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Fara Francis
Chief Information Officer
Finance/Computer Operations
Associated General Contractors of America
2300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 400
Arlington, VA 22201
USA
Phone: (703) 837-5302
Fax: (703) 837-5303
http://www.agc.org
Brad Teague
Director, IT
Finance/Computer Operations
Associated General Contractors of America
2300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 400
Arlington, VA 22201
USA
Phone: (703) 837-5392
Fax: (703) 837-5303
http://www.agc.org

AGC of America is committed to providing its Members and Chapters with access to the knowledge and skills needed to implement the electronic technologies that are changing our industry.  The AGC professional staff implements and supports a wide spectrum of opportunities for Member utilization of new technologies and understanding of the best practices.

agcXML: AGC is collaborating with owners, designers and solution providers on a set of extensible markup language (XML) schemas designed to enable the efficient exchange of electronic construction project information between leading AEC industry software applications.

BIM: AGC of America is one of the leading proponents of BIM, which is the process of generating and managing a building information model through the use of three–dimensional, intelligent design information.  The Building Division spearheads AGC of America’s effort to bring broader utilization of this family of project design and management tools.

Other initiatives include:

IT Forum Conference: The 2011 IT Forum Conference was held on August 11-12, 2011 in Chicago, IL.

Having a successful IT strategy and operation is paramount in running any successful business. The 2011 IT Forum Conference is the construction industries one-stop-shop for information on Enterprise Content Management (ECM), tablet computing, how to do more with less, emerging trends, IT metrics and much more.

AGC eForums: The AGC eForums are a collection of email listservs dedicated to the exchange of information on various topics.  There are nearly 60 eForums on topics as varied as:  human resource practice and policy, technology, safety and health, taxes and fiscal policy, project delivery, the environment and all of the contracting divisions.

Technology Showcase: The Technology Showcase seeks to help AGC contractors maintain their competitive edge by promoting a contractor-to-contractor exchange of information, ideas, and real world experience with information technology.  The Technology Showcase is a themed event that occurs every other year at AGC’s Annual Convention.