Events

Executive Vice President Jake Pepper will be joining industry leaders on a virtual panel to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic could shape the future.

Join Vice President of Technical Services Jennifer Suerth and Burcin Kaplanoglu of Oracle at the BuiltWorlds 2020 Digital Summit as they discuss their work on the autonomous job site and the new Oracle Innovation Lab.

Join Project Manager Ashlie Stapleton at the WiRE Round Table Discussion on Changing Diversity Perceptions. As a follow up to her panel at Women in the Built World, Ashlie will help lead an open discussion to further explore this topic and create an opportunity for those in the industry to collaborate, offer perspectives and more.

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Zoo Golf 

Guests will enjoy a round of golf on one of the premier golf courses in the Midwest, Maketewah Country Club, with delicious food and beverages, on-course games, random animal encounters and a “Zoo-nique” raffle of amazing prizes!

Join Pepper’s Safety Engineer Ben Ross and FactorLab’s Founder Barry Nelson as they share how SmartTagIt is improving overall safety and communications on jobsites.

Join us at the 2020 ACI/OSHA Safety Day Conference and Expo!

Are you interested in partnering with Pepper, FGM Architects and Oak Park and River Forest High School on their Facilities Master Plan? Join us on Wednesday, January 29 for a Contractor Outreach session to learn more about the project and ask any questions you may have. We hope to see you there!

Software Developer Jim Peart will be speaking on a panel at this year’s ABX about the technological shift currently underway in the construction industry. Jim’s session, Better Projects Through Data: The Future of Construction, will specifically cover how your company measures up against current industry benchmarks for data gathering and analysis, insights into emerging capabilities and how data and technology can help address risk.

Hot Topic Session: Innovation and Technology in the Construction and Design Industry

Moderated panel discussion on innovation in the construction and design industry.  Where is the future of Innovation within our industry? Who will be the leader and who will follow? Is it fundamental human nature or finance? Fad or fact? Are we improving?

The convention’s theme is based on the River of Knowledge. This ‘river’ is an ever flowing and changing entity that relies on the history and past, but also moves to the future. Just as our building and design practices rely heavily on standard methodologies, we also are encouraged to embrace new innovative techniques to increase the safety, efficiency, and overall performance of our structures. There are many questions that come into play such as: how fast do we implement these new technologies; how do we evaluate the safety and validity of new materials and methods; how do companies of all sizes utilize innovation within their firms for the betterment of the business as well as the projects they are involved in construction? Innovation to be focused on opportunities for fundamental changes.

Learning Objectives:
(1) Understanding the challenges facing the construction industry in the area of innovation and technology;
(2) Understanding of technology and innovation from the perspective of the stakeholders in a typical construction project;
(3) Understanding of how technology affects the different stakeholders in a typical construction project;
(4) Understanding of the drivers and the future of technology from the perspective of the different stakeholders in a typical construction project.

This session has been AIA/ICC approved for 2 CEU/PDH credits.