This page hosts all four presentations John Tocci and Laura Handler made at Autodesk University between Dec. 2nd – Dec. 4th. Below is a recap of their presentation schedule. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for more information, we look forward to speaking with you: 781.935.5500, email us.

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Autodesk University
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: December 2nd, 2008
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Info: Laura Handler, Virtual Construction Manager of Tocci Building Companies and John Tocci Jr. of Gilbane Co. will be teaching a course entitled: BIM 101 A Crash Course for Builders (course number CR114-2).

Autodesk University
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: December 3rd, 2008
Time: 8:00-9:30am
Info: John Tocci, CEO of Tocci Building Companies will be a keynote speaker at this conference which encompasses several industries and has over 10,000 attendees (course number KN200-2).

Autodesk University
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: December 3rd, 2008
Time: 7:00-8:30pm
Info: Laura Handler, Virtual Construction Manager at Tocci Building Companies will be part of the Pecha Kucha style evening of presentations, she will be representing the construction industry.

Autodesk University
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: December 4th, 2008
Time: 1:00-2:30
Info: Laura Handler, Virtual Construction Manager at Tocci Building Companies and Sarah Vekasy, Project Architect at KlingStubbins will be teaching an afternoon course on their joint Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) project Autodesk (course number CR310-1).

WOBURN, November 19th, 2008 Tocci is the recipient of a 2008 ABC (Associated Builders & Contractors) Excellence in Construction Award for our work on the Starwood International Hotels and Resort’s aloft® and element® hospitality campus in Lexington, MA. The project marked:

• Tocci’s most significant use of VDC for preconstruction planning to date (at the time)
• Tocci’s introduction of VDC into the field to support day-to-day construction process
• New England’s first Gold LEED hotel
• Launch of Safety Fine Program
• And the project delivered on-time and on budget (truly!)

Members of the project team were: Joe Cavallaro, Project Manager; Rich Regitano, Assistant Project Manager and LEED Process Manager; Bob Tierney, General Superintendent; John White, Lead Project Superintendent; Willie Von Rumpf, Lead Project Superintendent; Ken Dubois, Project Superintendent; Martin Kelly, Project Superintendent; Kevin Stys, Assistant Superintendent; Nadine Oliver; Project Administrator; Cheryl Douchette, Accounts Payable Coordinator; Joe Ferolito, VP Cost Engineering and Construction Planning; Jack Short, Director Construction Planning; Raquel Perez, Junior Cost Engineer; Laura Handler, Virtual Construction Manager; and Jaime MacFall, Virtual Construction Coordinator.

element as seen through the aloft lobby on the dual hotel campus

WOBURN, November 17th, 2008 Tocci Building Companies is pleased to announce that the prototype element hotel, which Tocci finished building in July, has achieved LEED Gold Certification. After an initial confirmation that the project would easily achieve LEED Silver certification, the final evaluation approved Gold level. This result is especially rewarding considering that the project was already several months into construction before the owner (Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc.) decided to pursue LEED.

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October 20, 2008 WOBURN, MA. Two weeks ago, John Tocci, Laura Handler and Jack Short joined two hundred more BIM and VDC enthusiasts at the BIMForum working meeting in Washington DC. The theme of this BIMForum meeting was “BIM with others”; attendees discussed how teams share or co-create Building Information Models.

The BIMForum is the AGC’s committee dedicated to “making BIM work now”; John Tocci is the chairperson.

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Pictures taken by Gilbane’s John Tocci Jr.