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Using ChatGPT with Excel

Explore how ChatGPT and other AI tools can help you get the most out of excel.

How Specialty Contractors Transform Their Change Order & T&M Processes for Faster Approvals

Learn how specialty contractors are eliminating outdated and costly Change Order and T&M workflows to align with GCs in real-time. Hear how quickly and easily project teams are adopting cloud-based Change Order Communication Tools like Clearstory to speed approvals, protect revenue, improve cash flow, and avoid tense, end-of-project negotiations.

Personal Financial Wellness

Helping contractor employees toward a sound financial future is an important goal for SMACNA members and the trustees and advisors who help shape their benefit programs.

From Data Chaos to Clarity: A Practical Approach on Harnessing Data

As the pace of technological change continues to accelerate, the construction industry has faced significant challenges in adopting new technologies and digitizing operations.

Balancing AI Risk and Opportunity: AI Policy for Contractors

With all of the progress and hype around AI, it can feel like there's pressure to move fast and not be left behind. Part of moving forward is understanding risks and clarifying real opportunities for efficiency, better service, and overall improvements in business. This webinar provides some frameworks for thinking about policy in 2025 and beyond.

Multi-employer Plans - The Insights You Need

The issues facing multiemployer pension and health plans continue to evolve. The special financial assistance program at the PBGC provided a lifeline to the most deeply troubled multiemployer pension plans, but continues to face political challenges.

Getting More Value from Generative AI: Connecting Applications to Chat GPT with Zapier

Connecting applications to ChatGPT with Zapier - There is more and more talk about "AI Agents," which is another way of saying getting AI to do more than just respond to prompts. In this session, we created a custom GPT, gave it some instructions, and connected it to some common software tools through Zapier. Watch the recording to learn how to best utilize AI without code, simply by connecting dots and giving thoughtful instructions.

Getting Real Value from AI: Prompting Clinic

Most people use generative AI through chatbots, so knowing how to ask the right questions is important. In this hands-on session, participants explored strategies for crafting better prompts to get more useful and insightful responses from ChatGPT. The session covered practical tips, creative approaches, and real-time demonstrations. Watch the recording to enhance your AI interactions and discover new ways to leverage these powerful tools.

Hire, Retain, and Develop Future Leaders

This webinar offers strategies for hiring and retaining employees while developing them into future leaders. It emphasizes building strong relationships, effective hiring policies for a multi-generational workforce, and fostering a culture that

AI Webinar Series: Streamlining Success Leveraging AI for Non-Mission Critical Tasks in Construction

Regional Economic Conditions: Construction

Twice a year, regional economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis survey construction companies to gauge the sector’s performance and overall outlook. Are current and backlogged projects up or down? Are labor and other input costs on the rise? What do contacts expect in the months ahead? On May 28, 2025, Regional Outreach Director Erick Garcia Luna hosted a webinar to discuss these and other results from the spring survey of construction companies across the Ninth District.

179D Deductions by CliftonLarsonAllen

This webinar will discuss:

General Overview of the 179D Deduction
Recent Changes in this incentive and expansion to other not-for-profit organizations
Why 2023 is a lucrative year for this deduction
The steps necessary to certify a building under the 179D Tax Code

Exploring the 2024 MN Energy Code

The 2024 Minnesota Commercial Energy Code is effective Jan. 5, 2024. The 2024 code was modeled after the 2019 ASHRAE 90.1 standard and this course will highlight changes between the 2020 and 2024 energy code. This webinar will you understand the statutory changes establishing an energy conservation goal and how that requirement affects each generation of energy codes between now and 2036.