Engineering News-Record and Construction Users Roundtable to Host Construction Business Forum on June 10-11 in St. Louis, MO

Robert Murray, vice president of economic affairs for McGraw-Hill Construction, will share facts and figures for planning in this year's bumpy market with the Forum's 300 attendees. His update to the 2008 projections for U.S. construction start activity will offer insights on changing prospects for nonresidential building and public works. This will be the first presentation of 2008 where the Economic Outlook Midyear Report will be distributed.

Participants will also meet and network with major owners to learn about construction trends and to discuss timely industry issues, such as the business case for sustainability, workforce case studies, and successful collaboration in a technology-driven age. Presenters will examine changing industry dynamics and exchange ideas for adapting in a global environment where construction costs are rapidly rising and contractor resources shrinking. The Forum audience is made up of owners, contractors, facility managers, construction managers, engineers, architects, equipment and building product manufacturers.

The Forum program includes a keynote presentation by Luc J. Messier, senior vice president of Project Development, ConocoPhillips; and welcoming and opening remarks by Jerome Klint, vice president of Construction, Ameristar Casinos; Jay McGraw, group publisher of McGraw-Hill Construction; and Greg Sizemore, executive vice president, Construction Users Roundtable. Other prominent speakers include representatives from:

    Air Products
    Alberici Enterprises
    BE&K Inc.
    Bloom General Contracting, Inc.
    Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
    Burns & McDonnell
    DuPont
    Fluor Corporation, Energy and Chemicals
    General Motors
    Gilbane Building Co.
    Intel Corporation
    Jacobs Architecture and Engineering Practice
    Parsons Corp.
    PepsiCo
    Public Buildings Service Great Lakes Region
    Rudolph/Libbe
    Shell
    The American Institute of Architects
    U.S. Green Building Council
    Vulcan Insulation

More information and online registration are available at www.construction.com/events/cbf2008/, or contact Cristina Hoepker at 866-727-3820 or cristina_hoepker@mcgraw-hill.com. CURT members can contact the CURT office at 513-563-4131 or construction-users@curt.org.

The ENR/CURT Construction Business Forum is produced by McGraw-Hill Construction Events; Engineering News-Record, the leading source of news, data, trends and analysis for the construction industry; and the Construction Users Roundtable, an autonomous organization that provides a forum for the exchange of information, views, practices and policies of owners at the national and local level. The Forum is sponsored by the Building and Construction Trades Department AFL-CIO, Computer Methods International Corp. (CMiC), National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER), and Walton Construction with supporting sponsorship by Alberici Enterprises, Artemis International Solutions Corporation (AISC), Beck Technology, Career Smith, and Sprint-Nextel.

About McGraw-Hill Construction

McGraw-Hill Construction connects people, projects and products across the design and construction industry. For more than a century, the Company has remainedNorth America's leading provider of construction project information, plans and specifications, product information, industry news, and industry trends and forecasts. In print and online, the Company offers a variety of tools, applications, and resources that easily integrate with its customers' workflows. Backed by the power of Dodge, Sweets, Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record (ENR), GreenSource and 11 regional publications, McGraw-Hill Construction serves more than one million customers within the $4.6 trillion global construction community. To learn more, visit www.construction.com.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies

Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a leading global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands including Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, BusinessWeek and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2007 were $6.8 billion. Additional information is available at www.mcgraw-hill.com.

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