LEED® Estimating For Green Buildings

December 11, 2008

8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
EMU Livonia

Brought to you by AGC of America and AGC of Michigan, this program will cover the stages involved in estimating, designing and building sustainable construction. It will document the importance of an integrated design process and review what items may be, “no cost,” “minimal additional cost,” and “significant additional cost.”

The program objectivess include:

• Describe environmentally friendly strategies for sustainable building design and
  construction
• Discuss LEED standards
• Compare the bidding and estimating procedures of green vs. traditional construction
• Review the LEED Rating System and identify its impact on design, project planning
  and construction strategies
• Examine the importance of integrated design and its effect on costs
• Apply the Life Cycle Analysis to cost estimation

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Welcome New Members

Please join us in welcoming the following new members to the AGC of Michigan.

Constructors

• Capitol Construction Management, Inc.
  Flint
• O'Brien Edwards Construction Company
  Detroit

• Osprey Construction & Development
  Brighton

• Rockford Construction Company

Grand Rapids

 

Constructor Associates

• Auto Glass of Michigan, Inc.
  Farmington Hills
  

• AJAX Paving Industries, Inc.
  Troy
• Bumler Mechanical, Inc.
  Sterling Heights

• Catalyst Management Group, LLC
  Pontiac
• Central Ceiling & Partition, Inc.
  Midland

• De-Cal, Inc.

Warren

• Delta Electrical Contractors of Lansing, Inc.
  Lansing
• Gogebic Mechanical
  Ironwood
• Hy-Lines Utility Services, Inc.
  Ypsilanti
• Jasman Construction, Inc.
  Whitmore Lake
• Marble Mechanical Service, LLC
  Beverly Hills
• Metropolitan Air Compressor Inc.
  Roseville
  

Suppliers

• Biewer Lumber Company, Inc.
  St. Clair
• Stephens Pipe and Steel
  Grand Rapids

Professional Service Provider

• Amherst Partners, LLC
  Birmingham
• Construction News Service
  Wyoming
• The Haass Group
  Oxford
• Stephen A. Hilger, PC
  Grand Rapids
• ICS-Global
  Rochester
• Nova Environmental, Inc.
  Ann Arbor
  
• Szura Insurance Services
  Rochester
• Quinn Evans Architects
  Ann Arbor
  
  

Sustaining

• Columbia Partners, LLC
  Chevy Chase, MD
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  Chicago, IL
• NEPC, LLC
  Cambridge, MA