Week of November 18

CM Department News

It's surprisingly quiet. Must mean that finals are coming...

Job Leads

For those actively looking for jobs, check out this follow-up post on leveling job offers.

Still a few companies looking for interns:

Horizon Glass (NEW!): Junior Construction Management class to start up in a Project Management / Jr. Estimating position in a commercial glazing company in West Sacramento.

Michelle Klein
(P) 916-373-9900 ext. 109
(F) 916-373-9930
(C) 916-612-8820
(E) [email protected]

Flint Builders: The position is part-time and starts immediately, and is based in our Roseville office, working remotely for a jobsite near Arcata.  For more info, contact: Megan Actkinson, Marketing Coordinator, LEED BD+C
Flint Builders  401 Derek Place, Roseville CA 95678 l (916) 757-1000 office l (916) 825-2388 mobile l www.flintbuilders.com

Director of Field Operations: This position is for a more experienced person looking to for something not strictly construction management.  I have a former student that is the VP of Operations at Sungevity.  Sungevity, a residential solar sales and installation program looking for Director of Field Ops to oversee our installation and service operations. Solar installs closely mirror construction in how it requires multiple phases, permits, roof construction.  Let me know if you are interested or know someone who is.

Capital Commercial Flooring Inc.: CCF is a commercial flooring company based in Sacramento with annual sales over $10 million with over 50 installers.  They are looking for an intern to help with submittals, LEED information, safety, takeoffs/estimating, writing proposals purchasing materials and scheduling.  This is a great opportunity to work with a specialty subcontractor and you will experience many aspect of managing construction work. If interested, contact me.

What's Going on In Classes

It's about to get bananas. This is out last full week before Thanksgiving.

CM 121: Goodyear is due this week. Submit your estimate electronically by the end of your respective lab period. See SacCT for more details. In lecture, we will be talking about estimating subcontractor work (Tuesday) and the estimating process (Thursday). Lab will be allocated to working on McKinley Park.

CM 124: We'll basically be working on the final project. Gareth posted info on SacCT.

CM 126: Monday's presentations will be the trio of Neil Devlin, Edgar Fuerte, and Kyle Simonini. Read the case study and ask questions as appropriate. Wednesday's presentations will be Rob Clark and Dan Millan. We will also be discussing Case 7 (Rattlesnake Rd), which is due Wednesday morning (see SacCT for details).

As a heads up, we will be having four presentations on Monday, November 25 (Efrain Ramirez, Arturo Marin, Mark Dantes, and Jason Miller). We will also be having a quiz that day. There's no class on Wednesday Nov. 27.

The following week, we will have two guest lectures from industry: C.W. Driver on Technology and Swinerton is bringing two Superintendents to talk to you about running projects. I'm looking forward to both. There will be questions on the final based on both guest lectures. You've been warned.