Mark Konchar, 38
Mark Konchar, 38
VP, business acquisition
Balfour Beatty, Fairfax, Va.
EDUCATION
BAE, PhD, architectural engineering, Pennsylvania State University
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
LEED AP
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Leads 35-person Business Acquisition group at the firm (2007 total billings: $2.33 billion, according to BD+C's Giants 300). Group's billings: $700 million.
Oversees preconstruction/estimating, purchasing, and marketing, as well as integrated project groups, which he started in 2003.
Leading design-build advocate, researcher.
Heading up firm's BIM initiatives.
RECENT PROJECTS
Pentagon Memorial, Arlington, Va.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (joint venture), Bethesda, Md.
EXTRACURRICULAR
Co-founder, Project Delivery Institute. Organization designs, develops educational materials and seminars focused on project delivery.
Co-author, Selecting Project Delivery Systems (1999).
Past chair, Design-Build Institute of America's education committee.
OFF THE CLOCK
Favorite vacation: skiing in Chamonix, France.
Coaches girls' youth ice hockey team.
SECRET LIFE
Played in Canada's World Pond Hockey Championship (2007, 2008).
VP, business acquisition
Balfour Beatty, Fairfax, Va.
EDUCATION
BAE, PhD, architectural engineering, Pennsylvania State University
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
LEED AP
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Leads 35-person Business Acquisition group at the firm (2007 total billings: $2.33 billion, according to BD+C's Giants 300). Group's billings: $700 million.
Oversees preconstruction/estimating, purchasing, and marketing, as well as integrated project groups, which he started in 2003.
Leading design-build advocate, researcher.
Heading up firm's BIM initiatives.
RECENT PROJECTS
Pentagon Memorial, Arlington, Va.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (joint venture), Bethesda, Md.
EXTRACURRICULAR
Co-founder, Project Delivery Institute. Organization designs, develops educational materials and seminars focused on project delivery.
Co-author, Selecting Project Delivery Systems (1999).
Past chair, Design-Build Institute of America's education committee.
OFF THE CLOCK
Favorite vacation: skiing in Chamonix, France.
Coaches girls' youth ice hockey team.
SECRET LIFE
Played in Canada's World Pond Hockey Championship (2007, 2008).