Chip Lambertson
Division Vice President, Estimating Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Chip Lambertson is a Division Vice President with the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. Chip has been a construction estimator and analyst since 1984 and has worked for Whiting-Turner for the last 29 years. He currently manages a group of men and women who support Whiting-Turner’s estimating efforts across the country. This group has experience working on projects of all sizes and in all industries.
Chip is also Whiting-Turner’s senior economic analyst. His customized quarterly Time & Monel Alerts have been issued for over twenty years and are used to forecast escalation and inform the company of current issues that could impact cost and/or schedules. Beginning in 2020, Chip and his team began publishing quarterly Supply Chain and Commodity Price Updates. These were crucial in helping navigate through the pandemic and post-pandemic volatility that our industry experienced.
Chip has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Baltimore. He also earned a degree in Construction Management and was an adjunct professor in Construction Estimating for fifteen years at the Community College of Baltimore County. Chip and his wife Mary have a small farm in Westminster, Maryland where they raised their seven children.
Seminars
- Understanding de-stabilized cost volatility in line with the introductions of tariffs
- Avoiding oversight and over-projection in forecasting as a result of tariffs
- Understanding new starts and construction spending in different markets: How will this play through against a backdrop of labour shortages?
- Empowering and motivating junior professionals to want to progress in their careers: How do we reward those with ambition and promote brand loyalty?
- Identifying individuals with skills and high potential to advance through the department and creating accelerated development plans for each individual
- Developing the soft skills required to communicate with different project partners effectively and support stakeholder management
