A combination of location and growth of membership may put this summer’s events in Baltimore way ahead of attendance from years past.
“There is just nothing like it elsewhere in the construction industry. The estimating professional is front and center at this event and there is lots of buzz. Tens of thousands of estimating professionals live and work within easy driving distance of Baltimore’s inner harbor and it is just a great place to visit, network and learn for a couple of days” commented ASPE Executive Director, Edward Walsh, “ we’ve added a whole day of A-list speakers to the agenda for Friday July 11”.
Joining the estimating academy which runs Wednesday July 9 and Thursday July 10 will be speakers from some of the most important trade associations in our industry. Deke Smith, Executive Director from buildingSMART Alliance a component of NIBS (www.nibs.org) will talk about “Using BIM to Manage Facility Costs”, Walter Marlowe, Executive Director / CEO from CSI (www.csinet.org) will highlight “How CSI Affects Estimators” and Greg Sizemore, executive Vice President of CURT (www.curt.org) the lunch key note speaker head up the all start list. In addition professors from Oklahoma State will be there to survey members in a project in conjunction with the Construction Institute and Peter Richen-BECHTEL Corporation, Senior Estimator will give an overview of Bechtel estimating approaches to bidding , tools and databases they use.Exibitors at the event will be on hand to promote and explain their products and services. Leading the pack as Principle sponsors is a partnership of several mid Atlantic region builder’s exchanges. The exchanges are: Mid-Atlantic (www.midatlanticbx.com), Altoona (www.altoonabx.com), Baltimore (www.bcebaltimore.com) and Pittsburgh (www.pbe.com). Platinum level sponsors include: SmartBidNet (www.smartbidnet.com), Quickpen (www.quickpen.com) and Sage Software (www.sage.com). The Gold sponsors are ProEst Software (www.proest.com) and The Blue Book (www.thebluebook.com), Silver Sponsors include: Maxwell Systems (www.maxwell.com), Solutions technologies (www.solutionstechnologies.com), Bluebeam Software (www.bluebeam.com), MC2-ICE (www.mc2-ice.com), Skanska Corporation (www.skanskausa.com) , Sauer Corporation (www.sauer.com), Bechtel Corporation (www.bechtel.com) and Cianbro Corporation (www.cianbro.com). For more information see our events page at: http://www.aspenational.org/Events.htm
Edward B. Walsh
Executive Director
ASPE National
877-273-5679
www.aspenational.org
edwalsh@aspentional.org