Mark Rayfield, CEO, Saint-Gobain North America and CertainTeed is joining the lineup of speakers at the Constructech Technology Days Conference, taking place on August 21 – 22, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago – Arlington Heights, Ill.
Rayfield is the CEO of Saint-Gobain North America, one of the world’s largest building materials companies and manufacturer of innovative material solutions. He also serves as CEO of CertainTeed, Saint-Gobain’s leading manufacturer of building materials for commercial and residential construction.
On August 22, Peggy Smedley, editorial director, Constructech magazine, and president of Specialty Publishing Media, will sit down and have a one-on-one with Rayfield to discuss the transformative efforts to increase its agility and drive the growth of the company’s building solutions businesses in the United States and Canada.
“The future of construction is lean. Labor shortages, rising costs, and the need for more dynamic and sustainable structures offers a huge opportunity for us to help set the example of what lean construction means for the rest of the world,” says Rayfield. “I’m thrilled to be joining Peggy on stage to discuss Saint-Gobain North America’s efforts to create integrated products, services, and solutions that contribute to reducing the environmental impacts of buildings and processes while delivering greater comfort and well-being.”
This unique Q&A format will allow Smedley to get personal with Rayfield and to tackle the many challenges facing both the manufacturing and construction industries. The two will get serious about the hurdles related to waste in a tight labor market, as well as the need to reskill and reassess what is impacting the construction trades on a global scale. In addition, they will address such topics as sustainability, new construction materials, urbanization, and the market ahead for the next generation of workers.
“I respect Mark’s passion about inspiring and equipping the new generation of young workers to become involved in the construction industry,” says Smedley. “The only way we are going to solve the labor and trade gap is by all parlaying our expertise for a discourse that achieves something for the greater good of the industry—and that conversation continues at Technology Days in August.”
This event will also feature the following speakers:
· Emcee: Sandra Benson, worldwide head of engineering and construction, Amazon
· Emcee: Nancy Novak, SVP of construction, Compass Datacenters
· Jacquelyn Adams, senior member, IEEE, CEO, Ristole
· Ed Brady, President and CEO, Home Builders Institute (HBI)
· Christian Burger, principal, Burger Consulting Group
· Keith Churchill, corporate manager of construction technology, Bechtel
· Susan Dalton, VP, smart technologies & IoT, GCP Applied Technologies
· Garrett Denney, product marketing manager, Jamf
· Marsia Geldert-Murphy, board of direction, ASCE, and regional director – Illinois and Missouri operations, Lochmueller Group
· Tina Gravel, SVP of global channels and alliances, Cyxtera
· Eric Hollister, sr. director of electric tools & accessories, Hilti
· Tom Kelly, director of capital development and buildings administration, Wayne County, Michigan
· Adam Klatzkin, VP, business development – iTwin services, Bentley Systems, Inc.
· Maria Laguarda-Mallo, researcher and project manager, VIATechnik
· Donna Laquidara-Carr, industry insights research director, Dodge Data & Analytics
· Darin Marsden, director of productivity technologies, Faith Technologies, Inc.
· Amy Marks, CEO, XSite Modular
· Geoff Mulligan, member, IEEE, CTO, IIot Jabil, cofounder, Skylight
· Michael Oster, CEO, Gemba Technologies
· Dan Patterson, chief design officer, InEight
· Shawn Phillips, director virtual design/BIM, F.H. Paschen
· Chris Price, President, Indiana Construction Roundtable and Indiana Construction Roundtable Foundation
· Justin Schmidt, construction technology corporate service leader, DPR Construction
· Scott Schober, CEO, Berkeley Varitronics Systems, author Hacked Again
· Lindsay Shanley, senior associate | project manager, Harley Ellis Devereaux
· Renee Tyler, director of transportation services, City of Dubuque, Iowa
· Emily Violette, global account executive, Schneider Electric
To see the complete agenda, please visit https://constructech.com/agenda/