Building and Construction

Builders Gear Up For Good Year

Leaders in the building and construction trade do this only once a year. They convene with the interdependent entities that make up their business and hash out the challenges that they individually and collectively face.

Ingram’s Magazine is honored to be the organization that pulls them all together. This year, Ingram’s Industry Outlook assembly unfolded Friday, February 24 at the Burns & McDonnell world headquarters on Ward Parkway. Chairing the event were Greg Graves, CEO of Burns & McDonnell, and Terry Dunn, CEO of J.E. Dunn Construction. Dunn, by the way, chaired the first-ever Industry Outlook assembly on Building and Construction, which was the first of any kind. This year’s was the fifth.

Co-sponsoring the event were Burns & McDonnell and the Lockton Companies, ably represented by Grover Simpson and Patrick Pribyl. In attendance too was Kansas City, Missouri City Manager Wayne Cauthen, as well as an impressive array of top executives from the engineering, architecture, construction, labor, legal, insurance and government fields. The event distinguished itself for the high level of critical information that was exchanged freely.

Quality People

As a first question, attendees were asked to cite the most pressing challenge facing the construction industry in Kansas City. There was not quite a consensus on the answer, but nearly one.

Greg Graves
Burns McDonnell

Terry Dunn
J.E. Dunn Construction

Jack Cashill
Ingram’s Magazine

Grover Simpson
Lockton Companies

Patrick Pribyl
Lockton Companies

Don Greenwood
Burns & McDonnell

Wayne Cauthen
City of Kansas City, Missouri

Michael McClure
City of Kansas City, Missouri Capital Improvements Office

Matt Ruark
Collateral Mortgage

Susan McGreevy
Husch & Eppenberger

Rosana Privitera-Biondo
Mark One Electric

Rick Wallace
GKC Building & Construction Trades

Dennis Thompson
Walton Construction

Clint Blew
BNIM Architects

Ernie Straub III
Straub Construction

Bob Arthur
Commerce Bank

Khensa Karim
SMACNA

Robert Zahner
SMACNA, A. Zahner Company

David Rezac
360 Architecture

K.C. Borden
NECA

John Foudray
MC Lioness Realty Group

Bob Gould
Gould Evans

Don Greenwell
The Builders’ Association

Craig Scranton
BNIM Architects