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Posts Tagged ‘Tucker Elliott’
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
 Left to right: Tucker Elliott, Bob Vail, Sharon Scott, Diana Chalmers, Richard Leach and Joe Morris On April 5 & 6 we held our annual two day renewal at Welshfield Inn in Burton, Ohio. The renewal is an important tool in our internal management process, where we apply our expertise in analyzing construction projects to our own company, by reviewing the previous year’s successes and its bloopers.
Historically, we have learned that the renewal is very valuable because we take the time to go off-site, and honestly look at where we’ve been and how we got there. Then we use those insights to set reasonable goals for the upcoming year.
After a day and half of brain-storming, we leave the site and go spend the second afternoon “playing”.
This year we celebrated Tucker Elliott’s birthday with a delicious lunch at The Great Lakes Brew Pub in Cleveland, followed by a quick tour of Cleveland’s Historic West Side Market, which is just down the street from the restaurant. The West Side Market has more than 100 ethnic vendor booths offering a wide variety of foods ranging from exotic pastas to goat’s heads.
Once done at The West Side Market, we finished our afternoon with a visit to The Greater Cleveland Aquarium, which opened on January 21 in the West Bank of the Flats. The aquarium was an interesting mix of the architecture of the old FirstEnergy Powerhouse and the new aquatic exhibits. Fun was had by children of all ages… including us!
Tags: analyzing construction projects, Bob Vail, Cleveland's Historic West Side Market, Diana Chalmers, Diana J. Chalmers, FirstEnergy Powerhouse, Joe Morris, Joseph W. Morris, M. Tucker Elliott, Richard Leach, Richard P. Leach, Robert L. Vail, Robert Vail, Sharon Scott, The Great Lakes Brew Pub, The Greater Cleveland Aquarium, The West Side Market, Tucker Elliott, VN Services, Welshfield Inn
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
 Port of Seattle and Mount Rainier Tucker just returned from the 2011 annual conference for the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) in Seattle, Washington. Attendees came from a variety of countries, including the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Turkey.
Dispute resolution boards (sometimes called dispute review boards or just DRBs) provide large projects with a means for resolving disputes during the life of the project rather than waiting until the end of the project, when problems are more pronounced and the parties’ positions are more entrenched.
Research shows that the success rates for resolving disputes and avoiding litigation in this way are phenomenal compared to more traditional methods. In essence, using a DRB provides significant reduction in cost and schedule overruns and in many cases helps a project come in under budget and ahead of schedule. DRBs are similar to having a standing arbitration panel, except that they are much cheaper and more timely, because they are used during the project instead of after the project is completed.
If you would like to know more about DRB’s, please feel free to call or email Tucker. He is trained by the DRBF in this process, and can assist you if you believe that you are in need of a dispute review board member.
Tags: arbitration, Claims Support, Construction Claims, construction dispute, construction dispute resolution, DBRF, Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, dispute review board member, dispute review boards, Tucker Elliott, VN Services
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
 Tucker Elliott just got back from his trip to Amman, Jordan and Doha, Qatar. The Amman trip was a quarterly meeting for VNI’s Rotana Hotel Project in Baghdad, where we are the Owners’ Reps. He then went to Qatar to discuss possible work on upcoming projects, as there is a great deal of new construction occurring all over the region.
Tucker also had the opportunity to learn more about Ramadan, which was being observed at that time. He took part in Iftar (the breaking of the daily fast) and got to try some fantastic local dishes and juice drinks. His favorite of the drinks was “Jallab”, a mixture of date juice with rose water topped with pine nuts. Google it!
Clearly August is a tough time to go to Qatar, as the temperature was over 106 degrees F with extremely high humidity! Although Qatar is a desert environment, it is located on the Persian Gulf and is incredibly humid.
All in all, an exciting trip into an expanding world.
Tags: Doha, Iftar, Persian Gulf, Qatar, Ramadan, Rotana Hotel, Rotana Hotel Baghdad, Tucker Elliott, Vail Network, VN Services, VNI
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