(2143,803,2,4,1266429162,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";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:\"2010-02-17 06:42 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";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:48:\"\\\"If We Make A Mistake, It Could Be Disastrous\\\"\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:43:\"if_we_make_a_mistake_it_could_be_disastrous\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:48:\"\\\"If We Make a Mistake, It Could Be Disastrous\\\"\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:118:\" Structural engineering is considered a part of civil engineering, but there is a movement afoot to separate the two. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:23:\"Structural, Engineering\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:9671:\"<p>\\\"If We Make A Mistake, It Could Be Disastrous\\\"</p>\n<p>Structural engineering is considered a part of civil engineering, but there is a movement afoot to separate the two. In typical construction practice, the structural engineer and the civil engineer are different and some structural engineers advocate separate licensing as well.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our job is to make sure a building stands up long enough for people to get out safely\\\" in the event of a  catastrophe such as an earthquake that causes the building to collapse, said Douglas Antholz, an associate at KPFF Consulting Engineers and president of SEAKM (Structural Engineers Association of Kansas and Missouri).</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Bridge Collapse\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/bridge.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />\\\"We have a huge impact on safety and we think we should be treated differently from other engineers,\\\" he said. Antholz and SEAKM want Missouri to join Illinois and 11 other states with separate licenses for the practice of structural engineering.</p>\n<p>According to the Structural Engineering Institute, the required course of study for a bachelor of science degree in engineering has been reduced at most universities over the years from 150 credit hours to 124 - meaning that many graduates have not had all the courses needed to design with the various structural materials used in modern structures - while structural design and building codes have become more complicated.</p>\n<p>In Missouri, someone who passes a general civil engineering test that has little structural content can still practice structural engineering, \\\"although ethically they should not,\\\" Antholz said.  Or one could take a multiple choice structural engineering exam. SEAKM would like to see structural engineers required to pass a structural engineering test in which they have to work out problems and show their work - analogous to the way Missouri has replaced multiple choice tests for grade school students with \\\"constructed response\\\" tests in which students have to show their work to show that they can read, write, and do arithmetic.</p>\n<p>\\\"We do need to know more,\\\" said Richard Bulczak, senior structural engineer at Heideman Associates. \\\"Structural codes have gotten thicker, there is more information we need to know and more we need to check,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our designs are location specific based on the soil conditions at each specific site. And we have to look at different materials both because at different locations different materials are readily available and because we offer developers options - different solutions based on what is most constructable, what is the cheapest, and what is the fastest to build,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Ingenious One</p>\n<p>The first documented engineer was a structural engineer, Imhotep, who built a famous stepped pyramid in Saqqarah, Egypt, for Pharaoh Netjerikhet (or Djoser) around 2600 BC. He is considered the inventor of building with shaped stones. Imhotep wanted to building something that would last for ages and after 4600 years his monument to Netjerikhet still stands and is regarded as the world\\\'s oldest known stone structure.</p>\n<p>It was admiration for such impressive structures that gave birth to the term \\\"engineer\\\" - literally \\\"ingenious one\\\" - in the eleventh century.</p>\n<p>Today, \\\"the structural engineer\\\'s role is to take the architect\\\'s concept and put numbers to how the building holds up. We\\\'re concerned with how the building gets used and where it is located. An office is different from a school, an industrial building is different from a highrise residential building. Each one is subject to different loadings due to the use that is put on it,\\\" Antholz said. When structural engineers talk about location it is shorthand for the environmental loads that will be put on a structur from snow, earthquakes, and wind.</p>\n<p>Structurally ingenious local projects include the Roberts Tower, Brauer Hall, and the Chaifetz Arena. The Roberts Tower downtown is a 20-story structure that, \\\"because it is skinnier than one would like, uses a higher stress concrete for strength,\\\" Antholz said. Brauer Hall at Wash University long spans and heavy interior loads that normally would call for a steel structure, but because it is a laboratory building with equipment and experiments that are sensitive to vibration, it was built using concrete instead. The Chaifetz Arena \\\"has an all exposed structure with large spans, and the structure has to be stronger because you\\\'re hanging things from it normally you wouldn\\\'t do that,\\\" Antholz said.</p>\n<p>A big boost to ingenuity, he said, came from computer modeling. \\\"When Barnes Tower was built in the 1960s, all the math was done by hand. Now you throw it all into a computer and you actually design a building several times as the architect makes changes,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"It is very advantageous for the owner,\\\" Bulczak added. \\\"It gives us the opportunity to give clients several alternatives and to be less conservative in the design,\\\" he explained.</p>\n<p>Owners and developers, however, often seem blind to - or uninterested in - the role of ingenuity. \\\"They treat us like a commodity,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"The structural engineer can have a huge affect on the cost of constructing a building based on his design, but owners don\\\'t see what we contribute, so they are fee shopping and changing firms,\\\" he said. Fee shopping is looking for the lowest first price without regard for quality or ultimate cost. \\\"The discounting is brutal,\\\" Antholz added. \\\"There was one job we bid where the owner wanted us to discount our fee 50 percent,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Patenting Methods</p>\n<p>One response to fee shopping is patenting. FDH Engineering Inc., a structural, geotechnical, and civil engineering firm based in Raleigh, NC with offices in St. Louis and Baton Rouge, received a patent in 2009 for a method for mapping concrete foundations. When the company was formed as an engineering consulting firm in 2000, \\\"we started out doing nondestructive testing of foundations, which led to structural engineering to re-engineer structures,\\\" said Vice President Christopher Murphy. One of the company\\\'s founders, J. 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In 2009, FDH patented their investigative method.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our investigative process, our flow charts, the way we present our results, all of it is patented,\\\" Murphy said, adding that \\\"under the doctrine of equivalence, any process or technology that produces a report with the same information that we produce is covered by our patent.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"You can\\\'t patent a result,\\\" said John Roedel, partner at Senniger Powers LLP and a prominent patent attorney. \\\"You can only  patent a machine, a process, an article of commerce, or a composition of matter.\\\" A company can patent the process it uses to get a result, although the patent might not hold up if competitors can show the process was in public use at least a year before the application was made for a patent, but it can\\\'t patent the result. And, although there is such a thing as the doctrine of equivalence, there is also an \\\"all elements rule,\\\" Roedel said, \\\"which means an accused process has to contain each element of a patent or the patent can\\\'t apply.\\\"</p>\n<p>The U.S, Sureme Court might or might not change all that, Roedel said. The patent world, he said, is anxiously awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court\\\'s decision in a case known as Bilski v. Kappos, on which the Court heard oral arguments last November on an appeal of a Federal Circuit Court decision that patents cannot be granted on methods for handling information. The circuit court had ruled that to be eligible for a patent, a method had to be tied either to a machine or to the transformation of a particular thing into a different state or thing. Roedel noted that a decision in that case could directly affect the validity of FDH Engineering\\\'s patent.</p>\n<p>Although Murphy\\\'s claims for the patent granted to FDH Engineering may be overly broad, the real utility of the patent is not to stop competitors from doing work, he said, but to promote FDH Engineering. \\\"It legitimizes the company. It says that we are the experts,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Deacon Farrelly, manager of business development in FDH Engineering\\\'s St. Louis office, said the patent \\\"mostly helps us get contracts with departments of transportation.\\\" He said the patent helped FDH recently get a contract to inspect 1,000 bridges over four years in Louisiana. In Kansas, he said, the state department of transportation had already awarded contracts to four firms for upgrading or repairing 17,000 bridges when FDH Engineering got its patent. 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In typical construction practice, the structural engineer and the civil engineer are different and some structural engineers advocate separate licensing as well.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our job is to make sure a building stands up long enough for people to get out safely\\\" in the event of a  catastrophe such as an earthquake that causes the building to collapse, said Douglas Antholz, an associate at KPFF Consulting Engineers and president of SEAKM (Structural Engineers Association of Kansas and Missouri).</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Bridge Collapse\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/bridge.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />\\\"We have a huge impact on safety and we think we should be treated differently from other engineers,\\\" he said. Antholz and SEAKM want Missouri to join Illinois and 11 other states with separate licenses for the practice of structural engineering.</p>\n<p>According to the Structural Engineering Institute, the required course of study for a bachelor of science degree in engineering has been reduced at most universities over the years from 150 credit hours to 124 - meaning that many graduates have not had all the courses needed to design with the various structural materials used in modern structures - while structural design and building codes have become more complicated.</p>\n<p>In Missouri, someone who passes a general civil engineering test that has little structural content can still practice structural engineering, \\\"although ethically they should not,\\\" Antholz said.  Or one could take a multiple choice structural engineering exam. SEAKM would like to see structural engineers required to pass a structural engineering test in which they have to work out problems and show their work - analogous to the way Missouri has replaced multiple choice tests for grade school students with \\\"constructed response\\\" tests in which students have to show their work to show that they can read, write, and do arithmetic.</p>\n<p>\\\"We do need to know more,\\\" said Richard Bulczak, senior structural engineer at Heideman Associates. \\\"Structural codes have gotten thicker, there is more information we need to know and more we need to check,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our designs are location specific based on the soil conditions at each specific site. And we have to look at different materials both because at different locations different materials are readily available and because we offer developers options - different solutions based on what is most constructable, what is the cheapest, and what is the fastest to build,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Ingenious One</p>\n<p>The first documented engineer was a structural engineer, Imhotep, who built a famous stepped pyramid in Saqqarah, Egypt, for Pharaoh Netjerikhet (or Djoser) around 2600 BC. He is considered the inventor of building with shaped stones. Imhotep wanted to building something that would last for ages and after 4600 years his monument to Netjerikhet still stands and is regarded as the world\\\'s oldest known stone structure.</p>\n<p>It was admiration for such impressive structures that gave birth to the term \\\"engineer\\\" - literally \\\"ingenious one\\\" - in the eleventh century.</p>\n<p>Today, \\\"the structural engineer\\\'s role is to take the architect\\\'s concept and put numbers to how the building holds up. We\\\'re concerned with how the building gets used and where it is located. An office is different from a school, an industrial building is different from a highrise residential building. Each one is subject to different loadings due to the use that is put on it,\\\" Antholz said. When structural engineers talk about location it is shorthand for the environmental loads that will be put on a structur from snow, earthquakes, and wind.</p>\n<p>Structurally ingenious local projects include the Roberts Tower, Brauer Hall, and the Chaifetz Arena. The Roberts Tower downtown is a 20-story structure that, \\\"because it is skinnier than one would like, uses a higher stress concrete for strength,\\\" Antholz said. Brauer Hall at Wash University long spans and heavy interior loads that normally would call for a steel structure, but because it is a laboratory building with equipment and experiments that are sensitive to vibration, it was built using concrete instead. The Chaifetz Arena \\\"has an all exposed structure with large spans, and the structure has to be stronger because you\\\'re hanging things from it normally you wouldn\\\'t do that,\\\" Antholz said.</p>\n<p>A big boost to ingenuity, he said, came from computer modeling. \\\"When Barnes Tower was built in the 1960s, all the math was done by hand. Now you throw it all into a computer and you actually design a building several times as the architect makes changes,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"It is very advantageous for the owner,\\\" Bulczak added. \\\"It gives us the opportunity to give clients several alternatives and to be less conservative in the design,\\\" he explained.</p>\n<p>Owners and developers, however, often seem blind to - or uninterested in - the role of ingenuity. \\\"They treat us like a commodity,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"The structural engineer can have a huge affect on the cost of constructing a building based on his design, but owners don\\\'t see what we contribute, so they are fee shopping and changing firms,\\\" he said. Fee shopping is looking for the lowest first price without regard for quality or ultimate cost. \\\"The discounting is brutal,\\\" Antholz added. \\\"There was one job we bid where the owner wanted us to discount our fee 50 percent,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Patenting Methods</p>\n<p>One response to fee shopping is patenting. FDH Engineering Inc., a structural, geotechnical, and civil engineering firm based in Raleigh, NC with offices in St. Louis and Baton Rouge, received a patent in 2009 for a method for mapping concrete foundations. When the company was formed as an engineering consulting firm in 2000, \\\"we started out doing nondestructive testing of foundations, which led to structural engineering to re-engineer structures,\\\" said Vice President Christopher Murphy. One of the company\\\'s founders, J. 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In 2009, FDH patented their investigative method.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our investigative process, our flow charts, the way we present our results, all of it is patented,\\\" Murphy said, adding that \\\"under the doctrine of equivalence, any process or technology that produces a report with the same information that we produce is covered by our patent.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"You can\\\'t patent a result,\\\" said John Roedel, partner at Senniger Powers LLP and a prominent patent attorney. \\\"You can only  patent a machine, a process, an article of commerce, or a composition of matter.\\\" A company can patent the process it uses to get a result, although the patent might not hold up if competitors can show the process was in public use at least a year before the application was made for a patent, but it can\\\'t patent the result. And, although there is such a thing as the doctrine of equivalence, there is also an \\\"all elements rule,\\\" Roedel said, \\\"which means an accused process has to contain each element of a patent or the patent can\\\'t apply.\\\"</p>\n<p>The U.S, Sureme Court might or might not change all that, Roedel said. The patent world, he said, is anxiously awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court\\\'s decision in a case known as Bilski v. Kappos, on which the Court heard oral arguments last November on an appeal of a Federal Circuit Court decision that patents cannot be granted on methods for handling information. The circuit court had ruled that to be eligible for a patent, a method had to be tied either to a machine or to the transformation of a particular thing into a different state or thing. Roedel noted that a decision in that case could directly affect the validity of FDH Engineering\\\'s patent.</p>\n<p>Although Murphy\\\'s claims for the patent granted to FDH Engineering may be overly broad, the real utility of the patent is not to stop competitors from doing work, he said, but to promote FDH Engineering. \\\"It legitimizes the company. It says that we are the experts,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Deacon Farrelly, manager of business development in FDH Engineering\\\'s St. Louis office, said the patent \\\"mostly helps us get contracts with departments of transportation.\\\" He said the patent helped FDH recently get a contract to inspect 1,000 bridges over four years in Louisiana. In Kansas, he said, the state department of transportation had already awarded contracts to four firms for upgrading or repairing 17,000 bridges when FDH Engineering got its patent. 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Antholz and SEAKM want Missouri to join Illinois and 11 other states with separate licenses for the practice of structural engineering.</p>\n<p>According to the Structural Engineering Institute, the required course of study for a bachelor of science degree in engineering has been reduced at most universities over the years from 150 credit hours to 124 - meaning that many graduates have not had all the courses needed to design with the various structural materials used in modern structures - while structural design and building codes have become more complicated.</p>\n<p>In Missouri, someone who passes a general civil engineering test that has little structural content can still practice structural engineering, \\\"although ethically they should not,\\\" Antholz said.  Or one could take a multiple choice structural engineering exam. SEAKM would like to see structural engineers required to pass a structural engineering test in which they have to work out problems and show their work - analogous to the way Missouri has replaced multiple choice tests for grade school students with \\\"constructed response\\\" tests in which students have to show their work to show that they can read, write, and do arithmetic.</p>\n<p>\\\"We do need to know more,\\\" said Richard Bulczak, senior structural engineer at Heideman Associates. \\\"Structural codes have gotten thicker, there is more information we need to know and more we need to check,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our designs are location specific based on the soil conditions at each specific site. And we have to look at different materials both because at different locations different materials are readily available and because we offer developers options - different solutions based on what is most constructable, what is the cheapest, and what is the fastest to build,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p><strong>Ingenious One</strong></p>\n<p>The first documented engineer was a structural engineer, Imhotep, who built a famous stepped pyramid in Saqqarah, Egypt, for Pharaoh Netjerikhet (or Djoser) around 2600 BC. He is considered the inventor of building with shaped stones. Imhotep wanted to building something that would last for ages and after 4600 years his monument to Netjerikhet still stands and is regarded as the world\\\'s oldest known stone structure.</p>\n<p>It was admiration for such impressive structures that gave birth to the term \\\"engineer\\\" - literally \\\"ingenious one\\\" - in the eleventh century.</p>\n<p>Today, \\\"the structural engineer\\\'s role is to take the architect\\\'s concept and put numbers to how the building holds up. We\\\'re concerned with how the building gets used and where it is located. An office is different from a school, an industrial building is different from a highrise residential building. Each one is subject to different loadings due to the use that is put on it,\\\" Antholz said. When structural engineers talk about location it is shorthand for the environmental loads that will be put on a structur from snow, earthquakes, and wind.</p>\n<p>Structurally ingenious local projects include the Roberts Tower, Brauer Hall, and the Chaifetz Arena. The Roberts Tower downtown is a 20-story structure that, \\\"because it is skinnier than one would like, uses a higher stress concrete for strength,\\\" Antholz said. Brauer Hall at Wash University long spans and heavy interior loads that normally would call for a steel structure, but because it is a laboratory building with equipment and experiments that are sensitive to vibration, it was built using concrete instead. The Chaifetz Arena \\\"has an all exposed structure with large spans, and the structure has to be stronger because you\\\'re hanging things from it normally you wouldn\\\'t do that,\\\" Antholz said.</p>\n<p>A big boost to ingenuity, he said, came from computer modeling. \\\"When Barnes Tower was built in the 1960s, all the math was done by hand. Now you throw it all into a computer and you actually design a building several times as the architect makes changes,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"It is very advantageous for the owner,\\\" Bulczak added. \\\"It gives us the opportunity to give clients several alternatives and to be less conservative in the design,\\\" he explained.</p>\n<p>Owners and developers, however, often seem blind to - or uninterested in - the role of ingenuity. \\\"They treat us like a commodity,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"The structural engineer can have a huge affect on the cost of constructing a building based on his design, but owners don\\\'t see what we contribute, so they are fee shopping and changing firms,\\\" he said. Fee shopping is looking for the lowest first price without regard for quality or ultimate cost. \\\"The discounting is brutal,\\\" Antholz added. \\\"There was one job we bid where the owner wanted us to discount our fee 50 percent,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p><strong>Patenting Methods</strong></p>\n<p>One response to fee shopping is patenting. FDH Engineering Inc., a structural, geotechnical, and civil engineering firm based in Raleigh, NC with offices in St. Louis and Baton Rouge, received a patent in 2009 for a method for mapping concrete foundations. When the company was formed as an engineering consulting firm in 2000, \\\"we started out doing nondestructive testing of foundations, which led to structural engineering to re-engineer structures,\\\" said Vice President Christopher Murphy. One of the company\\\'s founders, J. 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In 2009, FDH patented their investigative method.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our investigative process, our flow charts, the way we present our results, all of it is patented,\\\" Murphy said, adding that \\\"under the doctrine of equivalence, any process or technology that produces a report with the same information that we produce is covered by our patent.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"You can\\\'t patent a result,\\\" said John Roedel, partner at Senniger Powers LLP and a prominent patent attorney. \\\"You can only  patent a machine, a process, an article of commerce, or a composition of matter.\\\" A company can patent the process it uses to get a result, although the patent might not hold up if competitors can show the process was in public use at least a year before the application was made for a patent, but it can\\\'t patent the result. And, although there is such a thing as the doctrine of equivalence, there is also an \\\"all elements rule,\\\" Roedel said, \\\"which means an accused process has to contain each element of a patent or the patent can\\\'t apply.\\\"</p>\n<p>The U.S, Sureme Court might or might not change all that, Roedel said. The patent world, he said, is anxiously awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court\\\'s decision in a case known as Bilski v. Kappos, on which the Court heard oral arguments last November on an appeal of a Federal Circuit Court decision that patents cannot be granted on methods for handling information. The circuit court had ruled that to be eligible for a patent, a method had to be tied either to a machine or to the transformation of a particular thing into a different state or thing. Roedel noted that a decision in that case could directly affect the validity of FDH Engineering\\\'s patent.</p>\n<p>Although Murphy\\\'s claims for the patent granted to FDH Engineering may be overly broad, the real utility of the patent is not to stop competitors from doing work, he said, but to promote FDH Engineering. \\\"It legitimizes the company. It says that we are the experts,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Deacon Farrelly, manager of business development in FDH Engineering\\\'s St. Louis office, said the patent \\\"mostly helps us get contracts with departments of transportation.\\\" He said the patent helped FDH recently get a contract to inspect 1,000 bridges over four years in Louisiana. In Kansas, he said, the state department of transportation had already awarded contracts to four firms for upgrading or repairing 17,000 bridges when FDH Engineering got its patent. After showing the patent to the state transportation department, \\\"they sent a letter out to all four firms telling them to use us whenever they had to investigate unknown foundations,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Even though it is one response to commoditization, Antholz is not a fan of patenting. \\\"Many people see patents of methods as harmful to the community because, if someone has truly come up with a better mouse-trap, the patent in essence limits it use.\\\" In practical terms, he said, \\\"you can usually work around the issue by using a different method.\\\"</p>\n<p>FDH Engineering, however, is sold on the practice. \\\"We have an application pending for a patent on a method for finding rebar in dams,\\\" Murphy said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:26:\"/images/uploads/bridge.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"86\";}'),(2146,804,4,4,1266430500,'a:26:{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:\"2010-02-17 07:00 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"86\";}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:50:\"EPA Announces Rules on Construction Water Effluent\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:50:\"epa_announces_rules_on_construction_water_effluent\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:50:\"EPA Announces Rules on Construction Water Effluent\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:77:\"New EPA rules on construction site effluent discharges took effect on Feb. 1.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:24:\"EPA, effluent, discharge\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:7708:\"<p>New EPA rules on construction site effluent discharges took effect on Feb. 1.<br /> <br />On Dec. 1, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed effluent limits on stormwater discharges from many construction and development sites (the Construction Rule). (74 Fed. Reg. 62,996)1 The Construction Rule became effective February 1, 2010, and imposes the following general requirements:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-numeric effluent limitations apply to construction activity that disturbs one or more acres;<br /></li>\n<li>Beginning August 2, 2011, a numeric turbidity limit and related monitoring requirements will apply to construction activity that disturbs 20 or more acres at one time; and<br /></li>\n<li>No later than February 2, 2014, a numeric turbidity limit and related monitoring requirements will apply to construction activity that disturbs 10 or more acres at one time.<br /></li>\n<li>Construction and development activity currently operating under a stormwater discharge permit will not be subject to the Construction Rule until the permitting authority re-issues the discharge permit.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Watch-Outs for Builders and Developers</strong></p>\n<p>\\\"The Construction Rule significantly expands the standards that\napply to the discharge of stormwater from construction and development\nsites,\\\" a press release from the law firm of Husch Blackwell Sanders\nLLP stated. \\\"Owners and operators of affected projects should carefully\nreview the new requirements as this regulation represents the first\ntime that EPA has imposed both monitoring requirements and express\nnumeric turbidity limitations on stormwater discharges from\nconstruction activity. EPA\\\'s Construction Rule could have a significant\nimpact on companies that are involved in the construction industry\n(commercial and residential), including earth-moving contractors, the\nhighway construction industry and natural resource extraction\ncompanies. Based on the importance of this issue to EPA, it is\nreasonable to expect continued vigorous enforcement by EPA at\nconstruction sites.\\\"</p>\n<p>New non-numeric effluent limitations include requirements to address erosion and sediment controls, soil stabilization, de-watering, pollution prevention measures, certain discharge prohibitions and use of outlet structures to withdraw water from the surface. The numeric turbidity limit will require that owners and operators of larger construction and development projects monitor discharges and not exceed a daily average turbidity limit of 280 nephelometric turbidity units (NTU).<br /> <br />EPA\\\'s decision to regulate turbidity using a numeric standard was based on the agency\\\'s conclusion that turbidity is an \\\"indicator pollutant\\\" that will serve to assist in controlling the discharge of other pollutants, such as metals and nutrients, from construction and development sites. The numeric limitation for turbidity is being phased in over a four-year period to provide permitting authorities sufficient time to develop appropriate monitoring requirements and to give the regulated community time to prepare for compliance with the numeric limitation. The turbidity limit does not apply to stormwater discharges resulting from storm events larger than the local two-year, 24-hour storm.<br /> <br />The Construction Rule creates a technology-based \\\"floor\\\" of minimum requirements for discharges of stormwater associated with construction activity, including clearing, grading and excavation (see, 40 C.F.R. &sect;&sect; 122.26(b)(14)(x) and 122.26(b)(15)), that are subject to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program established by the Clean Water Act. The new effluent limitation guidelines are intended to work in concert with existing federal, state and local programs to accomplish the following goals:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preserve and improve water quality on a national scale; and</li>\n<li>Reduce the amount of sediment discharged from construction sites by approximately four billion pounds each year.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>In all but four states, NPDES permits are issued by state or local environmental authorities. In many cases, this requirement is satisfied by a general permit that focuses on minimizing the impact of stormwater discharges using erosion and sediment control measures that reflect best engineering practices, as well as control measures for other pollutants.<br /><br />EPA has issued a general permit for use in those states that do not have their own permitting authority - Idaho, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Mexico. On January 28, 2010, EPA extended the expiration date for the existing federal general permits covering stormwater discharges from construction activities to June 30, 2011, to provide sufficient time to incorporate the requirements of the Construction Rule into a renewed general permit.  (75 Fed. Reg. 4,554)<br /> <br />States are not required to re-open their existing general permits, although they may choose to do so before they expire. The implementation date for the new requirements will vary depending on when individual states reissue their permits and whether projects are covered by general or individual permits. Thus, as noted above, companies and facilities currently operating under an effective stormwater discharge permit will not be affected by the Construction Rule until the permitting authority re-issues their permit.<br /> <strong><br />Rulemaking Process to Begin for Post-Construction Stormwater Rule</strong></p>\n<p>EPA noted that it received comments encouraging the agency to include in the Construction Rule controls on stormwater discharges occurring after construction, or \\\"post-construction.\\\" While these comments were outside the scope of the Construction Rule, EPA made it clear that the agency was committed to initiating rulemaking to address post-construction stormwater discharges from newly developed sites.<br /> <br />On December 28, 2009, EPA published a notice announcing plans to begin a rulemaking on this issue and to make other regulatory changes to strengthen its stormwater program. (74 Fed. Reg. 68,617) In its notice, EPA stated that, \\\"[t]o address the degradation of water quality caused by stormwater discharges from impervious cover, EPA is exploring regulatory options that would strengthen the stormwater program, including establishing specific post-construction requirements for stormwater discharges from, at a minimum, new development and redevelopment.\\\" (74 Fed. Reg. 68,620) The agency expects to issue a final rule by November 2012.<br /> <br />EPA conducted several \\\"listening sessions\\\" in January 2010 to receive input on the performance, effectiveness and cost of stormwater control measures; ecological benefits from stormwater controls; technical information on design, implantation, operation and maintenance of stormwater control measures; and to receive other information that may help in the development of improvements to the existing program, including better control of pollutants in stormwater associated with new development and redevelopment.  EPA also intends to distribute questionnaires to owners, operators, developers and contractors at sites under development; owners and operators of municipal separate storm sewer systems; and states and U.S. territories. The industry questionnaire will target establishments that develop and redevelop sites for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>New housing construction;</li>\n<li>New industrial, commercial and institutional building construction;</li>\n<li>Land subdivisions;</li>\n<li>Highway, street and bridge construction; and</li>\n<li>Other heavy and civil engineering construction.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"86\";}'),(2147,805,10,4,1266431760,'a:32:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:2:\"10\";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:\"2010-02-17 07:18 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"86\";}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:53:\"Improving Project Delivery Through Deep Collaboration\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:53:\"improving_project_delivery_through_deep_collaboration\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_58\";s:53:\"Improving Project Delivery Through Deep Collaboration\";s:11:\"field_ft_58\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_62\";s:110:\"The Council of Construction Consumers explores the difference deep collaboration can make in project delivery.\";s:11:\"field_ft_62\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_59\";s:41:\"project, delivery, Construction Consumers\";s:11:\"field_ft_59\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_63\";s:40:\" Doubletree Hotel St. Louis at Westport,\";s:11:\"field_ft_63\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_57\";s:19:\"2010-02-25  7:00 AM\";s:15:\"field_offset_57\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_56\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_56\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_55\";s:7:\"7:00 AM\";s:11:\"field_ft_55\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_60\";s:2942:\"<p>The Council of Construction Consumers is sponsoring a program that explores what happens when construction teams abandon the usual \\\"convenient cooperation\\\" and engage in \\\"deep collaboration.\\\" <br /></p>\n<p>The program is designed to help attendees</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do your projects currently operate in an environment of deep collaboration?</li>\n<li>Do teams really operate in the interest of the project, optimizing the solutions to give the best project on behalf of the owner?</li>\n<li>Are you consistently part of a learning organization that seeks metric driven improvement?</li>\n<li>What would it take for your team to alter the way you deliver projects and give more consistent results by optimizing performance, infusing quality, and<br />&nbsp;and delivering&nbsp; better than expected results in scope, schedule and cost in a predictable and reliable manner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br />CCC said that the session will help those in attendance \\\"learn how to optimize project results through metric driven collaboration by building high energy continuous learning organizations.\\\"<br /> <br />Presenters:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bob McCoole, Ascension Health</li>\n<li>Ralph Grant, Covidien</li>\n<li>Chris Phillip, Sachs Electric</li>\n<li>Kevin Cook, Murphy Co.</li>\n<li>Brandon Pierson, KJWW Engineering</li>\n<li>Tom Van Landingham, Christner</li>\n<li>Clay Goser, Symphony, Facilitator</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br /> <strong>Sponsored by    Concrete Council</strong><br /> <br />Thursday, February 25, 2010<br /> 7:00 am  Registration &amp; networking<br /> 7:30 am  Breakfast<br /> 8:00 am  Program                           <br /> 9:30 am  Adjournment</p>\n<p><br /><strong>PDH &amp; CEU Credit</strong><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This program has been designed to permit you to qualify for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH) for Professional Engineers under Missouri statutes and 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEU) through the American Institute of Architects.<br />&nbsp;<strong><br />Please register by Feb. 20</strong></p>\n<p>Program and speakers subject to change. Please make reservations so that we can provide sufficient food and materials. If you cannot attend, you may send a substitute. Otherwise, please call to cancel. Uncanceled reservations will be invoiced. Please make checks payable to ST. LOUIS COUNCIL OF CONSTRUCTION CONSUMERS.&nbsp; American Express, Discover, Visa &amp; MasterCard also accepted.<br />&nbsp;<br />SLCCC Members&nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $40<br />Non-members -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $60<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>Hosted by</strong><br />St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers<br />180 Weidman Road, Suite 127<br />Manchester, MO&nbsp; 63021-5724<br />Phone&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 636-394-6200<br />Fax&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 636-394-9641<br />E-mail&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; info@slccc.net<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"86\";}'),(2148,806,4,4,1266433298,'a:26:{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:\"2010-02-17 07:46 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"7\";i:1;s:2:\"86\";}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:41:\"Burns and McDonnell Hires Three Engineers\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:41:\"burns_and_mcdonnell_hires_three_engineers\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:41:\"Burns and McDonnell Hires Three Engineers\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:69:\"Burns & McDonnell has added three engineers to its St. Louis office. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:53:\"Burns & McDonnell, BIS Frucon, Krusie, Myers, Hornell\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1261:\"<p>Burns &amp; McDonnell has added three engineers to its St. Louis office.</p>\n<p>Ron Krusie has joined Burns &amp; McDonnell to direct the engineering firm\\\'s St. Louis water and wastewater practice, according to Breck Washam, associate vice president and general manager of St. Louis area operations.   <br /></p>\n<p>Krusie has more than 30 years experience in water and wastewater system design. Prior to joining Burns &amp; McDonnell, he served as chief civil engineer and government sector manager for BIS Frucon Engineering, Inc. in St. Louis.</p>\n<p>Steve Myers has joined the firm as a senior process engineer. He will be serving the engineering firm\\\'s chemical industry clients in St. Louis and around the country. Myers has more than 16 years experience in process safety and design. Prior to joining Burns &amp; McDonnell, he served as a process engineer at BIS Frucon Engineering, Inc.  <br /> <br />Robert Hormell III has as a senior process engineer. He will serve as the engineering firm\\\'s lead engineer for process design in chemical production facilities.<br /> Hormell has 14 years experience in process safety and design. 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Wies\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:5384:\"<p>&nbsp;Two local companies have done what many thought was impossible: they dramatically transformed a garage into a cutting edge corporate office and they did it without spending a lot of money.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"CB&amp;E\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/cbe.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />\\\"The building that was there was not exactly an award winner, and I can say that because our firm designed it,\\\" said Larry Milles, principal of Gray Design Group. The existing building was a plain, concrete block building. It was designed as a low, low cost vehicle emissions testing building - essentially a garage with two drive-through bays with a small attached office and waiting area. Once Missouri ended its vehicle emissions testing program, it seemed as if no one could figure out how to reuse it, despite its good location in Chesterfield Valley. No one, that is, until CB&amp;E Construction Group.</p>\n<p>According to Gus Cervetto, principal of the CB&amp;E Construction Group, most people wanted to tear the building down and start anew, but CB&amp;E rejected that on the basis of how damaging that would be to the environment.</p>\n<p>\\\"We are very big believers in sustainable construction - we did the very first green building project in Missouri years ago - and we knew that the energy we would use in knocking the building<br />down would be too great. The problem we were struggling with was what we could do with it that wouldn\\\'t end up looking like a gas station ... without the gas pumps,\\\" Cervetto explained.</p>\n<p>CB&amp;E, then a tenant in someone else\\\'s building, wanted a headquarters building of their own, something cutting-edge that would make a dramatic statement and define their corporate image. In the end, they concluded that the plain block emissions testing building had the potential to do that. The way in which they accomplished the transformation has become a case study for one of the prime materials used, Reflectit by Dryvit.</p>\n<p>\\\"Since CB&amp;E wanted to use it as a corporate office building, the building needed to convey an image of quality and sophistication. We also wanted to make it appear bigger from the street. We came up with the idea of the curvilinear facade, what Gus calls a \\\'swoosh wall\\\', which really catches the eye and give is a frontage elevation about three times larger than the original,\\\" Milles said.</p>\n<p>The curved wall is now the dominant element of the building. \\\"That was the look we wanted - something different from the plain jane masonry buildings and concrete tilt-up that are common in Chesterfield Valley,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Curved elements are more complicated that straight line elements, \\\"but we were very budget conscious,\\\" Milles said. \\\"We considered stone panels or metal panels, but they were too expensive. We ended up using Reflectit, which is a metallic coating. If you didn\\\'t know differently, you might think there were metal panels on the wall. Even if you stood right up next to it and rubbed your hand on it, you would think it is metal, but is not,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"It is an economy material, but doesn\\\'t look it,\\\" he said. Using Reflectit, he said, \\\"is an affordable way to upgrade facade of building. This is what everyone is looking for - how to recycle, how to create value in affordable way, and still have a little flair and cutting edge. This is a high-tech look that doesn\\\'t cost an arm and a leg.\\\"</p>\n<p>T.J. Wies Contracting built up the curved wall. In order to get a uniform appearance with the existing concrete block building, they built stud walls over the existing block walls and installed DensGlass Gold exterior sheathing. 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Those are now big windows that let plenty of light into the central work area.</p>\n<p>\\\"This is the first time that I took a building that I thought I would never come back to and totally redo it,\\\" Milles said. \\\"If we were to design a building for them from scratch, we probably would have done something like this - put money in the front to attract attention and get people through the door, and not so much money in the back.\\\"</p>\n<p>Milles pointed out that the architectural vernacular of Chesterfield Valley is tilt-up behind retail. In that context, the CB&amp;E building stands out. 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In typical construction practice, the structural engineer and the civil engineer are different and some structural engineers advocate separate licensing as well.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our job is to make sure a building stands up long enough for people to get out safely\\\" in the event of a  catastrophe such as an earthquake that causes the building to collapse, said Douglas Antholz, an associate at KPFF Consulting Engineers and president of SEAKM (Structural Engineers Association of Kansas and Missouri).</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Bridge Collapse\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/bridge.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />\\\"We have a huge impact on safety and we think we should be treated differently from other engineers,\\\" he said. Antholz and SEAKM want Missouri to join Illinois and 11 other states with separate licenses for the practice of structural engineering.</p>\n<p>According to the Structural Engineering Institute, the required course of study for a bachelor of science degree in engineering has been reduced at most universities over the years from 150 credit hours to 124 - meaning that many graduates have not had all the courses needed to design with the various structural materials used in modern structures - while structural design and building codes have become more complicated.</p>\n<p>In Missouri, someone who passes a general civil engineering test that has little structural content can still practice structural engineering, \\\"although ethically they should not,\\\" Antholz said.  Or one could take a multiple choice structural engineering exam. SEAKM would like to see structural engineers required to pass a structural engineering test in which they have to work out problems and show their work - analogous to the way Missouri has replaced multiple choice tests for grade school students with \\\"constructed response\\\" tests in which students have to show their work to show that they can read, write, and do arithmetic.</p>\n<p>\\\"We do need to know more,\\\" said Richard Bulczak, senior structural engineer at Heideman Associates. \\\"Structural codes have gotten thicker, there is more information we need to know and more we need to check,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our designs are location specific based on the soil conditions at each specific site. And we have to look at different materials both because at different locations different materials are readily available and because we offer developers options - different solutions based on what is most constructable, what is the cheapest, and what is the fastest to build,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p><strong>Ingenious One</strong></p>\n<p>The first documented engineer was a structural engineer, Imhotep, who built a famous stepped pyramid in Saqqarah, Egypt, for Pharaoh Netjerikhet (or Djoser) around 2600 BC. He is considered the inventor of building with shaped stones. Imhotep wanted to building something that would last for ages and after 4600 years his monument to Netjerikhet still stands and is regarded as the world\\\'s oldest known stone structure.</p>\n<p>It was admiration for such impressive structures that gave birth to the term \\\"engineer\\\" - literally \\\"ingenious one\\\" - in the eleventh century.</p>\n<p>Today, \\\"the structural engineer\\\'s role is to take the architect\\\'s concept and put numbers to how the building holds up. We\\\'re concerned with how the building gets used and where it is located. An office is different from a school, an industrial building is different from a highrise residential building. Each one is subject to different loadings due to the use that is put on it,\\\" Antholz said. When structural engineers talk about location it is shorthand for the environmental loads that will be put on a structur from snow, earthquakes, and wind.</p>\n<p>Structurally ingenious local projects include the Roberts Tower, Brauer Hall, and the Chaifetz Arena. The Roberts Tower downtown is a 20-story structure that, \\\"because it is skinnier than one would like, uses a higher stress concrete for strength,\\\" Antholz said. Brauer Hall at Wash University long spans and heavy interior loads that normally would call for a steel structure, but because it is a laboratory building with equipment and experiments that are sensitive to vibration, it was built using concrete instead. The Chaifetz Arena \\\"has an all exposed structure with large spans, and the structure has to be stronger because you\\\'re hanging things from it normally you wouldn\\\'t do that,\\\" Antholz said.</p>\n<p>A big boost to ingenuity, he said, came from computer modeling. \\\"When Barnes Tower was built in the 1960s, all the math was done by hand. Now you throw it all into a computer and you actually design a building several times as the architect makes changes,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"It is very advantageous for the owner,\\\" Bulczak added. \\\"It gives us the opportunity to give clients several alternatives and to be less conservative in the design,\\\" he explained.</p>\n<p>Owners and developers, however, often seem blind to - or uninterested in - the role of ingenuity. \\\"They treat us like a commodity,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"The structural engineer can have a huge affect on the cost of constructing a building based on his design, but owners don\\\'t see what we contribute, so they are fee shopping and changing firms,\\\" he said. Fee shopping is looking for the lowest first price without regard for quality or ultimate cost. \\\"The discounting is brutal,\\\" Antholz added. \\\"There was one job we bid where the owner wanted us to discount our fee 50 percent,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p><strong>Patenting Methods</strong></p>\n<p>One response to fee shopping is patenting. FDH Engineering Inc., a structural, geotechnical, and civil engineering firm based in Raleigh, NC with offices in St. Louis and Baton Rouge, received a patent in 2009 for a method for mapping concrete foundations. When the company was formed as an engineering consulting firm in 2000, \\\"we started out doing nondestructive testing of foundations, which led to structural engineering to re-engineer structures,\\\" said Vice President Christopher Murphy. One of the company\\\'s founders, J. Darrin Holt, developed methods for using radar and digital signal processing to assess the depth and strength of buried concrete foundations for a variety of structures, including telecommunication towers and bridges. In 2009, FDH patented their investigative method.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our investigative process, our flow charts, the way we present our results, all of it is patented,\\\" Murphy said, adding that \\\"under the doctrine of equivalence, any process or technology that produces a report with the same information that we produce is covered by our patent.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"You can\\\'t patent a result,\\\" said John Roedel, partner at Senniger Powers LLP and a prominent patent attorney. \\\"You can only  patent a machine, a process, an article of commerce, or a composition of matter.\\\" A company can patent the process it uses to get a result, although the patent might not hold up if competitors can show the process was in public use at least a year before the application was made for a patent, but it can\\\'t patent the result. And, although there is such a thing as the doctrine of equivalence, there is also an \\\"all elements rule,\\\" Roedel said, \\\"which means an accused process has to contain each element of a patent or the patent can\\\'t apply.\\\"</p>\n<p>The U.S, Sureme Court might or might not change all that, Roedel said. The patent world, he said, is anxiously awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court\\\'s decision in a case known as Bilski v. Kappos, on which the Court heard oral arguments last November on an appeal of a Federal Circuit Court decision that patents cannot be granted on methods for handling information. The circuit court had ruled that to be eligible for a patent, a method had to be tied either to a machine or to the transformation of a particular thing into a different state or thing. Roedel noted that a decision in that case could directly affect the validity of FDH Engineering\\\'s patent.</p>\n<p>Although Murphy\\\'s claims for the patent granted to FDH Engineering may be overly broad, the real utility of the patent is not to stop competitors from doing work, he said, but to promote FDH Engineering. \\\"It legitimizes the company. It says that we are the experts,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Deacon Farrelly, manager of business development in FDH Engineering\\\'s St. Louis office, said the patent \\\"mostly helps us get contracts with departments of transportation.\\\" He said the patent helped FDH recently get a contract to inspect 1,000 bridges over four years in Louisiana. In Kansas, he said, the state department of transportation had already awarded contracts to four firms for upgrading or repairing 17,000 bridges when FDH Engineering got its patent. After showing the patent to the state transportation department, \\\"they sent a letter out to all four firms telling them to use us whenever they had to investigate unknown foundations,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Even though it is one response to commoditization, Antholz is not a fan of patenting. \\\"Many people see patents of methods as harmful to the community because, if someone has truly come up with a better mouse-trap, the patent in essence limits it use.\\\" In practical terms, he said, \\\"you can usually work around the issue by using a different method.\\\"</p>\n<p>FDH Engineering, however, is sold on the practice. \\\"We have an application pending for a patent on a method for finding rebar in dams,\\\" Murphy said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:26:\"/images/uploads/bridge.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"86\";}'),(2151,793,2,4,1266947972,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"793\";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:\"2010-02-08 08:52 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}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:\"From Square to Sophisticated\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:28:\"from_square_to_sophisticated\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:28:\"From Square to Sophisticated\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:189:\"Two local companies have done what many thought was impossible: they dramatically transformed a garage into a cutting edge corporate office and they did it without spending a lot of money. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:28:\"CB&E, Gray Design, T.J. 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No one, that is, until CB&amp;E Construction Group.</p>\n<p>According to Gus Cervetto, principal of the CB&amp;E Construction Group, most people wanted to tear the building down and start anew, but CB&amp;E rejected that on the basis of how damaging that would be to the environment.</p>\n<p>\\\"We are very big believers in sustainable construction - we did the very first green building project in Missouri years ago - and we knew that the energy we would use in knocking the building<br />down would be too great. The problem we were struggling with was what we could do with it that wouldn\\\'t end up looking like a gas station ... without the gas pumps,\\\" Cervetto explained.</p>\n<p>CB&amp;E, then a tenant in someone else\\\'s building, wanted a headquarters building of their own, something cutting-edge that would make a dramatic statement and define their corporate image. In the end, they concluded that the plain block emissions testing building had the potential to do that. The way in which they accomplished the transformation has become a case study for one of the prime materials used, Reflectit by Dryvit.</p>\n<p>\\\"Since CB&amp;E wanted to use it as a corporate office building, the building needed to convey an image of quality and sophistication. We also wanted to make it appear bigger from the street. We came up with the idea of the curvilinear facade, what Gus calls a \\\'swoosh wall\\\', which really catches the eye and give is a frontage elevation about three times larger than the original,\\\" Milles said.</p>\n<p>The curved wall is now the dominant element of the building. \\\"That was the look we wanted - something different from the plain jane masonry buildings and concrete tilt-up that are common in Chesterfield Valley,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Curved elements are more complicated that straight line elements, \\\"but we were very budget conscious,\\\" Milles said. \\\"We considered stone panels or metal panels, but they were too expensive. We ended up using Reflectit, which is a metallic coating. If you didn\\\'t know differently, you might think there were metal panels on the wall. Even if you stood right up next to it and rubbed your hand on it, you would think it is metal, but is not,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"It is an economy material, but doesn\\\'t look it,\\\" he said. Using Reflectit, he said, \\\"is an affordable way to upgrade facade of building. This is what everyone is looking for - how to recycle, how to create value in affordable way, and still have a little flair and cutting edge. This is a high-tech look that doesn\\\'t cost an arm and a leg.\\\"</p>\n<p>T.J. Wies Contracting built up the curved wall. In order to get a uniform appearance with the existing concrete block building, they built stud walls over the existing block walls and installed DensGlass Gold exterior sheathing. They installed Dryvit\\\'s Outsulation exterior insulation and finish system to the sheathing and the metal framing for the curved wall and applied 1,200 square feet of Reflectit finish to the resulting facade.</p>\n<p>This application of Dryvit was a little outside the usual, however. \\\"We\\\'ve used Dryvit lot - we\\\'ve used it on senior living, office, and retail facilities,\\\" Milles said. On most buildings, it is a monolithic applique of color and texture, but for CB&amp;E, \\\"we scored the facade to look like panels,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Milles said the CB&amp;E building was the first time his firmed had used Reflectit, and he thinks it is the first time the finish has been used in St. Louis.</p>\n<p>The changes to the interior of the building were less dramatic. \\\"We used the existing walls, although we did cut a new window,\\\" Milles said. The garage bays became a central work area surrounded by work stations and private offices. And the drive through doors? Those are now big windows that let plenty of light into the central work area.</p>\n<p>\\\"This is the first time that I took a building that I thought I would never come back to and totally redo it,\\\" Milles said. \\\"If we were to design a building for them from scratch, we probably would have done something like this - put money in the front to attract attention and get people through the door, and not so much money in the back.\\\"</p>\n<p>Milles pointed out that the architectural vernacular of Chesterfield Valley is tilt-up behind retail. In that context, the CB&amp;E building stands out. 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Power in an interview with the Indianapolis Star Tribune.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Indy Airport\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"313\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/indy-airport.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />In designing the new terminal, HOK responded to passenger needs to travel at a convenient, unhurried pace while accommodating post-9/11 security necessities. 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H. Weir Cook Terminal at the Indianapolis International Airport its highest marks in passenger satisfaction in a survey of 64 major airports. The $1.2 billion terminal earned 777 points &ndash; the most of any airport surveyed &ndash; in accessibility, baggage claim, check-in and baggage check-in process, terminal facilities, ease of security checks, and food and retail services. The terminal, which debuted in 2008, was the first designed with new security protocols following the 9/11 terrorist attack.<br /><br />&ldquo;We found that Indianapolis ranked highest in both the small category of airports with fewer than 10 million passengers a year and also highest overall in the entire study.&nbsp; And that&rsquo;s up from a tie for 13th in the previous study two years ago,&rdquo; said Stuart Greif, vice president and general manager of global hospitality for J.D. 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The terminal, which debuted in 2008, was the first designed with new security protocols following the 9/11 terrorist attack.<br /><br />&ldquo;We found that Indianapolis ranked highest in both the small category of airports with fewer than 10 million passengers a year and also highest overall in the entire study.&nbsp; And that&rsquo;s up from a tie for 13th in the previous study two years ago,&rdquo; said Stuart Greif, vice president and general manager of global hospitality for J.D. Power in an interview with the Indianapolis Star Tribune.<br /><br />In designing the new terminal, HOK responded to passenger needs to travel at a convenient, unhurried pace while accommodating post-9/11 security necessities. 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M. Wilson & Co. has completed construction of a new 675,000 square-foot biomedical research and hospital facility for Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), BJC HealthCare and Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH).\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:30:\"Wash U., Barnes-Jewish, Wilson\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2284:\"<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>S. M. Wilson &amp; Co. has completed construction of a new 675,000 square-foot biomedical research and hospital facility for Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), BJC HealthCare and Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH).</p>\n<p>The $207 million project is located at the corner of Children\\\'s Place and Euclid Avenue in St. Louis.<br /></p>\n<p>The new 11-story high-rise will house facilities for both Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. <br /> Stories seven through 11 house WUSM\\\'s research and laboratory facilities. 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This is even happening to financially sound companies with strong credit ratings,\\\" said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA. \\\"This serious situation is being compounded by a skittish bond market, decreased tax revenues for publicly financed projects and declining property values - all which serve as deterrents for construction activity. Until these factors are resolved, the design and construction industry -- which accounts for roughly 10 percent of GDP and is facing unemployment figures in excess of 20 percent -- will continue to face deteriorating market conditions.\\\"<br /> <br /><strong>Key January ABI highlights:</strong><br /></p>\n<p>Regional averages:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Midwest (48.0), <br /></li>\n<li>Northeast (45.7), <br /></li>\n<li>South (41.32), <br /></li>\n<li>West (40.5)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Sector index breakdown:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>multi-family residential (50.1), <br /></li>\n<li>commercial / industrial (44.9), <br /></li>\n<li>institutional (43.1), <br /></li>\n<li>mixed practice (40.3)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Project inquiries index: 52.5</p>\n<p><br /> <br /><strong>About the AIA Architecture Billings Index</strong></p>\n<p>The Architecture Billings Index is derived from a monthly \\\"Work-on-the-Boards\\\" survey and produced by the AIA Economics &amp; Market Research Group. 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In typical construction practice, the structural engineer and the civil engineer are different and some structural engineers advocate separate licensing as well.<br />\\\"Our job is to make sure a building stands up long enough for people to get out safely\\\" in the event of a  catastrophe such as an earthquake that causes the building to collapse, said Douglas Antholz, an associate  at KPFF Consulting Engineers and president of St. Louis SEAKM (Structural Engineers Association of Kansas and Missouri).</p>\n<p>\\\"We have a huge impact on safety and we think we should be treated differently from other engineers,\\\" he said. Antholz and SEAKM want Missouri to join Illinois and 11 other states with separate licenses for the practice of structural engineering.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Bridge Collapse\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/bridge.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />According to the Structural Engineering Institute, the required course of study for a bachelor of science degree in engineering has been reduced at most universities over the years from 150 credit hours to 124 - meaning that many graduates have not had all the courses needed to design with the various structural materials used in modern structures - while structural design and building codes have become more complicated.</p>\n<p>In Missouri, someone who passes a general civil engineering test that has little structural content can still practice structural engineering, \\\"although ethically they should not,\\\" Antholz said.  Or one could take a multiple-choice structural engineering exam. SEAKM would like to see structural engineers required to pass a structural engineering test in which they have to work out problems and show their work - analogous to the way Missouri has replaced multiple choice tests for grade school students with \\\"constructed response\\\" tests in which students have to show their work to show that they can read, write, and do arithmetic.</p>\n<p>\\\"We do need to know more,\\\" said Richard Bulczak, senior structural engineer at Heideman Associates. \\\"Structural codes have gotten thicker, there is more information we need to know and more we need to check,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Our designs are location specific based on the soil conditions at each specific site. And we have to look at different materials both because at different locations different materials are readily available and because we offer developers options - different solutions based on what is most constructable, what is the cheapest, and what is the fastest to build,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p><strong>Ingenious One</strong><br />The first documented engineer was a structural engineer, Imhotep, who built a famous stepped pyramid in Saqqarah, Egypt, for Pharaoh Netjerikhet (or Djoser) around 2600 BC. He is considered the inventor of building with shaped stones. Imhotep wanted to build something that would last for ages and after 4600 years his monument to Netjerikhet still stands. It is regarded as the world\\\'s oldest known stone structure.</p>\n<p>It was admiration for such impressive structures that gave birth to the term \\\"engineer\\\" - literally \\\"ingenious one\\\" - in the eleventh century.</p>\n<p>Today, \\\"the structural engineer\\\'s role is to take the architect\\\'s concept and put numbers to how the building holds up. We\\\'re concerned with how the building gets used and where it is located. An office is different from a school, an industrial building is different from a highrise residential building.</p>\n<p>Each one is subject to different loadings due to the use that is put on it,\\\" Antholz said. When structural engineers talk about location it is shorthand for the environmental loads that will be put on a structure from snow, earthquakes, and wind.</p>\n<p>Structurally ingenious local projects include the Roberts Tower, Brauer Hall, and the Chaifetz Arena. The Roberts Tower downtown is a 20-story structure that, \\\"because it is skinnier than one would like, uses a higher stress concrete for strength,\\\" Antholz said. At Brauer Hall at Washington University, the structure has to span large open spaces while carrying heavy interior loads. Normally that would call for a steel structure, but because it is a laboratory building with equipment and experiments that are sensitive to vibration, it was built using concrete instead. The Chaifetz Arena \\\"has an all-exposed structure with large spans, and the structure has to be stronger because you\\\'re hanging things from it. Normally you wouldn\\\'t do that,\\\" Antholz said.</p>\n<p>A big boost to ingenuity, he said, came from computer modeling. \\\"When Barnes Tower was built in the 1960s, all the math was done by hand. Now you throw it all into a computer and you actually design a building several times as the architect makes changes,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"It is very advantageous for the owner,\\\" Bulczak added. \\\"It gives us the opportunity to give clients several alternatives and to be less conservative in the design,\\\" he explained.</p>\n<p>Owners and developers, however, often seem blind to - or uninterested in - the role of ingenuity. \\\"They treat us like a commodity,\\\" Antholz said. \\\"The structural engineer can have a huge affect on the cost of constructing a building based on his design, but owners don\\\'t see what we contribute, so they are fee shopping and changing firms,\\\" he said. Fee shopping is looking for the lowest first price without regard for quality or ultimate cost. \\\"The discounting is brutal,\\\" Antholz added. \\\"There was one job we bid where the owner wanted us to discount our fee 50 percent,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p><strong>A Patented Difference</strong></p>\n<p>One way for engineering firms to rise above commoditization of their services is to create a perceived methodological or technological advantage with potential clients. FDH Engineering Inc., a structural, geotechnical, and civil engineering firm based in Raleigh, NC, which has an office in St. Louis, has done just that. One of the firm\\\'s founders, J. Darrin Holt, PhD, is a university-trained researcher who developed methods for using radar and digital signal processing to assess the depth and strength of buried concrete foundations for a variety of structures, including telecommunication towers and bridges. FDH received a business process patent in 2009 for a method for mapping concrete foundations.</p>\n<p>\\\"We started out doing nondestructive testing of foundations, which led to structural engineering to re-engineer structures,\\\" said Vice President Christopher Murphy. \\\"Our investigative process is patented.\\\" FDH has successfully used its methodology, including the fact that the process is patented, as a branding position.</p>\n<p>Deacon Farrelly, manager of business development in FDH Engineering\\\'s St. Louis office, said the patented process \\\"mostly helps us get contracts with departments of transportation.\\\" In Louisiana, he said, the company\\\'s process helped FDH establish the firm\\\'s capabilities in its effort to secure inspection assignments on the state\\\'s program to assure the safety of approximately 1,000 bridges. In Kansas, the state has referred contractors on its bridge safety program to FDH when they encounter uncertain foundation conditions. Farrelly said those recommendations are based in part on the credibility established by the patented process.</p>\n<p>What FDH patented was not the technology - radar and digital signaling - used to assess the structures, nor was the firm laying claim to exclusivity of the results obtained from using their process. What was patented was the actual methodology (process) they had devised for obtaining those results. For example, all hamburgers have meat, buns and condiments: It\\\'s how you put them together that makes the difference. No one else puts a burger together quite like McDonald\\\'s - or that\\\'s what McDonald\\\'s believes. McDonald\\\'s 2006 U.S. and European patent application WO2006068865 relates to the \\\"pre-assembly of sandwich components and simultaneous preparation of different parts of the same sandwich\\\". It covers the \\\"simultaneous toasting of a bread component\\\" and heating a \\\"meat and/or cheese filling\\\". And it says the company has invented a way to add garnishes and condiments using a \\\"sandwich assembly tool\\\".</p>\n<p>John Roedel, partner at Senniger Powers LLP and a prominent patent attorney said that business process patents are difficult to defend. A company can patent the process it uses to get a result, but the patent might not hold up if competitors can show the process was in public use at least a year before the application was made. Further, the alleged patent violator must incorporate all of the steps involved in the patented process - not just some of them - for a violation to be upheld.</p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court might change all that, Roedel said. The patent world, he said, is anxiously awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court\\\'s decision in a case known as Bilski v. Kappos, on which the Court heard oral arguments last November on an appeal of a Federal Circuit Court decision that patents cannot be granted on methods for handling information. 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The terminal, which debuted in 2008, was the first designed with new security protocols following the 9/11 terrorist attack.<br /><br />&ldquo;We found that Indianapolis ranked highest in both the small category of airports with fewer than 10 million passengers a year and also highest overall in the entire study.&nbsp; And that&rsquo;s up from a tie for 13th in the previous study two years ago,&rdquo; said Stuart Greif, vice president and general manager of global hospitality for J.D. Power in an interview with the Indianapolis Star Tribune.<br /><br />In designing the new terminal, HOK responded to passenger needs to travel at a convenient, unhurried pace while accommodating post-9/11 security necessities. It includes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\\\"image-right\\\">A<span class=\\\"image-right\\\">civic plaza, topped by a 200-foot-diameter circular skylight, that serves as a destination point for travelers with comfortable seating, civic displays and retail offerings;</span></li>\n<li class=\\\"image-right\\\">Advanced technology that combines with design simplicity and clear sight lines to smoothly shepherd travelers to the city plaza and ultimately their gate; and</li>\n<li class=\\\"image-right\\\">A design that facilitates a culture of Indianapolis hospitality.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br />The first &ldquo;greenfield&rdquo; U.S. airport designed and constructed since 9/11, the terminal is also a showcase of sustainability. Discharge from fuel and deicing are controlled using bio swales populated with plants that consume hydrocarbons. Detention ponds encourage growth of microorganisms that also consume airport discharge. 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The agency also conducts\nresearch, supports energy efficiency and energy alternatives and\npromotes economic development.<br /> <br />\\\"During my tenure, I hope to\nencourage EIERA to identify new service offerings or financing\nopportunities to push the envelope in the areas of energy efficiency\nand water management,\\\" DeFreece said.<br /> <br />&nbsp;In that role, she would\nlike to influence the State\\\'s development of energy policy,\nparticularly in light of the market-driven restrictions on carbon\nemissions and the state\\\'s reliance on coal. \\\"I\\\'m concerned that as\nmanufacturers plan site selection over the next decade, they will\nmigrate to regions with nuclear-generated electricity. The decision to\nabandon coal-powered electricity will do more to favorably enhance the\nmanufacturer\\\'s carbon footprint than any other single activity it could\nundertake. 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In her most recent post as Director of Olympic Village Development for Chicago 2016, she led the planning and development of this highly-visible component of Chicago\\\'s Olympic plan.<br /> <br />\\\"Clayco is a new breed of real estate company offering ownership a fully integrated facility delivery system including development, design and construction,\\\" said Francis.  Clayco looks forward to strengthening relationships with Chicago\\\'s professional services firms to form the best teams to successfully address the increasingly complex demands in creating innovative, aesthetic and sustainable facilities demanded by Chicago\\\'s business and institutional communities.  Clayco is uniquely willing to partner with ownership at the early stages to help get difficult projects done and as a result has a healthy backlog of work even in this economy.  I am excited that Clayco has decided to commit its substantial energy and creativity in expanding its presence here and I see multiple opportunities for growth in the Chicago market including in the higher education, health care and commercial sectors.\\\"<br /> <br />Prior to the Olympic bid, Francis was senior vice president at U.S. Equities Realty and was instrumental in successful, high-profile projects including MetraMarket, the Stroger Hospital campus master plan, the University of Chicago Press building, and the City of Chicago\\\'s Brownfields Redevelopment program. Francis was also previously a senior transportation planner at Metra and acquisitions specialist at the Habitat Company.<br /> <br />\\\"Her ability to grow the Chicago market,\\\" explains Bob Clark, Chairman and CEO of Clayco, \\\"will play an invaluable role in supporting a long-term sustainable model for our new office, maintaining existing relationships, and developing new partnerships. Cassandra\\\'s experience and commitment to high-quality design and cost-effective construction are examples of what sets Clayco apart from our competition. We have the right people, skills, and expertise in place to grow our business in Chicago.\\\"<br /> <br />\\\"Clayco is responsible for some of the most exciting projects being developed today, and I am confident that this new venture will be tremendously successful,\\\" said Robert Wislow, chairman of U.S. Equities Realty. \\\"Additionally, Clayco could not have selected a better Chicago partner than Cassandra Francis.  Her drive and knowledge of our industry will have an immediate effect on bringing well-deserved attention to Clayco\\\'s increased activities in our area.\\\"<br /> <br />Francis is a certified urban planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional by the U.S. Green Building Council, and holds broker\\\'s licenses in the states of Illinois and Indiana. She currently serves as Vice President, U.S. Central Region of the honorary land economics society Lambda Alpha International, is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute, and was a co-founder of Women in Planning and Development.  She is also a member of the Board of Directors of BankFinancial, F.S.B, a publicly traded community bank serving the Chicago metropolitan area. Francis also brings significant contributions to the community through her board and committee memberships with the Grant Park Orchestral Association, Friends of the Parks, Chicago River Rowing and Paddling Center and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.<br /> <br />Clayco currently operates an office in Oak Brook, Ill., under the direction of Senior Vice President and Partner Kevin McKenna. The office\\\'s experience includes work for Anixter, Solo Cup, Office Max, Blue Cross Blue Shield and 3M.  Clayco has been recognized by numerous industry organizations, such as the Design-Build Institute of America, for its outstanding work.<br /> <br />\\\"The establishment of Clayco\\\'s new downtown office is an exciting development that builds upon our excellent reputation of high quality service and attention to detail,\\\" said McKenna.  \\\"Having Cassandra join the Clayco team supports our strategic plan to employ only the best and brightest in our industry.  It will also substantially increase our visibility and activities, and move Clayco to the next level of prominence in the Chicago marketplace.\\\" <br /> <br />In addition to its St. Louis, Mo., headquarters and Oak Brook office, Clayco has offices in Detroit, Minneapolis and Washington D.C.<br /></p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"7\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"95\";}'),(2318,874,2,4,1271951290,'a:30:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"874\";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:\"2010-04-21 06:16 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";i:1;s:2:\"95\";}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:55:\"Out-of-the-Box Thinking Produces Unique Research Center\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:55:\"out_of_the_box_thinking_produces_unique_research_center\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:55:\"Out-of-the-Box Thinking Produces Unique Research Center\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:166:\"Washington University set  tough challenges when they asked for a specially designed building to enable scientists from different disciplines to better work together.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:19:\"Wilson, center, BJC\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:9925:\"<p>Washington University in St. Louis set some tough challenges when they asked for a specially designed building to enable scientists from different disciplines to better work together in order to rapidly translate basic research discoveries into better ways to care for patients.</p>\n<p>\\\"This was most unusual,\\\" said James Walsh, vice president of the Cannon Design, the architect for the project. \\\"There are only a handful of buildings in the country that have this function,\\\" he said. 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It will provide space for five newly created Interdisciplinary Research Centers (IRCs), each of which addresses a disease-specific area - cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, infectious diseases or membrane excitability diseases - and each includes researchers from several scientific disciplines and academic departments. Two medical school departments - pathology and immunology and obstetrics and gynecology - also are getting laboratory space in the new building. Scientists began moving into the building in late February 2010.</p>\n<p>The research laboratories occupy the to five floors of the building. The sixth (or middle) floor houses the building\\\'s mechanical and electrical systems. The first five floors are flexible shell space for future expansion by Barnes-Jewish Hospital and for a future campus-wide kitchen, dining hall, and servery.</p>\n<p>This unusual project hosts several unusual features, including:</p>\n<p>&bull; a subterranean loading dock capable of receiving up to nine tractor-trailers at one time and reached by a new traffic tunnel underneath Euclid Avenue;</p>\n<p>&bull; 12 different skin types that function as a single system to keep out the weather;</p>\n<p>&bull; 36 miles of low voltage wiring to serve the data and conferencing needs of the laboratories;</p>\n<p>&bull; the use of 100 percent outside air in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system instead of recycled air.</p>\n<p>Unusual projects can present unusual challenges in design and construction and that was the case with the BJC Institute of Health.</p>\n<p>Don\\\'t Stop The Train</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"BJC Center\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"306\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/bjc-institute.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"269\\\" />Walsh said the chief challenge was building the facility over Metrolink, an active commuter rail line, without causing a halt in train service. 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They decided to build around and over the garage to the second level of the new structure. \\\"That took level one off of the critical path,\\\" said Bill Wagner, project executive for S.M. Wilson. Once the new structure was in place, they installed a gantry crane on the underside of the second level\\\'s floor slab and used it to dismantle the old parking garage from above and then install the new building\\\'s first level in its place. All while, new construction was taking place higher up.<br />\\\"That saved us a year of conventional construction,\\\" Wagner said. <br />In the end, the demolition of the parking garage and construction of the 11-story high-rise and underground receiving dock was completed in just 27 months, despite losing 59 work days to rain. While the unusual sequencing contributed to the fast schedule, so did the bidding and management of the project. In order to speed the schedule, the project was divided into 14 design and bid packages, with some packages under construction while others were still in design. The result, Wagner said, was 14 different schedules encompassing more than 5,500 activities by more than 200 different contractors. It was a mammoth job of management, but one that S.M. Wilson performed successfully using CMiC and Primavera Contractor software for project administration and project control.</p>\n<p><strong>Answers, Then Action</strong></p>\n<p>It took more than schedules to successfully conclude such a mammoth and unusual project within the fast track schedule and budget allotted, however. It took a particular frame of mind. This project team understood that assumptions were booby traps for the unwary. They understood that knowing was better than not knowing, so they put effort and spending into accumulating information about the site and their building materials before starting work.</p>\n<p>Exploratory efforts began early. Concrete Strategies had the job of installing more than 130 concrete piers for the building\\\'s foundation. But in order to protect the owner\\\'s budget and the fast track schedule from unforeseen conditions, Geotechnology, Incorporated probed each pier before drilling. Jeff Klein, senior project manager for Geotechnology, said that with probe holes the team could determine the rock consistency and the exact pier depth necessary at each pier site, which determined the exact amount of time and money needed for each of the piers. The piers ranged from 30 to 60 inches in diameter ran to depths of 40-to-60 feet. With that information, the team then determined that they required three drills, instead of the two initially budgeted, in order to maintain the project schedule.</p>\n<p>The plans called for using 12 different materials on the exterior of the building. Since the use of those materials was not fully detailed, S.M. Wilson couldn\\\'t be sure they would properly work together as one skin and as part of the building envelope. \\\"We hired an independent testing company to assemble the skin types and see if they functioned as a unit and withstood the elements,\\\" said Wagner. The testing company simulated severe weather with a jet engine and water to see how well the assemblage of different skin types worked.</p>\n<p>Ross &amp; Baruzzini, the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineer, got involved early to understand how BJC and the Washington University School of Medicine would operate the building and where would be the waste heat. The owners wanted the project team to aim for gold certification in the U.S. Green Building Council\\\'s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building rating system. Although there are many steps to reaching that goal, Ross &amp; Baruzzini\\\'s role was crucial - the building could not attain gold certification if it was not energy efficient.</p>\n<p><strong>Handling The Heat</strong></p>\n<p>Safety codes and regulations require that laboratories use 100 percent outside air. As a result, lab facilities consume up to10 times more energy than comparably sized commercial spaces.</p>\n<p>Ross &amp; Baruzzini designed a heat recovery system to cut energy costs at the BJC Institute of Health. 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The island is the largest among the 146 islands of Zhuhai, being roughly three times the size of Macau.</p>\n<p>PGAV Destinations is also providing architectural, interpretive, retail, and food service design for the Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xian, China.  This landmark destination is being expanded with state-of-the-art amenities, to include a film-based attraction on the history of the site, interpretive exhibits, an educational museum store, and specialized food service. 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According to the China National Tourism Administration approximately US $185 billion was recorded in tourism income in 2009, reflecting a growth of 9% over 2008. Additionally, Chinese domestic tourism income in 2009 was US $146 billion, reflecting a 15% increase from the previous year.</p>\n<p>\\\"We are honored to participate in the exciting tourism boom occurring now in China,\\\" says Jim Moorkamp, Principal and Co-leader of PGAV Destinations. \\\"These projects will be important attractions to draw both Chinese nationals and international tourists.\\\"</p>\n<p>PGAV Destinations is planning and designing the 50-hectare Hengqin Island Ocean World. This project is being developed by The Chimelong Group, which operates theme parks, animal safari parks, waterparks, and hotels in Guangzhou\\\'s Panyu district. This project in Southern China will become the biggest ocean park in Asia when all phases are completed.</p>\n<p>Ocean World is part of Chimelong\\\'s Hengqin Island Development.  The development is a family based, international quality, tourist destination that is designed to complement Macau, which draws over 22 million visitors a year.  It includes Ocean World, an animal safari, other entertainment venues, destination retail and hotels.</p>\n<p>Hengqin Island is just off the Chinese Mainland.  It is part of the coastal city of Zhuhai and just across a strait from Macau.   It is part of a larger economic development plan in the southern Guangdong region that is stimulated by the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.  Construction recently began on this 30-mile long bridge, which will be the longest oversea bridge in the world, connecting Zhuhai with the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.  The island is the largest among the 146 islands of Zhuhai, being roughly three times the size of Macau.</p>\n<p>PGAV Destinations is also providing architectural, interpretive, retail, and food service design for the Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xian, China.  This landmark destination is being expanded with state-of-the-art amenities, to include a film-based attraction on the history of the site, interpretive exhibits, an educational museum store, and specialized food service. 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The skylights provide natural\nlight to illuminate the ticketing level by day and are complemented by\ncolorful LED lighting which accentuates the historic modernist\narchitecture of Lambert\\\'s iconic domes at night. KWAME was the program\nmanager providing oversight, programming, design coordination and\nprocurement for the project. C. Rallo Contracting Company, Inc. was the\ngeneral contractor and Teng &amp; Associates was the designer.</p>\n<p>The\ndome restoration and lighting project is part of Lambert\\\'s \\\"Airport\nExperience Program,\\\" a major renovation campaign designed to\nre-establish Lambert-St. Louis International Airport as a new &lsquo;front\ndoor\\\' to St. Louis. Also completed in the program was the replacement\nof the entire in-bound baggage system in the main terminal.</p>\n<p>Kwame\nBuilding Group is a pure program and construction management firm\nproviding estimating, scheduling, project planning, value engineering\nand other project management services as an independent advocate for\nowners and developers. Public and private sector projects include\neducational facilities, major airports nationwide, light-rail systems,\nhospitals and government facilities. 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She recently served as the vice president of design for Checkmate Design, LLC. Wright\\\'s experience includes work on a variety of construction projects, including Coronado Place and the Moolah Building, which features apartments as well as a bowling alley, movie theater and bar.<br /> <br />\\\"We are excited to see the ideas and concepts Erin will bring to our operations. Her enthusiasm and dedication are valuable additions to our company,\\\" King added.<br /> <br />Wright earned a bachelor\\\'s degree in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, graduating cum laude. She is a LEED Accredited Professional and is a member of the Forest Park Southeast Infrastructure Committee. She also belongs to the U.S. Green Building Council St. Louis Regional Chapter and the Landmarks Association of St. Louis. 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Under these conditions, the new construction would have caused significant settlement to the existing building. SCI recommended an innovative site stabilization strategy that included a combination of geofoam and air-cooled blast furnace slag as lightweight fill material below the building addition, and to support the foundation loads on auger cast piles. As a result, the addition could be erected using typical slab-on-grade construction. This unique approach allowed the project to move forward while also minimizing impacts to the on-site creek.</p>\n<p>The project is among 163 engineering projects from throughout the nation that are being recognized by ACEC as preeminent engineering achievements for 2009.  Judging for the prestigious Engineering Excellence Awards - known industry-wide as the \\\"Academy Awards\\\" of the engineering industry - took place in February, conducted by a distinguished panel of more than 30 engineers and architects, along with representatives from government, media, and academia. 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As a business development manager he is responsible for developing new project opportunities and proposals, conducting market research and assisting with the pricing and negotiation of projects in the refining, petrochemical, steel, power, agricultural or other heavy industrial markets.<br /> <br />\\\"Stewart\\\'s extensive experience and contacts in the heavy industrial market are a perfect fit for Murphy,\\\" said Tim Dace, vice president, heavy industrial. \\\"With him on board, we plan to expand our national customer base even further.\\\"<br /> <br />Taylor\\\'s work history encompasses a long list of successful projects ranging from $1 million to more than $100 million in size, performed throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Prior to Murphy Company, Taylor served as the director of business development at a major construction company in St. Louis. 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Hallways and doors were riddled with bullet holes, Green said. There were bullet holes through factory equipment and through the exterior walls of metal buildings. In some cases, a single bullet passed through five interior partition walls.</p>\n<p>\\\"There was extensive damage,\\\" Green said. \\\"And the people I worked with from the company had either witnessed the attack or knew the people who were killed. Their emotions were running high and they pretty much just wanted us to make everything go away; they wanted us to make it look like nothing had every happened,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Green took estimators from H&amp;G Sales and Manhattan Glass to the workplace on Friday to count and measure for everything they would need so they could start gathering parts and materials that day.</p>\n<p>\\\"Everything had to be done in short order,\\\" said Steve Marsh of H&amp;G Sales. The owner wanted everything done within five days. 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Proposed\nplans for the reading room include expanding the circulation desk and\nreplacing its existing vaulted ceiling with a floating sound-absorbent\nceiling, plus refinishing the space&rsquo;s existing tables.&nbsp; <br /> &nbsp;<br /> Plans\nalso call for increasing the number of shelves in the main stack area\nand updating staff areas to meet the demands of a modern library. 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Oates, President<br />Oates Associates, Inc</em></p>\n<p>Recent news articles and letters have criticized Metro East officials for questioning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood mapping process.  In my opinion, some of that coverage ignores important facts and places much more faith in federal bureaucrats from outside of the region than in our local elected and appointed officials.</p>\n<p>Questioning the FEMA process is not \\\"quibbling.\\\"  It is a serious issue when 150,000 residents, who are already paying increased sales tax to fix the levees, are also asked to pay even more to insure against those same levees\\\' failure.  That the cost of insurance for residents and businesses in the region will likely exceed the cost of the levee repair is even more serious.</p>\n<p>First, local officials aren\\\'t delaying the levee fix.  As soon as the problem was brought to their attention, the three counties formed a new flood prevention district and implemented a tax to fund the repairs.  Those officials continue to work for more funding, now that the Corps of Engineers has increased their estimate of the repair cost.</p>\n<p>Second, while the Corps is not technically responsible for the levees, they participated in the original design and construction years ago, and have been involved in the evaluation of the levee condition since.  The Corps also declined to \\\"re-certify\\\" the levees (this is where the locals are questioning the process) even though they are still working on studies to tell the levee owners what the problems are and what it will cost to fix them.<br />Third, some comments have misstated the flood risk that is shown in the FEMA studies.  The record flood elevation occurred in 1993, the only flood over FEMA\\\'s 100-year level.  No other flood -- 1973, 1995, or 2008 -- has exceeded the 100-year level.  None of the floods, including FEMA\\\'s 500-year level, are expected to overtop the levees.</p>\n<p>The problem is not water going over the levees, but water seeping under the levees.  While a serious problem, the ability to predict the magnitude of the under-seepage problem and how to fix it is much more theoretical than simply addressing higher flood elevations.  Computer modeling methods and required factors of safety have changed since the levees were built and continue to be evaluated.  That a levee designed fifty years ago doesn\\\'t meet new standards isn\\\'t the fault of the local levee districts -- nor a reason to assume the levees will fail.</p>\n<p>Finally, some statements about the causes for increased flood risk (such as on-going engineering of the Mississippi River\\\" and \\\"secondary contributions from the levees\\\") question the wisdom of development in this area.  That opinion might be valid in areas where new development has taken place in previously unprotected flood plains, but in the Metro East, federally funded and built levees have been in place for fifty years.  Those residents and businesses in the area should not be expected to pay twice for continued flood protection -- once for a tax to fix the levees and again for insurance.</p>\n<p><em>David Oates is a principal of Oates Associates, Inc., a Collinsville, IL based engineering firm.&nbsp; Oates has over thirty years experience in drainage and public works projects.&nbsp; Oates Associates has evaluated the new FEMA flood maps for a number of communities and is currently part of a team preparing a Stormwater Master Plan for Madison County.&nbsp; Oates is also Past President of the Leadership Council of Southwestern Illinois and a member of their levee task force.&nbsp; He has also served as State President for the American Council of Engineering Companies/ Illinois and the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers.</em></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"91\";}'),(2233,841,5,4,1269443482,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"841\";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:\"2010-03-24 05:06 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"9\";i:1;s:2:\"91\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"5\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Metro East Leadership Has Done Its Part on Levees\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:49:\"metro_east_leadership_has_done_its_part_on_levees\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:49:\"Metro East Leadership Has Done Its Part on Levees\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:155:\"Recent news articles and letters have criticized Metro East officials for questioning the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood mapping process.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:25:\"Metro East, Levees, Oates\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:3822:\"<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>by David M. 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That opinion might be valid in areas where new development has taken place in previously unprotected flood plains, but in the Metro East, federally funded and built levees have been in place for fifty years.  Those residents and businesses in the area should not be expected to pay twice for continued flood protection -- once for a tax to fix the levees and again for insurance.</p>\n<p><em>David Oates is a principal of Oates Associates, Inc., a Collinsville, IL based engineering firm.&nbsp; Oates has over thirty years experience in drainage and public works projects.&nbsp; Oates Associates has evaluated the new FEMA flood maps for a number of communities and is currently part of a team preparing a Stormwater Master Plan for Madison County.&nbsp; Oates is also Past President of the Leadership Council of Southwestern Illinois and a member of their levee task force.&nbsp; He has also served as State President for the American Council of Engineering Companies/ Illinois and the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers.</em></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"91\";}'),(2234,842,4,4,1269443712,'a:26:{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:\"2010-03-24 05:13 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"6\";i:1;s:2:\"91\";}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:48:\"SCI Wins Illinois ACEC Special Achievement Award\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:48:\"sci_wins_illinois_acec_special_achievement_award\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:48:\"SCI Wins Illinois ACEC Special Achievement Award\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:142:\"SCI Engineering, Inc. 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With the economy in adownturn, many pet owners had to surrender their pets to the Humane Society because theywere unable to care for them financially. Missouri also has many puppy mills that areoperated unlawfully and inhumanely. With Tom\\\'s direction, the chapter contributed more than $1,700 to the cause.</p>\n<p>The second fundraiser Tom organized was Cardinals baseball \\\"Tickets For the Troops\\\" while soldiers were on leave during the July 4th holiday. Tom had organized a very successful fundraiser for the USO the previous year and asked for individually-wrapped food items and cash donations for the USO station in Lambert St. Louis Airport, which also raised $1,700.</p>\n<p>He asked all members to contribute Cardinals baseball tickets for the week of June 26 - July2 so that the troops on leave could enjoy some fun with their families. Some members contributed season tickets, while some purchased tickets, food vouchers and parking. 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With the economy in adownturn, many pet owners had to surrender their pets to the Humane Society because theywere unable to care for them financially. Missouri also has many puppy mills that areoperated unlawfully and inhumanely. With Tom\\\'s direction, the chapter contributed more than $1,700 to the cause.</p>\n<p>The second fundraiser Tom organized was Cardinals baseball \\\"Tickets For the Troops\\\" while soldiers were on leave during the July 4th holiday. Tom had organized a very successful fundraiser for the USO the previous year and asked for individually-wrapped food items and cash donations for the USO station in Lambert St. Louis Airport, which also raised $1,700.</p>\n<p>He asked all members to contribute Cardinals baseball tickets for the week of June 26 - July2 so that the troops on leave could enjoy some fun with their families. Some members contributed season tickets, while some purchased tickets, food vouchers and parking. McDonnell personally collected many of the tickets and then hand-delivered them to the USO with a letter from the Midwest Council asking them to send a picture, if possible, while they were at<br />the game to share with our members. 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McDonnell personally collected many of the tickets and then hand-delivered them to the USO with a letter from the Midwest Council asking them to send a picture, if possible, while they were at the game to share with our members. 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In many cases, the inspection process can last two or three days with multiple visits, and the issues raised by the inspectors can often take weeks to address.</p>\n<p>\\\"The state review went extremely well,\\\" says Doug Pytlinski, vice president of administration at Alton Memorial Hospital.  \\\"We invited the state inspectors to a preliminary walk-through of the building in December 2009, in which they helped identify areas for us to address prior to the final inspection in January.  This process helped the final state inspection to go smoothly and completed in a day.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"Our team\\\'s partnership attitude was the primary factor in both the successful completion of the project and in the fast IDPH inspection approval,\\\" says Bill Wagner, project executive at S. M. 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KJWW Engineering Consultants provided MEP engineering, while Guarantee Electric was the electrical contractor and Murphy Company was mechanical contractor.  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Ostafi\\\'s passion and experience in such sustainable consulting efforts will be leveraged by the HOK St. Louis Sustainability Consulting practice to pursue similar work with local governments, higher education and existing building projects.<br /></p>\n<p>\\\"Inspiration is contagious, and we need to inspire each other to collectively move forward - that is what sustainability is all about,\\\" stated Ostafi. \\\"The people at HOK understand this and share my passion for sustainability, so when the opportunity arose to join their sustainability group, it was an easy decision.\\\"</p>\n<p>Prior to earning her Master\\\'s degree, Mary received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interior Architecture from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois. 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The fact that Ed Lott has won this award two years in a row is a strong statement about his talent, commitment, leadership and ability to help all homebuilders and their sales representatives through the HBA\\\'s Sales &amp; Marketing Council to successfully meet the needs of homebuyers who are looking for their dream home.\\\"<br /></p>\n<p>Lott is the current chairman of the Sales &amp; Marketing Council and is a member of the Board of Directors of the HBA.  He is a lifetime member of the Seven Figure Sales Circle of the National Association of Homebuilders and an NAHB Certified Instructor.</p>\n<p>In addition, he earned his Certified Sales Professional (CSP) designation from the NAHB and is a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (GRI) of the National Association of Realtors.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"5\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"93\";}'),