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The ReAlignment Group, Ltd.

HOME OFFICE:
123 Camino de la Reina, Suite 201 South
San Diego CA 92108

FIELD OFFICES IN:
Oakland * Denver * Dallas * Boston

Toll Free: 1-877-REALIGN
Direct Dial: 858-454-4354

About The ReAlignment Group

Mission Statement

The ReAlignment Group ("TRG") is a full-service consulting company providing hands-on training and coaching to project teams, plus management tools for design and construction professionals. We are leaders in proven, state-of-the art collaborative processes such as Lean Construction, Integrated Project Delivery, integrating BIM technology into project teams, Alignment Partnering and Lean Partnering.

We are also well known for preventing, anticipating, tracking, and resolving significant construction disputes on public and private projects throughout the United States using our effective Project ReAlignment methods.

We provide facilitation services (from small project teams to 150-250 person co-located "Big Room" design-build projects), coaching (individuals and teams), training, project turnaround services, and dispute resolution services for project controversies.

We train experts to participate in these mediative processes, and train parties in appropriate management and conduct of construction projects so as to avoid significant disputes, minimize waste and maximize value to the customer.

We are active in giving back to our industry through leadership in Lean Construction Institute (LCI, including serving on the National Board), International Lean in the Public Sector (LIPS), Construction Management Association of America (CMAA, including serving on the San Diego Chapter Board and developing courses for CMAA University), Transportation Research Board (Legal Resources Contract Committee) and BIM Forum.

Principals' Profiles

Dick Bayer is the president of the ReAlignment Group. Dick has practiced construction law in Colorado, California and Idaho for the past 32 years. He has been an AAA arbitrator since the mid-1980's and a credentialed mediator since 1996. He has mediated over 200 construction, business, land-use, environmental and other cases in the last twelve years. He was recently named to the United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, becoming only the 7th neutral in Southern California to be on that distinguished roster. He was selected as the "Professional of the Year: Environmental Law," by Strathmore's Who's Who. He is a member of the California Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and several other well-known panels. He has served on the board of the National Conflict Resolution Center (formerly the San Diego Mediation Center), the board of the California Independent Petroleum Association, the board of ADR-San Diego and the board of the California Dispute Resolution Council (CDRC), the non-profit advocate for all ADR providers in California. He was president of CDRC in 2005. From 1992 through 2004, he taught Environmental Law at the University of San Diego graduate careers program. He is an author and frequent lecturer on Construction Law and ADR topics.

Dan Fauchier is TRG’s Executive Vice President. Dan has over 20 years of direct, hands-on management experience in large, medium and small construction projects as a construction manager for owners, project manager for general contractors and trade contractors, and design team leader for a design-builder. More recently Dan has nearly 15 years experience as a college teacher (UCSD, SDSU), forensics consultant, mediator, arbitrator, partnering/Project Alignment™ facilitator, turnaround specialist, Project ReAlignment™ facilitator and construction management expert. His forensics consulting encompasses more than $3.5 Billion dollars in projects nationwide.

Dan is a widely-sought coach for project teams learning Lean Construction practices and principles nationwide, and is a national Board member of Lean Construction Institute, co-chair of the San Diego Area Governments’ “Top 4 Issues” symposium, and is active in the Construction Management Association of America(four term San Diego Chapter Board Member, national trainer, founder of CMAA University’s Dunne School of Leadership and Facilitation, and recipient of the 2010 National CMAA Distinguished Service Award).

He has been tested and qualified as is a Certified Master Facilitator (CMF), awarded by the International Institute of Facilitation (INIFAC). With Dick Bayer and Kurt Dettman he is a contributing writer for the book Megaprojects: Challenges and Recommended Practices, published by ACEC in 2010.

“Grandan” is the proud grandfather of twins.

Colin Milberg

Colin Milberg is an Associate and Director of Lean Coaching for the Realignment Group. Before joining TRG, Dr. Milberg was an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University, where he was working to develop a new Construction Engineering Program and pushing to make it the first undergraduate construction program with a Lean Construction focus. Colin earned his PhD in 2006 from U.C. Berkeley in Lean Construction and Tolerance Management in order to work to improve construction practices. Colin is an advisory board and founding member of the San Diego and New England Communities of Practice of the Lean Construction Institute and is an active member of the ACI 117 committee on tolerances, serves on the advisory board for the International Group for Lean Construction.

As an industry professional, Colin has worked for over seven years as a field superintendent, quality control manager, and project manager on heavy civil projects including the Big Dig in Boston and the Seismic Retrofit of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. As a professor, Colin has conducted research and consulted with commercial construction companies and healthcare systems on applying lean to the procurement and delivery of capital facilities.

Wayne Moloznik

After 40 years building major projects around the US and the world, Wayne Moloznik has joined The ReAlignment Group consulting team. Most recently a Clark Construction Vice President, Wayne is a veteran of the US Army serving in Viet Nam in 1970-71. Beginning construction in 1971, Wayne cut his teeth in residential and commercial in the Chicago area and around the US Midwest, then moved east - 'way east - as a Building Superintendent of the $2 Billion King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, then back in the US as Ironworker General Superintendent of the $2 Billion Byron Nuclear Power Plant in Byron Illinois. Over the years Wayne accumulated experience with Federal prison and army hospital projects, and as Construction Executive for Clark at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport Expansion, LAC+USC Medical Center expansion Project, and pre-construction project manager at the California Healthcare Receivership Program and the Highland Hospital in Oakland.

Wayne heads up the Denver, Colorado office and will train and coach teams in lean construction and facilitate Alignment Partnering to achieve a truly effective organization.

Kurt Dettman

Kurt Dettman is an Associate with The Realignment Group and he also owns and manages Constructive Dispute Resolutions, a consulting firm specializing in the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the construction industry. Kurt is a facilitator, mediator, arbitrator and dispute review board member. He provides advice in ADR systems design and implementation for alternative project delivery approaches, including design build, integrated project delivery, and public private partnerships. Kurt also is an affiliate practitioner with the Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration where he assists public agencies on systems design for stakeholder engagement processes.

Prior to starting his own ADR consulting firm, Kurt was the Associate Project Director for Claims Resolution of the $15B Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T) in Boston, Massachusetts. In that role, he was responsible for oversight or resolution of all construction claims and change issues on the Project. Kurt also served as Chief Counsel of the CA/T Project, in which role he provided legal advice on construction and design disputes and claims and development and implementation of alternative dispute resolution programs. Kurt received his B.A. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Blasdel Reardon

Blasdel (Blase) Reardon is an Associate with The Realignment Group and is a Founder and a Principal of BostonSolv, a construction dispute avoidance and resolution firm. Formally trained as a Facilitator, Blase has guided designer/contractor sessions and labor/management workshops and is a practitioner of BIM and IPD principles. As an alternative dispute resolution specialist, Blase focuses on coaching project participants, advocating a project team approach, sitting on dispute resolution boards, engaging in structured negotiations, and handling conciliation and mediation assignments.

Blase draws upon his engineering, business, and mediation education as well as four decades of construction experience to assist owners, designers, and contractors in preventing disputes or resolving conflicts themselves. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Certificate from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Blase also spent 21 years at the Armco Steel Corporation and 19 years as the Chief Operating Officer for two commercial/industrial subcontractors.

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