BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20200313T123000Z DTEND:20200313T140000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Cancelled! Conversations with... Barbara Kroncke\, Executive Director\, UMBA DESCRIPTION:This is an AGC MA Members Only Program\n\n \n\nOn March 13\, 2020\, AGC MA welcomes Barbara Kroncke\, Executive Director of the UMass Building Authority for another in a series of "Conversations With .." workshops. \n\n \n\nBarbara Kroncke is the Executive Director of the University of Massachusetts Building Authority. She oversees an ambitious $2.1 billion growth plan that includes the acquisition and construction of and renovation to academic and research buildings\, student residence halls and dining and athletic facilities on all five of the University of Massachusetts campuses.\n\n\n\nThe Building Authority is currently managing more than 36 construction projects\, each designed to improve teaching\, learning and student life at the Amherst\, Boston\, Dartmouth\, Lowell\, and Worcester campuses of the University. Ms. Kroncke\, works together with the University President\, Martin T. Meehan\, the Board of Trustees\, and the campuses to deliver cost-effective\, sustainable and high quality construction of world class buildings to support the mission of the University.\n\n\n\nTopics will include:\n\n\n Upcoming UMBA projects\n Preferences on alternative delivery methods\, including P-3's \n UMBA prequalification and bidding procedures\n Continued dialogue on achieving best practices on UMBA and public construction projects X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: