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Lean Construction Practices for Highways Added to Agenda for Highway Contractors Conference

October 10 Hotel Deadline Approaches

Lean construction practices have had a major impact on productivity in the vertical sector of the construction industry. Highway, bridge and other horizontal construction activities can benefit by using these principles. The Highway Contractors Conference, held Nov. 5-7 in Phoenix, Arizona, will now feature a presentation on how to make your company more profitable by applying lean construction principles to your company’s operations and specific job applications.  Jeff Esgar and Andrew Apostolk, both of Sundt Construction Co, will explain what is lean and how it can work for you. Esgar and Apostolk have experience with using lean construction on vertical and horizontal projects and are active in AGC of America’s Lean Construction training.   

Other speakers will address a host of cutting-edge developments that will impact the highway, bridge, transit, and rail now and in the future, including:

  • Will Congress be able to finalize work on a long term transportation bill with increased funding in an increasingly crowed fall Congressional agenda?
  • A Strong Federal Role vs. Devolution: Setting Transportation’s Future- Heritage Foundation and Capitol Hill advocates will debate this fundamental question.
  • Future trends in technology for transportation construction: where is the industry heading? – Autodesk Spokesman
  • Texas, Iowa and New York AGC chapters will describe how they have organized successful campaigns to increase state transportation revenue.
  • Communications experts will discuss how social media and digital advertising is crucial in getting public support for transportation infrastructure investment.
  • How are contractors addressing the many challenging aspects in building large scale transportation infrastructure projects; Tappan Zee and Gerald Desmond bridge projects?
  • TED Talks: What is of concern to the next generation of construction managers?
  • Using technology to protect your workers in the work zone.
  • Ritchie Brothers golf tournament and night time “food truck and golf competition.”

To register online, reserve your hotel room and find out more about the 2015 Highway Contractors Conference, please visit meetings.agc.org/highway.

For more information, please contact Brian Deery at deeryb@agc.org or (703) 837-5319.