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C.E.U. Featured at 5pmSponsored by HaworthSPEAKER BACKGROUNDBill is National Director of Strategic Business Solutions at Haworth, a Michigan based, leading global manufacturer of modular interior solutions for commercial office space and is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is an ASID Distinguished Speaker, a LEED Accredited Professional and a featured speaker on the value of design, high performance, sustainable real estate and modular-interior construction process and costing. In April 2008 he joined 250 other Canadians in Montreal to be trained by Nobel Laureate Al Gore in the Climate Change program and is now a certified presenter on Climate Change. C.E.U. INFORMATIONMindshift: How Integrated Delivery and Collaboration are Critical to Sustainable Project ResultsDecisions regarding real estate have historically been made primarily based on price. This has generated a focus on low bidding that has “commoditized” the entire supply chain from rent through professional architectural, design and engineering fees on to the cost of construction, cost of furnishings and all that is required to deliver a finished working environment. This obsession with first cost has eclipsed the language of value to the point where it is rarely considered in the decision. As a result short term initial cost avoidance decisions are made that pass on long term burdens of cost, social and environmental impact to future generations. Companies and society at large are all beginning to realize that the long term consequences of such short term thinking are more expensive than the right strategic decisions in the first place. Community concern as to the impact of the built environment, volatile energy and rising operating costs, measurable costs of ownership, the growing war for talent and the rising need for agility in the physical real estate that can match what is required by business are all combining to generate an appetite for value and not just price. 
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