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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

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