NASBP is pleased to announce that a four-part series on the opportunities and risks of new construction technologies, by Nancy Greenwald, will appear in the next four issues of the NASBP magazine, Surety Bond Quarterly.

What are the opportunities and what are the risks of new construction technologies? This series in NASBP’s Surety Bond Quarterly will tackle these questions and more. The first article will explore the ways that the adoption of new technologies in the construction industry may impact the critical role of bond producers and sureties. The next two articles will take a deep dive into technologies that are taking hold in the construction industry. The second article will focus on blockchain and smart contracts technologies. The third will examine big data, artificial intelligence, robotics, and the internet of things. In the final article we will take a hard look at how building information modeling (BIM) technology, which has become ubiquitous, is being used in the industry and examine lessons learned from the adoption of BIM technology.

Nancy Greenwald brings more than 35 years of experience as a lawyer and business executive to her commercial and construction arbitration and mediation practice, with deep experience in litigation and alternative dispute resolution and as the general counsel and CFO of a design-build construction company. Greenwald serves on the American Arbitration Association’s Commercial and Construction Industry Panel of Arbitrators as well as its Mediation Panels and has been appointed as a neutral by numerous private clients and courts. She is active in many of the major construction industry groups, including the ABA Forum on Construction. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School (cum laude) 1981. She serves as an arbitrator and mediator in commercial and construction disputes. Greenwald is a frequent speaker and writer, with numerous publications in dispute systems design, negotiation, arbitration, and complex construction contracts.

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