The Great Lakes Design and Construction Expo brings meetings and events designed to be the leading source of information for residential and commercial contractors in Michigan's construction industry.
By Invitation Only
By Invitation Only
Code Update
Safety Training
Lien Law/Payment Bonds
Scaffold
Fall Protection
Excavation
When MIOSHA Visits
A Use Case for Cross Laminated Beams
Digital Transformations for Home Builders
Home Building Business Plans
Digital Marketing for Home Builders
Using Cross Laminated Timbers in Construction
For decades, wood products have provided architects, engineers, contractors and building owners with proven structural performance and earth-friendly, cost-effective framing choices. Now, cross laminated timber (CLT) is giving North American design and construction professionals a new wood building system option. This session will look at both the science behind CLT as well as explore an overview of the state’s largest CLT project currently underway at MSU.
Digital Transformations for Home Builders
As the interactive online experience becomes more prevalent in other industries, new home shoppers are increasing their appetite for a more immersive online experience. Are you meeting the expectations of today’s shoppers?
Home Building Business Plans
Digital Marketing for Home Builders
It’s a digital world and 90% start their search online. We’ll cover the three part strategy to implement an effective digital marketing plan from customer acquisition to your wesbite and strategies to keep potential buyers engaged.
Wednesday, February 12, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Scaffold User Awareness Training
Wednesday, February 12, 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – Fall Protection Awareness Training
Thursday, February 13, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Excavation Safety Awareness Training
Thursday, February 13, 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – When MIOSHA Visits
If your license was obtained 1/1/09 or later, you must complete 21 hours of continuing education each renewal for your first and second renewals, while taking a minimum of 3 hours per year. After this 6 year period, you will be required to take 3 hours of continuing education each renewal (Code/Law/Safety). The EXPO offers multiple opportunities for you to fulfill your continuing education requirements.
Code
Wednesday, February 12, 2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Thursday, February 13, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Safety
Wednesday, February 12, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Scaffold User Awareness Training
Wednesday, February 12, 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – Fall Protection Awareness Training
Thursday, February 13, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Excavation Safety Awareness Training
Thursday, February 13, 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – When MIOSHA Visits
Law
Wednesday, February 12, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Getting Paid: Michigan Lien Law
Wednesday, February 12, 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. – Getting Paid: Contractor Payment Bonds
Thursday, February 13 – 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
It’s something all contractors strive for – delivery of higher quality projects, without negative cost impact, leading to satisfied clients. However, issues such as unplanned changes, silo-ed teams, and lack of access to the latest project information can act as a barrier to project delivery success. There are many reasons this happens, but it ultimately comes down to just one thing – a lack of connected information.
Whether you’re a commercial, residential, or trade contractor you’ll learn the benefits and easy ways to connect design and build for more predictable project delivery – all starting with making design data more widely available, to anyone who needs it, throughout the project life cycle. That means providing ways to help get you the right data, in the right format, to the right team member, on whatever device they want to work on. You will walk away with practical information and steps on how to better connect teams and information on your projects.
Wednesday, February 12 – 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
In partnership with Control4, the Paulson’s team will present on the different levels of “smart” home technology, and how having a professional partner empowers builders and homeowners to plan and execute their ideal space with the best options for integrating form and function of this evolving technology.
Wednesday, February 12 – 2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Your website is just like any other piece of equipment used for your business. It must be regularly maintained for optimum performance. Stop neglecting one of your most important business tools! Learn actionable things you can do right now to improve both your website and use it to solve some of your biggest business problems: brand recognition, skilled worker recruitment, and generating new sales leads. Digital marketing experts from The Whole Brain Group will present real-life website examples from the construction industry and provide you with actionable things you can do right now to improve your website.
Wednesday, February 12 – 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Digital tools are reshaping construction both in the field and in the office, but owners and managers don’t need a revolution– just simple tools that actually work for your business to solve everyday inefficiencies.
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