“Can’t We All Just Get Along?”: Keeping Your Eye on the Ball After You’ve Been Poked in It
Room: Adams Room (Hilton – Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL)
Sponsor: 01.07 Business, Management & General Legal Education, TC 7.2 HVAC Design Build
Chair: E. Mitchell Swann, P.E., Member, MDC Systems, Paoli, PA,
Most projects are a complicated, one-time only performance by a one-time only ensemble carried out in a never-before used place. Given that newness, it isn’t unusual to have some bumps and bruises along the path. Design and construction are both science and art. Human ingenuity and technology—the science—have provided a wide array of tools and techniques to do and make projects better. There are also certain understood (sometimes unspoken) expectations and intentions regarding their use—the art. Together science and art become the custom and practice of the industry. Custom and practice create an understood standard of action or care, which professionals are expected to meet in the performance of their duties. But remember, projects can be complicated things. One person’s expectations may not align exactly with another person’s intentions. Stuff happens—and stuff always has a story to tell.
This program’s mock arbitration scenario will feature our esteemed team of professionals to represent the engineer, the owner and the contractor—and their respective legal counsels—to tell their side of the story.
THE PLAYERS
Chair: E Mitchell Swann, PE, C.Eng, FCIBSE, Principal, MDC Systems
The Engineer:
Larry Spielvogel
L. G. Spielvogel, Inc.
190 Presidential Blvd # 310
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004-1151
Phone: 610-664-2407
Cell: 215-620-1234
Fax: 610-664-2406
spielvogel@comcast.net
The Owner
Vinod P Gupta, PE
3M Corporation
Facilities Engineering
Bldg 275-6W-22, 3M Center
St. Paul, MN 55144
Phone: 651-737-2939
Fax: 651-737-3471
vpgupta@mmm.com
The Contractor
Jim Fields
Superior Mechanical Services
607 Industrial Ave
Greensboro, NC 27406-4603
(336)274-3008
Fax: (336)274-3065
jfields@superiormechserv.com
Engineer’s Attorney
James K. Bidgood, Jr.
Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP
2700 Marquis One Tower
245 Peachtree Center Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA 30303-1227
Phone: 404-582-8031
jkbidgood@smithcurrie.com
Owner’s Attorney
Daniel Brennan
Laurie & Brennan, LLP
Two North Riverside Plaza
Suite 1750
Chicago, IL 60606
Tel 312-445-8782
Fax 312-281-9010
Cell 312-504-3113
dbrennan@lauriebrennan.com
www.lauriebrennan.com
Contractor’s Attorney
Ralph Kooy, Esq.
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
227 W. Monroe Street, Suite 3850
Chicago, IL 60606
Tel (312) 775-1748
Fax (312) 372-6085
ralph.kooy@dinsmore.com
www.dinsmore.com
Arbitrator #1
Richard H Rooley, FREng
Greenways, Church Lane
Stoke Poges, SL2 4PB, UK
+44(0)1753 648040
M: +44 (0)7768 100605
richard@rooley.com
Skype: rrooley
Arbitrator #2
Ujjval Vyas, Ph.D., J.D.;
Principal, Alberti Group
900 S. Clark St., Suite 1820
Chicago, IL 60605
tel 312.810.1008
fax 312.380.4620
uvyas@albertigroup.net
Arbitrator #3
John Albrecht
ChicagoGreen, LLC
1913 Somerset Lane
Northbrook, IL 60062
tel 312-403-3944
jalbrecht@chicagogreen.com
