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The Greater New York Construction User Council and The Building Trades Employers' Assn. to host "Constructing the Economic Recovery" - April 21

The Greater New York Construction User Council and The Building Trades Employers' Association will be hosting a special conference and exhibition featuring business opportunities for the construction industry titled, "Constructing The Economic Recovery," on April 21, at The Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers located on 811 Seventh Avenue, New York from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. This conference will provide critical information for contractors, private, public and institutional real estate owners, lenders, facility managers, corporate and institutional tenants, architects, engineers, project managers, and all related construction industry professionals. The Exhibition will feature: Welcome and Opening Remarks from Conference Chair: * Kenneth Block, Esq., partner, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP Keynote Speaker: * Robert Lieber, New York City Deputy Mayor, Economic Development Panel One: Rebuilding Our Nation's Infrastructure-From Housing to Highways * Hank Harris, president and managing director, FMI (Chair) * Michael Della Rocca, president and regional manager of North America, Halcrow * Jonathan F.P. Rose, president, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC * David Tweedy, chief of capital planning, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Panel Two: Green Retrofitting of Public and Private Buildings * Michael Deane, LEED AP, vice president and chief sustainability officer, Turner Construction (Chair) * Russel Albanese, president, Albanese Organization, Inc. * Terri Coffel, CPA, partner of Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP * James Dobbs, J.D., LLM, senior vice president, Versar * Marc Spector, AIA, principal, Spector Group Panel Three: Public-Private Partnerships for Municipal & Institutional Construction * Louis Coletti, president & CEO, Building & Trades Employers' Association (Chair) * Kenneth Levien, AIA, president & founder , Levien & Company * David Lowenfeld, partner, The World-Wide Group * Ross Moskowitz, Esq., partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP * John Livingston, president, Tishman Construction Corporation Panel Four: Renewable Energy for the 21st Century * Ralph Avallone, president, International Green Energy Counsel (Chair) * Scott Furman, Esq., partner, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP * Ashok Gupta, Air & Energy program director, Natural Resource Defense Council * Anthony Pereira, president & CEO, AltPower * Paul Gevertzman, CPA, tax partner, Anchin, Block & Anchin, LLP. For more information visit www.economicrecovery.biz.
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