2012 SEAA Convention Agenda At-A-Glance & Abstract

2:00PM - 4:00PM

SEAA Registration Desk Hours

8:00AM - 5:00PM

SEAA Registration Desk Hours

Exhibitor Move-in

12:00PM - 6:00PM

Exhibitor Move-in

7:30AM - 4:00PM

Sporting Clays/Quail Hunt

SEAA Shuttle

Backwoods Quail Club | 843.546.1466

647 Hemingway Lane | Georgetown, SC 29440

12:30PM - 6:30PM

SEAA Convention Golf Outing

SEAA Shuttle

Pine Lakes Country Club | 843.315.7700

5603 Granddaddy Drive | Myrtle Beach, SC 29577

9:30AM - 3:00PM

Shopping Spree | Tanger Outlet

Hotel Shuttle

Tanger Outlet | Briarcliffe Mall

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Welcome Reception

8:00PM - 11:30PM

Members Networking Social

Exhibition Hall Hours

7:30AM - 4:00PM

Tradeshow | Crane Rodeo | Hands-on Demonstrations

7:30AM - 8:00AM

Continental Breakfast/Exhibit Hall

8:00AM - 5:00PM

SEAA Registration Desk Hours

8:00AM - 8:15AM

Opening Comments by Charlie Johnson

8:15AM - 8:45AM

Special Session & a Chance To WIN an IPAD

Concurrent

Management Session

8:45AM - 9:45AM

OSHA is Alive and Well After 42 Years | Frank L. Kollman | Kollman & Saucier, PA

Technical Session

8:45AM - 9:45AM

Training the Google Generation | Bryan McClure | LPR Construction Company

Concurrent

Management Session

10:20AM - 11:30AM

Dictation or Collaboration - Effective Strategy At the Start of A Project | Gregg Schoppman | FMI

Technical Session

10:20AM - 11:30AM

New Welding Requirements For Steel Erectors | Duane K. Miller | Lincoln Electric

Concurrent

Management Session

1:35PM - 2:55PM

“The Pot of Gold – How to Get Paid for Change Orders and Retention” | Terry L. Salazar | Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C.

Technical Session

1:35PM - 2:55PM

Horizontal Lifeline Engineering (HLL) | Mark A. Miller, P.E. | RNF Consultants, Inc.

Concurrent

Management Session

3:20PM - 4:30PM

Pics Or It Didn't Happen: Using Photos To Document Projects | Gregory L. Shelton | Horack Talley Pharr Lowndes

Technical Session

3:20PM - 4:30PM

Subpart CC - How Does It Affect Erectors? | Chip Pocock | Buckner Companies & Steve Miller | Miller Safety Consulting, Inc.

Exhibitor Move-out

4:00PM - 8:00PM

Exhibitor Move-out

7:00PM - 11:00PM

SEAA Networking Hospitality

8:00AM - 12:00PM

SEAA Registration Desk Hours

8:30AM - 9:30AM

Project of the Year (Presentations by 2010 winners: Peterson Beckner Industries, CSE, Inc., Pioneer Steel)

9:45AM - 10:15AM

Charlie Johnson | SEAA President's Address

10:15AM - 11:30PM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Stuck in Neutral | Martha-Ann Marley | Gardner Associates, Inc.

11:30AM - 12:00PM

Industry Hot Topic

12:00PM

Move-out SEAA Registration Desk

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Pre-Gala Cocktail Reception

6:30PM - 12:00AM

Awards Ceremony/Dinner/Gala

1. OSHA is Alive and Well After 42 Years

Frank L. Kollman | Kollman & Saucier, PA

Timonium , MD | Phone: (410)727-4300

fkollman@kollmanlaw.com | http://www.kollman-saucier.com

Richard Nixon signed OSHA into existence in 1970. Forty-two years later, it is a significant factor in bidding, estimating, and completing steel erection jobs. Under President Obama’s Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, OSHA has taken on new life, and the influence of organized labor on OSHA regulations and interpretations has never been greater. Online access to safety and health histories has affected the ability of steel erectors to get jobs from general contractors and fabricators, and OSHA reporting requirements can affect insurance premiums. Yes, OSHA is alive and well.

Frank Kollman , who has practiced OSHA law for 35 of those 42 years, believes that employers can do more to prevent OSHA from affecting their businesses. In this workshop, he will report on recent OSHA activity and trends in enforcement, as well as give tips on how to minimize the effect OSHA can have on your business. Frank, who has addressed SEAA many times on this and other labor issues, promises to cover new ground and innovative ways to deal with OSHA’s new, more anti-business approach to safety regulation. Preparation now rather than defense later will pay off in many ways, economically and emotionally.

3. “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen” Using Photographs to Document the Project

Gregory L. Shelton | Horack Talley Pharr Lowndes, PA

Charlotte , NC | Phone: (704)377-2500

gshelton@horacktalley.com | http://wwwhoractalley.com

Photographs provide the finder of fact (whether judge, jury, or arbitrator) with a wealth of information about a construction dispute. The owner may criticize a contractor for not performing work on a clear sunny day, but if the contractor presents photographs of the site covered in several feet of snow from a storm the day before; the contractor’s lack of action may be more understandable.  So many things can be documented by a camera: manpower, equipment, access to the work, condition of the site, condition of work before its turned over to another contractor, interference, survey work (layout, elevations, etc.), defective work, weather; the list goes on. When giving lectures on the topic, I make it a point to have the audience think of themselves as historians.  You are recording the history so that someone else doesn’t do it for you. To make your historical record more credible, adopt some simple procedures to make your photos count.

2. “Dictation or Collaboration” – Developing an effective strategy at the start of a construction project

Gregg Schoppman | FMI Corporation

Tampa , FL | Phone: (813)636-1364

gschoppman@fminet.com | http://www.fminet.com

The beginning of most construction project is a time of hope and exuberance. New plans, new relationships, new margin enhancing opportunities. Unfortunately hope gives way to despair all too often due to poor planning and effective collaboration. More often than not, projects begin with little to no formalized planning and disorganized communication across the construction team leading to missed deadlines, eroding margins and disappointed customers.  Effective preconstruction collaboration involves more than a simple “dump” or “hand-off” of documents and budgets. In essence, collaborative preconstruction planning is strategic planning on a project level.  Best of class contractors have developed proactive tools and processes to improve communications internally and externally, develop tactics to improve the budget; schedule; safety, leverage technology and ultimately create a better finished product.  In this session, you will learn the following:

• The role of preconstruction planning and the “myths” surrounding so-called “hand-offs and dumps”
• Understand the right steps in the process to enhance margin and create a ensure the team on the front line is bought in
• Examine the role of trade partners and suppliers and how they can employ similar tactics whether as part of a construction team or simply to improve their own profitability

4. “The Pot of Gold – How to Get Paid for Change Orders and Retention”

Terry L. Salazar | Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C.

Dallas , TX | Phone: 214-871-2100

tsalazar@qslwm.com | http://www.qsclpc.com

The project has been substantially complete for a couple of months; yet you still have outstanding changes that haven’t been billed and release of retention is not even being considered. What can you do to speed up the process of finalizing and billing change orders and getting your retention released? This presentation will examine the typical problems encountered in resolving outstanding changes on projects and collecting retention. We will discuss the contractual provisions that govern this process and identify the tools and practical solutions available for your use to increase the likelihood of timely resolution and payment for changes and release of retention.

Field Tracks

Presenter

1. New Welding Requirements for Steel Erectors

Duane K. Miller | Lincoln Electric

Cleveland , OH | Phone: (216)383-2196

duane_miller@lincolnelectric.com | http://www.lincolnelectric.com

In 2010, AISC and AWS issued new codes and specifications that contained a variety of welding-related requirements that will impact steel erection. This session will address changes and new provisions in AWS D1.1:2010 and AISC 360-10. Considerable focus will be placed on Chapter N of AISC 360-10 which deals with Quality Control and Quality Assurance. Compliance with these new requirements will necessitate changes in how some steel erectors go about their business. In addition to the code changes, the welding requirements for seismic projects as contained in AISC 341-10, AISC 358-09a, and AWS D1.9:2009 will be reviewed.

2. Horizontal Lifeline Engineering

Mark A. Miller , P.E., RNF Consultants, Inc.

Golden, CO | Phone: (303)986-1546

mam@rnfconsultants.com | http://www.rnfconsultants.com

In this session we will cover, History, OSHA Standards, Engineering Calculations, Proper Installation and Hardware.

3. Subpart CC the new OSHA Crane Standard – How Does It Affect Erectors?

Chip R. Pocock | Buckner Companies

Graham , NC | Phone: (336)376-8888

chipp@bucknercompanies.com | http://www.bucknercompanies.com

AND

Steve P. Miller | Miller Safety Consulting, Inc.

Westminster , CO | (303)477-1044

stevemiller@millersafety.com|http://www.millersafety.com

OSHA’s Crane and Derrick standard, Subpart CC went into effect in 2010. It governs the use of cranes & derricks on construction sites and has been the subject of much discussion and broad interpretation by Contactors nationwide. How does this standard effect the daily crane operations of your company and what do you need to know to comply?  This presentation will be presented from a Steel Erectors perspective to let you know what’s new and how OSHA is interpreting the standard, and what you and your company need to do in order to be compliant with Subpart CC. We’ll cover everything from Assembly/Disassembly, Overhead power lines, Operator Certification, Inspections, Signal person and rigger qualifications, training requirements and more. Attend this seminar to help you understand the “Who, What, Where & How” of this new regulation 29 CFR 1926.1400

4. Training the Google Generation

Bryan McClure

LPR Construction Company

Loveland , CO, 80537 | Phone: (800)577-1844

bmcclure@lprconstruction.com | http://www.lprconst.com

Here’s your opportunity to take the founding principles of what made L.P.R. Construction Co the 2010 AGC National Craft Training Program of the year and incorporate them in your own training sessions. On October 24, 2011 Peter Cappelli wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Companies Aren’t Getting the Employees They Need.” Even though the Unites States is still recovering from the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, the U.S. still ranks third behind only Japan and India in a poll of employers reporting difficulty filling positions .The same article ranked skilled trades as the most difficult job in the United States for employers to fill. Complicating an already tenuous situation, for the first time in modern history the U.S. work force will have four and soon to be five generations working alongside one another. Training has been and still is the direct link between attracting new employees and retraining existing employees. In this session you will learn the following:

• Effective craft / safety training techniques to reach multi-generational adult learners
• How to incorporate active learning in the classroom
• How to train productive, safe performers using deliberate practice teaching methods
• The incorporation of “edutainment” in the modern classroom and how to use it to spice up your training sessions

Saturday

General Session

AISC – Erector Certification Program

*pending outcome of the ECP meeting November 15th

Keynote Address

Stuck In Neutral

Martha-Ann Marley

Gardner Associates, Inc.

Huntersville , NC, 28117 | Phone: (704)258-7178

mamarley@gardner-ins.com | http://www.gardner-insurance.com

Stuck in Neutral is an educational seminar on how to maneuver your company during economic volatility.  Martha-Ann will present a thorough economic look back as well as forward predictions for commercial construction.  She will discuss various life cycles many construction companies are currently facing and how to maneuver through these phases.  Martha-Ann will give an interactive case study on how to size your company to the market.  She will concentrate on project/financial/organizational management to ensure successful results during a hyper-competitive environment with a significant decrease in the availability of work.  She will discuss best practices within the industry that promote profitable results for construction companies, in spite of economic volatility.