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May
20

Moral Hazards Impacting Construction and Real Estate

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In response to COVID 19, AACE SF will host a FREE virtual event. Click here to register today! Join AACE SF on 5/20/21 at 4PM PST for a webinar as we discuss moral turpitude, occupational fraud and the case for business integrity in the construction and real estate sector - presented by industry professionals from EY teams.

Webinar Description: In 2020, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimated that $4.5 trillion is lost to fraud globally each year. Construction is not immune to this dilemma. With corruption and financial statement deception accounting for 72% of construction fraud, the industry is prone to manipulation, improper controls and misreporting.

Speakers Bios:

Erin Robert, As EY’s global leader of Engineering and Construction, Erin has a breadth of experience serving a diverse roster of public companies in the construction, engineering, oilfield service and manufacturing industries. Erin holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance and has served as EY’s representative on the Financial Issues Committee of the Associated General Contractors of America, is the Chairman of the organizing board for the AICPA Construction Conference, and is a member of the Construction Financial Management Association and the Design Finance Officer Group.

Mark Gibson, FRICS, Mark is a Partner with EY and the leader of the America and Western Region of EY’s Construction and Real Estate Advisory practice. Mark has over 30 years of experience in construction, development and corporate real estate. He has managed over $14B and been associated with over $35B worth of construction projects. He holds a Master of Science in Construction Project Management, is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and is a Project Management Professional. Mark sits on The Real Estate Roundtable where he advises US policy makers (Congress, President).

Eris Ottinger, Eric is a Manager in EY’s Construction and Real Estate Advisory practice. Eric has over 12 years of experience in construction management and commercial real estate. He holds a Master of Science in Finance and a Master of Science in Strategy & Organization, is a certified Project Management Professional and an Associate of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers. Eric currently serves as the construction manager for a 12.5m square foot development in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) Certification Course
Dec
7
to Dec 11

AACE Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) Certification Course

Event Description

This highly anticipated course is designed to help AEC professionals get prepared to obtain the coveted AACE PSP certification.

To ensure that our members can benefit from the course material and exchange with the instructors in a safe manner, this training will be held online for four evenings from December 7 to December 11, 2020, from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm pacific time (6:30 pm to 9:30 pm central).

The training course will be instructed by our AACE SF section President, Dr. Nour Bouhou, PSP, and the AACE Houston Gulf Coast Chapter Director, Mr. Jesus Schuldes, PSP.

We look forward to helping our members prepare and pass the PSP Certification exam! If you have any questions, please email our section president at: nour.bouhou@peritiapartners.com. Register and pay for the course here.

Instructor Bios

Dr. Nour Bouhou, Partner and Vice President at Peritia Partners, has over 10 years of experience within the AEC industry. She provides claims and litigation support services on large scale projects, including commercial buildings, educational, industrial, residential, healthcare, and others, and expert witness testimony on construction-related claims and disputes involving cost, schedule, and productivity issues. Dr. Bouhou also assists clients across the AEC industry on project controls services, including scheduling, cost estimating, change order evaluation, She provides technical trainings to owners and contractors, related to scheduling best practices, project controls principles and claims. Dr. Bouhou previously served as the Treasurer & Vice President of the AACE Central Texas chapter, as the Secretary and Vice President of the AACE SF Bay Area section, and as a contributing member of the AACE educational board. In addition to her diverse officer positions within AACE, she previously provided PSP certification trainings to prepare AACE members for the PSP certification exam. Dr. Bouhou holds a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to her industry contributions, she is also an Adjunct Professor at California State University, East Bay, in the Construction Management Master’s Program. Mr. Jesus Schuldes has more than 12 years of experience in both the public and private sectors of the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry.

Mr. Schuldes provides mediation, arbitration, and litigation support including expert witness testimony on construction-related claims involving cost, schedule, and productivity issues. He provides comprehensive evaluation of construction claims and disputes with strong focus on the assessment and quantification of labor productivity losses and schedule delay damages utilizing critical path (CPM) schedule delay analysis methodologies including as-planned v. as-built, windows, impacted as-planned, collapsed as-built and time impact analyses. In addition, Mr. Schuldes specializes in developing, analyzing, updating, and monitoring construction schedules and provides technical training to owners and contractors related to scheduling best practices and project controls principles. Mr. Schuldes has worked as a project engineer providing 3rd party quality assurance services on behalf of USACE for the New Orleans infrastructure improvement program following Hurricane Katrina as well as a field engineer for a general contractor handling education and commercial construction projects, with responsibilities including estimating, surveying, field reporting, monitoring progress, and developing and managing project schedules.

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Keep Your PMO: Don’t Close it, use Metrics to Improve!
Sep
30

Keep Your PMO: Don’t Close it, use Metrics to Improve!

In response to COVID 19, AACE SF will host a FREE virtual event. The webinar information will be sent to you after the registration before the event date or log into the Eventbrite to find it.

Join AACE SF on 9/30/20 at 12 PM PST for an amazing presentation from our speaker, Cari Stieglitz, PMP, President of Sage Method who spent over 17 years focus on how facilities and construction organizations are impacted by process and technology. Currently, she focuses her time on establishing governance, strategy and organizational change for organizations looking transform how they do business.

Presentation abstract: The statistics are not in our favor, as high as 50% of PMOs are shuttered within three years of starting. Why is this? In this session, we will discuss how revisiting your PMOs strategy, governance persona and services using a Kaizen lense will keep your PMO alive and adding value. Come learn how to determine if you PMO has the right personality for your organization, the right level of process definition and where the gaps are. From there, how you can apply Kaizen to an initiative to provide value to your organization. We will learn about common PMO mistakes, different PMO personas (cop, coach, co-op), apply some Kaizen basics to the problems and establish an initiative structure to close the gaps. You will come out of this sessions with some practical methods for your own organization.

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