Project Management Work Processes, Project Control, Resourcing Project Teams and the benefits of early planning. Steve is also a board member of the Engineering and Construction Contracting Association. His memberships include over 15 years with the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineers International, over 12 years with the Project Management Institute and Steve is Pathfinder’s liaison with the Construction Industry Institute.
Insurmountable Obstacles or Achievable Expectations?
An Industry Perspective of the Owner Capital Project Environment
As we are all well aware, activity in the owner capital project environment in the process industry has risen to levels that we have never seen before. Projects today are measured in millions, if not billions of dollars with increased complexity and regulatory/governmental constraints. Contractors are stretched to their limits and in some cases, over their limits with owner experience levels depleting. The above paints a rather gloomy picture. Should we concede and accept that our projects are doomed within extensive cost overruns and schedule delays, or are there solutions?
Fortunately there are proven solutions to these issues which are being practiced today that include extensive strategic project execution planning and advanced contracting approaches across the portfolio of projects. These techniques address the complexities of not only the single project, but the development and execution of the overall capital program. We should also never underestimate the benefits of our human resource development programs, sharing of our highly experienced resources and technological improvements to address these issues. People and tools are still the vital ingredients of a project’s ultimate success.
We first have to recognize that there is a problem and that we need to fund the techniques that will be utilized to address the problems. These techniques need to be ongoing, continuous improvement initiatives that address today’s active project environment, as well as the inevitable swings in industry activity.
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Dr. Mukti L. Das has more than 40 years of engineering experience on nuclear, fossil and hydroelectric power plants, pulp and paper manufacturing facilities, underground structures, road and railroad bridges, high-rise structures and other industrial facilities.
His experience also includes development of algorithm, writing and testing computer codes for dynamic and finite element analysis software.
Dr. Das has extensive experience of developing computer models of structures subjected to complex static and dynamic loads. He is one of the few engineers who has first used finite element analysis method to solve structural engineering problems especially in nuclear containment structure and large machine foundations subjected to vibration.
Use of STAAD.Pro in Bechtel Corporation
The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the multi-facet capabilities of STAAD. In Bechtel, we have access to various commercially available structural analysis and design packages. However, STAAD is used extensively across the board due to its unique advantages over its competing products. These advantages in general will be stressed on the beginning of the presentation. Various structures designed by Bechtel for variegated industrial uses in our business units such as Infrastructure, Mining & Metal, Communications, Oil, Gas & Chemical and Power will be demonstrated. The challenge that each one of these structures represents and how STAAD was used to mitigate these challenges will be highlighted.
Due to its excellent graphical user interface, STAAD is considered in Bechtel as a productivity tool. Using it, we can now convert today’s complex structures into mathematical model in a reasonable short time and satisfy effectively the ever demanding code requirements. This time saving allows us to investigate alternative designs to optimize the cost of construction. For our US projects, due to the shortage of US produced steel we need to rely on steel imports with foreign sections. Availability of foreign sections in STAAD database helps us to analyze and design our structures with US code and foreign sections. For our foreign projects, availability of various foreign codes in STAAD makes it more attractive. Recently, in one of our projects, its evolving nonlinear analysis capability helped us to detect instability of a model and to produce a stable structure. In another study, STAAD was used to evaluate if we could drill two large holes on the top of a nuclear containment structure to take out the damaged steam generators and to replace them with new ones.
Care will be taken to make this presentation interesting to the experienced STAAD users and also to those who are contemplating to use it.
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Pieter Diedericks joined Petro-Canada in July 2002 as Project Director on the Petro-Canada Edmonton Refinery Conversion Projects. He has over 18 years experience in project management. Diedericks is currently the Senior Project Director leading all the Oil Sands Projects.
He received his B.Sc. degree in 1978 and his Masters degree in 1981, both in chemical engineering, from the University of Potchefstroom in South Africa. He also completed a MBA at the same University.
Diedericks began his career as a process engineer. He worked for eighteen years for a large company that produced refined petroleum and chemical products from coal as a feedstock. Subsequent to that, he spent three years in business development, working on establishing new ventures ranging from small specialty to large commodity chemical businesses.
In 1998 Diedericks moved to Canada to accept a position as a project director at Suncor. He remained with Suncor for four years where he worked on that company’s major expansion known as Project Millennium in Fort McMurray.
Managing Mega Projects – an Owner/Operator Perspective
Petro-Canada as one of the major leaseholders of the Northern Alberta oil Sands with over 10 billion barrels of oil reserves. With a number of major projects currently underway to grow production to over 350,000 barrels / day by 2017, Owner/Operators must manage the projects to allow for engineering and construction resources as well as managing the financial risks. This presentation will discuss all this from an Owner/Operator perspective and will give insight to the major projects under way in Petro-Canada.
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Mr. Edgar is the Workgroup Program Manager for the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) with responsibility for organizing and managing OSCRE’s member-based workgroups which provide real-world business expertise to develop electronic data exchange Standards for real property commerce and operations using OSCRE’s democratic process.
Mr. Edgar is currently the Chairman of the National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS) Executive Committee; a project of the Facility Information Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences. As part of the buildingSMARTalliance™, the NBIMS Project is establishing the National BIM Standard – an open Standard for interoperable building information modeling and exchange.
Mr. Edgar has twenty-four years experience in architecture, O/A/E/C processes, facilities management and facilities information technology. He has served as project architect, director of architectural information systems, a senior project manager and senior consultant to private, institutional and government clients.
Mr. Edgar has written numerous educational and scholarly articles and presents regularly at professional and industry conferences on the subjects of:
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Best practice in integrated information management and services delivery for Real Property, Building Design and Construction, and Facility Management & Operations,
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Interoperable standards for real property asset information exchange,
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Technology strategies and tactics for Building Information Modeling (BIM), Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS), Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM), Capital Asset Planning, and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
Surfing the BIM Transformation
Most practitioners now believe that within the next ten years the industry from which we derive our joy and livelihood will be completely transformed. Where once collaboration between designer and builder was forbidden, in this new paradigm it will be encouraged and even required. In the same way that we now flip open the phone in our hand and communicate with almost anyone in any location on the planet it will seem natural to be able to find and access current and reliable product, operations, or building information drawn from a myriad of sources, manipulate, view, and analyze it in many dimensions and make rapid and accurate decisions. Outcomes, whether they be related to construction or performance, will be much more rewarding since there will be many fewer unpleasant surprises. For the generation that enters the industry at that point it will be hard to imagine that it could have ever been as primitive as it was in 2008. But for those of us who must cope and even prosper as we move the industry from here to there, the changes can either seem as inescapable, uncertain and frightening as a tsunami or as welcome and liberating as the perfect wave off a sunny California beach.
The keys to success are attitude and preparation. Since good preparation enables a positive attitude, the speaker will first examine how geospatial, building and real estate business information modeling and exchange are converging in response to business drivers, environmental limitations, and new capabilities in information science and software applications. Properly developed and implemented, these convergences and emerging capabilities offer both a productive transition period and the liberating future we desire. Then, the speaker will offer suggested requirements, methods and tools for directing and cultivating these forces that are most likely to yield a positive result, and ultimately - that ‘surfing experience’.
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Walker Lee Evey, President and CEO of the Design Build Institute of America. Lee is the former SR VP of 3D/International, a worldwide design, management and construction company. Prior to joining 3DI, Lee was Program Manager of the 10 year, $4B Pentagon Renovation Program. In this position Lee reported directly to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was responsible for development and control of budgets, work schedules, acquisition strategy and plans and programs for use of swing space and for coordination and control of all office movements within the Pentagon involved with Pentagon Renovation activities. He served as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense for all matters relating to the Pentagon Renovation Program.
Trends and Challenges to Integrated Project Delivery
As Executive Director of the Design Build Institute of America, Mr. Evey will provide an update on the utilization of design-build and integrated project delivery methods to achieve high performance projects for the design and construction industry.
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Rebecca L. Flora, is the executive director of the Green Building Alliance (GBA), a non-profit organization that drives market demand for green building throughout Western Pennsylvania. As the organization’s first executive director, Ms. Flora was responsible for its start-up, strategic direction, and growth over the past 11 years. In 2006, GBA launched the Green Building Product Initiative, a program initiated by Ms. Flora to grow Pennsylvania’s green economy through expansion of the green building products industry. Under her leadership, the organization has won several awards, including the 2001 Three Rivers Environmental Award.
Ms. Flora also serves as Board Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council, which is considered to be the fastest growing NGO in the world with over 12,000 member organizations worldwide. She has served as a USGBC board member since 2002.
Previous positions Ms. Flora has held include executive director of the South Side Local Development Company, project manager for the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Pittsburgh, and professional planning associate for a planning and consulting firm. While at GBA, she was the LEED Accredited Professional (AP) for Pittsburgh’s $375 million convention center expansion project that opened in 2003. She has also provided technical expertise to several other LEED-certified projects in the Pittsburgh region.
Ms. Flora holds a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Science from Plattsburgh State University of New York. She also holds several professional certificates, including The National Development Council’s Economic Development Finance Professional certification. As an adjunct faculty member of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Ms. Flora instructs graduate students in sustainable community development, a class she developed for the school in 2000.
She has received several recognitions and awards, including being named an "Environmental Hero for 2004" by Interiors & Sources magazine and as one of "The Top 50 Cultural Forces in Pittsburgh" by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Beyond Green Buildings: A Roadmap for Transforming Our Built Environment
This session will make the connection between our built environment and its impact on human and natural systems throughout the world. While many continue to resist or ignore the green transformation that is occurring within the building industry, others are already reaping the many added values of going green. The U.S. Green Building Council has been the leader in this transformation both through its innovative LEED building rating system and the role it plays within the building industry. The presenter, Rebecca L. Flora, currently serves as chair of the board for the USGBC, in this role she is leading the USGBC’s current strategic planning process that is working to identify current issues and future trends that should be addressed by USGBC in its work. She will share progress on future mapping along with updates on current activity within USGBC. The presentation will also identify current challenges that require added collaboration and action by all if we are to create a safer, greener world for future generations.
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Larry Goldman is a co-founder and analyst at OSS Observer. His research focus is in CSP business operations, service fulfillment and billing. Larry has over twenty years of communications industry experience, primarily in OSS and network management. Prior to founding OSS Observer in 2003, he was OSS Program Director at RHK. Prior to joining RHK, he was Director of the Network Solutions Group at Tellabs where he oversaw OSS development and marketing. Larry previously worked as an OSS development manager at GTE (now Verizon) Network Management Operations. Prior to GTE, he spent twelve years at Hewlett-Packard where he was a manager responsible for HP OpenView development. Larry is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Indiana University. He is located near Chicago, Illinois.
Key trends in Communications Service Provider Business Models and the Service Fulfillment Sector of the OSS
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn about revenue, technology, and IT trends for Communications Services Providers (CSP) from Larry Goldman, the co-founder of industry analyst firm OSS Observer. OSS Observer is a globally recognized analyst firm publishing forecasts, market share and analysis of communications industry trends worldwide with a focus on the OSS. This presentation will provide a broad overview of the current state of the OSS market followed by a specific look at the service fulfillment functional domain within the OSS for Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), residential broadband and other providers. The role key market drivers, competition, and network transformations will play in the evolution of network inventory and engineering tools will be examined along with a pragmatic look at the issues facing CSPs today.
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Tom Hannigan is an officer of Zachry Industrial Inc. and President of the Plant Services Group. He is a West Point engineering graduate with a master’s degree in business from George Washington University.
As President, Mr. Hannigan has complete profit and loss responsibility for the Plant Services Group, which is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. This stand-alone group provides full time maintenance, construction, turn around, and plant services to refineries, chemical plants, paper mills, and power plants. Employing over 7,000 professional and skilled craft personnel, this business unit serves customers such as DuPont, bp, ExxonMobil, Innovene, Chevron Phillips Chemicals, ADM, Monsanto, Dow, ConocoPhillips, International Paper, Duke Energy, and many others.
Prior to joining Zachry, he served as Executive Vice President of Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company (TEPPCO), Houston, Texas. Mr. Hannigan also spent twelve years with Conoco where he served as Vice President of Conoco Specialty Products and as the Western Division Manager for Conoco and DuPont Transportation. Previously, he held a variety of engineering and operations positions including Project Manager of an offshore Indonesian Methanol Plant and Plant Maintenance Manager for a large Conoco process facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana,
From 1970 to 1976 he was in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serving in a Combat Engineer Battalion in the Federal Republic of Germany and as an instructor at the Army Engineering School at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia.
Mr. Hannigan’s education includes a Masters in Business Finance from George Washington University, 1976; BS in Civil Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, 1970; The Executive Course, Colgate Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, 1987.
Birth Defects in Major Capital Projects
To prevent life long birth defects in your next major capital project, make sure that seasoned operations and maintenance representatives play a crucial part of the delivery team. Projects that are bereft of either "operations" or "maintenance" DNA, are plagued with a life of poor health and high medical expenses. Expert prenatal care, though, from those who've actually raised many such "infant facilities" can enable the delivery of a strong, robust, and easy-to-care-for addition to the capital asset family that will make everyone proud.
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Dr. Richard H. F. Jackson is the first Director of FIATECH, a not-forprofit consortium focused on fast-track development and deployment of technologies to improve substantially how capital projects are designed, engineered, built, and maintained. Its members reap significant benefits by working together to discover and develop high-value technologies — and then using those technologies before anyone else. In his role as Director, Dr. Jackson manages the research initiatives of the consortium including for example the Capital Projects Technology Roadmapping Initiative, the Automating Equipment Information Exchange Project, the Smart Chips in Construction Project and the Mobile Computing for Construction, Operations, and Maintenance Project.
Prior to his arrival at FIATECH, Dr. Jackson spent almost 30 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a world-renowned U.S. Department of Commerce research institute. For the last four years of his distinguished career at NIST, Dr. Jackson was the Director of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL). Directing a staff of 400, Dr. Jackson led research
in high precision dimensional measurements; sensing and measurement of force, sound, vibration and surface finish; advanced control and sensing in automated machines, manufacturing systems
and robot manipulators; and information technology in manufacturing including design, process planning, control, and product data exchange. As a member of the NIST senior management team, Dr. Jackson frequently represented the U.S.
Government in international and national arenas. In addition, Dr. Jackson has served on numerous national and international technology and educational boards and panels.
Dr. Jackson speaks widely at national and international forums on the subjects of integration, automation, and interoperability in the
construction and buildings industry, and has published over 100 technical papers and reports in the fields of mathematical modeling, nonlinear optimization, automated manufacturing, and technology transfer. He holds a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree from Southern Methodist University, and a doctorate from George Washington University.
FIATECH, delivering ISO 15926
Dr. Jackson, will briefly describe FIATECH, its mission and role, as well as some of its projects and activities. He will then explain how FIATECH implemented the first new and creative approach to standards development, deployment, and implementation in 30 years to finish the deployment of ISO 15926. He will also describe how you can use it and participate in its further refinement using some of the latest technologies of mass collaboration.
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Mr. Ankush Krishan has over 35 years of technical and managerial experience in IRCON, RITES and Indian Railways. His experience in India and abroad includes rehabilitation, revitalization, privatization, design and construction of railway systems. This experience encompasses all aspects of rail Planning, Construction, Management, Systems and Marketing. These are in the Government and the Commercial environments in the Domestic and International arena.
Delivering Sustainable Rail Infrastructure Around the World
The need to deliver sustainable transport infrastructure around the world has lead to a massive increase in demand for rail based solutions. Mr Krishan will talk about the growth in demand for rail both in India and in a world context and how this demand will be met in India through major rail capacity enhancement projects.
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Mark Reichardt is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC). Mr.. Reichardt has overall responsibility for Consortium operations, overseeing the development and promotion of OpenGIS® standards and working to ensure that OGC programs foster member success. He works with other standards development organizations and professional associations to establish alliance agreements to assure that OGC standards and other standards work together fluidly.
The OGC Vision
The broadening of the OGC’s scope in Geospatial, and particular examples of this expanded focus.
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Mr. Schneider joined Hatch Mott MacDonald's (HMM) Water Supply Management Group in 1990. He has experience in the planning, design, permitting and construction of potable water supply projects, including: surface and groundwater supply, treatment, transmission, pumping and storage facilities.
Over the last decade, Mr. Schneider has focused his career on strategic and master planning, asset management practices, and information management system development for water and wastewater utility clients throughout the United States.
Mr. Schneider serves as HMM's GIS Director, responsible for managing and developing GIS solutions for environmental and utilities projects. His GIS project management responsibilities include needs assessment studies, data modeling and database design, data conversion, system integration, and application development and deployment.
Stewardship, Planning, and Asset Management: A DC WASA Case Study
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC WASA) owns and operates a large, urban water distribution system which pumps approximately 120 million gallons of water per day, supplied by the Army Corp of Engineers (Washington Aqueduct), to a population of over 500,000 persons, including major commercial properties and industry. As an early adopter of asset management practices to address system-wide renewal strategies, DC WASA has set in place a simple asset management framework which incorporates a number of functional areas: strategic initiatives, information systems technology, stakeholder involvement, and business process improvements. This case study provides a “high-level” assessment of the benefits of the asset management framework to support planning and renewal strategies and will site specific examples of process application for these functional areas.
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Tom Warne, is the founder and president of Tom Warne and Associates LLC. Tom was the Executive Director of the Utah Department of Transportation. Tom led the department through the construction of the $1.59 billion I-15 Reconstruction Project. Hailed as the largest single public transportation contract in the history of the interstate system it is the benchmark for design-build projects both nationally and internationally. While at UDOT Tom served as the President of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Tom has also served as a member and vice chairman of the Transportation Research Board's Executive Committee. Tom's work ranges from large projects such as the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge to major policy and organizational issues facing private firms and public agencies.
Meeting the Challenges of Modern and Aging Transportation Systems
The keynote will cover trends, challenges - policy, funding, business drivers – economy, cost, private vs.. public (do inside or outsource), Design-Build. PPP, notable projects – US & even world wide and role of technology.
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John Young, is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of American Water and holds a seat on the company’s Board of Directors. He is responsible for a wide range of corporate functions, including identifying and implementing operational improvements; managing the Americas Region capital program; and directing risk management in the areas of health and safety, security and event management. He is also responsible for environmental compliance, management, and stewardship; engineering; research and technology; and assessment of commercial and growth initiatives. Young is an active member of several professional organizations, including a Board Member of the Design/Build Institute of America and past New Jersey AWWA Section Chair, Fuller Awardee and incoming NJAWWA International Director. He also serves on the USEPA National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC). John is a registered professional engineer in a number of states. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Duke University, and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina.
The Sustainability Mandate - Challenges, Opportunities, and Responsibilities Facing the Water and Wastewater Industry
John Young will review the significant challenges facing public and investor-owned Water and Wastewater utilities toward meeting achieving sustainability of capital investment, people, and the environment. American Water with operations serving 15.6 million people across 32 states and provinces is the largest water and wastewater utility in North America. Mr.. Young will describe how one major utility is protecting the public health while responding to the reality of aging workforce and infrastructure against the back-drop of declining energy and water resources.
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