About W.F. Dexter

Bill Dexter is a nationally recognized risk management consultant and trainer and the former Director of the California Center for Construction Education for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His professional training and consulting company serves numerous industry associations in the areas of risk management, problem solving, restoration of historic masonry buildings and liability mitigation. His overall experience in construction activities spans 35 years as a craftsman, business owner, contractor, consultant, educator and trainer. Bill is a former National Panelist for the American Arbitration Association and is currently serving as a Special Master for the California Superior Court.

He has participated as an industry spokesman for over 16 years before the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, The American Institute of Architects, The Construction Specifications Institute, The Texas Society of Architects, The Tennessee Chapter of the AIA, The National Utility Locating Contractors Association, The California Association of Landscape Contractors, The American Society of Interior Designers, the California State Bar, the California Contractors State License Board, the Nevada State Contractors Board and the National Association of Women in Construction. His television video "Doing It Right" on establishing a code of ethics for contractors, produced in cooperation with the Contractors State License Board is setting new standards for consumer service within the state.

Bill authored the book and seminar for the victims of California forest fires entitled "HAVING IT BUILT" and has published numerous articles in national professional trade magazines on risk management for architects, developers and builders. He is the editor for the "Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Framing Manual" for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and co-author, with attorney Mary S. Jones, of the Contractors Guide to Writing Effective Contracts.

His recent collaboration on a new residential and light commercial construction contract course increases contractor's understanding of legal duties and the agreements they sign.

Bill's research over the past three years has focused on the materials and methods used during the renovation of historical buildings in the old city of Havana Vieja, Cuba. The results of that effort have been presented to the Cuban-American architects in Miami, Florida at their annual Design Technology Exposition 2005 and to the Southern Florida Chapter of the ASID in Boca Raton, Florida. In 2006, Bill co presented with Scott M. Radovich to the Construction Specifications Institute a program on the challenges confronting the restoration efforts in Havana of the historical architectural treasures and to the Associated Scholastic Colleges of Architecture in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Contact Bill by e-mail at wdexter@pacbell.net or by telephone at 805-544-0852.