Description
Six women leaders will answer questions related to using design-build and collaboration to achieve success in today’s male-dominated engineering/construction industry. The panel will share stories and provide tips from marketing, concept, design, to working on construction sites with owners, engineers, consultants, specialists, regulators, constructors, equipment installers, protesters, and much more! This panel presentation will include stories, lessons learned, and success tips from experienced women leaders who have lived design-build and love it.
Learning Objectives:
- Defining alternative delivery team leadership needs
- Incorporating diversity and inclusion into company culture
- Applying innate competencies to achieve project success
- Discover ways to overcome design-build project challenges as a woman in the AEC industry
Speaker(s):
- Kerrie
Greenfelder,
P.E., DBIA,
Municipal Water/Wastewater Department Manager,
Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co.
- Cathy
Hamilton,
DBIA,
Contracting Officer,
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
- Rebecca
Lewis,
Division Manager of the Wastewater Treatment Utility,
City of Wichita, Kansas
- Kacy
Simonsen,
DBIA,
Estimator,
CAS Constructors LLC
- Holly
A. Streeter-Schaefer,
JD,
Attorney,
Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co.
- Barbara
Wagner,
P.E., DBIA, LEED AP,
Senior Vice Present,
Clark Construction Group, LLC
- Lisa
Washington,
CAE,
Executive Director/CEO,
Design-Build Institute of America
