Christopher Speer

• Addressing the generational shift: what are the strategies for knowledge transfer and backfilling critical skills?
• Assessing policy and immigration impacts on labor availability, including pathways for bringing skilled labor from other states or countries
• Understanding retention and attraction strategies that make a project “the job of choice” for skilled trades
• Evaluating union vs non-union labor markets, and the impact on workforce planning across western states

Multi-Region Panel

• Demonstrating how early trade input can improve cost-efficiency and speed-to-market
• Embedding trades in design reviews to prevent downstream rework
• Empowering trades to influence procurement timing and sequencing
• Gathering lessons learned from past projects to current designs

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