This year’s User Meeting was like none other as we tackled the current economic issues by demonstrating how you can work better and more efficiently. 

Tekla was proud to have  Bill Hornaday as our keynote speaker for the Tekla Structures 2009 North American User Meeting.  As President of The Weitz Company Rocky Mountain Region, Bill uses his extensive experience in retail, mountain, and office building construction to manage all operations.  A Construction Engineering graduate of Iowa State University, Bill has prospered in the industry for nearly 35 years and serves as a construction industry resource for a variety of publications, while also sharing strategic and management approaches with local media outlets.

Bill discussed leveraging Lean Project Planning and Virtual Design and Construction to create new project delivery paradigms. One tool that helps Weitz achieve such innovation initiatives is working with their Design Team and their trade partners who use the Tekla Structures software application. Using the building information model to inform all aspects of project planning, reduces risk and removes constraints encountered in project delivery.  Learn from a prominent national Contractor their vision of future collaboration and project delivery innovation.

-       Opportunities for new relationships with General Contractors

-       Future relationships that move across commercial boundaries

-       How do your services fit in an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) model

-       The benefit of Modeling as a communication tool

-       New mutually beneficial relationships that reduce your risk and increase your profit

Weitz’s legacy of innovation and change that has sustained the company for over 150 years.  The corporate culture, continually adaptation to changing times and customer needs, means that innovation is engrained in their DNA. The Weitz leadership team challenges the employees to examine and propose ideas on how to “Reset” the earliest interaction with a project.  Approaching challenges as a team results in an old company with a young soul.

Below is the UM09 Conference Agenda Overview.  Download the detailed technical agenda (PDF) at My Tekla.



Download the detailed technical agenda (PDF) at My Tekla.