ACI Intermountain Chapter
November Education Webinar
Building Structures – Lessons Learned
Structures that Failed and/or Ended in Litigation.
What Can you Learn?  
$250--Sponsorship
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-Company logo displayed on advertising, as well as during webinar
-Five minutes to address members prior to webinar presentation
DATE:
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

TIME:
11:45...........Log in
12:00-1:00...Presentation

COST:
$15...Members & Non-Members
$5.....Students

Login information provided upon registration

Featured Speaker:

Jeffrey W. Coleman, PE, FACI
ACI President and Principal Partner, Coleman Law Firm, LLC, Minneapolis, MN
Mr. Coleman will present a number of actual cases that he has handled over his 36 year legal career including the 35W bridge collapse and two cable stayed bridges. He will discuss the causes of the claims and/or failures as well as the “lessons learned” from these cases.
 
Please join us to learn the following:

  • The cause of various structural failures with a focus on often unintended consequences of otherwise good decisions.
  • The importance of project documentation.
  • The importance of careful and judicious use of emails and text messages in design and construction activities.
  • The importance of thinking thru design and construction decisions and the dangers of over reliance upon the computer. 
Mr. Jeffrey W. Coleman, FACI, is the current President of ACI and is a licensed professional Engineer, Attorney at Law, and Principal Partner of The Coleman Law Firm, LLC, Minneapolis, MN. He is a fellow of ACI and has been an ACI Member for 40 years. Mr. Coleman is the author of the book Legal Issues in Concrete Construction, originally published by ACI in 2004, Second Edition published in 2014. Mr. Coleman has been a licensed Structural Engineer since 1977 and a practicing Attorney since 1984. He provides clients with a single resource for both Legal and Risk Management Issues. He also represents design professionals, concrete contractors and concrete suppliers in all matters of their business; including, Defense of Multimillion-dollar Design Defect and Negligent Construction Administration Claims. Mr. Coleman was named by Concrete Construction magazine as one of the most influential in the concrete industry for 2020. 
EDUCATION HOURS:
1 PDH
1 Professional Contractor CEU
1 ICC Hour

Only registered attendees who are logged in during the webinar are eligible for continuing education.
Tammy Meldrum | Executive Director
ACI Intermountain Chapter
PO Box 95622, South Jordan, UT 84095