Archive for the ‘Neal Flesner’ Category

Neal Flesner works with Naval CECOS Basic Class #252 at Port Hueneme, California – Construction Partnering with NAVFAC

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On Friday, April 13th, Neal Flesner of VCG visited the Naval Civil Engineer Corps Officers School, Basic Class #252 at Port Hueneme, California.  Neal reviewed some of the basic tenets of construction partnering on NAVFAC projects, shared his NAVFAC experiences and the value of collaboration on large military projects. The Civil Engineer Corps Officer Basic Qualification [...]

Neal Flesner Presents at Caltrans District 7 Resident Engineer & Partnering Award Meeting

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              On Thursday, March 8th, 2012, Neal Flesner, Construction Partnering Facilitator, facilitated a panel with Caltrans personnel and District 7 General Contractors on the benefits and best practices around partnering on Caltrans projects. The panel included: Issam Abumuhor of Caltrans Yanina Bashoura of Caltrans Emile Eid of Caltrans Mike Kotal [...]

World Class Payoffs – 2012 Marvin M. Black Awards at AGC National Convention – Honolulu, Hawaii

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Named for AGC’s 1991 President Marvin M. Black – an ardent supporter of the partnering process–the Liberty Mutual Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Awards recognize the successful partnerships and collaborations that work to improve construction projects. Contractors honored with this award stand out for their ability in the following areas: Signing a formal partnering [...]

VCG Presents at the 93rd Annual AGC National Convention in Honolulu, HI

On Thursday, March 15th, Jim Eisenhart and Neal Flesner along with Mr. Gerry Majkut of DCK Worldwide and Mr. Wayne Lindholm of Hensel Phelps Construction, presented “Raising the Bar on Construction Teamwork:  Your Projects Best Tool for Managing Risk, Controlling Cost & Achieving Overall Project Excellence & Personal Fulfillment. Mr. Majkut & Mr. Lindholm shared [...]

Q & D Construction Wins 2011 AGC PINNACLE Awards

Northern Nevada’s construction community showcased its best work of the past year at the 13th annual PINNACLE Awards, sponsored by the Nevada Chapter of the Associated General Contractors.  The PINNACLE Awards program was established in 1999 by the Nevada Chapter AGC to honor the “Best of the Best” in Northern Nevada construction projects, recognizing construction [...]

Neal Flesner Presents at Caltrans District 7 RE Meeting

On October 5th, 2011, Mr. Neal Flesner of Ventura Consulting Group worked with a group of 100+ Caltrans District 7 Resident Engineers and Structures Representatives at the District 7 Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.  The discussion included the value of having a World Class Team on Caltrans projects, partnering best practices and implementing partnering with [...]

Hensel Phelps & Jacobs Completes $54M BEQ for Naval Base Guam – 1st LEED Gold Building

Guam – The design-build team of Jacobs and Hensel Phelps Construction Co. completed the handover of Naval Base Guam’s first LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environment Design — Gold building.  The team encountered a number of challenges, including “a few pieces of ordnance that were discovered, a couple crane challenges that we handled early [...]

Griffith Company Wins Caltrans Partnering Award

On April 27, the department joined construction industry professionals for the 2011 Caltrans “Excellence in Partnering” awards, which recognizes contractors who put into action what they learned from the Partnering Program to deliver successful highway projects throughout the state. Griffith Co. was recently awarded a Silver Caltrans Partnering Award for the Interstate 10 High Occupancy [...]