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Join large project owners, leaders from top building construction firms, design professionals and other stakeholders at the �鶹��ý IPD and Lean Construction Building Conference in San Antonio, Texas, September 21-24, 2011 at the Westin La Cantera Resort. Please note that the hotel deadline is today, August 15th.

Project Delivery Systems for Construction-Third Edition explores traditional and alternative project delivery systems including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Construction Management At-Risk, Integrated Project Delivery, and more.

Join large project owners, leaders from top building construction firms, design professionals and other stakeholders at the �鶹��ý IPD and Lean Construction Building Conference in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 21-24, 2011, at the Westin La Cantera Resort.

Now that the House is preparing to finalize an FY 2012 spending plan for the General Services Administration that eliminates funding for design and construction services and allocates only $280 million for repairs and alterations, �鶹��ý has been working with numerous partners in the construction and real estate industries to call on Congress to ensure sound funding for these programs. 

Project Delivery Systems for Construction-Third Edition explores traditional and alternative project delivery systems including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, Construction Management At-Risk, Integrated Project Delivery, and more.

Comment Letter Urges EPA to Slow Down and Change Course �鶹��ý submitted comprehensive comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its proposal to mandate drastic changes to the way that construction contractors manage stormwater runoff. EPA intends its new construction general permit (CGP) to replace the one that it adopted just three years ago.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided against expanding its Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (LRRP) rule to include lead-dust sampling and clearance testing requirements, the Agency announced on July 15.  �鶹��ý played a key role in communicating the construction industry’s concerns with the proposed “clearance testing” requirements.  �鶹��ý worked alongside a coalition of real estate and development groups to present a collective industry voice that has led EPA to refrain from straddling contractors with costly and unnecessary dust wipe sampling and laboratory analysis requirements.

Join large project owners, leaders from top building construction firms, design professionals and other stakeholders at the �鶹��ý IPD and Lean Construction Building Conference in San Antonio, Texas, September 21-24, 2011 at the Westin La Cantera Resort.

The �鶹��ý Lean Construction Forum has unveiled a Lean Citation Database that contains references to more than one hundred and twenty five articles and publications related to Lean Construction and Lean processes. 

�鶹��ý is continuing its work with a coalition of real estate and development groups (Commercial Properties Coalition) to identify issues and items that could be included in a comment package responding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) forthcoming proposed Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (LRRP) rule(s) covering renovations of both the exteriors and the interiors of public and commercial buildings.