South Carolina's State Engineer/CPO for Construction presents Higher Education & Capital Projects Forecast

 

May 29, 2014
11:30 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
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Holiday Inn and Suites Columbia Airport
110 McSwain Dr.
West Columbia, SC 29169
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Is your firm interested in securing work for state and higher education agencies in South Carolina? Are you interested in learning what capital projects South Carolina’s higher education institutions plan to procure in the next five years? Please join us in Columbia on Thursday May 29th as South Carolina’s State Engineer and CPO for Construction, John White PE, discusses the different procurement / delivery methods that are used by state agencies and some trends that might define future procurement methods for state funded projects. Mr. White will also provide an overview of South Carolina’s higher education institutions capital projects expected to take place over the next five years.

 

About our Speaker…John White, P.E., is a 1982 Civil Engineering graduate of Clemson University and a 1991 graduate of the University of South Carolina School of law. Mr. White has experience with construction from multiple perspectives. Mr. White has worked as an engineer for an industrial contractor in the Appalachian coalfields; an engineer for the City of Charleston, SC; the engineering supervisor for the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development; the engineering supervisor for the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks; an attorney for the law firm of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart in their construction law section; and, as the State Engineer for the State of South Dakota. Mr. White has been the State Engineer for the State of South Carolina since February 1, 2007.

 

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Tickets

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$25.00 SMPS Members only
$35.00 after 8:00 am May 27
$20.00 Earlybird rate before May 19

$40.00 Non- SMPS Members
$50.00 after 8:00 am May 27
$35.00 Earlybird rate before May 19

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