CSR’s, Frank Carr, Facilitates 19 Partnering Facilitation Workshops in 2018-2019

Frank Carr, CSR’s Lead Partnering Facilitator, conducted 19 workshops during the past two years in 6 states and two international locations (Diego Garcia and the Marshall Islands). The list of Frank’s partnering facilitations is set forth below and includes the Eisenhower Memorial on the Mall in DC, the new Chesapeake Bridge Tunnel expansion, reservoir-dam projects, […] Read more »

CSR Partnering Faciliation Year-End Review 2018-2019

Partnering Facilitation – 2019 CSR partner, Frank Carr, started off the 2019 new year with a partnering workshop facilitation for NAVFAC and the Military & Federal Construction Company at Cherry Point, North Carolina.  The project is P766 F-35 Lift Station Repair Facility Project, for the Marine Corps Fleet Readiness Center (FRC-East). Dispute Review Boards (DRB) […] Read more »

GSA Awards CSR a New MOBIS Schedule Contract

The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded CSR a new MOBIS schedule contract extending over the next 5 years.  MOBIS is an acronym for GSA’s “Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services” vehicle which companies like CSR use to offer consulting and training services to the federal government.  Under its MOBIS schedule, CSR is able to offer […] Read more »

CSR Conducts Three day Mediation Workshop in Rio

CSR’s Bob Randolph and Frank Carr have just returned from conducting a successful three-day mediation workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was CSR’s third trip to Brazil to conduct mediation training. Given Frank Carr’s and CSR’s expertise in construction dispute resolution, the workshop focused on construction mediation issues that Brasil companies might face in […] Read more »

DIEGO GARCIA PARTNERING WORKSHOP

CSR director, Frank Carr, recently facilitated a two-day partnering workshop on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean. The partnering participants were the U.S. Navy and its BOS (Base Operations Support) contractor. Prior to the commencement of the workshop, Mr. Carr administered a pre-workshop survey that helped the stakeholders focus on their relationship, expectations, […] Read more »

SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF DISPUTE REVIEW BOARDS

In 2015, CSR partner, Frank Carr, successfully completed two Dispute Review Boards where the disputes had been pending for a number of years. As Chairman of the Board in Washington, D.C., Frank reports that there were no disputes remaining between the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) and its contractor at the conclusion of the […] Read more »

CSR World-Wide Partnering Workshops–2015

During 2015, CSR partner Frank Carr facilitated partnering workshops from Washington State in the West to Pennsylvania in the North to Florida in the South and to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The partnered projects ranged from construction of facilities to dams and to Base Operations Support (BOS) contracts. In each of the workshops, […] Read more »

Frank Carr Updates: Disputes Review Board Work, Partnering Workshops and Nepal Lecture

Disputes Review Board (DRB) Chairman Selection – Construction In January 2013, CSR partner, Frank Carr, was selected as the DRB Chairman of the Dispute Review Board for the Greenbelt Test Track and Commissioning Facility project by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Owner) and Skanska USA Civil Southeast, Inc. (Contractor).  The project is for the […] Read more »