The Construction Users Roundtable

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IMPACT Labor Management Conference January 2008
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Mission Statement

• The mission of The Construction Users
  Roundtable (CURT) is to create competitive
  advantage for construction users. CURT will
  accomplish this by
• providing aggressive leadership on business
  issues that promotes excellence in the creation
  of capital assets.

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CURTs Unique Role in the Industry

• Exclusive representation of the Owner community
• Represents 150 billion dollars of spending power
• Unifies a diverse industry contractors, Owners,
  labor, A/E firms, academia
• Creates a forum for the exchange of best
  practices
• Ability to identify and address critical industry
  issues

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CURT Owner Members

• Abbott
• Air Products Chemicals, Inc.
• ALSTOM Power Inc.
• Ameren
• American Electric Power
• Ameristar Casinos, Inc
• Anheuser-Busch
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation
• Boeing Company
• Caterpillar Inc.
• Chevron
• Chrysler, LLC
• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Citigroup
• ConocoPhillips
• Constellation Generation Group
• DTE Energy
• Dominion Generation
• Dow Chemical Company

• General Electric Company
• General Mills, Inc.
• HCA Healthcare Corporation
• Hercules Inc.
• General Motors Corporation
• Honda of America Mfg., Inc.
• Intel Corporation
• Johnson Johnson
• Kansas City Power Light, Co.
• The McGraw-Hill Companies
• MeadWestvaco Corporation
• Merck Company, Inc.
• Nevada Power Company
• Ontario Power Generation
• Pfizer, Inc.
• Praxair, Inc.
• The Procter Gamble Co.
• PSEG Power, LLC
• Rohm and Haas

• U.S. Architect of the Capitol
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• U.S. General Services Administration
• The University of Cincinnati
• Walt Disney Imagineering
• Weyerhaeuser

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Strategic Initiatives

• Safety Improvement and Safety Excellence Awards
• Workforce Development and Workforce Awards
• Local User Council Network Development
• National Conference
• Common Owner Practices
• Education and Implementation
• Process Transformation
• LEAN Project Delivery

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Owners Face Many Challenges

• Must build facilities in less time
• Capital and maintenance budgets uncertain
• Function with internally reduced staffs
• Increased job responsibilities
• Younger, less experienced project personnel
• Knowledge drain as senior personnel retire
• Internal competition for dollars is intense
• Global competition for dollars especially with
  China
• Interaction with E-illiterate contractors
• Use of latest materials and technologies
• Quality designed in -- not inspected in
• Use of LEAN principles, BIM and Collaborative
  Design

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What Owners Need From Contractors and Labor

• Better, faster, cheaper without adversely
  affecting wages and benefits of workers and
  quality of projects
• Better use of existing and emerging technologies
• E-literate contractors and workers
• Skilled trades available when and where needed
• Elimination of unnecessary overtime
• Worker involvement in the development of cost
  effective work processes
• Tripartite cooperation that achieves real and
  lasting change and measurable return on
  investment for Owners

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Contractors and Labor Must Focus On . . .

• Improving Productivity!
• That means improving . . .
• Attitude
• Absenteeism
• Work ethic
• Cooperation
• Technology
• Awareness and focus on Owner needs

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For More Information Contact

• Gregory L. Sizemore, Esq.
• Executive Vice President
• The Construction Users Roundtable
• 4100 Executive Park Drive, Suite 210
• Cincinnati, Ohio 45241-4023
• 513-563-4131 513-733-9551 FAX
• gsizemore_at_curt.org
• www.CURT.org