Construction Contracts, Plans and Project Scheduling: 

A Project Manager’s Guide to the Practical and Legal Fundamentals 

Brian Cashmere 

Brian focuses his practice on the representation of contractors, subcontractors and sureties on a wide variety of issues relevant to public and private construction and government contracting.  Brian’s practice includes the representation of construction contractors and sureties with respect to bid protests, contract administration, claim preparation and prosecution on federal, state, municipal and private contracts.  He is experienced in all stages of complex, commercial litigation at the state and federal level.  In addition, his experience extends to the area of admiralty law, to include maritime contract administration and litigation. 

Henry D. Danforth 

Henry represents and advises construction contractors and sureties with respect to bid protests, contract administration, claim preparation and prosecution on federal, state, municipal and private contracts.  He prepares claims on a regular basis, including delay analyses, acceleration analyses and damages on heavy industrial, public works and military and commercial projects.  He has represented potentially responsible parties, response action contractors, industrial concerns, sureties and construction contractors in a broad spectrum of environmental issues involving CERCLA and state/federal legislation and regulations on hazardous materials/waste, underground storage tanks, water and air quality, and wetlands.  Henry provides invaluable experience to his clients as a former project engineer for  a general contractor concentrating on federal and municipal defense and public works projects. 

Fire Rated Duct Enclosures-Impact of Code Changes 

Sarah E. Brewer 

Sarah is a Group Product Manager for Unifrax I LLC.  She has 20 years experience, holding various engineering and marketing positions supporting the North American passive fires protection business.  Ms. Brewer has lead numerous fire protection projects teams involving fire protection testing programs and new product commercialization.  She has been active in code and standards development through participation in ASTM, UL technical committees and the ICC codes change process.  Ms. Brewer is the current President of the International Firestop Council (IFC) and Chairperson of the Duct Committee.  Ms. Brewer is a member of the ASTM E05 Fires Standards Subcommittee, NFPA, Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) and the UL STP: UL 1978 Standards Technical Panel. 

Download Sarah's Presentation:  ESICA Duct Wrap Presentation 6-08 (40 MB)