1. business and industrial
2. construction

YOU ARE CORDIALLY
INVITED TO ATTEND
Friday, February 20, 2015
To be held at:
Hyatt Regency at Monterey,
Regency Conference Center
1 Old Golf Course Rd. Monterey, CA 93940
Agenda at-a-Glance
Breakfast
Big Sur
Cypress
Spyglass
Windjammer
8:00 AM
Plastering Into The 21st
Century - What You
Need To Know!
Job Site Safety
Design, Use and
Selection of
Permeable Pavers
How Can Contractors
Avoid Getting Sued?*
9:15 AM
Concrete
Troubleshooting
Storm Water
Compliance
Segmental
Retaining Walls
Customer
Focused Selling*
10:30 AM
A delicious continental breakfast will be available from 7:30 a.m. until 8:00 a.m.
Concrete Repair
& Renovation
How To Conduct Great
Safety Meetings
Fabrication of
Natural Stone
The Do’s and Don’ts
Social Media 101
For Business
Lunch
Big Sur
Cypress
Spyglass
Windjammer
1:00 PM
How To Select the
Proper Aggregate
Electronic Plan Room
New Trends in Green
Building: What is an
Environmental Product
Declaration?
Where’s My Water?
- Drought and the
Impending Cease and
Desist Order
2:15 PM
A delicious hot lunch will be available from 11:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
Stone Care - What You
Should Know
Common Job Site
Electrical Hazards
Uncommon Marketing
Strategies
Water Harvesting
Over 70 Vendors and Exhibits throughout the day in the Regency Grand Ballroom
All Seminars are AIA APPROVED (unless otherwise noted*) - Be sure to sign-up at each class
Live Demonstration Schedule
Time
Area A
Area B
8:15 - 9:00 AM
Concut
Quikrete
9:15 - 10:00 AM
Montana Rockworks
New Look
10:15 - 11:00 AM
Laticrete/Lompoc Stone
Protecto Wrap
11:15 - 11:45 AM
BoldStone
Stegmeier
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his year’s Graniterock CONTRACTOR EXPO is bigger and better
than ever before! The EXPO will be exclusively for the architect, the
designer, the professional contractor, the professional tradesmen, for
YOU! The CONTRACTOR EXPO 2015 is being held by invitation only.
There are a limited number of seats available and they will be on a first come,
first-served basis. Please,send your RSVP in early.
Graniterock is pleased to offer a highly informative day that is absolutely free.
You have been invited to be one of a select few to hear experts in the field
deliver high-powered seminars that address issues, questions and situations
you face on the job every day. This year you will find a significantly larger
number of product exhibitors in the Grand Ballroom.
Choose from the informational seminars listed inside to attend throughout
the day, and at your leisure, visit the more than 70 vendor booths in the
Ballroom.
You will come away with the knowledge to do a better job, to enhance your
skills and the keys to help you be a success!
CONTRACTOR EXPO 2015 will be held at a great new location:
The Beautiful Hyatt Regency at Monterey, Regency Conference Center.
GET YOUR REGISTRATION IN EARLY!
Limited seating. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis. You may also register online at graniterock.com
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These will be the booths that are available throughout the day in
the Regency Grand Ballroom.
•A & B Fire Protection & Safety, Inc.
•Alliance Gator
•Aquascape Inc.
•Aquasoleil
•Architectural Stoneworks
•Associated Energy Systems
•Baker Rock Resources
•Basalite Concrete
•Belgard
•BMI Products
•BOLDStone
•Buechel Stone Corp.
•C & J Scaffold Service
•C & N Tractors
•Calstone
•Chateau Charvet
•Concrete Newthink LLC
•Concut Inc.
•Coronado Stone
•Delta Bluegrass Company
•Delta Stone Products, Inc.
•Dry-Treat, Inc.
•DuPont StoneTech
•Earthworks
•Emser Tile
•Fossil Creek Stone
•Fox Blocks
•Glaze ’N Seal
•Glesby Wholesale/Protecto Wrap
•Graniterock Customer Service
•Graniterock Environmental
•Graniterock Legal
•Graniterock Road Materials
•Graniterock RTS
•IQ Power Tools
•L’abri Architectural Products
•Laticrete Int.
•Lompoc Stone
•McNear Brick and Block
•Marshalls Landscape Products, Inc.
•Meshoppen Stone
•Montana Rockworks, Inc.
•MS International, Inc.
•H.C.Muddox & Interstate Brick
•Natural Stone Veneers International
•New Image Foam Products, LLC.
•New Look International
•Pavestone Company
•PG&E
•Plastic Components
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•Quikrete
•R & B Company
•Riviera Brush Co/SynPro Products
•Realstone Systems
•Security Shoring & Steel Plates, Inc.
•Semco Stone
•Signworks
•Simply Clear Marketing, Inc.
•Simpson Strong-Tie
•Solomon Colors/Brickform
•Southwest Greens Northern, CA West
•Stegmeier, LLC
•Stepstone, Inc.
•Stone Universe Inc.
•Sydney Peak Stone, Inc.
•TechniSoil Global
•The Blue Book Network
•The Energy House
•W.R. Grace
•Western States Wholesale
•Weyerhaeuser
•Xypex
•Orit Yanai
•Yes We Will Books
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8:00 - 9:00 AM
9:15 - 10:15 AM
Plastering Into The 21st Century What You Need To Know!
Room: Big Sur
Jerry Pozo, BMI Products
The past decadehas seen enormous changes
within the plaster industry. It is crucial to keep
abreast of products, manufacturers, applications
and more.
Job Site Safety
Room: Cypress
Randall Jacobsen, Graniterock
Concrete Troubleshooting
Room: Big Sur
Katha Redmon, Graniterock
This session will provide the basics of
troubleshooting concrete slabs, such
as workability, place-ability, finish and
the problems associated with cracking,
crazing, dusting, scaling, blisters, curling and
discoloration. We will also touch on air surface
voids and honey-combing.
Storm Water Compliance
Room: Cypress
This presentation will provide information on
safe work practices to reduce the risk with
an incident on the job. This will include both
unsafe physical conditions and unsafe actions
by workers.
Design, Use and Selection of
Permeable Pavers
Room: Spyglass
Reed Carter, Graniterock
This seminar will explain compliance and
challenges associated with the 2015 Industrial
General Permit for Storm Water. Relevant
topics pertaining to LID (Low Impact
Development) will also be discussed.
Segmental Retaining Walls
Room: Spyglass
Matt Laniohan, Belgard
This session will cover the proper way to
design permeable paver systems and qualify the
variables.Various applications will be coveredvehicular versus pedestrian; infiltration versus
no infiltration.
How Can Contractors Avoid
Getting Sued?*
Room: Windjammer
Kevin Jeffrey, Graniterock
Lisa Cole, Graniterock
This seminar will discuss best management
practices that contractors can use to avoid
lawsuits, or to lessen the pain if a suit is
filed. Topics include examples of contract
provisions that minimize the risk of suit,
effective communication and dispute resolution
approaches, and making a clear and useful
paper trail.
Steve Klotz, Keystone Retaining Walls
This presentation will focus on the application,
design and construction of Segmental Retaining
Walls.
Customer Focused Selling*
Room: Windjammer
Debbie Colon, DC Training
This session will provide you with a “customer
focused” sales approach which can easily be
applied to create the need for your product or
service.You will learn skills and techniques to
help move your customers forward in the sales
process.
* - Seminar is NOT AIA Approved.
10:30 - 11:30 AM
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Concrete Repair & Renovation
Social Media 101 For Business
Room: Big Sur
Dave Ford, Quikrete
This seminar will focus on the latest
technologies of concrete remain, renovation
and decorative staining techniques.
How To Conduct Great Safety
Meetings
Room: Cypress
Mike Herges, Graniterock
Jim Holmquist, Graniterock
This presentation will give you helpful tips on
what topics to choose for a safety meeting,
how to present the information and how to
get the workers involved and engaged in the
meeting. It will also cover what is required by
CalOSHA.
Fabrication of Natural Stone The
Do’s and Doníts
Room: Windjammer
Shanna McCord, Graniterock
Janae Thomas, Graniterock
Become a thought leader and brand
ambassador for your company through social
media platforms Facebook, LinkedIn and
Twitter. In this session, you will learn the
basics of how to create a company page, share
company news, post photos and videos and
engage with customers and fans. Understand
Twitter, how to draw followers and learn all
about the hashtag. This seminar will show you
the value of using social media to reach your
customers, how it can lead to new customers
and how it drives repeat business from your
current customers. Explore the world of
Pinterest with ideas on how to make your
construction projects shine through this
popular platform.
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Room: Spyglass
Tim Buechel, Buechel Stone
This session will cover what you as the
Architect, the General Contractor, the
Mason or the Designer need to know when
selecting a stone that requires fabrication.
You will understand the necessity for shop
drawings and approving samples for texture,
edge treatments and other design elements in
natural stone.
How To Select the
Proper Aggregate
Room: Big Sur
Don Barrett, Graniterock
Options in construction and landscape
aggregates and their typical use and
application. How is rock quarried? What types
of rock are locally available? What is DG?
CO N T R AC TO R E X PO 2 0 1 5
1:00 - 2:00 PM
2:15 - 3:15 PM
Electronic Plan Room
Stone Care - What You Should Know
Room: Cypress
Room: Big Sur
Marc Goldman, The Blue Book Network
Ed O’Reilly, Dry Treat
Have you embraced the best of the 21st
century’s technologies, tools and techniques
that connect you, your team and your project
documents? Regardless of your definition or
use of “Electronic Plan Rooms”, this seminar
will open your eyes to the most effective
and productive methods of using, sharing and
collaborating around project documents.
This session will give design professionals an
understanding of natural stone and the best
practices for care and maintenance. Find out
what to expect from a stone sealer in both
interior and exterior applications and discover
the truth about when to seal and when not to
seal. We will discuss the chemical make-up of
different types of cleaners and how they can
affect the longevity of your stone installation.
New Trends in Green Building:
What is an Environmental Product
Declaration?
Room: Spyglass
Jon Erskine, Graniterock
Graniterock can help your project attain
LEED points with our Environmental Product
Declarations (EPD’s) for concrete! LEEDv4
gives points for using products with EPD’s
and bonus points for products with a greener
environmental footprint.
Where’s My Water? - Drought
and the Impending Cease and
Desist Order
Room: Windjammer
Common Job Site Electrical Hazards
Room: Cypress
Neema Yazdi, PG&E
To educate attendees about common electric
safety hazards. How would you react in the
event of an emergency?
Uncommon Marketing Strategies
Room: Spyglass
Lani Colhouer, Simply Clear Marketing
Marketing is a changing part of our business
and as business owners or marketing
managers we need to always be looking for
new ideas to try to increase our business.
Dave Stoldt, MPWMD
Stephanie Locke, MPWMD
This seminar will give you some new ideas for
you to put into practice for 2015.
This presentation will provide an update
on the water conditions on the Monterey
Peninsula due to drought and the coming
deadlines under the State’s regulatory Cease
and Desist Order. Impacts on landscapers
and builders resulting from any mandated
conservation and rationing will be discussed.
We will also review the status of rebate
programs for rainwater disregard, greywater
systems and other building basics.
Water Harvesting
Friday, February 20, 2015 • Hyatt Regency at Monterey
Room: Windjammer
Jon Ramsey, Aquasoleil
This presentation will take you through all
phases of Rainwater Harvesting from cysteine
systems, storage, filtration and delivery uses.
* - Seminar is NOT AIA Approved.
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