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Chapter news, Continued from page 23

The chapter’s Annual Awards Dinner & Silent Auction will be held on Thursday, April 15 from 6:30pm – 9:30pm at the Reagan National Airport Historic Terminal A Lobby. This evening benefits the NCC Scholarship Fund. The evening features the presentation of the 2009 chapter Project Achievement Awards and the 2010 Scholarship Recipients, and, of course, the Silent Auction. All CMAA members planning to be in Washington, DC at that time are invited to attend! Please visit the NCC website for registration details.

as Turner Construction, Walsh Construction, Cotter Consulting, Bovis Lend Lease, and Parsons Brinckerhoff, where the students were exposed to best practices on some very large and important projects. The on‑campus guest lecture schedule has concentrated on current hot topics such as BIM, Green Project Management, and IPD. Social events included professional golf instruction and practice, to be held again in April. The chapter sent four student members to CMAA’s National Conference in Tampa, FL. What is new to the chapter is the concentration on providing extracurricular accreditation training to the student members. Starting this semester, LEED‑GA and CMIT training are offered and plans include adding OSHA and BIM training. All the chapter’s activities are driven by constantly growing membership and active support of the host regional CMAA Chicago Chapter.

Illinois Institute of Technology Student Chapter
Starting in September 2009, the CMAA Student Chapter has been working to deliver better career and technical expertise to its membership, which has tripled since then. The chapter took advantage of the Chicagoland area by organizing site visits to several construction sites hosted by companies such

Professional Development Calendar
national Meetings:
Owners Forum
May 2–4 Atlanta, GA This new event will put the views, interests, priorities and needs of owners in the spotlight. Attend and find out what’s on the minds of leading owners, and what they expect from their CM service providers.

Water Summit
July 18–20 Kansas City, MO Hear directly from the experts, including leading system owners, what they expect and need to manage and expand their systems in the years ahead.

See the full schedule of CMAA webinars.

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