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Speaker:

Anirban Basu, Chief Economist, Associated Builders and Contractors

This webinar is designed to:

1. Inform

2. Educate

3. Forecast

Who Should Attend:

1. Company Presidents/CEOs

2.Company CFO’s

3.Business Development professionals

Webinar Description:

With 2011 almost in the rear view mirror, ABC members want to know the construction outlook for 2012. ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu looks at how the commercial and industrial construction sectors will be trending in the new year.

Basu will predict the growth of the nonresidential construction industry, including a focus on ABC’s Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI), and a forecast of both privately funded and publicly funded construction activity.

In addition, Basu will look at specific market segments that will become winners in 2012, and those that may not do as well.

About the Speaker:

Anirban Basu is Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) chief economist. His primary responsibility is to provide ABC members with timely, comprehensive analyses on important trends in the U.S. commercial and industrial construction industry. He produces ABC’s Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) which is based on a monthly survey of various ABC members and measures work to be performed by contractors to assess the health of the construction industry.  In addition, he produces the one-page, economic news report Construction Economic Update, with analysis of one or a combination of the following federal government economic indicators including construction spending, employment, producer price index and gross domestic product. Basu also writes a monthly article for Construction Executive magazine.

Basu is Chairman and CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, Maryland. He is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists, in part because of his consulting work on behalf of numerous clients, including prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers and law firms.

Basu has Bachelor of Science degree in foreign service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He received a master of public policy degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1992, and a Master of Arts degree in mathematical economics from the University of Maryland in 1998. Additionally, Basu received a juris doctor degree from the University Of Maryland School Of Law in 2003, and is a member of the Maryland bar.