ASA Online - Education & Events

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The SLDF supports ASA's critical legal activities to protect the interests of all subcontractors. The SLDF is used to invest in precedent-setting litigation to establish subcontractors' rights.

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Education & Events

When managing complex projects and complex businesses and business relationships, professional development is the solution to "keeping up with it all."

ASA Chapter Toolbox for ASA Chapter Leaders and Staff

ASA provides educational events and tools to support ASA chapters. ASA chapter volunteers and chapter staff can earn credit toward ASA certificates recognizing their educational achievement on behalf of their chapters.

ASA/FASA Education for Construction Subcontractors

ASA and the Foundation of ASA offer subcontractor-tailored events and education nationwide, including:

Members-only educational resources ranging from model contract language to risk management and marketing tools.

In-person and distance-learning educational events open to members and nonmembers for a fee.

A quarterly educational journal and premium podcasts available by subscription.

Participants in ASA/FASA events and education can earn Continuing Professional Development credits, where CPD credit hours are noted. CPD credit is required to maintain the Certified Professional Constructor designation of the AIC Constructor Certification Commission.

ASA Excellence in Ethics Awards Program

ASA honors selected firms that demonstrate the highest standards of internal and external integrity at an awards ceremony at the ASA Business Forum and Convention.

Download the ASA Excellence in Ethics Awards Program brochure and application form.

ASA provides useful model documents to help with your submission and your ethics program. View the Excellence in Ethics Awards Program Resource Guide.

ASA's online Excellence in Ethics Awards Program Q and A forum — a forum for getting answers to your questions about the certificate and the application process. This forum includes current certificate holders who've been through the application process and are willing to help guide new applicants through their application process.

ASA National Construction Best Practices Awards

ASA offers national recognition to prime contractors that are committed to superior business practices like prompt payment. ASA’s annual National Construction Best Practices Awards, developed by the Task Force on Ethics in the Construction Industry, recognize elite prime contractors that uphold best practices and refuse to do business according to the “lowest common denominator.” The deadline for prime contractors to submit applications is Nov. 15, 2013. Each prime-contractor applicant must supply three sealed business-practices recommendations from specialty trade contractors that have worked for it in the past year, along with a copy of its standard subcontract, with its application. ASA will announce the award recipients in January 2014. ASA will provide national recognition to the award recipients, including presentation of awards at the ASA Business Forum and Convention 2014 in New Orleans, La., March 6-8. The application fee is $495.