Charles Pankow Foundation Announces 2010 Advisory Council Appointments (5/17/10).
Claremont -- The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) has announced the appointment of four senior executives, all leaders in the U.S. building construction industry, to its Foundation Advisory Council. Steve Baldridge, President, Baldridge Associates Structural Engineering Inc.; Glenn Bell, Chief Executive Officer, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.; Steve Jones, Senior Director, McGraw-Hill Construction, and Mark Sarkisian, Director, SOM Structures, will advise the CPF Board and Staff in setting strategic directions and in the selection of projects and grantees for the Foundation's research grant awards program. More...
BIM Execution Planning Guide Released by Penn State (5/17/10).
Claremont -- Penn State University has announced the official release of the draft research product, "BIM Project Execution Planning Guide" to members of the buildingSMART alliance. This Guide is a practical manual that can be used by project teams for designing their building information modeling (BIM) strategy and for developing a BIM Project Execution Plan at the early stages of a building design and construction project. More...
To learn more about the achievements of Charles Pankow and how his spirit of innovation in the building industry lives on through the foundation he formed, we invite you to view this short video.
Our founder, Charles J. Pankow, distinguished himself as an entrepreneurial builder, then as a construction industry leader, and finally as a visionary industry benefactor, energizing innovation in the building industry that he loved. Learn more about his life and legacy.