A joint effort of Colliers International and FisherCommunications, yesterday's symposium at Fisher Plaza began withmoderator and local television personality, Ken Schram, asking,"What do we do if the world starts falling down?" For the next fewhours a high-level group of panelists did their best to answer thatquestion.

Doug Barrett and Stephen Rothrock, brokers with Colliers/Seattleand leasing agents for Fisher Plaza (at 140 Fourth Ave. N.), tellGlobeSt the genesis of the executive forum was the number of realestate clients taking magnifying glasses to their disaster recoveryplans and asking about the survivability of Seattle realestate.

In his portion of the presentation, Glen L. Woodbury, directorof Washington's Emergency Management Division, divided disasterrecovery in three components: facilities, operations, personnel.Would your facility survive? Yes or no, could you continue tooperate? And, finally, do you have a plan in place that would allowyour personnel to run those operations—especially if they had to bemanaged remotely?