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Pension Perils
I hate to add to the pile of bad financial news, but have you checked your local defined benefit pension plan lately? If it wasn’t underwater before this current stock market crisis, it is now. At least in terms of the funding standards under the new pension regulations established a couple years ago. Add private … Read more
Meet David Roberts
As Executive Director of NECA’s Southern Region, B. David Roberts is responsible for a territory from Arizona to Virginia that encompasses 15 states and 34 NECA chapters. He interacts regularly with two NECA District Vice Presidents and four IBEW International Vice Presidents. He directs a staff of four NECA field representatives, plus an office assistant. … Read more
A Brief History of (Construction) Time, Part 4
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
Posted in Commercial/Institutional, Industry Index.
A Brief History of (Construction) Time, Part 3
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
Posted in Commercial/Institutional, Industry Index.
A Brief History of (Construction) Time, Part 2
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
Posted in Commercial/Institutional, Industry Index.
A Brief History of (Construction) Time, Part 1
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
Posted in Commercial/Institutional, Industry Index.
