Dean Findley will present "IPA – Project Delivery Best Practices" at the Houston Business Roundtable’s Project Management Forum. The presentation will discuss plant-level projects and will focus on Front-End Loading (FEL), estimating and cost control, and project delivery system Best Practices.

• Date: April 20, 2005
• Location: Houston Business Roundtable’s Office, Houston, Texas

Houston Business Roundtable’s
Project Management Forum

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
HBR Office (8031 Airport Blvd., Suite 118)

Note to Professional Engineers - This forum should meet the Texas State licensing requirement for continuing education credits.

Presenter: Dean Findley, IPA Regional Director North America

The April Project Management Forum will feature a presentation by Dean Findley, Regional Director North America for Independent Project Analysis. Since its founding in 1987, IPA has become a world leader in project evaluation and in project system benchmarking, and has become the industry leader in quantitative analysis of project management systems. IPA has a staff of about 80 project analysis professionals at four offices on four continents serving dozens of clients. The largest oil companies, chemical producers, pharmaceutical companies, forest product companies, and consumer products manufacturers enhance their capital productivity using IPA's project evaluation system and project system benchmarking services.

After a general overview of the capital project benchmarking process used by IPA, Mr. Findley will direct his remarks on plant level projects that will include focus on front end loading, estimating and cost control and project delivery system best practices.

To register for this forum please send the following information to HBR via return e-mail (houbrt@msn.com) or fax to 713-645-2812.

This forum is free to all members/subscribers, non–members pay a fee of $25.

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Registrations must be received by April 19th