Lectures

Lectures

2021 Lectures and Presentations

David S. Thaler, D. S. Thaler & Assoc., LLC
Andrew Brown, Vogel Engineering + Timmons Group
Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas In Everyday Engineering and Surveying Practice:
Keeping Your License, Your Integrity and Your Sanity
MDSPE 2021 Annual Conference

David S. Thaler
Resolving the Greatest Title Dispute of Them All: The Mason Dixon Survey!
2021 Land Use Institute

Fundamentals of Land Development Series: Fall 2021

Tom Miner
ESD As It Ought to Be – A discussion of necessary changes to the Storm Water Management Act of 2007
Maryland Building Industry Association

David S. Thaler
My Take on Regulatory Takings:
The Limits of Government Regulation

Maryland Building Industry Association
Peter Z. Goldsmith, Senior Counsel, M-NCPPC
Christopher L. Hatcher, CLHatcher, LLC

Working Out “West”: Understanding the Land Development Process in Prince George’s & Montgomery Counties
Maryland Building Industry Association

Fundamentals of Land Development Series: Spring 2021

Michael Powell, Esq
Current Environmental Issues Affecting Land Development
Maryland Building Industry Association
Jeff Minich & Matthew Destino, PE
National Builder’s Perspective
Maryland Building Industry Association

David S. Thaler
Undersrtanding and Vanishing the Ghost of Euclid
Or Is It Really a Vampire?
Maryland Building Industry Association
David S. Thaler
Orientation to the Land Development Process: Part II
Due Diligence and Processing
Maryland Building Industry Association
David S. Thaler
Orientation to the Land Development Process: Part I
What Land Developers Do and How They Do It

Maryland Building Industry Association
David S. Thaler & Victoria Ballestero
The Law of Black Swans: Thriving in Land Development Through Pandemics, Recessions, and “Once in a Lifetime” Catastrophes
(That Happen Every Decade)
Maryland Building Industry Association

State of the State: Current Issues Affecting Land Development: Spring 2019

David S. Thaler
Orientation to the Development Process:
What Developers Do and How They Do It – Session I
Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC
Kevin Shepherd, Esq.
Top Ten Gotchas in Acquisition Contracts
Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC
Michael C. Powell
Environmental Regulations Affecting Land Development
Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland

Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC
David S. Thaler
Orientation to the Development Process:
What Developers Do and How They Do It – Session II
Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland

Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC

Fundamentals of Land Development Series: Spring 2017

David S. Thaler
Fundamentals of Land Development, Session I:
Spectrum of Opportunity, Creating Value, Managing Risk

Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC

Patricia Malone, Jeff Barba, and Lou Baker
Fundamentals of Land Development, Session II:
Zoning and Acquisition

Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC

Ed Gold, George Decker, and John DeZinno
Fundamentals of Land Development, Session III:
What Builders Need and Acquisition/Development Financing

Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC

Dusty Rood and Mariceleste Miller
Fundamentals of Land Development, Session IV:
Environmental Issues and Environmental Site Design (ESD)

Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC

Conor Gilligan and Tom Pilon
Fundamentals of Land Development, Session V:
The Developer’s Perspective and Commercial Development

Maryland Building Industry Association, Fulton, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC

2017 Lectures and Presentations

David S. Thaler
The Art and Science of Surveying and
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About ALTA/NSPS Surveys

Maryland State Bar Association Real Property Section
Baltimore, Maryland

Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC
David S. Thaler
Mark Knopfler- About Jeremiah Dixon, Sailing to Philadelphia
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland
Video Credit: BBC Inside Out
David S. Thaler
A Gift to the Nation
The Unveiling of the Mason and Dixon Bird Instrument

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC
David S. Thaler
H. L. Mencken Memorial Lecture
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland
Video Credit: FAS Filming, LLC