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Dr. Dale Chapman looks forward to the day when the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center is similarly famous as a center for research on great river basins.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Great Rivers\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/great-rivers.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />If the creative design of the center\\\'s field station is any indication, the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC - pronounced N-GREK) will have a leading role in developing a deeper and fuller understanding of how river systems work.</p>\n<p>Chapman is president of Lewis and Clark Community College, which partnered with the University of Illinois, the Illinois Natural History Survey, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2002 to found the NGRREC.</p>\n<p>\\\"This is the most comprehensive facility in America to study the Mississippi River, which drains 41 percent of the United States and is 3,000 miles long,\\\" Chapman said. The NGGREC unites engineering, environmental sciences, and social sciences under one roof to study environmental issues, energy, commerce, and human interaction with the fourth largest watershed in the world. \\\"We need to understand the river to sustain our economy and maintain biodiversity and water quality,\\\" Chapman said.</p>\n<p>While meeting the facility needs of over 30 research scientists and their assistants, the field station in Alton, IL, is designed to look like some of the bluffs that line the Mississippi River: layers of stone topped by dirt and plants. At the same time, the facility was designed to pass a high threshold for sustainability - one goal was a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum building rating. 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The Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing recognized it with a 2010 Excellence in Design Award.</p>\n<p>\\\"Most green roofs are trays with plants in them, not full blown dirt roofs like this one,\\\" Kampwerth said.</p>\n<p>Roofing Services and Solutions, formerly the Young Group, installed the 24,000-square-foot roof. Joseph Lauberth was the project manager for RSS.</p>\n<p>\\\"We used a full Carlisle system from the deck up,\\\" he said. \\\"We started with a two-ply waterproofing system over the concrete deck - a fleece-backed Carlisle modified base sheet - which we adhered with a Type III asphalt adhesive. Then we installed a 105-mil EPDM membrane, protective fabric, a MiraDrain drainage system, insulation, a 40-mil geomembrane root barrier, Enkadrain, 12 inches of engineered Carlisle Growth Media, and native prairie grasses,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The insulation was tapered to give the roof an undulating look, \\\"like a natural bluff,\\\" he said. 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An electronic field vector mapping system was installed after the waterproofing membrane to detect possible future leaks. \\\"If there is a problem in the future, they can plug it in and charge it and then with a meter they can locate voids as small as pinholes,\\\" Lauberth said. 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The article was an interview outlining the viewpoint of author Bill Black, who came to St. Louis to share his perspective on the current price-focused bid market with commercial real estate and design industry representatives. Last week we reported on the dialogue that ensued following our original article. This week, the organization that sponsored Black\\\'s appearance weighed in.</p>\n<p>Publisher Tom Finan received the following letter from Nancy Rodney of Roseman Design, president of , the St. Louis Chapter of the Commerical Real Estate Women (CREW)</p>\n<p><strong>Tom:</strong><br /><img alt=\\\"Price\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/price_tag.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />As 2010 President of CREW St Louis, who co-sponsored the event bringing Bill Black to town to talk about his theories of Integrated Project Delivery, I am a bit bemused by the rush to judgment by some of your readers. <br /> <br />The focus of your magazine is the Construction Industry rather than the design industry.  From following your coverage for years, it seems to me that your publication does an excellent job of covering issues and trends that affect your readers on both sides of the industry in a fair and positive manner.  Bill\\\'s comments about low price leading to change orders is a widely held sentiment in the Design-Public Bid-Build world.  Many owners over the years have tried Construction Management, Design/Build, limited bidder\\\'s lists and other methods to upgrade the quality of the bidders on their projects while also addressing the relationship gap established by the adversarial nature of public low-bid and construction.<br /> <br />Bill Black\\\'s new book &mdash; <em>The Commercial Real Estate Revolution</em> &mdash; was co-authored by a diverse cross-industry team of people who all agree that the current system isn\\\'t working as well as it could be to deliver quality buildings to owners who are happy with the process, the price and the building.  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style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">On July 14, the\nU.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed fines of\n$221,600 against Clint Horn, doing business as Sturgis Tuckpointing, alleging that\nhe repeatedly exposed workers to fall hazards while they worked on scaffold structures.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">The alleged\nviolations included misuse of portable ladders, no protection from overhead\nhazards, unsafe scaffold protection, lack of fall protection on a scaffold, and\nlack of or deficient scaffold training.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">\\\"Falls\nremain the number one killer of workers in the construction industry,\\\"\nCharles E. Adkins, OSHA\\\'s regional administrator in Kansas City, MO, said in\npress release. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">\\\"OSHA will\nnot tolerate employers who repeatedly fail to provide and ensure the use of fall\nprotection,\\\" he said. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">One week before\nOSHA announced the citation against Sturgis Tuckpointing, emails circulated\namong St. Louis contractors warning that OSHA would be conducting a sweep of\nall construction sites in eastern Missouri from Hannibal to Cape Girardeau starting\non Monday, July 12. According to the emails, OSHA inspectors would be looking\nfor proper personal protective equipment, fall protection, and fire\nextinguishers, and they would be looking for excavation and electric hazards.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">OSHA confirmed to\nCNR that penalties are going up, stating:&ldquo;OSHA is implementing long-overdue\nadministrative modifications to its penalty calculations, which will have the\neffect of raising OSHA penalties.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">The agency said\nthat, &ldquo;Penalties are meant to be punitive, and act as a deterrent to future\nviolations by the fined company and from other companies as well.&rdquo; </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">The agency added\nthat a proposal in Congress, the Protecting America\\\'s Workers Act, &ldquo;would bring\nthe penalties more in line with inflation and therefore serve more of a deterrent\neffect.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><strong>Safety Pays</strong></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">For all the talk\nthat OSHA\\\'s more aggressive posture and higher fines has generated, however,\nthere are more important reasons to have a good safety program.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;When I set-up\nthis company 12 years ago, my philosophy was that OSHA was the primary cause of\nwhy you should have safety program, you would have a program to avoid a fine,&rdquo;\nsaid Walt Taliaferro, safety director at National Safety Consulting and a retired\npipefitter. &ldquo;But after we got companies into the program, I found out that injuries\nare the cause of the majority of their financial losses, not OSHA and\npenalties,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">The most obvious\nsavings that a formal safety program can bring a contractor are in the form of\nreduced workers compensation insurance rates.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;Every insurance\napplication has the following question: do you have a formal safety program in\nplace?&rdquo; said Michael Sicking, president of Safety International.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;Improving your\nsafety record lowers your insurance rates,&rdquo; he said, and also improves a\ncontractor\\\'s ability to get work.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;Major owners are\ntelling general contractors that no company will be allowed on their property\nunless their EMR (experience modification rate, a comparison of their annual\ninsurance claims against their policy premiums over a three-year period) is\nless than 1.0, or in some cases less than 0.85,&rdquo; he said. An EMR 1.0 is\nconsidered average, so owners who want contractors with lower EMRs are looking\nfor contractors with better than average safety records.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;So general\ncontractors are looking at subcontractors\\\' EMRs. If they have an unfavorable\nrating, they won\\\'t get the job, even if they are the low bid,&rdquo; said Sicking.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">But less obvious\nsavings are far more important than the obvious savings, according to Ray\nBoehm, president of Safety Education Consultants.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><strong>Productivity and\nProfits </strong></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;I\\\'ve found that\nif you really follow a safety program through, you get a more productive workforce,&rdquo;\nTaliaferro said.&ldquo;Removing injuries from the workplace maximizes internal\nprofitability,&rdquo; Boehm said. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;When you get\ninjured employees you have to replace them, take care of them, and retrain\nothers to take over their work. You also get lower productivity from the other employees\nbecause injuries lower morale. Those indirect costs from a loss are about 10\ntimes greater than the direct costs of medical care and higher insurance\npremiums,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Len Toenjes,\npresident of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis agreed. &ldquo;A contractor\nwith a revolving workforce is not as productive as someone who can keep their\ncore group together. When folks are gone from the team because of injuries, it affects\nthe productivity of the entire team,&rdquo; he said. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Two more ways in\nwhich safety programs save contractors money is in litigation and OSHA fines.&ldquo;As\nsociety has gotten more litigious, it makes a lot of sense to keep legal fees\ndown. A safer work force minimizes risk and cuts legal expenses,&rdquo; Toenjes said,\nincluding by avoiding OSHA fines. And those companies that work on heights have\nseen safer equipment give a huge boost to productivity.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;The whole\naccessibility area, the area of moving people into a position of work, is where\nyou\\\'ve seen productivity growth with safety,&rdquo; Toenjes said. &ldquo;In bridge work,\nfor example, in order to meet OSHA requirements, painting companies came up\nwith different ways to paint the undersides of bridges with different equipment\nand machinery that not only makes it safer but increases productivity,&rdquo; he\nsaid.&ldquo;I can tell you that we used to spend days and hours to put scaffolding\ntogether to do a 30 minute job and then hours to take it down, but now with a\nJLG lift it is a piece of cake and much safer,&rdquo; said Taliaferro, the retired\npipefitter. &ldquo;But one bad part is that now you have generations of young men and\nwomen who have never put scaffolding together and when they have to use\nscaffolding, they don\\\'t know how to use properly. So we get called out a lot to\nmake sure they are putting scaffolding together correctly,&rdquo; he said. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><strong>Help for Smaller\nFirms</strong></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Toenjes said that\nwhen the AGC of St. Louis began its safety program in 1966, &ldquo;almost nobody had\na full time safety director.&rdquo; Now, he said, &ldquo;I will bet you that every one of the\nlarge companies has a full time safety director.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">As a result, most\nsafety consultants, including the AGC, target small and mid-sized firms that\ncan\\\'t afford to have their own full time safety director. Sicking, for example, </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">said that his\ntarget market is companies that have annual revenues between $1 million and $25\nmillion. &ldquo;We represent about 130 companies,&rdquo; Taliaferro said of National Safety\nConsulting. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;We set up a\nprogram following the guidelines of OSHA and then assign a man to that account.\nHe performs audits, writes up how well they\\\'re doing, sends out &ldquo;huddle <span>&nbsp;</span>talks&rdquo;, and conducts an annual review,&rdquo; he\nsaid.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;We\\\'ve found that\nif you adopt a policy that all injuries must be reported before quitting time\nthe day they happened and you enforce it, you will over time reduce the injuries\nyou have,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;And if you\ndisallow smoking in the break trailer on construction sites, you will have fewer\nillnesses. Cigarettes spread germs around in trailer,&rdquo; he added.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Boehm has been\nproviding safety education since 1982. &ldquo;Not training, education. You train\ndogs, but you educate people,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Boehm said that\nsafe work practices come from giving employees the tools they need to make the\nright decision, not from telling them exactly what to do.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;Safety is a\ndecision making process that employees go through based on conditions presented\nto them at the time they do their work,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Safety is making the right\ndecision based on knowledge of the hazard as well as what people do to prevent\nthe hazard. With fall protection, for example, OSHA has a number of different\ntrigger heights, but I believe it begins at zero. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;A one-size\nanswer does not fit all circumstances. The employee has to have the knowledge\nbase to make a decision as to which is right. With a painter, for example, the\nright personal protective equipment depends on the materials and chemicals he\nis using. Knowledge of material safety data sheets and what they are telling\nyou is essential to making the right decision,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">And the\nfoundation of all good safety programs, he added, is, &ldquo;you have to believe that\nall accidents are preventable. By nature, accidents are defined as unforeseen,\nbut, I believe, if you understand safety processes, there is a system of\nanalysis that keeps looking at the problems you\\\'re involved in to identify\nhazards and control them, whether they are physical, such as tripping hazards,\nor behavioral, such as improper lifting. We can identify them and remove\nthem.... The more attention you pay to the work process, the more you find\nsnags and then you can find better ways to do things, and that makes for a more\nattractive work place.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Taliaferro said\nthat finding better ways to do things is the legacy of OSHA. &ldquo;In 1970 (when\nPresident Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act) we were\nlosing about 15,000 people a year in construction, last year it was under 7,000.\nOver the years we have doubled productivity and cut deaths in half primarily because\nof safety, I think,&rdquo; Taliaferro said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;OSHA was\ndivisive at the time. The Chamber of Commerce fought it, contractors fought it,\nbut it was good for them in the end. 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According to the emails, OSHA inspectors would be looking\nfor proper personal protective equipment, fall protection, and fire\nextinguishers, and they would be looking for excavation and electric hazards.</p>\n<p>OSHA confirmed to\nCNR that penalties are going up, stating:\\\"OSHA is implementing long-overdue\nadministrative modifications to its penalty calculations, which will have the\neffect of raising OSHA penalties.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency said\nthat, \\\"Penalties are meant to be punitive, and act as a deterrent to future\nviolations by the fined company and from other companies as well.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency added\nthat a proposal in Congress, the Protecting America\\\'s Workers Act, \\\"would bring\nthe penalties more in line with inflation and therefore serve more of a deterrent\neffect.\\\"</p>\n<p><strong>Safety Pays</strong></p>\n<p>For all the talk\nthat OSHA\\\'s more aggressive posture and higher fines has generated, however,\nthere are more important reasons to have a good safety program.</p>\n<p>\\\"When I set-up\nthis company 12 years ago, my philosophy was that OSHA was the primary cause of\nwhy you should have safety program, you would have a program to avoid a fine,\\\"\nsaid Walt Taliaferro, safety director at National Safety Consulting and a retired\npipefitter. \\\"But after we got companies into the program, I found out that injuries\nare the cause of the majority of their financial losses, not OSHA and\npenalties,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The most obvious\nsavings that a formal safety program can bring a contractor are in the form of\nreduced workers compensation insurance rates.</p>\n<p>\\\"Every insurance\napplication has the following question: do you have a formal safety program in\nplace?\\\" said Michael Sicking, president of Safety International.</p>\n<p>\\\"Improving your\nsafety record lowers your insurance rates,\\\" he said, and also improves a\ncontractor\\\'s ability to get work.</p>\n<p>\\\"Major owners are\ntelling general contractors that no company will be allowed on their property\nunless their EMR (experience modification rate, a comparison of their annual\ninsurance claims against their policy premiums over a three-year period) is\nless than 1.0, or in some cases less than 0.85,\\\" he said. 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You also get lower productivity from the other employees\nbecause injuries lower morale. Those indirect costs from a loss are about 10\ntimes greater than the direct costs of medical care and higher insurance\npremiums,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Len Toenjes,\npresident of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis agreed. \\\"A contractor\nwith a revolving workforce is not as productive as someone who can keep their\ncore group together. When folks are gone from the team because of injuries, it affects\nthe productivity of the entire team,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Two more ways in\nwhich safety programs save contractors money is in litigation and OSHA fines.\\\"As\nsociety has gotten more litigious, it makes a lot of sense to keep legal fees\ndown. A safer work force minimizes risk and cuts legal expenses,\\\" Toenjes said,\nincluding by avoiding OSHA fines. And those companies that work on heights have\nseen safer equipment give a huge boost to productivity.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"The whole\naccessibility area, the area of moving people into a position of work, is where\nyou\\\'ve seen productivity growth with safety,\\\" Toenjes said. \\\"In bridge work,\nfor example, in order to meet OSHA requirements, painting companies came up\nwith different ways to paint the undersides of bridges with different equipment\nand machinery that not only makes it safer but increases productivity,\\\" he\nsaid.\\\"I can tell you that we used to spend days and hours to put scaffolding\ntogether to do a 30 minute job and then hours to take it down, but now with a\nJLG lift it is a piece of cake and much safer,\\\" said Taliaferro, the retired\npipefitter. \\\"But one bad part is that now you have generations of young men and\nwomen who have never put scaffolding together and when they have to use\nscaffolding, they don\\\'t know how to use properly. 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Sicking, for example,</p>\n<p>said that his\ntarget market is companies that have annual revenues between $1 million and $25\nmillion. \\\"We represent about 130 companies,\\\" Taliaferro said of National Safety\nConsulting.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"We set up a\nprogram following the guidelines of OSHA and then assign a man to that account.\nHe performs audits, writes up how well they\\\'re doing, sends out \\\"huddle &nbsp;talks\\\", and conducts an annual review,\\\" he\nsaid.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'ve found that\nif you adopt a policy that all injuries must be reported before quitting time\nthe day they happened and you enforce it, you will over time reduce the injuries\nyou have,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"And if you\ndisallow smoking in the break trailer on construction sites, you will have fewer\nillnesses. Cigarettes spread germs around in trailer,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Boehm has been\nproviding safety education since 1982. \\\"Not training, education. You train\ndogs, but you educate people,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Boehm said that\nsafe work practices come from giving employees the tools they need to make the\nright decision, not from telling them exactly what to do.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"Safety is a\ndecision making process that employees go through based on conditions presented\nto them at the time they do their work,\\\" he said. \\\"Safety is making the right\ndecision based on knowledge of the hazard as well as what people do to prevent\nthe hazard. With fall protection, for example, OSHA has a number of different\ntrigger heights, but I believe it begins at zero.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"A one-size\nanswer does not fit all circumstances. The employee has to have the knowledge\nbase to make a decision as to which is right. With a painter, for example, the\nright personal protective equipment depends on the materials and chemicals he\nis using. Knowledge of material safety data sheets and what they are telling\nyou is essential to making the right decision,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>And the\nfoundation of all good safety programs, he added, is, \\\"you have to believe that\nall accidents are preventable. By nature, accidents are defined as unforeseen,\nbut, I believe, if you understand safety processes, there is a system of\nanalysis that keeps looking at the problems you\\\'re involved in to identify\nhazards and control them, whether they are physical, such as tripping hazards,\nor behavioral, such as improper lifting. We can identify them and remove\nthem.... 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According to the emails, OSHA inspectors would be looking\nfor proper personal protective equipment, fall protection, and fire\nextinguishers, and they would be looking for excavation and electric hazards.</p>\n<p>OSHA confirmed to\nCNR that penalties are going up, stating:\\\"OSHA is implementing long-overdue\nadministrative modifications to its penalty calculations, which will have the\neffect of raising OSHA penalties.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency said\nthat, \\\"Penalties are meant to be punitive, and act as a deterrent to future\nviolations by the fined company and from other companies as well.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency added\nthat a proposal in Congress, the Protecting America\\\'s Workers Act, \\\"would bring\nthe penalties more in line with inflation and therefore serve more of a deterrent\neffect.\\\"</p>\n<p><strong>Safety Pays</strong></p>\n<p>For all the talk\nthat OSHA\\\'s more aggressive posture and higher fines has generated, however,\nthere are more important reasons to have a good safety program.</p>\n<p>\\\"When I set-up\nthis company 12 years ago, my philosophy was that OSHA was the primary cause of\nwhy you should have safety program, you would have a program to avoid a fine,\\\"\nsaid Walt Taliaferro, safety director at National Safety Consulting and a retired\npipefitter. \\\"But after we got companies into the program, I found out that injuries\nare the cause of the majority of their financial losses, not OSHA and\npenalties,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The most obvious\nsavings that a formal safety program can bring a contractor are in the form of\nreduced workers compensation insurance rates.</p>\n<p>\\\"Every insurance\napplication has the following question: do you have a formal safety program in\nplace?\\\" said Michael Sicking, president of Safety International.</p>\n<p>\\\"Improving your\nsafety record lowers your insurance rates,\\\" he said, and also improves a\ncontractor\\\'s ability to get work.</p>\n<p>\\\"Major owners are\ntelling general contractors that no company will be allowed on their property\nunless their EMR (experience modification rate, a comparison of their annual\ninsurance claims against their policy premiums over a three-year period) is\nless than 1.0, or in some cases less than 0.85,\\\" he said. 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You also get lower productivity from the other employees\nbecause injuries lower morale. Those indirect costs from a loss are about 10\ntimes greater than the direct costs of medical care and higher insurance\npremiums,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Len Toenjes,\npresident of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis agreed. \\\"A contractor\nwith a revolving workforce is not as productive as someone who can keep their\ncore group together. When folks are gone from the team because of injuries, it affects\nthe productivity of the entire team,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Two more ways in\nwhich safety programs save contractors money is in litigation and OSHA fines.\\\"As\nsociety has gotten more litigious, it makes a lot of sense to keep legal fees\ndown. A safer work force minimizes risk and cuts legal expenses,\\\" Toenjes said,\nincluding by avoiding OSHA fines. 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Sicking, for example,</p>\n<p>said that his\ntarget market is companies that have annual revenues between $1 million and $25\nmillion. \\\"We represent about 130 companies,\\\" Taliaferro said of National Safety\nConsulting.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"We set up a\nprogram following the guidelines of OSHA and then assign a man to that account.\nHe performs audits, writes up how well they\\\'re doing, sends out \\\"huddle &nbsp;talks\\\", and conducts an annual review,\\\" he\nsaid.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'ve found that\nif you adopt a policy that all injuries must be reported before quitting time\nthe day they happened and you enforce it, you will over time reduce the injuries\nyou have,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"And if you\ndisallow smoking in the break trailer on construction sites, you will have fewer\nillnesses. Cigarettes spread germs around in trailer,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Boehm has been\nproviding safety education since 1982. \\\"Not training, education. You train\ndogs, but you educate people,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Boehm said that\nsafe work practices come from giving employees the tools they need to make the\nright decision, not from telling them exactly what to do.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"Safety is a\ndecision making process that employees go through based on conditions presented\nto them at the time they do their work,\\\" he said. \\\"Safety is making the right\ndecision based on knowledge of the hazard as well as what people do to prevent\nthe hazard. With fall protection, for example, OSHA has a number of different\ntrigger heights, but I believe it begins at zero.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"A one-size\nanswer does not fit all circumstances. The employee has to have the knowledge\nbase to make a decision as to which is right. 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the\nU.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed fines of\n$221,600 against Clint Horn, doing business as Sturgis Tuckpointing, alleging that\nhe repeatedly exposed workers to fall hazards while they worked on scaffold structures.</p>\n<p>The alleged\nviolations included misuse of portable ladders, no protection from overhead\nhazards, unsafe scaffold protection, lack of fall protection on a scaffold, and\nlack of or deficient scaffold training.</p>\n<p>\\\"Falls\nremain the number one killer of workers in the construction industry,\\\"\nCharles E. 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According to the emails, OSHA inspectors would be looking\nfor proper personal protective equipment, fall protection, and fire\nextinguishers, and they would be looking for excavation and electric hazards.</p>\n<p>OSHA confirmed to\nCNR that penalties are going up, stating:\\\"OSHA is implementing long-overdue\nadministrative modifications to its penalty calculations, which will have the\neffect of raising OSHA penalties.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency said\nthat, \\\"Penalties are meant to be punitive, and act as a deterrent to future\nviolations by the fined company and from other companies as well.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency added\nthat a proposal in Congress, the Protecting America\\\'s Workers Act, \\\"would bring\nthe penalties more in line with inflation and therefore serve more of a deterrent\neffect.\\\"</p>\n<p><strong>Safety Pays</strong></p>\n<p>For all the talk\nthat OSHA\\\'s more aggressive posture and higher fines has generated, however,\nthere are more important reasons to have a good safety program.</p>\n<p>\\\"When I set-up\nthis company 12 years ago, my philosophy was that OSHA was the primary cause of\nwhy you should have safety program, you would have a program to avoid a fine,\\\"\nsaid Walt Taliaferro, safety director at National Safety Consulting and a retired\npipefitter. \\\"But after we got companies into the program, I found out that injuries\nare the cause of the majority of their financial losses, not OSHA and\npenalties,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The most obvious\nsavings that a formal safety program can bring a contractor are in the form of\nreduced workers compensation insurance rates.</p>\n<p>\\\"Every insurance\napplication has the following question: do you have a formal safety program in\nplace?\\\" said Michael Sicking, president of Safety International.</p>\n<p>\\\"Improving your\nsafety record lowers your insurance rates,\\\" he said, and also improves a\ncontractor\\\'s ability to get work.</p>\n<p>\\\"Major owners are\ntelling general contractors that no company will be allowed on their property\nunless their EMR (experience modification rate, a comparison of their annual\ninsurance claims against their policy premiums over a three-year period) is\nless than 1.0, or in some cases less than 0.85,\\\" he said. 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And those companies that work on heights have\nseen safer equipment give a huge boost to productivity.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;\\\"The whole\naccessibility area, the area of moving people into a position of work, is where\nyou\\\'ve seen productivity growth with safety,\\\" Toenjes said. \\\"In bridge work,\nfor example, in order to meet OSHA requirements, painting companies came up\nwith different ways to paint the undersides of bridges with different equipment\nand machinery that not only makes it safer but increases productivity,\\\" he\nsaid.\\\"I can tell you that we used to spend days and hours to put scaffolding\ntogether to do a 30 minute job and then hours to take it down, but now with a\nJLG lift it is a piece of cake and much safer,\\\" said Taliaferro, the retired\npipefitter. \\\"But one bad part is that now you have generations of young men and\nwomen who have never put scaffolding together and when they have to use\nscaffolding, they don\\\'t know how to use properly. 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Sicking, for example, said that his\ntarget market is companies that have annual revenues between $1 million and $25\nmillion. \\\"We represent about 130 companies,\\\" Taliaferro said of National Safety\nConsulting.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;\\\"We set up a\nprogram following the guidelines of OSHA and then assign a man to that account.\nHe performs audits, writes up how well they\\\'re doing, sends out \\\"huddle &nbsp;talks\\\", and conducts an annual review,\\\" he\nsaid.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;\\\"We\\\'ve found that\nif you adopt a policy that all injuries must be reported before quitting time\nthe day they happened and you enforce it, you will over time reduce the injuries\nyou have,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;\\\"And if you\ndisallow smoking in the break trailer on construction sites, you will have fewer\nillnesses. Cigarettes spread germs around in trailer,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;Boehm has been\nproviding safety education since 1982. \\\"Not training, education. You train\ndogs, but you educate people,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Boehm said that\nsafe work practices come from giving employees the tools they need to make the\nright decision, not from telling them exactly what to do.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;\\\"Safety is a\ndecision making process that employees go through based on conditions presented\nto them at the time they do their work,\\\" he said. \\\"Safety is making the right\ndecision based on knowledge of the hazard as well as what people do to prevent\nthe hazard. With fall protection, for example, OSHA has a number of different\ntrigger heights, but I believe it begins at zero.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;\\\"A one-size\nanswer does not fit all circumstances. The employee has to have the knowledge\nbase to make a decision as to which is right. With a painter, for example, the\nright personal protective equipment depends on the materials and chemicals he\nis using. Knowledge of material safety data sheets and what they are telling\nyou is essential to making the right decision,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>And the\nfoundation of all good safety programs, he added, is, \\\"you have to believe that\nall accidents are preventable. By nature, accidents are defined as unforeseen,\nbut, I believe, if you understand safety processes, there is a system of\nanalysis that keeps looking at the problems you\\\'re involved in to identify\nhazards and control them, whether they are physical, such as tripping hazards,\nor behavioral, such as improper lifting. We can identify them and remove\nthem.... 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Unfortunately those traditions and relationships have become tarnished and fractured in the past few years. Bluntly, what worked in the past is no longer working. Change is necessary if we are to have any possibility of recovery and growth. A combination of issues has effectively stalemated our ability to recover from the current construction recession and has opened our market to further deterioration, both in loss of business to other areas of the country and to the entry of national contracting and design entities from other markets into the St. Louis area. One of the most effective ways to begin change is to openly and candidly address the issues at hand with dialogue and with the presentation of statistical evidence.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:30:\"Forum, change, industry, Finan\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:7133:\"<p>&nbsp; Our St. Louis construction industry is built on traditions and relationships. Unfortunately those traditions and relationships have become tarnished and fractured in the past few years.  Bluntly, what worked in the past is no longer working.  Change is necessary if we are to have any possibility of recovery and growth. A combination of issues has effectively stalemated our ability to recover from the current construction recession and has opened our market to further deterioration, both in loss of business to other areas of the country and to the entry of national contracting and design entities from other markets into the St. Louis area.  <br />One of the most effective ways to begin change is to openly and candidly address the issues at hand with dialogue and with the presentation of statistical evidence. Individual constituencies such as construction consumers, general contractors, subcontractors, and designers have done admirable jobs of attempting to address the issues through their programming and communication. But while there has been a lot of discussion about \\\"best practices,\\\" new approaches, and collaboration, where the rubber meets the road we are an industry more divided against itself than at any point in decades. <br />Here are some of my recent, admittedly random, observations about the need for something to change. <br /> &bull;	At the November meeting of the American Society of Professional Engineers, John Grady, senior BIM technician at McCarthy demonstrated the ways in which BIM information can inform and streamline the construction process. Despite the impressiveness of the technology, the thought that came foremost to my mind was that the potential of this rich flow of information is wasted unless an open, trusting, collaborative environment exists in which it can be shared. <br /> &bull;	Shortly before writing this column I had a discussion with some young project managers who truly believe in taking the high road in being open and honest in competing for work and in collaborative relationships with owners and other team members once the work is won. These young men believe that honesty and collaboration will prove out in the young run. But they have become truly disillusioned by the amount of \\\"gaming\\\" that takes place in today\\\'s construction  bid and project management environment. <br /> &bull;	Steve Bannes, director of the Sever Institute graduate studies program in construction at Washington University told me that he recently asked students in one of his classes how many felt that playing the flexible ethics game was part of the construction process. The disheartening number of students who agreed that taking the low road was surprised Bannes. <br /> &bull;	A recent CNR enews/website article \\\"All Low Price Buys is Changes Orders\\\" served as a catalyst for lively discussion both online and in person. The article was an interview outlining the viewpoint of author Bill Black, who came to St. Louis to share his perspective on the current price-focused bid market with commercial real estate and design industry representatives. For two weeks after the article ran a lively online and offline discussion of the issue ensued. It is this kind of change-related dialogue that I believe that our industry is currently lacking. I encourage you to check out the article on the CNR website.  <br />There has been no single point of dialogue or repository of information regarding these issues.  The leadership forum which I am proposing would attempt to address that need with work products which would include, but not be limited to, the following:<br /> &bull;	Annual or bi-annual executive-level \\\"leadership summits\\\" <br /> &bull;	A website with <br /> &bull;	downloadable summaries of the summits <br /> &bull;	industry statistics<br /> &bull;	blogs on industry issues<br /> &bull;	discussion forums<br /> &bull;	webinars on forum topics<br /> &bull;	A regularly circulated e-newsletter<br /> &bull;	Position papers on key issues facing the industry (downloadable)<br /> &bull;	University graduate and undergraduate research on local industry issues (downloadable)					<br />University construction study programs at Washington University and SIUE could be involved in vetting and assisting with the development of programming for these communication channels. 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Integrated Project Delivery was at least being explored, if not practiced in reality. Now the \\\"buyers\\\' market\\\" for construction is creating an acrimonious climate in which price is the primary determinant of project awards. Incomplete scopes result in change orders, and contentious project management. The subcontractor/general/owner relationship is more fractious and distrustful than it has been in decades.</p>\n<p>&bull;	Political Divisions: The large number of political entities in the metropolitan area and parochialism among those entities has long been an impediment to development and construction in St. Louis. While this forum cannot change the political infrastructure of the St. Louis area, it is possible that a factual presentation of the effects of political fractionalization on the construction environment can at least result in communication leading to a more building-friendly political environment. <br /> &bull;	Inclusion: Despite the best efforts of AGC, SLCCC and other organizations the reality of including MBE/WBE organizations in the market, who does and does not qualify as MBE/WEB and what inclusion looks like when it\\\'s really happening has become increasingly muddied. Further, the current contentious bid fray and the variety of programs that institutional and corporate buyers are creating make it difficult for industry firms to build cohesive inclusion policies.</p>\n<p>I have been in discussion with association and educational leaders and have received their support for this St. Louis Construction Leadership Forum concept. 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The leadership forum which I am proposing would attempt to address that need with work products which would include, but not be limited to, the following:<br /> &bull;	Annual or bi-annual executive-level \\\"leadership summits\\\" <br /> &bull;	A website with <br /> &bull;	downloadable summaries of the summits <br /> &bull;	industry statistics<br /> &bull;	blogs on industry issues<br /> &bull;	discussion forums<br /> &bull;	webinars on forum topics<br /> &bull;	A regularly circulated e-newsletter<br /> &bull;	Position papers on key issues facing the industry (downloadable)<br /> &bull;	University graduate and undergraduate research on local industry issues (downloadable)					<br />University construction study programs at Washington University and SIUE could be involved in vetting and assisting with the development of programming for these communication channels. The goal would be to create an objective presentation of the facts which has the necessary credibility to reasonably assess the current situation and to affect change.  A steering body representing the gamut of the industry would help to direct the evolution of the effort. <br />The primary issues which need to be addressed directly and candidly are:<br /> &bull;	Labor issues: The role of unions historically and in the future needs to be examined candidly, in light of the current state of the industry. Unions have provided a stable, trained work force for the St. Louis area for over a century. They have, in effect, created an environment that has largely been closed to contractors from outside the metropolitan area.</p>\n<p>&bull;	Project Award Environment: Two years ago the industry appeared to be entering a new environment of process for project awards. An increasing amount of work was being awarded on a negotiated basis. 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Bill\\\'s comments about low price leading to change orders is a widely held sentiment in the Design-Public Bid-Build world.  Many owners over the years have tried Construction Management, Design/Build, limited bidder\\\'s lists and other methods to upgrade the quality of the bidders on their projects while also addressing the relationship gap established by the adversarial nature of public low-bid and construction.<br /> <br />Bill Black\\\'s new book &mdash; <em>The Commercial Real Estate Revolution</em> &mdash; was co-authored by a diverse cross-industry team of people who all agree that the current system isn\\\'t working as well as it could be to deliver quality buildings to owners who are happy with the process, the price and the building.  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But while there has been a lot of discussion about \\\"best practices,\\\" new approaches, and collaboration, where the rubber meets the road we are an industry more divided against itself than at any point in decades.</p>\n<p>Here are some of my recent, admittedly random, observations about the need for something to change:</p>\n<p><br /> &bull;	At the November meeting of the American Society of Professional Engineers, John Grady, senior BIM technician at McCarthy demonstrated the ways in which BIM information can inform and streamline the construction process. 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But they have become truly disillusioned by the amount of \\\"gaming\\\" that takes place in today\\\'s construction  bid and project management environment.</p>\n<p><br /> &bull;	Steve Bannes, director of the Sever Institute graduate studies program in construction at Washington University told me that he recently asked students in one of his classes how many felt that playing the flexible ethics game was part of the construction process. The disheartening number of students who agreed that taking the low road surprised Bannes.</p>\n<p><br /> &bull;	A recent CNR enews/website article \\\"All Low Price Buys is Changes Orders\\\" served as a catalyst for lively discussion both online and in person. The article was an interview outlining the viewpoint of author Bill Black, who came to St. Louis to share his perspective on the current price-focused bid market with commercial real estate and design industry representatives. For two weeks after the article ran a lively online and offline discussion of the issue ensued. It is this kind of change-related dialogue that I believe that our industry is currently lacking. I encourage you to check out the article on the CNR website.</p>\n<p><br />There has been no single point of dialogue or repository of information regarding these issues.  The leadership forum which I am proposing would attempt to address that need with work products which would include, but not be limited to, the following:</p>\n<p><br /> &bull;	Annual or bi-annual executive-level \\\"leadership summits\\\" <br /> &bull;	A website with <br /> &bull;	downloadable summaries of the summits <br /> &bull;	industry statistics<br /> &bull;	blogs on industry issues<br /> &bull;	discussion forums<br /> &bull;	webinars on forum topics<br /> &bull;	A regularly circulated e-newsletter<br /> &bull;	Position papers on key issues facing the industry (downloadable)<br /> &bull;	University graduate and undergraduate research on local industry issues (downloadable)</p>\n<p><br />University construction study programs at Washington University and SIUE could be involved in vetting and assisting with the development of programming for these communication channels. 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During his tenure with the company, he played a critical role in their diversification from biofuels into the Engineer Procure Construct (EPC) power market. He was also a construction consultant at the law firm of Fabyanske, Westra, Hart, &amp; Thomson and served as the business development manager for API Construction Company, specialists in industrial insulation and lagging.</p>\n<p>According to MC Industrial President Tom Felton, \\\"Because of Ryan\\\'s expertise in both construction law and business development, he understands the complexities of industrial construction and can help deliver the best solutions our clients require to meet regulatory requirements, financing challenges and successfully work with complex site conditions.\\\"</p>\n<p>Miner served for four years on the Planning Committee and Open Shop Committee for the Associated General Contractors of Minnesota (AGC). 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An extraordinary political compromise reached by the City of St. Louis in the letting of contracts for the new O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center offers a case in point.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:24:\"Wilson, Kwame, O\\\'Fallon\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:11226:\"<p><img alt=\\\"O\\\'Fallon Rec Center\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rec_center.png\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />When municipalities or other government entities set high goals for minority and women participation in contracts, it places bidders in the untenable position of either gaming the system or losing the bid.&nbsp; An extraordinary political compromise reached by the City of St. Louis in the letting of contracts for the new O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center offers a case in point.</p>\n<p>Critics of the city\\\'s handling of the construction contracts for the recreation center say the  changes made in the scope of the project are so great the city should have re-bid the job.  Two changes top the list of  complaints: the city increased the level of minority participation required in the contract and negotiated a price for that increase with the prime contractor, S.M. Wilson &amp; Co.; and the city added a construction manager, Kwame Building Group, over the job after the prime contract was awarded with the understanding that the prime contractor would be responsible for managing the job.</p>\n<p>Richard Bradley, president of the City of St. Louis Board of Public Service (BPS), said the controversial construction management contract is not what it appears.</p>\n<p>\\\"It is not a conventional construction management contract,\\\" he said. \\\"Most of the contract is for compliance monitoring, and they\\\'ll also help my staff some with other things,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>As for S.M. Wilson, \\\"we didn\\\'t pay them one nickel extra for meeting the stated minority goals,\\\" Bradley said. \\\"The extra $650,000 is because we raised the goals above those required in the bid, so it was a change in scope,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Taken together, the two changes increased the cost of the project by $1.28 million.</p>\n<p>CM or Not?</p>\n<p>Within the construction community, controversy over the construction management contract grew out of the sequence of bids.</p>\n<p>The prime contract for construction of the $17 million recreation center facility was bid on December 22, 2009. At the pre-bid conference on December 7, the project delivery method that was discussed utilized a traditional owner-to-general contractor relationship without the intermediary of a construction manager, according to two contractors who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</p>\n<p>But two months later the BPS issued a request for qualifications for construction engineering services for the O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center project, with a deadline for statements of qualification of March 10, 2010.</p>\n<p>\\\"Originally I was going to have my staff do the construction management, but we have $40 million in stimulus projects going on ... and this is the first project where we\\\'re doing labor force requirements,\\\" Bradley said.</p>\n<p>The upshot of that request for qualifications was that the BPS approved a $634,825 contract with Kwame Building Group for construction management services for the recreation center project on May 20.</p>\n<p>Normally, owners hire construction managers before hiring contractors to build a project. The construction manager (CM) works with the architect to improve the constructability of the design and breaks the job up into bid packages for contractors. After contractors are hired, the CM coordinates the schedule and manages the budget. In this case, the BPS already had a design and had already bid the job of building it as a single package - although they had not yet formally awarded that package to any contractor.</p>\n<p>For the city however, \\\"it is not unusual for us to augment our staff after bidding,\\\" Bradley said.</p>\n<p>Kwame\\\'s president and CEO, Anthony Thompson, said that his company was brought onboard the project to avoid a repetition of problems that he said plagued the construction of the south side recreation center - budget, schedule, and minority participation problems.</p>\n<p>\\\"To Rich Bradley\\\'s credit, he did not want to make same mistakes as happened [under his predecessor] on the south side recreation center,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'re running the job the same as we\\\'ve always done for 20 years,\\\" Thompson said. \\\"The difference here, the added value, is we can assist with assuring that we maximize participation. Any project we\\\'ve been involved in has met or exceeded participation goals. That is not our primary service, but if owners want us to do that, we will,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Bradley, however, stressed that he never intended for Kwame to be viewed as the manager construction, which is why he had requested statements of qualifications for construction engineering, not construction management.</p>\n<p>\\\"This is the first project where we\\\'re doing labor force requirements,\\\" Bradley said. \\\"Kwame is helping to monitor compliance and assist my staff ... They are not a real construction manager [on this job],\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The compliance issues that Kwame is charged to monitor are much broader than just compliance with minority hiring, apprenticeship, and minority subcontracting goals, although Kwame will monitor those as well. Kwame also is charged with monitoring compliance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) goals, compliance with prevailing wage regulations, and compliance with the schedule. Kwame also is charged with utility coordination and reviewing change orders and claims.</p>\n<p>\\\"Many of us [aldermen] had reservations about Kwame, because they are tied to the mayor and they are doing a lot of other City work,\\\" Alderman Antonio French said. Bradley remembers it differently. He said French was the only one who was opposed to Kwame. Thompson, for his part, denied that Kwame has any other City work, except for one contract at the airport that has been on-going for 10 years.</p>\n<p>In the end, Kwame had by far the highest evaluation scores of the 10 firms evaluated by a committee of five city employees that consisted of: Bradley; Joseph Kuss, deputy city engineer, BPS; Thomas Behan, chief of construction, BPS; Gary Bess, director of parks; and Daniel Skillman, commissioner of parks. The BPS approved Kwame\\\'s contract one month before approving a contract with the general (prime) contractor, S.M. Wilson &amp; Co.</p>\n<p>What Took So Long?</p>\n<p>It took six months from bid opening for the BPS to approve a contract with S.M. Wilson. At $16,732,688, S.M. Wilson\\\'s was the lowest of five bids submitted to the BPS. The next three bids were closely grouped, ranging from $17.564 million to $17.878 million. The high bid was $18.129 million.</p>\n<p>The reason it took so long to award the contract, Bradley said, was, \\\"we had negotiations with aldermen and others to increase the minority participation [in the project]. We had to work through that before we could award the job.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"We were concerned about minority involvement, especially workforce involvement,\\\" said Alderman French, who apparently took the lead in raising concerns for the Black Aldermanic Caucus. Within days of the bid opening he asked Bradley for copies of the bids.</p>\n<p>Minority participation was a concern from before the bids were opened. \\\"This was the second time the project was bid. The first time all the bids were thrown out, because none of them gave close to our participation goals. That\\\'s why we went to pre-qualification,\\\" French said. That meant the City would only invite bids from contractors who \\\"pre-qualified\\\" as able to meet the bid requirements.</p>\n<p>On bid day, S.M. 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Wilson tweaked the minority participation on their sublist, French complained that the company was not taking the aldermen\\\'s concerns seriously.</p>\n<p>On February 1, 2010, Francoise Lyles Wiggins, contract compliance officer at the Airport Authority, which is the agency that certifies the legitimacy of minority- and women-owned firms, certified that S.M. Wilson had made a good faith effort to meet the city\\\'s participation goals. She calculated that the minority (MBE) participation rate in the project would be 22 percent and the woman-owned business (WBE) participation rate would be eight percent.</p>\n<p>Aldermen weren\\\'t satisfied, however. On February 16, alderman Jeffrey Boyd asked for a copy of S.M. Wilson\\\'s sublist and asked to be included with aldermen Terry Kennedy and Antonio French in all future meetings about the contract.</p>\n<p>A month later, however, S.M. Wilson got an endorsement from Michael Holmes, executive director of SLATE, which was to monitor compliance with the contractor\\\'s plan for meeting the city\\\'s participation goals. He send Bradley a letter recommending \\\"moving forward\\\" with the S.M. Wilson contract and stating that SLATE had reviewed the contractor\\\'s plans for meeting the city\\\'s apprenticeship, minority, women, and residency goals.</p>\n<p>Aldermen French and Kennedy, however, said \\\"hold on\\\", and the contract was pulled from the agenda of the BPS.</p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks, S.M. Wilson increased the level of certified minority involvement to 25 percent, and Bradley and Lyles Wiggins worked to convince skeptical aldermen that the percentage was valid.</p>\n<p>It wasn\\\'t enough for the north side aldermen. Ultimately, they insisted on changing the project scope to increase the level of minority participation on the project. <br />Sometime during May, S.M. 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The question that is unanswered and cannot be answered is how other companies would have changed their bids if the job had been bid with a construction manager and a higher minority participation level.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:30:\"/images/uploads/rec_center.png\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(2763,1043,2,4,1289457678,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:4:\"1043\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-11-04 02:52 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:28:\"AGC Presents Keystone Awards\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:28:\"agc_presents_keystone_awards\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:28:\"AGC Presents Keystone Awards\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:119:\"The Associated General Contractors of St. Louis (AGC) announced the winners for the 2010 Construction Keystone Awards. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:13:\"AGC, Keystone\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4579:\"<p>The Associated General Contractors of St. Louis (AGC) announced the winners for the 2010 Construction Keystone Awards.</p>\n<p>The winners, which run the gamut from a community center to energy generation facilities to a bioresearch facility to the use of a cave for national archives, illustrate the diversity of quality work by St. Louis area contractors.</p>\n<p>This is the thirteenth anniversary of the Construction Keystone Awards, sponsored by the AGC.  A total of thirteen St. Louis area contractors received 2010 Construction Keystone Awards as a testament to the creativity and talents of a diverse group of St. Louis construction companies. The winners were chosen from a group of nearly 40 finalists; finalists were chosen from more than 60 entries, a record for the program. The awards ceremony also honored the owners of the winning projects.</p>\n<p>In light of today\\\'s global economy, the AGC adopted two changes to the criteria for the 2010 Keystone project submissions:  1) AGC members are no longer limited to submitting projects located within the immediate St. Louis area; and, 2) project completion requirements were extended by one year.  Projects that were substantially complete between June 15, 2008 and June 15, 2010 were eligible for submission.</p>\n<p>Project of the year winners include the following:  S. M. Wilson &amp; Company for the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University (St. Louis, MO); Clayco for Washington University South 40 Redevelopment Phase I (St. Louis, MO); Kozeny-Wagner, Inc. for William L. Clay Sr. Early Childhood Development and Parenting Education Center (St. Louis, MO); Alberici Constructors, Inc. for the Coffeen Wet Flue Gas Desulphurization Installation - Units 1 &amp; 2 (Coffeen, IL); MC Industrial, Inc. for ConocoPhillips Wood River Refinery Wastewater Treatment Upgrade (Wood River, IL); D &amp; L Painting &amp; Drywall for Express Scripts High Volume Filler (St. Louis, MO); BSI Constructors, Inc. for the Lewis Rice &amp; Fingersh Corporate Headquarters (St. Louis, MO); PayneCrest Electric, Inc. for the BJC Data Center (O\\\'Fallon, MO); Hayward Baker, Inc. for St. Louis Art Museum Expansion Mass Excavation Earth Retention (St. Louis, MO) as well as the Taum Sauk Foundation Drains &amp; Piezometer Drilling (Lesterville, MO); Construction Services 2000, Inc. for National Archives and Records Administration (Valmeyer, IL); Guarantee Electrical Company for Gateway Energy &amp; Coke Company (Granite City, IL);  and Tarlton Corporation for Wexford BioResearch Development &amp; Growth Park at the Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, MO).</p>\n<p>The Keystone Awards honor the highest achievements of St. Louis construction firms for their efforts to deliver projects on-time and on-budget. The awards are glowing recognition of local construction professionals whose skill, teamwork and spirit of innovation make a lasting contribution to our community by building the facilities that support and enhance the quality of life in greater St. Louis.</p>\n<p>\\\"These elite projects provide just a glimpse of the innovation and out-of-the-box thinking required by today\\\'s construction professionals,\\\" said Leonard Toenjes, AGC President.  \\\"The construction industry is truly at the heart of making this region a great place to live, work and play.\\\"</p>\n<p>This year marks the fourth annual presentation of the Keystone Heritage Award.  This award recognizes individuals or construction projects with a significant impact on the region.  This year\\\'s award was presented to retiring U.S. Senator Christopher \\\"Kit\\\" Bond.  Sen. 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Strength in numbers is an important part of our philosophy and one of the most valuable parts of membership.\\\"<br /> <br />The NACC represents and promotes general contractors who qualify to be the representative general contractor of a national concept or chain in a given region. Members are the only contractor marketed for a given metropolitan region, so there is no competition between members of the NACC. At the same time, members are encouraged to network with one another.<br /> <br />\\\"We are continuously working to develop a variety of resources for our members,\\\" Spiegelglass said. \\\"Relationship building is key, but we also provide services such as a unique website for each member, association newsletters, member and owner directories, and member conferences and seminars.\\\"<br />&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Membership includes Spiegelglass Construction of St. Louis, A.R.C. 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An extraordinary political compromise reached by the City of St. Louis in the letting of contracts for the new O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center offers a case in point.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:24:\"Wilson, Kwame, O\\\'Fallon\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:11264:\"<p><img alt=\\\"O\\\'Fallon Rec Center\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rec_center.png\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />When municipalities or other government entities set high goals for minority and women participation in contracts, it places bidders in the untenable position of either gaming the system or losing the bid.&nbsp; An extraordinary political compromise reached by the City of St. Louis in the letting of contracts for the new O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center offers a case in point.</p>\n<p>Critics of the city\\\'s handling of the construction contracts for the recreation center say the  changes made in the scope of the project are so great the city should have re-bid the job.  Two changes top the list of  complaints: the city increased the level of minority participation required in the contract and negotiated a price for that increase with the prime contractor, S.M. Wilson &amp; Co.; and the city added a construction manager, Kwame Building Group, over the job after the prime contract was awarded with the understanding that the prime contractor would be responsible for managing the job.</p>\n<p>Richard Bradley, president of the City of St. Louis Board of Public Service (BPS), said the controversial construction management contract is not what it appears.</p>\n<p>\\\"It is not a conventional construction management contract,\\\" he said. \\\"Most of the contract is for compliance monitoring, and they\\\'ll also help my staff some with other things,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>As for S.M. Wilson, \\\"we didn\\\'t pay them one nickel extra for meeting the stated minority goals,\\\" Bradley said. \\\"The extra $650,000 is because we raised the goals above those required in the bid, so it was a change in scope,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Taken together, the two changes increased the cost of the project by $1.28 million.</p>\n<p><strong>CM or Not?</strong></p>\n<p>Within the construction community, controversy over the construction management contract grew out of the sequence of bids.</p>\n<p>The prime contract for construction of the $17 million recreation center facility was bid on December 22, 2009. At the pre-bid conference on December 7, the project delivery method that was discussed utilized a traditional owner-to-general contractor relationship without the intermediary of a construction manager, according to two contractors who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</p>\n<p>But two months later the BPS issued a request for qualifications for construction engineering services for the O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center project, with a deadline for statements of qualification of March 10, 2010.</p>\n<p>\\\"Originally I was going to have my staff do the construction management, but we have $40 million in stimulus projects going on ... and this is the first project where we\\\'re doing labor force requirements,\\\" Bradley said.</p>\n<p>The upshot of that request for qualifications was that the BPS approved a $634,825 contract with Kwame Building Group for construction management services for the recreation center project on May 20.</p>\n<p>Normally, owners hire construction managers before hiring contractors to build a project. The construction manager (CM) works with the architect to improve the constructability of the design and breaks the job up into bid packages for contractors. After contractors are hired, the CM coordinates the schedule and manages the budget. In this case, the BPS already had a design and had already bid the job of building it as a single package - although they had not yet formally awarded that package to any contractor.</p>\n<p>For the city however, \\\"it is not unusual for us to augment our staff after bidding,\\\" Bradley said.</p>\n<p>Kwame\\\'s president and CEO, Anthony Thompson, said that his company was brought onboard the project to avoid a repetition of problems that he said plagued the construction of the south side recreation center - budget, schedule, and minority participation problems.</p>\n<p>\\\"To Rich Bradley\\\'s credit, he did not want to make the same mistakes as happened [under his predecessor] on the south side recreation center,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'re running the job the same as we\\\'ve always done for 20 years,\\\" Thompson said. \\\"The difference here, the added value, is we can assist with assuring that we maximize participation. Any project we\\\'ve been involved in has met or exceeded participation goals. That is not our primary service, but if owners want us to do that, we will,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Bradley, however, stressed that he never intended for Kwame to be viewed as the manager construction, which is why he had requested statements of qualifications for construction engineering, not construction management.</p>\n<p>\\\"This is the first project where we\\\'re doing labor force requirements,\\\" Bradley said. \\\"Kwame is helping to monitor compliance and assist my staff ... They are not a real construction manager [on this job],\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The compliance issues that Kwame is charged to monitor are much broader than just compliance with minority hiring, apprenticeship, and minority subcontracting goals, although Kwame will monitor those as well. Kwame also is charged with monitoring compliance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) goals, compliance with prevailing wage regulations, and compliance with the schedule. Kwame also is charged with utility coordination and reviewing change orders and claims.</p>\n<p>\\\"Many of us [aldermen] had reservations about Kwame, because they are tied to the mayor and they are doing a lot of other City work,\\\" Alderman Antonio French said. Bradley remembers it differently. He said French was the only one who was opposed to Kwame. Thompson, for his part, denied that Kwame has any other City work, except for one contract at the airport that has been on-going for 10 years.</p>\n<p>In the end, Kwame had by far the highest evaluation scores of the 10 firms evaluated by a committee of five city employees that consisted of: Bradley; Joseph Kuss, deputy city engineer, BPS; Thomas Behan, chief of construction, BPS; Gary Bess, director of parks; and Daniel Skillman, commissioner of parks. The BPS approved Kwame\\\'s contract one month before approving a contract with the general (prime) contractor, S.M. Wilson &amp; Co.</p>\n<p><strong>What Took So Long?</strong></p>\n<p>It took six months from bid opening for the BPS to approve a contract with S.M. Wilson. At $16,732,688, S.M. Wilson\\\'s was the lowest of five bids submitted to the BPS. The next three bids were closely grouped, ranging from $17.564 million to $17.878 million. The high bid was $18.129 million.</p>\n<p>The reason it took so long to award the contract, Bradley said, was, \\\"we had negotiations with aldermen and others to increase the minority participation [in the project]. We had to work through that before we could award the job.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"We were concerned about minority involvement, especially workforce involvement,\\\" said Alderman French, who apparently took the lead in raising concerns for the Black Aldermanic Caucus. Within days of the bid opening he asked Bradley for copies of the bids.</p>\n<p>Minority participation was a concern from before the bids were opened. \\\"This was the second time the project was bid. The first time all the bids were thrown out, because none of them gave close to our participation goals. That\\\'s why we went to pre-qualification,\\\" French said. That meant the City would only invite bids from contractors who \\\"pre-qualified\\\" as able to meet the bid requirements.</p>\n<p>On bid day, S.M. Wilson and the next two lowest bidders all submitted written statements that they would fail to meet the city\\\'s goals of subcontracting 25 percent of contract dollars to minority owned firms and five percent to firms owned by women. The only two firms that stated that they would meet the minority and women participation goals were the two highest bidders, whose bids were $1.1 million and $1.4 million above S.M. Wilson\\\'s bid.</p>\n<p>In an email dated December 26, 2009, the Saturday after bid opening, Bradley, in responding to Alderman French\\\'s request for the bids, said that he had concerns about minority participation in S.M. Wilson\\\'s bid.</p>\n<p>In the two months that followed the opening of bids, while S.M. Wilson tweaked the minority participation on their sublist, French complained that the company was not taking the aldermen\\\'s concerns seriously.</p>\n<p>On February 1, 2010, Francoise Lyles Wiggins, contract compliance officer at the Airport Authority, which is the agency that certifies the legitimacy of minority- and women-owned firms, certified that S.M. Wilson had made a good faith effort to meet the city\\\'s participation goals. She calculated that the minority (MBE) participation rate in the project would be 22 percent and the woman-owned business (WBE) participation rate would be eight percent.</p>\n<p>Aldermen weren\\\'t satisfied, however. On February 16, alderman Jeffrey Boyd asked for a copy of S.M. Wilson\\\'s sublist and asked to be included with aldermen Terry Kennedy and Antonio French in all future meetings about the contract.</p>\n<p>A month later, however, S.M. Wilson got an endorsement from Michael Holmes, executive director of SLATE, which was to monitor compliance with the contractor\\\'s plan for meeting the city\\\'s participation goals. He send Bradley a letter recommending \\\"moving forward\\\" with the S.M. Wilson contract and stating that SLATE had reviewed the contractor\\\'s plans for meeting the city\\\'s apprenticeship, minority, women, and residency goals.</p>\n<p>Aldermen French and Kennedy, however, said \\\"hold on\\\", and the contract was pulled from the agenda of the BPS.</p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks, S.M. Wilson increased the level of certified minority involvement to 25 percent, and Bradley and Lyles Wiggins worked to convince skeptical aldermen that the percentage was valid.</p>\n<p>It wasn\\\'t enough for the north side aldermen. Ultimately, they insisted on changing the project scope to increase the level of minority participation on the project. <br />Sometime during May, S.M. Wilson and the City came together on a new, much higher goal. French said aldermen told S.M. Wilson CEO Scott Wilson that they would move to cancel the project if he couldn\\\'t raise the level of minority participation in the project. \\\"Then he came around,\\\" French said.</p>\n<p>S.M. Wilson agreed to increase the level of minority participation beyond what was required by the bid to at least 32 percent and strive to get it up to 40 percent, and the City agreed to pay them an additional $650,000 to do it. Wilson declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p>On June 15, 2010, the BPS finally approved a contract with S.M. Wilson, complete with a change order for the additional minority participation commitment. Even at the new price of $17,382,668, the contract was $180,000 below the next closest initial bid, and $5.1 million less than the cost estimated by the BPS when bid invitations went out. 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Wilson Manages Fourth Maplewood Program\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"sm_wilson_manages_fourth_maplewood_program\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:44:\"S.M. Wilson Manages Fourth Maplewood Program\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:266:\"S. M. Wilson is managing a $3.7 million program of renovations and additions to two different schools for the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District. This is the fourth building project S. M. Wilson has handled for the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:17:\"Wilson, Maplewood\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1939:\"<p>S. M. Wilson is managing a $3.7 million program of renovations and additions to two different schools for the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District.  The program includes renovations to the high school and the construction of a new addition and renovations at the Early Childhood Center.  The projects are scheduled for completion in September 2011.<br /></p>\n<p>The high school will receive a new parking lot, central courtyard, cooling tower screening, repairs to the main stairway and theater steps, and renovation to the fourth floor restrooms.</p>\n<p>The Early Childhood Center will receive a new kitchen addition, as well as renovation of the existing gymnasium and cafeteria.<br /> The project is made possible by the passage of a $9 million bond issue referendum held in April 2010.  S. M. Wilson is providing pre-construction and construction management services for the program.  Bond Wolfe Architects is architect for the program.</p>\n<p>This is the fourth building project S. M. Wilson has handled for the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District.  In 2001, the company provided construction management services for a new two-story elementary school.  Then in 2005-2006, S. M. Wilson provided pre-referendum and construction management services for the renovation of the high school and early childhood center.   These projects totaled more than $18 million in construction costs.</p>\n<p>In 2009 the company completed another $9.6 million of renovations. That project included renovations to the high school\\\'s auditorium, kitchen, gym lobby and central offices, as well as new additions to the district\\\'s early childhood center gymnasium, library and classrooms.</p>\n<p>S. M. Wilson is a full-service construction management, design/build and general contracting firm with headquarters in St. Louis and Rollins Construction Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of S. M. 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Two changes top the list of  complaints: the city increased the level of minority participation required in the contract and negotiated a price for that increase with the prime contractor, S.M. Wilson &amp; Co.; and the city added a construction manager, Kwame Building Group, over the job after the prime contract was awarded with the understanding that the prime contractor would be responsible for managing the job.</p>\n<p>Richard Bradley, president of the City of St. Louis Board of Public Service (BPS), said the controversial construction management contract is not what it appears.</p>\n<p>\\\"It is not a conventional construction management contract,\\\" he said. \\\"Most of the contract is for compliance monitoring, and they\\\'ll also help my staff some with other things,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>As for S.M. 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At the pre-bid conference on December 7, the project delivery method that was discussed utilized a traditional owner-to-general contractor relationship without the intermediary of a construction manager, according to two contractors who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</p>\n<p>But two months later the BPS issued a request for qualifications for construction engineering services for the O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center project, with a deadline for statements of qualification of March 10, 2010.</p>\n<p>\\\"Originally I was going to have my staff do the construction management, but we have $40 million in stimulus projects going on ... and this is the first project where we\\\'re doing labor force requirements,\\\" Bradley said.</p>\n<p>The upshot of that request for qualifications was that the BPS approved a $634,825 contract with Kwame Building Group for construction management services for the recreation center project on May 20.</p>\n<p>Normally, owners hire construction managers before hiring contractors to build a project. The construction manager (CM) works with the architect to improve the constructability of the design and breaks the job up into bid packages for contractors. After contractors are hired, the CM coordinates the schedule and manages the budget. In this case, the BPS already had a design and had already bid the job of building it as a single package - although they had not yet formally awarded that package to any contractor.</p>\n<p>For the city however, \\\"it is not unusual for us to augment our staff after bidding,\\\" Bradley said.</p>\n<p>Kwame\\\'s president and CEO, Anthony Thompson, said that his company was brought onboard the project to avoid a repetition of problems that he said plagued the construction of the south side recreation center - budget, schedule, and minority participation problems.</p>\n<p>\\\"To Rich Bradley\\\'s credit, he did not want to make the same mistakes as happened [under his predecessor] on the south side recreation center,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'re running the job the same as we\\\'ve always done for 20 years,\\\" Thompson said. \\\"The difference here, the added value, is we can assist with assuring that we maximize participation. Any project we\\\'ve been involved in has met or exceeded participation goals. That is not our primary service, but if owners want us to do that, we will,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Bradley, however, stressed that he never intended for Kwame to be viewed as the construction manager, which is why he had requested statements of qualifications for construction engineering, not construction management.</p>\n<p>\\\"This is the first project where we\\\'re doing labor force requirements,\\\" Bradley said. \\\"Kwame is helping to monitor compliance and assist my staff ... They are not a real construction manager [on this job],\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The compliance issues that Kwame is charged to monitor are much broader than just compliance with minority hiring, apprenticeship, and minority subcontracting goals, although Kwame will monitor those as well. Kwame also is charged with monitoring compliance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) goals, compliance with prevailing wage regulations, and compliance with the schedule. Kwame also is charged with utility coordination and reviewing change orders and claims.</p>\n<p>\\\"Many of us [aldermen] had reservations about Kwame, because they are tied to the mayor and they are doing a lot of other City work,\\\" Alderman Antonio French said. Bradley remembers it differently. He said French was the only one who was opposed to Kwame. Thompson, for his part, denied that Kwame has any other City work, except for one contract at the airport that has been on-going for 10 years.</p>\n<p>In the end, Kwame had by far the highest evaluation scores of the 10 firms evaluated by a committee of five city employees that consisted of: Bradley; Joseph Kuss, deputy city engineer, BPS; Thomas Behan, chief of construction, BPS; Gary Bess, director of parks; and Daniel Skillman, commissioner of parks. The BPS approved Kwame\\\'s contract one month before approving a contract with the general (prime) contractor, S.M. Wilson &amp; Co.</p>\n<p><strong>What Took So Long?</strong></p>\n<p>It took six months from bid opening for the BPS to approve a contract with S.M. Wilson. At $16,732,688, S.M. Wilson\\\'s was the lowest of five bids submitted to the BPS. The next three bids were closely grouped, ranging from $17.564 million to $17.878 million. The high bid was $18.129 million.</p>\n<p>The reason it took so long to award the contract, Bradley said, was, \\\"we had negotiations with aldermen and others to increase the minority participation [in the project]. We had to work through that before we could award the job.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"We were concerned about minority involvement, especially workforce involvement,\\\" said Alderman French, who apparently took the lead in raising concerns for the Black Aldermanic Caucus. Within days of the bid opening he asked Bradley for copies of the bids.</p>\n<p>Minority participation was a concern from before the bids were opened. \\\"This was the second time the project was bid. The first time all the bids were thrown out, because none of them gave close to our participation goals. That\\\'s why we went to pre-qualification,\\\" French said. That meant the City would only invite bids from contractors who \\\"pre-qualified\\\" as able to meet the bid requirements.</p>\n<p>On bid day, S.M. Wilson and the next two lowest bidders all submitted written statements that they would fail to meet the city\\\'s goals of subcontracting 25 percent of contract dollars to minority owned firms and five percent to firms owned by women. The only two firms that stated that they would meet the minority and women participation goals were the two highest bidders, whose bids were $1.1 million and $1.4 million above S.M. Wilson\\\'s bid.</p>\n<p>In an email dated December 26, 2009, the Saturday after bid opening, Bradley, in responding to Alderman French\\\'s request for the bids, said that he had concerns about minority participation in S.M. Wilson\\\'s bid.</p>\n<p>In the two months that followed the opening of bids, while S.M. 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Wilson got an endorsement from Michael Holmes, executive director of SLATE, which was to monitor compliance with the contractor\\\'s plan for meeting the city\\\'s participation goals. He send Bradley a letter recommending \\\"moving forward\\\" with the S.M. Wilson contract and stating that SLATE had reviewed the contractor\\\'s plans for meeting the city\\\'s apprenticeship, minority, women, and residency goals.</p>\n<p>Aldermen French and Kennedy, however, said \\\"hold on\\\", and the contract was pulled from the agenda of the BPS.</p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks, S.M. Wilson increased the level of certified minority involvement to 25 percent, and Bradley and Lyles Wiggins worked to convince skeptical aldermen that the percentage was valid.</p>\n<p>It wasn\\\'t enough for the north side aldermen. Ultimately, they insisted on changing the project scope to increase the level of minority participation on the project. <br />Sometime during May, S.M. 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The school renovation will produce 21 apartments and new construction on the surrounding block will yield the other 91 housing units - a mix of townhouses and garden apartments. The total mix will contain market rate units, Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) units, HOME units, and public housing units.</p>\n<p>Environmentally friendly features incorporated into the development\\\'s design and construction include Energy Star labeled appliances and fixtures, solar panels, water-conserving appliances and fixtures, water management techniques during construction, high-efficiency HVAC systems, recycling of content materials and reduction of heat-island effect through highly reflective roof shingles and pervious paving.<br /> <br />The sustainability goals for Arlington Grove are not as aggressive as they are for Lexington Farms, but \\\"Arlington Grove represents one of the first projects in the country using the Enterprise Green Communities criteria, in particular the solar panels,\\\" said Nathan Rauh, Housing Studio Leader for KAI Design &amp; Build, which is serving as serving as the architect, mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineer, general contractor, and Building Information Modeling coordinator on the project. \\\"The photovoltaic panels specified for the project are expected to provide 10 percent of the development\\\'s total energy demands,\\\" he said. The Enterprise Green Communities criteria were mandated by some of the public funds that will be used to build the project: the Capital Fund Recovery Competition grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.</p>\n<p>The Arlington Grove project also is significant for its percentages of minority participation. A St. Louis statute requires 25 percent of contract dollars on city projects go to minority business enterprises (MBEs) and five percent go to women business enterprises (WBEs). Through the efforts of the KAI-led design-build team, the Arlington Grove project was able to achieve to surpass those requirements with 40 percent MBE and 10 percent WBE participation.</p>\n<p>KAI used an extended, three month long bid process to recruit minority and women contractors and suppliers to the project. 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Two area housing developers&nbsp;&mdash; one in the City of St. Louis and one in Jerseyville, IL, have recently announced that they are heading down that path.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Green House\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/green-house.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<p><strong>Lexington Farms</strong></p>\n<p>In Jerseyville, Capstone Development Group began construction in September of Lexington Farms subdivision, which it is billing as \\\"the nation\\\'s first net-zero energy, affordable community.\\\" The developer projects that the 32 single-family homes under construction in a suburban cornfield will rent for $590 a month and the renters will pay nothing for gas and electricity.</p>\n<p>\\\"This development will be rented to rural families that earn less than $41,000 per year. And they won\\\'t have a gas bill. They won\\\'t have a heating bill. 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Even the streetlights will be powered by wind and solar.</p>\n<p>The design will incorporate:<br /> &bull;	Sustainable landscape practices include efficient irrigation systems <br /> &bull;	Water efficient faucets, shower heads, and WaterSense toilets <br /> &bull;	Bathroom and kitchen exhaust vented to the outdoors removing sources of pollutants <br /> &bull;	Energy-efficient design and Energy Star appliances, exceeding Energy Star for New Homes requirements <br /> &bull;	Wall insulation at R-21 and R-49 insulation in the attic <br /> &bull;	Well sealed and air-tight construction reducing drafts <br /> &bull;	Low VOC paints <br /> &bull;	Energy efficient florescent light fixtures <br /> &bull;	Argon gas U35-rated low-e windows <br /> &bull;	Extensive use of recycled material</p>\n<p><br />\\\"These homes will have an independent third-party evaluation to ensure each home actually performs as designed, was constructed properly, and meets the criteria for LEED certification,\\\" said Jason La Fleur, project manager for the Alliance for Environmental Sustainability, who is serving as the LEED for Homes provider for the Lexington Farms development. \\\"The fact that these homes will reach the prestigious LEED Platinum certification level and yet will remain affordable is a testament to the hard work the design team has put into this project, and shows that green building can work with any budget,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Financing for the development includes financing from the Illinois Housing Development Authority, Sterling Bank, and Federal Tax Credit Equity from the National Equity Fund.</p>\n<p><strong>Arlington Grove</strong></p>\n<p>In St. Louis, developer McCormack Baron Salazar has begun work on one of the first Enterprise Green Communities in the country, and the first in Missouri: the $41 million Arlington Grove redevelopment project near Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and Burd Avenue.</p>\n<p>Plans for the project include 112-mixed-finance, mixed-income rental units in garden apartments, townhouses, semi-detached housing, a new mixed-use building and rehabilitation of the historic Arlington Elementary School for a total gross residential square footage of 162,000 and 5,000 square feet of commercial/retail. The school renovation will produce 21 apartments and new construction on the surrounding block will yield the other 91 housing units - a mix of townhouses and garden apartments. The total mix will contain market rate units, Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) units, HOME units, and public housing units.</p>\n<p>Environmentally friendly features incorporated into the development\\\'s design and construction include Energy Star labeled appliances and fixtures, solar panels, water-conserving appliances and fixtures, water management techniques during construction, high-efficiency HVAC systems, recycling of content materials and reduction of heat-island effect through highly reflective roof shingles and pervious paving.<br /> <br />The sustainability goals for Arlington Grove are not as aggressive as they are for Lexington Farms, but \\\"Arlington Grove represents one of the first projects in the country using the Enterprise Green Communities criteria, in particular the solar panels,\\\" said Nathan Rauh, Housing Studio Leader for KAI Design &amp; Build, which is serving as serving as the architect, mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineer, general contractor, and Building Information Modeling coordinator on the project. \\\"The photovoltaic panels specified for the project are expected to provide 10 percent of the development\\\'s total energy demands,\\\" he said. The Enterprise Green Communities criteria were mandated by some of the public funds that will be used to build the project: the Capital Fund Recovery Competition grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.</p>\n<p>The Arlington Grove project also is significant for its percentages of minority participation. A St. Louis statute requires 25 percent of contract dollars on city projects go to minority business enterprises (MBEs) and five percent go to women business enterprises (WBEs). Through the efforts of the KAI-led design-build team, the Arlington Grove project was able to achieve to surpass those requirements with 40 percent MBE and 10 percent WBE participation.</p>\n<p>KAI used an extended, three month long bid process to recruit minority and women contractors and suppliers to the project. 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An extraordinary political compromise reached by the City of St. Louis in the letting of contracts for the new O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center offers a case in point.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:24:\"Wilson, Kwame, O\\\'Fallon\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:11264:\"<p><img alt=\\\"O\\\'Fallon Rec Center\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rec_center.png\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />When municipalities or other government entities set high goals for minority and women participation in contracts, it places bidders in the untenable position of either gaming the system or losing the bid.&nbsp; An extraordinary political compromise reached by the City of St. Louis in the letting of contracts for the new O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center offers a case in point.</p>\n<p>Critics of the city\\\'s handling of the construction contracts for the recreation center say the  changes made in the scope of the project are so great the city should have re-bid the job.  Two changes top the list of  complaints: the city increased the level of minority participation required in the contract and negotiated a price for that increase with the prime contractor, S.M. Wilson &amp; Co.; and the city added a construction manager, Kwame Building Group, over the job after the prime contract was awarded with the understanding that the prime contractor would be responsible for managing the job.</p>\n<p>Richard Bradley, president of the City of St. Louis Board of Public Service (BPS), said the controversial construction management contract is not what it appears.</p>\n<p>\\\"It is not a conventional construction management contract,\\\" he said. \\\"Most of the contract is for compliance monitoring, and they\\\'ll also help my staff some with other things,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>As for S.M. Wilson, \\\"we didn\\\'t pay them one nickel extra for meeting the stated minority goals,\\\" Bradley said. \\\"The extra $650,000 is because we raised the goals above those required in the bid, so it was a change in scope,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Taken together, the two changes increased the cost of the project by $1.28 million.</p>\n<p><strong>CM or Not?</strong></p>\n<p>Within the construction community, controversy over the construction management contract grew out of the sequence of bids.</p>\n<p>The prime contract for construction of the $17 million recreation center facility was bid on December 22, 2009. At the pre-bid conference on December 7, the project delivery method that was discussed utilized a traditional owner-to-general contractor relationship without the intermediary of a construction manager, according to two contractors who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</p>\n<p>But two months later the BPS issued a request for qualifications for construction engineering services for the O\\\'Fallon Park Recreation Center project, with a deadline for statements of qualification of March 10, 2010.</p>\n<p>\\\"Originally I was going to have my staff do the construction management, but we have $40 million in stimulus projects going on ... and this is the first project where we\\\'re doing labor force requirements,\\\" Bradley said.</p>\n<p>The upshot of that request for qualifications was that the BPS approved a $634,825 contract with Kwame Building Group for construction management services for the recreation center project on May 20.</p>\n<p>Normally, owners hire construction managers before hiring contractors to build a project. The construction manager (CM) works with the architect to improve the constructability of the design and breaks the job up into bid packages for contractors. After contractors are hired, the CM coordinates the schedule and manages the budget. In this case, the BPS already had a design and had already bid the job of building it as a single package - although they had not yet formally awarded that package to any contractor.</p>\n<p>For the city however, \\\"it is not unusual for us to augment our staff after bidding,\\\" Bradley said.</p>\n<p>Kwame\\\'s president and CEO, Anthony Thompson, said that his company was brought onboard the project to avoid a repetition of problems that he said plagued the construction of the south side recreation center - budget, schedule, and minority participation problems.</p>\n<p>\\\"To Rich Bradley\\\'s credit, he did not want to make the same mistakes as happened [under his predecessor] on the south side recreation center,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'re running the job the same as we\\\'ve always done for 20 years,\\\" Thompson said. \\\"The difference here, the added value, is we can assist with assuring that we maximize participation. Any project we\\\'ve been involved in has met or exceeded participation goals. That is not our primary service, but if owners want us to do that, we will,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Bradley, however, stressed that he never intended for Kwame to be viewed as the construction manager, which is why he had requested statements of qualifications for construction engineering, not construction management.</p>\n<p>\\\"This is the first project where we\\\'re doing labor force requirements,\\\" Bradley said. \\\"Kwame is helping to monitor compliance and assist my staff ... They are not a real construction manager [on this job],\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The compliance issues that Kwame is charged to monitor are much broader than just compliance with minority hiring, apprenticeship, and minority subcontracting goals, although Kwame will monitor those as well. Kwame also is charged with monitoring compliance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) goals, compliance with prevailing wage regulations, and compliance with the schedule. Kwame also is charged with utility coordination and reviewing change orders and claims.</p>\n<p>\\\"Many of us [aldermen] had reservations about Kwame, because they are tied to the mayor and they are doing a lot of other City work,\\\" Alderman Antonio French said. Bradley remembers it differently. He said French was the only one who was opposed to Kwame. Thompson, for his part, denied that Kwame has any other City work, except for one contract at the airport that has been on-going for 10 years.</p>\n<p>In the end, Kwame had by far the highest evaluation scores of the 10 firms evaluated by a committee of five city employees that consisted of: Bradley; Joseph Kuss, deputy city engineer, BPS; Thomas Behan, chief of construction, BPS; Gary Bess, director of parks; and Daniel Skillman, commissioner of parks. The BPS approved Kwame\\\'s contract one month before approving a contract with the general (prime) contractor, S.M. Wilson &amp; Co.</p>\n<p><strong>What Took So Long?</strong></p>\n<p>It took six months from bid opening for the BPS to approve a contract with S.M. Wilson. At $16,732,688, S.M. Wilson\\\'s was the lowest of five bids submitted to the BPS. The next three bids were closely grouped, ranging from $17.564 million to $17.878 million. The high bid was $18.129 million.</p>\n<p>The reason it took so long to award the contract, Bradley said, was, \\\"we had negotiations with aldermen and others to increase the minority participation [in the project]. We had to work through that before we could award the job.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"We were concerned about minority involvement, especially workforce involvement,\\\" said Alderman French, who apparently took the lead in raising concerns for the Black Aldermanic Caucus. Within days of the bid opening he asked Bradley for copies of the bids.</p>\n<p>Minority participation was a concern from before the bids were opened. \\\"This was the second time the project was bid. The first time all the bids were thrown out, because none of them gave close to our participation goals. That\\\'s why we went to pre-qualification,\\\" French said. That meant the City would only invite bids from contractors who \\\"pre-qualified\\\" as able to meet the bid requirements.</p>\n<p>On bid day, S.M. Wilson and the next two lowest bidders all submitted written statements that they would fail to meet the city\\\'s goals of subcontracting 25 percent of contract dollars to minority owned firms and five percent to firms owned by women. The only two firms that stated that they would meet the minority and women participation goals were the two highest bidders, whose bids were $1.1 million and $1.4 million above S.M. Wilson\\\'s bid.</p>\n<p>In an email dated December 26, 2009, the Saturday after bid opening, Bradley, in responding to Alderman French\\\'s request for the bids, said that he had concerns about minority participation in S.M. Wilson\\\'s bid.</p>\n<p>In the two months that followed the opening of bids, while S.M. Wilson tweaked the minority participation on their sublist, French complained that the company was not taking the aldermen\\\'s concerns seriously.</p>\n<p>On February 1, 2010, Francoise Lyles Wiggins, contract compliance officer at the Airport Authority, which is the agency that certifies the legitimacy of minority- and women-owned firms, certified that S.M. Wilson had made a good faith effort to meet the city\\\'s participation goals. She calculated that the minority (MBE) participation rate in the project would be 22 percent and the woman-owned business (WBE) participation rate would be eight percent.</p>\n<p>Aldermen weren\\\'t satisfied, however. On February 16, alderman Jeffrey Boyd asked for a copy of S.M. Wilson\\\'s sublist and asked to be included with aldermen Terry Kennedy and Antonio French in all future meetings about the contract.</p>\n<p>A month later, however, S.M. Wilson got an endorsement from Michael Holmes, executive director of SLATE, which was to monitor compliance with the contractor\\\'s plan for meeting the city\\\'s participation goals. He send Bradley a letter recommending \\\"moving forward\\\" with the S.M. Wilson contract and stating that SLATE had reviewed the contractor\\\'s plans for meeting the city\\\'s apprenticeship, minority, women, and residency goals.</p>\n<p>Aldermen French and Kennedy, however, said \\\"hold on\\\", and the contract was pulled from the agenda of the BPS.</p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks, S.M. Wilson increased the level of certified minority involvement to 25 percent, and Bradley and Lyles Wiggins worked to convince skeptical aldermen that the percentage was valid.</p>\n<p>It wasn\\\'t enough for the north side aldermen. Ultimately, they insisted on changing the project scope to increase the level of minority participation on the project. <br />Sometime during May, S.M. Wilson and the City came together on a new, much higher goal. French said aldermen told S.M. Wilson CEO Scott Wilson that they would move to cancel the project if he couldn\\\'t raise the level of minority participation in the project. \\\"Then he came around,\\\" French said.</p>\n<p>S.M. Wilson agreed to increase the level of minority participation beyond what was required by the bid to at least 32 percent and strive to get it up to 40 percent, and the City agreed to pay them an additional $650,000 to do it. Wilson declined to comment for this story.</p>\n<p>On June 15, 2010, the BPS finally approved a contract with S.M. Wilson, complete with a change order for the additional minority participation commitment. Even at the new price of $17,382,668, the contract was $180,000 below the next closest initial bid, and $5.1 million less than the cost estimated by the BPS when bid invitations went out. The question that is unanswered and cannot be answered is how other companies would have changed their bids if the job had been bid with a construction manager and a higher minority participation level.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:30:\"/images/uploads/rec_center.png\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(2774,1056,4,4,1290187064,'a:25:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-11-19 06:09 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:39:\"Wash U. to Renovate Historic Cupples II\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:38:\"wash_u_to_renovate_historic_cupples_ii\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:39:\"Wash U. to Renovate Historic Cupples II\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:367:\" Washington University in St. Louis  is proceeding with the renovation of Cupples II Hall. The university has selected S. M. Wilson & Co. to renovate the 100-year-old building on the school’s Danforth Campus in preparation for its conversion to house the College of Arts & Sciences, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and the Office of Undergraduate Research. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:18:\"Cupples II, Wilson\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1771:\"<p>Washington University in St. Louis  is proceeding with the renovation of Cupples II Hall. The university has selected S. M. Wilson &amp; Co. to renovate the 100-year-old building on the school\\\'s Danforth Campus in preparation for its conversion to house the College of Arts &amp; Sciences, the Graduate School of Arts &amp; Sciences, and the Office of Undergraduate Research.  The 41,000 square foot building currently houses the School of Engineering and Applied Science.</p>\n<p>The $7.9 million project will include demolition of nearly all the building\\\'s interior space, construction of eight new state-of-the-art classrooms and the installation of new mechanical, electrical, fire protection and plumbing systems.  The renovated building will provide consolidated space for the College of Arts &amp; Sciences, the Graduate School of Arts &amp; Sciences, and the Office of Undergraduate Research.</p>\n<p>The project was designed and is being built to receive LEED Silver Certification.  Architect for the project is Arcturis. S. M. Wilson is providing general contracting services.  The project is scheduled for completion in the Summer of 2011.</p>\n<p>S. M. Wilson is a full-service construction management, design/build and general contracting firm with headquarters in St. Louis and Rollins Construction Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of S. M. 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The suit aims to invalidate new flood insurance rate maps that FEMA is planning to issue in the next year.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:24:\"FEMA, Leadership Council\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2535:\"<p>The Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois&nbsp; joined the State&rsquo;s\n Attorneys of Madison, St. Clair and Monroe counties and&nbsp; other\n impacted parties on Nov. 15 in filing suit in federal court against the Federal \nEmergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its director Craig Fugate. The \nsuit aims to invalidate new flood insurance rate maps that FEMA is \nplanning to issue in the next year that would declare substantial \nportions of the American Bottom as a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA), \nwithout any justification and with dire implications for the St. Louis \nregion.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"If FEMA&rsquo;s actions are allowed to proceed unchecked, area \nresidents and businesses would be faced with mandatory flood insurance \nrequirements, serious restrictions would be placed on new developments, \nand the cloud of uncertainty that already is robbing the region of its \nability to attract new jobs and capital investment would blanket the \narea for years,\\\"&nbsp; the Leadership Council said in a news release.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&ldquo;We applaud our county board chairmen for taking this important step \nand for their continued leadership on this vital issue as they strive to\n act in the best interest of more than 150,000 residents, 4,000 \nemployers and 56,000 jobs protected by the levees,&rdquo; notes Patrick \nMcKeehan, executive director of the Leadership Council Southwestern \nIllinois.&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Our decision to join this lawsuit was not made lightly, but\n appears to be our last option in preventing the SFHA designation.&nbsp; It \nis extremely important that we protect the livelihood of workers, \nresidents and businesses in our region, along with the long-term \neconomic stability of the communities and institutions within the \nAmerican Bottom.&rdquo;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;More information is available though the website\n for the recently launched St. Louis Metro East Levee Issues Alliance, \nwhich is being administered by the Leadership Council. Located at <a href=\\\"http://www.stlmetroeastlevees.org/\\\">www.stlmetroeastlevees.org</a>,\n the website makes it easy for individuals and organizations to \nofficially join the Alliance to gain access to background information on\n this issue and all the latest news, while also providing helpful tools \nfor those who would like to support the legislative or outreach efforts \nin the coming months. 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Dynegy needed a way to give proxy voters who opposed \nBlackstone&rsquo;s bid of  $4.50 a share time to consider the firm&rsquo;s  offer of\n $5 a share, which came the night before the meeting.The board of Dynegy has accepted Blackstone\\\'s $5-per-share buyout for the company, and has told shareholders who have already voted against the merger that they can amend their votes.</p>\n<p>The previous bid was $4.50 per share.</p>\n<p>Dynegy owns and operates eight power generation facilities in Illinois, including those in Alton and Stallings in Metro East, and a plant in Baldwin which is completing a $500 million flue gas desulfurization project. 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Renovations projects in Terminal 1 will begin in the spring of 2011. The Airport renovations and the creation of Lambert\\\'s Public Art and Culture Project are part of the Airport Experience Program which began in 2008.</p>\n<p>Nine local artists are now designing concepts for the art glass screens, which are the first public art commissions for Lambert within its new Public Art and Culture Project. The selected artists are Lauren Adams (St. Louis, MO); Sarah Giannobile (St. Louis, MO); Joan Hall (St. Louis, MO); Jana Harper (Clayton, MO); Tom Huck (University City, MO); William LaChance (Maplewood, MO); Eva Lundsager (University City, MO); Edna Patterson-Petty (East St. Louis, IL) and Mel Watkin (Cobden, IL). <a href=\\\"http://www.flystl.com/flystl/airport-exp/projects/PDF/artist-bios-pics.pdf\\\">For full artist bios, click here.</a></p>\n<p>\\\"We have a wealth of artistic talent in our community and this project is a great first step to enhance the Airport experience, foster civic pride and create a positive lasting impression of St. Louis for our visitors.\\\" said Lambert Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge. \\\"The glass screens will offer bursts of color and creativity that will give our renovated concourses new and exciting focal points for our travelers.\\\"</p>\n<p>The artists for this project were chosen from a competitive call to artists, selected by the Airport\\\'s new Art Advisory Committee with a focus on their past artistic works and the best artistic styles that would translate into glass. 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Three area housing developers&nbsp;&mdash; two in the City of St. Louis and one in Jerseyville, IL, have recently announced that they are heading down that path.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Green House\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/green-house.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<p><strong>Lexington Farms</strong></p>\n<p>In Jerseyville, Capstone Development Group began construction in September of Lexington Farms subdivision, which it is billing as \\\"the nation\\\'s first net-zero energy, affordable community.\\\" The developer projects that the 32 single-family homes under construction in a suburban cornfield will rent for $590 a month and the renters will pay nothing for gas and electricity.</p>\n<p>\\\"This development will be rented to rural families that earn less than $41,000 per year. And they won\\\'t have a gas bill. They won\\\'t have a heating bill. When they get their electric bill, it is more likely to be credit instead of a cost. Green technology will truly make a more affordable and more sustainable life for everyone in the community,\\\" said Bill Luchini, president of Capstone Development Group.</p>\n<p>The 32 single-family homes will each have three bedrooms, two full bathrooms and an attached two-car garage. Luchini believes that when complete, it will be the first LEED Platinum Certified affordable community in the nation.</p>\n<p>The 1,230-square-foot homes will feature central air conditioning, heat, hot water and other appliances that all run on electric energy, powered by roof-mounted solar panels on all homes, as well as wind turbines throughout the subdivision. Even the streetlights will be powered by wind and solar.</p>\n<p>The design will incorporate:<br /> &bull;	Sustainable landscape practices include efficient irrigation systems <br /> &bull;	Water efficient faucets, shower heads, and WaterSense toilets <br /> &bull;	Bathroom and kitchen exhaust vented to the outdoors removing sources of pollutants <br /> &bull;	Energy-efficient design and Energy Star appliances, exceeding Energy Star for New Homes requirements <br /> &bull;	Wall insulation at R-21 and R-49 insulation in the attic <br /> &bull;	Well sealed and air-tight construction reducing drafts <br /> &bull;	Low VOC paints <br /> &bull;	Energy efficient florescent light fixtures <br /> &bull;	Argon gas U35-rated low-e windows <br /> &bull;	Extensive use of recycled material</p>\n<p><br />\\\"These homes will have an independent third-party evaluation to ensure each home actually performs as designed, was constructed properly, and meets the criteria for LEED certification,\\\" said Jason La Fleur, project manager for the Alliance for Environmental Sustainability, who is serving as the LEED for Homes provider for the Lexington Farms development. \\\"The fact that these homes will reach the prestigious LEED Platinum certification level and yet will remain affordable is a testament to the hard work the design team has put into this project, and shows that green building can work with any budget,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Financing for the development includes financing from the Illinois Housing Development Authority, Sterling Bank, and Federal Tax Credit Equity from the National Equity Fund.</p>\n<p><strong>Arlington Grove</strong></p>\n<p>In St. Louis, developer McCormack Baron Salazar has begun work on one of the first Enterprise Green Communities in the country, and the first in Missouri: the $41 million Arlington Grove redevelopment project near Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and Burd Avenue.</p>\n<p>Plans for the project include 112-mixed-finance, mixed-income rental units in garden apartments, townhouses, semi-detached housing, a new mixed-use building and rehabilitation of the historic Arlington Elementary School for a total gross residential square footage of 162,000 and 5,000 square feet of commercial/retail. The school renovation will produce 21 apartments and new construction on the surrounding block will yield the other 91 housing units - a mix of townhouses and garden apartments. The total mix will contain market rate units, Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) units, HOME units, and public housing units.</p>\n<p>Environmentally friendly features incorporated into the development\\\'s design and construction include Energy Star labeled appliances and fixtures, solar panels, water-conserving appliances and fixtures, water management techniques during construction, high-efficiency HVAC systems, recycling of content materials and reduction of heat-island effect through highly reflective roof shingles and pervious paving.<br /> <br />The sustainability goals for Arlington Grove are not as aggressive as they are for Lexington Farms, but \\\"Arlington Grove represents one of the first projects in the country using the Enterprise Green Communities criteria, in particular the solar panels,\\\" said Nathan Rauh, Housing Studio Leader for KAI Design &amp; Build, which is serving as serving as the architect, mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineer, general contractor, and Building Information Modeling coordinator on the project. \\\"The photovoltaic panels specified for the project are expected to provide 10 percent of the development\\\'s total energy demands,\\\" he said. The Enterprise Green Communities criteria were mandated by some of the public funds that will be used to build the project: the Capital Fund Recovery Competition grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.</p>\n<p>The Arlington Grove project also is significant for its percentages of minority participation. A St. Louis statute requires 25 percent of contract dollars on city projects go to minority business enterprises (MBEs) and five percent go to women business enterprises (WBEs). Through the efforts of the KAI-led design-build team, the Arlington Grove project was able to achieve to surpass those requirements with 40 percent MBE and 10 percent WBE participation.</p>\n<p>KAI used an extended, three month long bid process to recruit minority and women contractors and suppliers to the project. KAI scheduled a series of pre-bid meetings that gave minority-owned, subcontractors immediate access to the large, majority-owned firms, opening the lines of communication. The bid process also allowed minority-owned firms to learn about the project specifications early enough to submit a thorough bid and to foster important, new relationships.</p>\n<p><br />Len Toenjes, president of AGC of St. Louis, complimented KAI\\\'s efforts. \\\"The Associated General Contractors of St. Louis is happy to see new and innovative approaches being taken to build a more inclusive construction business community,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p><strong>West Botanical Heights</strong></p>\n<p>Another green urban redevelopment effort - this one for for a roughly 10 block area north of the Missouri Botanical that is bounded by Vandeventer and Lafayette Avenue and Fulsom - is being led by Urban Improvement Construction/Central Design Office.</p>\n<p>Plans for the first phase of the project call for the construction of 30 LEED Platinum homes - 17 in renovated buildings and 13 of new construction - with a shared, neighborhood geothermal heating and cooling system on the 4100 block of McCree.</p>\n<p>Brent Crittendon, principal at UIC/CDO, said the idea is to bring down the cost of geothermal heating and cooling by sharing resources across the block. The buildings will be \\\"very tight\\\", he said, to further reduce heating and cooling costs.</p>\n<p>The design esthetic is to recreate the historical urban neighborhood by preserving existing structures and infilling with new construction of similar widths and heights, but of a contemporary design. 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Dynegy needed a way to give proxy voters who opposed \nBlackstone&rsquo;s bid of  $4.50 a share time to consider the firm&rsquo;s  offer of\n $5 a share, which came the night before the meeting.The board of Dynegy has accepted Blackstone\\\'s $5-per-share buyout for the company, and has told shareholders who have already voted against the merger that they can amend their votes.</p>\n<p>The previous bid was $4.50 per share.</p>\n<p>Dynegy owns and operates eight power generation facilities in Illinois, including those in Alton and Stallings in Metro East, and a plant in Baldwin which is completing a $500 million flue gas desulfurization project. 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While some people in the industry still struggle with email or web sites, Blanner is successfully using internet social networking tools to get business.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:46:\"Blanner, LinkedIn, Contractor Referral Network\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2932:\"<p>&nbsp;Joseph Blanner is a bit of a pioneer in the St. Louis construction industry. While some people in the industry still struggle with email or web sites, Blanner is successfully using internet social networking tools to get business.</p>\n<p>Blanner, a construction attorney at St. Louis law firm Behr, McCarter &amp; Potter, P.C., launched the St. Louis Contractor Referral Network on the LinkedIn social network in December 2009. 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The network now has more than 1,250 members.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"LinkedIn\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/linkedin.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />A year ago, \\\"I had about 70 connections on LinkedIn. Now I have about 800 and a couple of hundred of those I\\\'ve gotten to know on a face-to-face basis,\\\" Blanner said. \\\"My personal exposure in the industry has expanded tremendously and I\\\'ve gotten several pieces of business out of it,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"I view this as something long-term for my firm, but it is not just about my firm. 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