Category Archives: Commercial/Institutional

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 . . . My last post in this series on BRT/CURT takes us up to how the organization is influencing the construction industry today. The speaker who kicked off the CURT National Conference in November talked about a global industry in crisis. He listed the challenges facing … Read more »

Read Part 1 and Part 2 . . . When The Business Roundtable (TBR)shut down its construction committee in 1990, it left many construction department heads at owner companies wondering what to do. Not too many years before, they had been deeply involved in developing a series of monographs on construction industry issues. These monographs were … Read more »

Read Part 1 . . . I attended my first meeting of the Construction Committee of The Business Roundtable in 1986. I was invited by J.R. Pritchard, a NECA member from West Virginia who did a lot of work for DuPont, and Jack Buttrum, a NECA member from Evansville, Ind. who worked on Alcoa projects. Despite their … Read more »

The Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) held their annual National Conference in Naples, Florida last week. Milner Irvin, Dan Walter and I represented NECA. CURT’s membership is comprised of some of the largest, best recognized industrial companies in the U.S. – companies like Boeing, Intel, General Motors, ExxonMobil and American Electric Power. NECA and about a dozen other national … Read more »