The AEC industry exists to create the built environment envisioned by our clients and partners. How do we better incorporate our projects and people into the communities in which we build? A team of leaders from Turner Construction with expertise in Community & Citizenship and Construction will present a strategic blueprint for establishing and sustaining a company’s community building initiatives, designed to support, enhance and create real change in the diversity, equity, and inclusion arenas. Lessons learned from 50+ years of corporate citizenship programming focused on historically under-represented communities will be discussed and workshopped with the audience.

In addition, a leader from Antinozzi Associates will speak to bringing community into your practice through sustained and sincere community engagement and activism. The very nature of this involvement brings meaningfully diverse, equitable and inclusive perspectives to your everyday practice. This results in the realization of entrenched tangible benefits throughout an organization. Hear how community work and experiences while at Antinozzi Associates has fostered an aspect of evolution around DEI principles that has been beneficial to the practice.