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Dr. Dale Chapman looks forward to the day when the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center is similarly famous as a center for research on great river basins.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Great Rivers\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/great-rivers.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />If the creative design of the center\\\'s field station is any indication, the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC - pronounced N-GREK) will have a leading role in developing a deeper and fuller understanding of how river systems work.</p>\n<p>Chapman is president of Lewis and Clark Community College, which partnered with the University of Illinois, the Illinois Natural History Survey, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2002 to found the NGRREC.</p>\n<p>\\\"This is the most comprehensive facility in America to study the Mississippi River, which drains 41 percent of the United States and is 3,000 miles long,\\\" Chapman said. The NGGREC unites engineering, environmental sciences, and social sciences under one roof to study environmental issues, energy, commerce, and human interaction with the fourth largest watershed in the world. \\\"We need to understand the river to sustain our economy and maintain biodiversity and water quality,\\\" Chapman said.</p>\n<p>While meeting the facility needs of over 30 research scientists and their assistants, the field station in Alton, IL, is designed to look like some of the bluffs that line the Mississippi River: layers of stone topped by dirt and plants. At the same time, the facility was designed to pass a high threshold for sustainability - one goal was a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum building rating. The NGRREC is not hooked up to any municipal sewer system, instead it treats all of its waste water and storm water on site, and it is intended that the facility will generate all of its own electricity from wind and hydrokinetic water turbines.</p>\n<p>The 35,000-square-foot first phase was completed recently and dedicated on October 26, 2010. Additional phases will add another 25,000 to 30,000 square feet to the facility. Site work has already begun for the 15,000-square-foot second phase.</p>\n<p><strong>An Audacious Bluff</strong></p>\n<p>\\\"The design intent was to mimic the Mississippi River bluffs with a structure that flows with the land. The building is designed to blend in with its surroundings and look natural. So, we have everything on a radius - no square corners, dry stacked layers of stone, and minimal windows - none on the front of the building,\\\" said Erin Morris, construction manager for AAIC, the project architect and engineer.</p>\n<p>The result is a unique exterior system with walls varying in thickness from two feet to six feet.</p>\n<p>\\\"Poured in place concrete is not unique, but we have a poured in place concrete wall that is 12 inches thick, then a 12-inch grout cavity, then dry stacked stone,\\\" he said. There is dry stacked stone inside the lobby, too, so the exterior lobby wall is the thickest in the building with two grout cavities and two layers of stone. In the other areas, the interior side of the exterior wall is furred out and covered with insulation and drywall.</p>\n<p>In keeping with their naturalistic design, the architects didn\\\'t want any mortar joints between layers of stone. AAIC came up with a system that used standard masonry hangars. The stone was dry stacked in front of the hangars and grout was poured in from the top. The grout would flow into spaces between the stone and grip it like fingers.</p>\n<p>\\\"The stone was very unusual, and obviously took a lot more time,\\\" said Kent Kampwerth, project manager for River City Construction LLC, the general contractor. \\\"We couldn\\\'t lay much at a time, but we had a concrete wall behind it, so it didn\\\'t affect the constructability. We could work on the inside without the outside being done,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p><strong>An Unusual Roof</strong></p>\n<p>The roof was engineered by Foresight Engineering and is covered with a Carlisle vegetative roofing system. It, too, was unique. The Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing recognized it with a 2010 Excellence in Design Award.</p>\n<p>\\\"Most green roofs are trays with plants in them, not full blown dirt roofs like this one,\\\" Kampwerth said.</p>\n<p>Roofing Services and Solutions, formerly the Young Group, installed the 24,000-square-foot roof. Joseph Lauberth was the project manager for RSS.</p>\n<p>\\\"We used a full Carlisle system from the deck up,\\\" he said. \\\"We started with a two-ply waterproofing system over the concrete deck - a fleece-backed Carlisle modified base sheet - which we adhered with a Type III asphalt adhesive. Then we installed a 105-mil EPDM membrane, protective fabric, a MiraDrain drainage system, insulation, a 40-mil geomembrane root barrier, Enkadrain, 12 inches of engineered Carlisle Growth Media, and native prairie grasses,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The insulation was tapered to give the roof an undulating look, \\\"like a natural bluff,\\\" he said. The thickness of the insulation varied from four inches over the main part of the building to nearly four feet over the garage.</p>\n<p>\\\"The garage structure is four feet lower than the rest of the insulation, so we had to raise it up with insulation to even it out,\\\" Lauberth said. In that area, that top of the growth media can be five to six feet higher than the concrete deck, he said.</p>\n<p>Part of the roof top is designed to serve as an outdoor classroom and observation deck. Even though the concrete pavers there appear level, \\\"some are on the roof deck and some are 18 inches off the roof deck,\\\" Lauberth said. \\\"The concrete structure is tapered for drainage. We used a laser level and screw jack pedestals to level the pavers,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"There is a whole lot more that went into that roof than it appears. It is truly unique,\\\" Lauberth said.</p>\n<p>Carlisle warranties the system for 15 years. An electronic field vector mapping system was installed after the waterproofing membrane to detect possible future leaks. \\\"If there is a problem in the future, they can plug it in and charge it and then with a meter they can locate voids as small as pinholes,\\\" Lauberth said. And that will minimize the cost of repairs.</p>\n<p>The concrete roof structure is very heavily reinforced to support the weight of the green roof and the walls are reinforced to resist the lateral pressure of the earth and stone on them, said Gary Neuhaus, project manager for the structural engineer, EDM.</p>\n<p><strong>Water</strong></p>\n<p>Moving from the shell to the building systems, the water efficiency items were the biggest sustainability features, Morris said.</p>\n<p>The NGRREC has four water systems: potable water for drinking, a stormwater collection and reuse system, a sanitary sewage system, and a river water system.</p>\n<p>Since the facility is designed for river research, there is a piping system to pump 1.8 million gallons of water per day out of the river into mesocosms - culture systems for fish larvae. The NGRREC will also use river water in its chiller system - after running it through a \\\"green machine\\\" that filters and descales it.</p>\n<p>An onsite sewage treatment system will treat 100 percent of the wastewater by running it through biological filters - constructed wetlands - and treating it with ultraviolet light and chemicals, after which it can be reused to flush toilets.</p>\n<p>Stormwater will be collected and used for irrigation and to wash cars and boats.</p>\n<p>\\\"It was a challenge to incorporate everything onto the site. With this site we definitely had to reserve area for the wastewater system and position everything so that it had enough area, including ditches and ponds for stormwater detention,\\\" said Cas Sheppard, president of civil engineering firm Sheppard, Morgan and Schwaab, Inc.</p>\n<p>\\\"We hadn\\\'t had a lot of experience with the pervious concrete pavers used on the road, with detention below and infiltration into the soil. We weren\\\'t sure you could put concrete trucks and other heavy trucks on it, but the contractor who put it down does them nationwide and he said not to worry, that you can put 18-wheelers on them. In fact, they\\\'ve had deliveries that way and it has carried the loads,\\\" said David Godar, Sheppard, Morgan and Schwaab\\\'s project engineer.</p>\n<p><strong>Power</strong></p>\n<p>The second biggest sustainability feature is the onsite power generation, Morris said. Two 100-kilowatt wind turbines will be erected during the next six months, as will a barge to house hydrokinetic turbines.</p>\n<p>\\\"They will be able to run eight different turbines at a time in the barge,\\\" Morris said. 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The article was an interview outlining the viewpoint of author Bill Black, who came to St. Louis to share his perspective on the current price-focused bid market with commercial real estate and design industry representatives. Last week we reported on the dialogue that ensued following our original article. This week, the organization that sponsored Black\\\'s appearance weighed in.</p>\n<p>Publisher Tom Finan received the following letter from Nancy Rodney of Roseman Design, president of , the St. Louis Chapter of the Commerical Real Estate Women (CREW)</p>\n<p><strong>Tom:</strong><br /><img alt=\\\"Price\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/price_tag.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />As 2010 President of CREW St Louis, who co-sponsored the event bringing Bill Black to town to talk about his theories of Integrated Project Delivery, I am a bit bemused by the rush to judgment by some of your readers. <br /> <br />The focus of your magazine is the Construction Industry rather than the design industry.  From following your coverage for years, it seems to me that your publication does an excellent job of covering issues and trends that affect your readers on both sides of the industry in a fair and positive manner.  Bill\\\'s comments about low price leading to change orders is a widely held sentiment in the Design-Public Bid-Build world.  Many owners over the years have tried Construction Management, Design/Build, limited bidder\\\'s lists and other methods to upgrade the quality of the bidders on their projects while also addressing the relationship gap established by the adversarial nature of public low-bid and construction.<br /> <br />Bill Black\\\'s new book &mdash; <em>The Commercial Real Estate Revolution</em> &mdash; was co-authored by a diverse cross-industry team of people who all agree that the current system isn\\\'t working as well as it could be to deliver quality buildings to owners who are happy with the process, the price and the building.  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style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">On July 14, the\nU.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed fines of\n$221,600 against Clint Horn, doing business as Sturgis Tuckpointing, alleging that\nhe repeatedly exposed workers to fall hazards while they worked on scaffold structures.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">The alleged\nviolations included misuse of portable ladders, no protection from overhead\nhazards, unsafe scaffold protection, lack of fall protection on a scaffold, and\nlack of or deficient scaffold training.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">\\\"Falls\nremain the number 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Adkins, OSHA\\\'s regional administrator in Kansas City, MO, said in\npress release. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">\\\"OSHA will\nnot tolerate employers who repeatedly fail to provide and ensure the use of fall\nprotection,\\\" he said. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">One week before\nOSHA announced the citation against Sturgis Tuckpointing, emails circulated\namong St. Louis contractors warning that OSHA would be conducting a sweep of\nall construction sites in eastern Missouri from Hannibal to Cape Girardeau starting\non Monday, July 12. According to the emails, OSHA inspectors would be looking\nfor proper personal protective equipment, fall protection, and fire\nextinguishers, and they would be looking for excavation and electric hazards.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">OSHA confirmed to\nCNR that penalties are going up, stating:&ldquo;OSHA is implementing long-overdue\nadministrative modifications to its penalty calculations, which will have the\neffect of raising OSHA penalties.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">The agency said\nthat, &ldquo;Penalties are meant to be punitive, and act as a deterrent to future\nviolations by the fined company and from other companies as well.&rdquo; </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">The agency added\nthat a proposal in Congress, the Protecting America\\\'s Workers Act, &ldquo;would bring\nthe penalties more in line with inflation and therefore serve more of a deterrent\neffect.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><strong>Safety Pays</strong></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">For all the talk\nthat OSHA\\\'s more aggressive posture and higher fines has generated, however,\nthere are more important reasons to have a good safety program.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;When I set-up\nthis company 12 years ago, my philosophy was that OSHA was the primary cause of\nwhy you should have safety program, you would have a program to avoid a fine,&rdquo;\nsaid Walt Taliaferro, safety director at National Safety Consulting and a retired\npipefitter. &ldquo;But after we got companies into the program, I found out that injuries\nare the cause of the majority of their financial losses, not OSHA and\npenalties,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">The most obvious\nsavings that a formal safety program can bring a contractor are in the form of\nreduced workers compensation insurance rates.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;Every insurance\napplication has the following question: do you have a formal safety program in\nplace?&rdquo; said Michael Sicking, president of Safety International.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;Improving your\nsafety record lowers your insurance rates,&rdquo; he said, and also improves a\ncontractor\\\'s ability to get work.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;Major owners are\ntelling general contractors that no company will be allowed on their property\nunless their EMR (experience modification rate, a comparison of their annual\ninsurance claims against their policy premiums over a three-year period) is\nless than 1.0, or in some cases less than 0.85,&rdquo; he said. An EMR 1.0 is\nconsidered average, so owners who want contractors with lower EMRs are looking\nfor contractors with better than average safety records.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;So general\ncontractors are looking at subcontractors\\\' EMRs. If they have an unfavorable\nrating, they won\\\'t get the job, even if they are the low bid,&rdquo; said Sicking.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">But less obvious\nsavings are far more important than the obvious savings, according to Ray\nBoehm, president of Safety Education Consultants.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><strong>Productivity and\nProfits </strong></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;I\\\'ve found that\nif you really follow a safety program through, you get a more productive workforce,&rdquo;\nTaliaferro said.&ldquo;Removing injuries from the workplace maximizes internal\nprofitability,&rdquo; Boehm said. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;When you get\ninjured employees you have to replace them, take care of them, and retrain\nothers to take over their work. You also get lower productivity from the other employees\nbecause injuries lower morale. Those indirect costs from a loss are about 10\ntimes greater than the direct costs of medical care and higher insurance\npremiums,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Len Toenjes,\npresident of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis agreed. &ldquo;A contractor\nwith a revolving workforce is not as productive as someone who can keep their\ncore group together. When folks are gone from the team because of injuries, it affects\nthe productivity of the entire team,&rdquo; he said. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Two more ways in\nwhich safety programs save contractors money is in litigation and OSHA fines.&ldquo;As\nsociety has gotten more litigious, it makes a lot of sense to keep legal fees\ndown. A safer work force minimizes risk and cuts legal expenses,&rdquo; Toenjes said,\nincluding by avoiding OSHA fines. And those companies that work on heights have\nseen safer equipment give a huge boost to productivity.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;The whole\naccessibility area, the area of moving people into a position of work, is where\nyou\\\'ve seen productivity growth with safety,&rdquo; Toenjes said. &ldquo;In bridge work,\nfor example, in order to meet OSHA requirements, painting companies came up\nwith different ways to paint the undersides of bridges with different equipment\nand machinery that not only makes it safer but increases productivity,&rdquo; he\nsaid.&ldquo;I can tell you that we used to spend days and hours to put scaffolding\ntogether to do a 30 minute job and then hours to take it down, but now with a\nJLG lift it is a piece of cake and much safer,&rdquo; said Taliaferro, the retired\npipefitter. &ldquo;But one bad part is that now you have generations of young men and\nwomen who have never put scaffolding together and when they have to use\nscaffolding, they don\\\'t know how to use properly. So we get called out a lot to\nmake sure they are putting scaffolding together correctly,&rdquo; he said. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><strong>Help for Smaller\nFirms</strong></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Toenjes said that\nwhen the AGC of St. Louis began its safety program in 1966, &ldquo;almost nobody had\na full time safety director.&rdquo; Now, he said, &ldquo;I will bet you that every one of the\nlarge companies has a full time safety director.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">As a result, most\nsafety consultants, including the AGC, target small and mid-sized firms that\ncan\\\'t afford to have their own full time safety director. Sicking, for example, </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">said that his\ntarget market is companies that have annual revenues between $1 million and $25\nmillion. &ldquo;We represent about 130 companies,&rdquo; Taliaferro said of National Safety\nConsulting. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&nbsp;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;We set up a\nprogram following the guidelines of OSHA and then assign a man to that account.\nHe performs audits, writes up how well they\\\'re doing, sends out &ldquo;huddle <span>&nbsp;</span>talks&rdquo;, and conducts an annual review,&rdquo; he\nsaid.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;We\\\'ve found that\nif you adopt a policy that all injuries must be reported before quitting time\nthe day they happened and you enforce it, you will over time reduce the injuries\nyou have,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;And if you\ndisallow smoking in the break trailer on construction sites, you will have fewer\nillnesses. Cigarettes spread germs around in trailer,&rdquo; he added.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Boehm has been\nproviding safety education since 1982. &ldquo;Not training, education. You train\ndogs, but you educate people,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Boehm said that\nsafe work practices come from giving employees the tools they need to make the\nright decision, not from telling them exactly what to do.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;Safety is a\ndecision making process that employees go through based on conditions presented\nto them at the time they do their work,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Safety is making the right\ndecision based on knowledge of the hazard as well as what people do to prevent\nthe hazard. With fall protection, for example, OSHA has a number of different\ntrigger heights, but I believe it begins at zero. </span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;A one-size\nanswer does not fit all circumstances. The employee has to have the knowledge\nbase to make a decision as to which is right. With a painter, for example, the\nright personal protective equipment depends on the materials and chemicals he\nis using. Knowledge of material safety data sheets and what they are telling\nyou is essential to making the right decision,&rdquo; he said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">And the\nfoundation of all good safety programs, he added, is, &ldquo;you have to believe that\nall accidents are preventable. By nature, accidents are defined as unforeseen,\nbut, I believe, if you understand safety processes, there is a system of\nanalysis that keeps looking at the problems you\\\'re involved in to identify\nhazards and control them, whether they are physical, such as tripping hazards,\nor behavioral, such as improper lifting. We can identify them and remove\nthem.... The more attention you pay to the work process, the more you find\nsnags and then you can find better ways to do things, and that makes for a more\nattractive work place.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">Taliaferro said\nthat finding better ways to do things is the legacy of OSHA. &ldquo;In 1970 (when\nPresident Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act) we were\nlosing about 15,000 people a year in construction, last year it was under 7,000.\nOver the years we have doubled productivity and cut deaths in half primarily because\nof safety, I think,&rdquo; Taliaferro said.</span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\"><span>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoPlainText\\\"><span style=\\\"font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;\\\">&ldquo;OSHA was\ndivisive at the time. 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According to the emails, OSHA inspectors would be looking\nfor proper personal protective equipment, fall protection, and fire\nextinguishers, and they would be looking for excavation and electric hazards.</p>\n<p>OSHA confirmed to\nCNR that penalties are going up, stating:\\\"OSHA is implementing long-overdue\nadministrative modifications to its penalty calculations, which will have the\neffect of raising OSHA penalties.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency said\nthat, \\\"Penalties are meant to be punitive, and act as a deterrent to future\nviolations by the fined company and from other companies as well.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency added\nthat a proposal in Congress, the Protecting America\\\'s Workers Act, \\\"would bring\nthe penalties more in line with inflation and therefore serve more of a deterrent\neffect.\\\"</p>\n<p><strong>Safety Pays</strong></p>\n<p>For all the talk\nthat OSHA\\\'s more aggressive posture and higher fines has generated, however,\nthere are more important reasons to have a good safety program.</p>\n<p>\\\"When I set-up\nthis company 12 years ago, my philosophy was that OSHA was the primary cause of\nwhy you should have safety program, you would have a program to avoid a fine,\\\"\nsaid Walt Taliaferro, safety director at National Safety Consulting and a retired\npipefitter. \\\"But after we got companies into the program, I found out that injuries\nare the cause of the majority of their financial losses, not OSHA and\npenalties,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The most obvious\nsavings that a formal safety program can bring a contractor are in the form of\nreduced workers compensation insurance rates.</p>\n<p>\\\"Every insurance\napplication has the following question: do you have a formal safety program in\nplace?\\\" said Michael Sicking, president of Safety International.</p>\n<p>\\\"Improving your\nsafety record lowers your insurance rates,\\\" he said, and also improves a\ncontractor\\\'s ability to get work.</p>\n<p>\\\"Major owners are\ntelling general contractors that no company will be allowed on their property\nunless their EMR (experience modification rate, a comparison of their annual\ninsurance claims against their policy premiums over a three-year period) is\nless than 1.0, or in some cases less than 0.85,\\\" he said. 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Cigarettes spread germs around in trailer,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Boehm has been\nproviding safety education since 1982. \\\"Not training, education. You train\ndogs, but you educate people,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Boehm said that\nsafe work practices come from giving employees the tools they need to make the\nright decision, not from telling them exactly what to do.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"Safety is a\ndecision making process that employees go through based on conditions presented\nto them at the time they do their work,\\\" he said. \\\"Safety is making the right\ndecision based on knowledge of the hazard as well as what people do to prevent\nthe hazard. With fall protection, for example, OSHA has a number of different\ntrigger heights, but I believe it begins at zero.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"A one-size\nanswer does not fit all circumstances. The employee has to have the knowledge\nbase to make a decision as to which is right. 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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed fines of\n$221,600 against Clint Horn, doing business as Sturgis Tuckpointing, alleging that\nhe repeatedly exposed workers to fall hazards while they worked on scaffold structures.</p>\n<p>The alleged\nviolations included misuse of portable ladders, no protection from overhead\nhazards, unsafe scaffold protection, lack of fall protection on a scaffold, and\nlack of or deficient scaffold training.</p>\n<p>\\\"Falls\nremain the number one killer of workers in the construction industry,\\\"\nCharles E. Adkins, OSHA\\\'s regional administrator in Kansas City, MO, said in\npress release.</p>\n<p>\\\"OSHA will\nnot tolerate employers who repeatedly fail to provide and ensure the use of fall\nprotection,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>One week before\nOSHA announced the citation against Sturgis Tuckpointing, emails circulated\namong St. Louis contractors warning that OSHA would be conducting a sweep of\nall construction sites in eastern Missouri from Hannibal to Cape Girardeau starting\non Monday, July 12. According to the emails, OSHA inspectors would be looking\nfor proper personal protective equipment, fall protection, and fire\nextinguishers, and they would be looking for excavation and electric hazards.</p>\n<p>OSHA confirmed to\nCNR that penalties are going up, stating:\\\"OSHA is implementing long-overdue\nadministrative modifications to its penalty calculations, which will have the\neffect of raising OSHA penalties.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency said\nthat, \\\"Penalties are meant to be punitive, and act as a deterrent to future\nviolations by the fined company and from other companies as well.\\\"</p>\n<p>The agency added\nthat a proposal in Congress, the Protecting America\\\'s Workers Act, \\\"would bring\nthe penalties more in line with inflation and therefore serve more of a deterrent\neffect.\\\"</p>\n<p><strong>Safety Pays</strong></p>\n<p>For all the talk\nthat OSHA\\\'s more aggressive posture and higher fines has generated, however,\nthere are more important reasons to have a good safety program.</p>\n<p>\\\"When I set-up\nthis company 12 years ago, my philosophy was that OSHA was the primary cause of\nwhy you should have safety program, you would have a program to avoid a fine,\\\"\nsaid Walt Taliaferro, safety director at National Safety Consulting and a retired\npipefitter. \\\"But after we got companies into the program, I found out that injuries\nare the cause of the majority of their financial losses, not OSHA and\npenalties,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The most obvious\nsavings that a formal safety program can bring a contractor are in the form of\nreduced workers compensation insurance rates.</p>\n<p>\\\"Every insurance\napplication has the following question: do you have a formal safety program in\nplace?\\\" said Michael Sicking, president of Safety International.</p>\n<p>\\\"Improving your\nsafety record lowers your insurance rates,\\\" he said, and also improves a\ncontractor\\\'s ability to get work.</p>\n<p>\\\"Major owners are\ntelling general contractors that no company will be allowed on their property\nunless their EMR (experience modification rate, a comparison of their annual\ninsurance claims against their policy premiums over a three-year period) is\nless than 1.0, or in some cases less than 0.85,\\\" he said. An EMR 1.0 is\nconsidered average, so owners who want contractors with lower EMRs are looking\nfor contractors with better than average safety records.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"So general\ncontractors are looking at subcontractors\\\' EMRs. If they have an unfavorable\nrating, they won\\\'t get the job, even if they are the low bid,\\\" said Sicking.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>But less obvious\nsavings are far more important than the obvious savings, according to Ray\nBoehm, president of Safety Education Consultants.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong>Productivity and\nProfits </strong></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"I\\\'ve found that\nif you really follow a safety program through, you get a more productive workforce,\\\"\nTaliaferro said.\\\"Removing injuries from the workplace maximizes internal\nprofitability,\\\" Boehm said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"When you get\ninjured employees you have to replace them, take care of them, and retrain\nothers to take over their work. You also get lower productivity from the other employees\nbecause injuries lower morale. Those indirect costs from a loss are about 10\ntimes greater than the direct costs of medical care and higher insurance\npremiums,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Len Toenjes,\npresident of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis agreed. \\\"A contractor\nwith a revolving workforce is not as productive as someone who can keep their\ncore group together. When folks are gone from the team because of injuries, it affects\nthe productivity of the entire team,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Two more ways in\nwhich safety programs save contractors money is in litigation and OSHA fines.\\\"As\nsociety has gotten more litigious, it makes a lot of sense to keep legal fees\ndown. A safer work force minimizes risk and cuts legal expenses,\\\" Toenjes said,\nincluding by avoiding OSHA fines. And those companies that work on heights have\nseen safer equipment give a huge boost to productivity.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"The whole\naccessibility area, the area of moving people into a position of work, is where\nyou\\\'ve seen productivity growth with safety,\\\" Toenjes said. \\\"In bridge work,\nfor example, in order to meet OSHA requirements, painting companies came up\nwith different ways to paint the undersides of bridges with different equipment\nand machinery that not only makes it safer but increases productivity,\\\" he\nsaid.\\\"I can tell you that we used to spend days and hours to put scaffolding\ntogether to do a 30 minute job and then hours to take it down, but now with a\nJLG lift it is a piece of cake and much safer,\\\" said Taliaferro, the retired\npipefitter. \\\"But one bad part is that now you have generations of young men and\nwomen who have never put scaffolding together and when they have to use\nscaffolding, they don\\\'t know how to use properly. So we get called out a lot to\nmake sure they are putting scaffolding together correctly,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong>Help for Smaller\nFirms</strong></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Toenjes said that\nwhen the AGC of St. Louis began its safety program in 1966, \\\"almost nobody had\na full time safety director.\\\" Now, he said, \\\"I will bet you that every one of the\nlarge companies has a full time safety director.\\\"</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>As a result, most\nsafety consultants, including the AGC, target small and mid-sized firms that\ncan\\\'t afford to have their own full time safety director. Sicking, for example,</p>\n<p>said that his\ntarget market is companies that have annual revenues between $1 million and $25\nmillion. \\\"We represent about 130 companies,\\\" Taliaferro said of National Safety\nConsulting.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"We set up a\nprogram following the guidelines of OSHA and then assign a man to that account.\nHe performs audits, writes up how well they\\\'re doing, sends out \\\"huddle &nbsp;talks\\\", and conducts an annual review,\\\" he\nsaid.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'ve found that\nif you adopt a policy that all injuries must be reported before quitting time\nthe day they happened and you enforce it, you will over time reduce the injuries\nyou have,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"And if you\ndisallow smoking in the break trailer on construction sites, you will have fewer\nillnesses. Cigarettes spread germs around in trailer,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Boehm has been\nproviding safety education since 1982. \\\"Not training, education. You train\ndogs, but you educate people,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Boehm said that\nsafe work practices come from giving employees the tools they need to make the\nright decision, not from telling them exactly what to do.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"Safety is a\ndecision making process that employees go through based on conditions presented\nto them at the time they do their work,\\\" he said. \\\"Safety is making the right\ndecision based on knowledge of the hazard as well as what people do to prevent\nthe hazard. With fall protection, for example, OSHA has a number of different\ntrigger heights, but I believe it begins at zero.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"A one-size\nanswer does not fit all circumstances. The employee has to have the knowledge\nbase to make a decision as to which is right. With a painter, for example, the\nright personal protective equipment depends on the materials and chemicals he\nis using. Knowledge of material safety data sheets and what they are telling\nyou is essential to making the right decision,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>And the\nfoundation of all good safety programs, he added, is, \\\"you have to believe that\nall accidents are preventable. By nature, accidents are defined as unforeseen,\nbut, I believe, if you understand safety processes, there is a system of\nanalysis that keeps looking at the problems you\\\'re involved in to identify\nhazards and control them, whether they are physical, such as tripping hazards,\nor behavioral, such as improper lifting. We can identify them and remove\nthem.... The more attention you pay to the work process, the more you find\nsnags and then you can find better ways to do things, and that makes for a more\nattractive work place.\\\"</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Taliaferro said\nthat finding better ways to do things is the legacy of OSHA. \\\"In 1970 (when\nPresident Richard Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act) we were\nlosing about 15,000 people a year in construction, last year it was under 7,000.\nOver the years we have doubled productivity and cut deaths in half primarily because\nof safety, I think,\\\" Taliaferro said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"OSHA was\ndivisive at the time. The Chamber of Commerce fought it, contractors fought it,\nbut it was good for them in the end. 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style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">he AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) announced today that it is\nproviding<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$42\nmillion</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in financing for\ntwo multifamily developments in the greater<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>area.\n&nbsp;Council Tower Senior Apartments in midtown<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\"> </span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span>,\nand Parkway Lakeside Apartments in O\\\'Fallon,<span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">Illinois</span>,\nwill provide 509 units of multifamily housing, while creating an estimated 600\nunion construction jobs in an area where the construction industry has been\nespecially hard hit by the economic downturn.</span>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">The\nHIT\\\'s investment of<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$15.8 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in\nthe<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$29.7\nmillion</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>Council Tower\nproject in<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-person\\\">Midtown\nSt Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>will help the\ncity serve the housing needs of low-income elderly residents. &nbsp;Built in\n1968, Council Tower has 277 units of senior housing, with 90% of the units now\ndesignated as affordable. The HIT is helping finance renovation work to\nmodernize and upgrade the aging building. &nbsp;</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">In\nO\\\'Fallon,<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">Illinois</span>, one of the fastest growing communities in\nthe greater<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>metro-east\nregion, construction is underway on the<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$28.2 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>Parkway\nLakeside development. The HIT is contributing<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$26.1 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>of\nthe project\\\'s financing. The new complex will include multiple two-story\nbuildings offering 232 market-rate housing units.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">\\\"These\nprojects are part of a growing list of HIT-financed properties that are\nbringing development, jobs and mixed-income housing to the greater<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>area,\\\" said<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-person\\\">Terrance Pearson</span>,\nHIT Director of FHA Finance. \\\"These are good investments for the HIT\nportfolio. We will continue to work with the<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>development\ncommunity to identify new investment opportunities.\\\"</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">All\non-site construction work at the two properties will be performed under\ncollective bargaining agreements with local building and construction trades\nunions, generating approximately 600 union construction jobs.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">\\\"The\njobs created by these investments are helping keep the HIT on track to achieve\nits goal of generating 10,000 union construction jobs by this spring through\nthe investment of union pension capital,\\\" said HIT Executive Vice\nPresident and Chief Investment Officer<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-person\\\">Stephanie H. 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In addition to\nCouncil Tower Senior Apartments and Parkway Lakeside Apartments, other<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span>-area\nprojects financed through this initiative are:</span></p>\n<ul type=\\\"disc\\\">\n<li class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\" style=\\\"color: black;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\\\">Park\n     Pacific Apartments,<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span>: &nbsp;A<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$98 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>redevelopment offering 230\n     housing units. &nbsp;The HIT provided<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$63 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in\n     financing. The project is generating an estimated 655 union construction\n     jobs.</span></li>\n<li class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\" style=\\\"color: black;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\\\">The\n     Laurel,<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span>: A<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$175 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>redevelopment\n     offering 205 housing units. The HIT provided<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$45 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in financing. The project is\n     generating approximately 1,330 union construction jobs.</span></li>\n<li class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\" style=\\\"color: black;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\\\">Villas\n     at<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">Crystal\n     Lake</span>,<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">Swansea, IL</span>: &nbsp;A<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$26 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>development offering 216 housing\n     units. The HIT provided<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$24 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in\n     financing. 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style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">he AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) announced&nbsp; that it is\nproviding<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$42\nmillion</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in financing for\ntwo multifamily developments in the greater<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>area.\n&nbsp;Council Tower Senior Apartments in midtown<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\"> </span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span>,\nand Parkway Lakeside Apartments in O\\\'Fallon,<span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">Illinois</span>,\nwill provide 509 units of multifamily housing, while creating an estimated 600\nunion construction jobs in an area where the construction industry has been\nespecially hard hit by the economic downturn.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">The\nHIT\\\'s investment of<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$15.8 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in\nthe<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$29.7\nmillion</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>Council Tower\nproject in<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-person\\\">Midtown\nSt Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>will help the\ncity serve the housing needs of low-income elderly residents. &nbsp;Built in\n1968, Council Tower has 277 units of senior housing, with 90% of the units now\ndesignated as affordable. The HIT is helping finance renovation work to\nmodernize and upgrade the aging building. &nbsp;</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">In\nO\\\'Fallon,<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">Illinois</span>, one of the fastest growing communities in\nthe greater<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>metro-east\nregion, construction is underway on the<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$28.2 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>Parkway\nLakeside development. The HIT is contributing<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$26.1 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>of\nthe project\\\'s financing. The new complex will include multiple two-story\nbuildings offering 232 market-rate housing units.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">\\\"These\nprojects are part of a growing list of HIT-financed properties that are\nbringing development, jobs and mixed-income housing to the greater<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>area,\\\" said<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-person\\\">Terrance Pearson</span>,\nHIT Director of FHA Finance. \\\"These are good investments for the HIT\nportfolio. We will continue to work with the<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>development\ncommunity to identify new investment opportunities.\\\"</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">All\non-site construction work at the two properties will be performed under\ncollective bargaining agreements with local building and construction trades\nunions, generating approximately 600 union construction jobs.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;\\\">\\\"The\njobs created by these investments are helping keep the HIT on track to achieve\nits goal of generating 10,000 union construction jobs by this spring through\nthe investment of union pension capital,\\\" said HIT Executive Vice\nPresident and Chief Investment Officer<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-person\\\">Stephanie H. 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In addition to\nCouncil Tower Senior Apartments and Parkway Lakeside Apartments, other<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span>-area\nprojects financed through this initiative are:</span></p>\n<ul type=\\\"disc\\\">\n<li class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\" style=\\\"color: black;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\\\">Park\n     Pacific Apartments,<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span>: &nbsp;A<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$98 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>redevelopment offering 230\n     housing units. &nbsp;The HIT provided<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$63 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in\n     financing. The project is generating an estimated 655 union construction\n     jobs.</span></li>\n<li class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\" style=\\\"color: black;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\\\">The\n     Laurel,<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">St. Louis</span>: A<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$175 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>redevelopment\n     offering 205 housing units. The HIT provided<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$45 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in financing. The project is\n     generating approximately 1,330 union construction jobs.</span></li>\n<li class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\" style=\\\"color: black;\\\"><span style=\\\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\\\">Villas\n     at<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">Crystal\n     Lake</span>,<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-location\\\">Swansea, IL</span>: &nbsp;A<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$26 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>development offering 216 housing\n     units. The HIT provided<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$24 million</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in\n     financing. 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It manages nearly<span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\\\"xn-money\\\">$3.9 billion</span><span class=\\\"apple-converted-space\\\">&nbsp;</span>in assets for approximately 350\ninvestors, which include union and public employee pension plans. 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If this is your situation, a good house cleaning is in order ... whether or not you intend to share financials.</p>\n<p>A discussion with your team is also a good idea, explaining why you\\\'ll start sharing certain financial information.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Open Book\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"186\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/open book.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" />Just in case it\\\'s not widely known throughout your company that you don\\\'t print money - nor do you have a money tree in the parking lot - go ahead and point that out. Explain that we\\\'ve got to take in more than we spend. (By the way, this is a dead-simple definition of profit. 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The lobby incorporates an entrance to the adjacent \\\"Emerson Neonatal Intensive Care Unit\\\" for which Spellman Brady was previously recognized by the National Association of Children\\\'s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) for outstanding use of artwork and evidence-based design principles in children\\\'s hospitals nationwide.  <br /> <br />A variety of artwork was selected for the hospital which included mosaic art, sculptural metal art, water features, paintings and prints. The works of art were selected to add substantial color and appeal to the main lobby and public areas.  Specifically, the large, mosaic butterfly in the lobby guides guests to the entrance of Mercy Children\\\'s Hospital..  Another unique piece of art is the two-story water feature that showcases a nature image behind the running water, as well as colorful \\\"river rock\\\" simulated at the bottom of the waterfall.  <br /> <br />\\\"The color and themes of the individual pieces of artwork were selected so that they contributed to the overall healing environment that the hospital was striving to achieve,\\\" said Diana Spellman, President of Spellman Brady &amp; Company.<br /> <br />Three 2-story banners depicting Mercy\\\'s heritage were also incorporated into the lobby\\\'s artwork.  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The lobby incorporates an entrance to the adjacent \\\"Emerson Neonatal Intensive Care Unit\\\" for which Spellman Brady was previously recognized by the National Association of Children\\\'s Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) for outstanding use of artwork and evidence-based design principles in children\\\'s hospitals nationwide.  <br /> <br />A variety of artwork was selected for the hospital which included mosaic art, sculptural metal art, water features, paintings and prints. The works of art were selected to add substantial color and appeal to the main lobby and public areas.  Specifically, the large, mosaic butterfly in the lobby guides guests to the entrance of Mercy Children\\\'s Hospital..  Another unique piece of art is the two-story water feature that showcases a nature image behind the running water, as well as colorful \\\"river rock\\\" simulated at the bottom of the waterfall.  <br /> <br />\\\"The color and themes of the individual pieces of artwork were selected so that they contributed to the overall healing environment that the hospital was striving to achieve,\\\" said Diana Spellman, President of Spellman Brady &amp; Company.<br /> <br />Three 2-story banners depicting Mercy\\\'s heritage were also incorporated into the lobby\\\'s artwork.  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Issues arise or something doesn\\\'t work out, and he gets mad at the architect or general contractor,\\\" said Zachary Hamilton, vice president, Kwame Building Group.</p>\n<p>When SSM Healthcare began considering the construction of a new hospital in Jefferson City, MO, the company engaged in a process Cates calls functional programming before they made the decision to build. Cates, who guided the process, said, \\\"it is a lot like the internal planning that most business do for their business, but is rarely done in construction projects.\\\"</p>\n<p>The typical challenges in a construction project, he said, include defining a project\\\'s scope of work; co-ordinating design and construction; getting the right mix of expertise and experience among project team members; responsible estimating, value analysis, and budgeting; scheduling, sequencing and phasing of activities; and efficient and effective communication.</p>\n<p>With functional programming, \\\"you start by defining the basis or purpose of the project - the project objectives,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"You look at the business case for the project; the operational models the owner could use; applicable codes and standards; and space needs.</p>\n<p><br />Then you look at the choices regarding building systems, materials, equipment, and furnishings. From that you develop expectations regarding cost and schedule, which allows you to create a budget. All of this is done before the project is approved. Once you have the budget, you then go to the owner or board of directors for approval of the project. If approved, then you begin design and specifying scopes of work,\\\" Cates said.</p>\n<p>Architects, contractors, and vendors have to be involved in the programming process to get good information about choices, costs, and time frames for ordering materials and equipment.</p>\n<p>\\\"You pay them a consulting fee to get good ideas from them, but everyone knows there isn\\\'t a project yet and if it is approved, there will be a selection process by the owner. If it moves forward, the intent is to use them on the project, but they are not guaranteed a job,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"With all the new choices out there, particularly with regards to technology and sustainability, it is exciting and all the more reason to have a team that can give you the pros and cons of each choice early,\\\" said Michael Perry, president of HBD Construction and 2011 chairman of the AGC of St. Louis.</p>\n<p>Cates, said, \\\"working on the Jefferson City hospital project, we hired an architect - a joint venture of The Lawrence Group and HGA - to plan the amount of space needed; an engineer - Heideman Associates - to develop the choices of M.E.P. (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) systems for the different functional areas and the pros and cons of each; and a construction manager - Alberici - to help us understand the complexities of the site and pricing in the marketplace. We had 25 people in the room, including M.E.P.. subs, a structural guy, a code guy, and medical equipment vendors.</p>\n<p>\\\"The functional program we developed will serve as the basis of the budget and the basis of design. Everything will be checked back against it. It cost $2 million for a project that we estimate will cost $220 million, but it is where you save money. Changes are ten times more expensive to make in design than they are in planning, and once you are in construction, where you are locked in, changes are 100 times more expensive to make,\\\" Cates said.</p>\n<p>The project delivery method is the last piece of the plan, he said. \\\"We promote integrated project delivery, but even if the job is hard bid, the functional program keeps the scope constant so you really are comparing apples to apples,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Two other local owners who believe strongly in advance planning are Ameren and Solutia.</p>\n<p>\\\"We start at the conceptual phase and really focus on nailing down the scope. We feel that is going to drive the other areas: cost, schedule, risk, and quality,\\\" said Ryan Ellen, manager of enterprise risk and project management in Ameren\\\'s corporate planning group and also a member of the Best Practices Committee of the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers.</p>\n<p>\\\"Research from the Construction Industry Institute has been very helpful, especially the Project Definition Rating Index,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) is a simple tool for measuring the completeness of a project scope definition. The PDRI offers a comprehensive checklist of 64 scope definition elements in an easy-to-use score sheet format that is supported by detailed descriptions of these elements. Each element is also weighted based on its relative importance to the other elements, and the checklist makes it easy to isolate high risk areas for further work. Research has shown that a PDRI score of 200 or less greatly increases the probability of a successful project.</p>\n<p>There are three main sections of the PDRI - basis of project decision, basis of design, and execution approach - each of which is broken down into a series of categories, which in turn are further broken down into elements.</p>\n<p>\\\"We get stakeholders in a room for four-to-six hours to discuss the front end planning effort using the PDRI. We\\\'re even using the PDRI on small projects. It really identifies the gaps in our planning,\\\" Ellen said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Front end planning, nailing down the scope, and deciding how to manage changes are the key decisions for owners to make,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Front end planning is one of those important Construction Industry Institute Best Practices that we strictly adhere to at Solutia,\\\" said Greg Kanteres, worldwide engineering major project manager and chairman of the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers\\\' Best Practices Committee.</p>\n<p>Kantares breaks front end planning into two parts.</p>\n<p>One part, which he calls \\\"alignment,\\\" is making certain that all individuals and companies involved on a project know the overall objectives of the project and how their part is essential to the overall project success.</p>\n<p>That is a part that Scott Wittkop, central division president of McCarthy Building Cos., said is often is missing.</p>\n<p>\\\"It has amazed me just how poor communication has gotten between owners, design teams, contractors, and subcontractors, despite the electronic age and everyone copying everyone with everything,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>And, it is not just about the parties talking at each other. \\\"You have to ask, \\\'Mr. Architect, what did you hear me say?\\\' or \\\'Mr. Contractor, what did you hear me say?\\\' to be clear,\\\" Wittkop said.</p>\n<p>It is far too common for teams to overlook that step, \\\"and get four months into a project and find that the owner, the architect, and the contractor aren\\\'t on the same page,\\\" he said. \\\"That is wasting money,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>The other part of front end planning is pre-project planning.</p>\n<p>\\\"At the onset of a project, a team must make many very important decisions. One of those important areas is documenting the execution strategy - what type of contract strategies will be used, who is doing what, when, why and where? ... No single strategy is going to work for all projects,\\\" Kantares said. <br />Kantares said Solutia uses the Construction Industry Institute\\\'s PDRI or Independent Project Analysis\\\' Front End Loading Index to help corporate teams understand if they have completely defined the work that is to be done. They use the Construction Industry Institute\\\'s Project Delivery and Contracting Strategy tool to help determine the most appropriate contracting strategy for a project.</p>\n<p>Many owners, however, are not the savvy consumers of design and construction services that Ameren and Solutia are. They may hire an architect, construction manager, or designer/builder and rely on them to take the planning process in hand.<br />Often, they make uneducated decisions, \\\"because they lack the appropriate knowledge,\\\" said Lauren Talley, commercial project manager at Kozeny-Wagner Inc</p>\n<p>.A good owner\\\'s representative can help educate an owner as to the owner\\\'s responsibilities, help clarify the owner\\\'s vision, and help the owner clarify internal lines of decision-making authority.\\\"I would bet that any owner\\\'s rep out there would be able to prove their worth at the end of the job by saving at least twice their fee just by asking the right questions. It creates a clear line of communication and facilitates decision-making,\\\" she said.Regardless of who the owner hires, the owner should provide enough time for planning. \\\"Technology makes us think that everything can happen fast, but good design and construction takes thought. 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Issues arise or something doesn\\\'t work out, and he gets mad at the architect or general contractor,\\\" said Zachary Hamilton, vice president, Kwame Building Group.</p>\n<p>When SSM Healthcare began considering the construction of a new hospital in Jefferson City, MO, the company engaged in a process Cates calls functional programming before they made the decision to build. Cates, who guided the process, said, \\\"it is a lot like the internal planning that most business do for their business, but is rarely done in construction projects.\\\"</p>\n<p>The typical challenges in a construction project, he said, include defining a project\\\'s scope of work; co-ordinating design and construction; getting the right mix of expertise and experience among project team members; responsible estimating, value analysis, and budgeting; scheduling, sequencing and phasing of activities; and efficient and effective communication.</p>\n<p>With functional programming, \\\"you start by defining the basis or purpose of the project - the project objectives,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"You look at the business case for the project; the operational models the owner could use; applicable codes and standards; and space needs.</p>\n<p><br />Then you look at the choices regarding building systems, materials, equipment, and furnishings. From that you develop expectations regarding cost and schedule, which allows you to create a budget. All of this is done before the project is approved. Once you have the budget, you then go to the owner or board of directors for approval of the project. If approved, then you begin design and specifying scopes of work,\\\" Cates said.</p>\n<p>Architects, contractors, and vendors have to be involved in the programming process to get good information about choices, costs, and time frames for ordering materials and equipment.</p>\n<p>\\\"You pay them a consulting fee to get good ideas from them, but everyone knows there isn\\\'t a project yet and if it is approved, there will be a selection process by the owner. If it moves forward, the intent is to use them on the project, but they are not guaranteed a job,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"With all the new choices out there, particularly with regards to technology and sustainability, it is exciting and all the more reason to have a team that can give you the pros and cons of each choice early,\\\" said Michael Perry, president of HBD Construction and 2011 chairman of the AGC of St. Louis.</p>\n<p>Cates, said, \\\"working on the Jefferson City hospital project, we hired an architect - a joint venture of The Lawrence Group and HGA - to plan the amount of space needed; an engineer - Heideman Associates - to develop the choices of M.E.P. (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) systems for the different functional areas and the pros and cons of each; and a construction manager - Alberici - to help us understand the complexities of the site and pricing in the marketplace. We had 25 people in the room, including M.E.P.. subs, a structural guy, a code guy, and medical equipment vendors.</p>\n<p>\\\"The functional program we developed will serve as the basis of the budget and the basis of design. Everything will be checked back against it. It cost $2 million for a project that we estimate will cost $220 million, but it is where you save money. Changes are ten times more expensive to make in design than they are in planning, and once you are in construction, where you are locked in, changes are 100 times more expensive to make,\\\" Cates said.</p>\n<p>The project delivery method is the last piece of the plan, he said. \\\"We promote integrated project delivery, but even if the job is hard bid, the functional program keeps the scope constant so you really are comparing apples to apples,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Two other local owners who believe strongly in advance planning are Ameren and Solutia.</p>\n<p>\\\"We start at the conceptual phase and really focus on nailing down the scope. We feel that is going to drive the other areas: cost, schedule, risk, and quality,\\\" said Ryan Ellen, manager of enterprise risk and project management in Ameren\\\'s corporate planning group and also a member of the Best Practices Committee of the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers.</p>\n<p>\\\"Research from the Construction Industry Institute has been very helpful, especially the Project Definition Rating Index,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) is a simple tool for measuring the completeness of a project scope definition. The PDRI offers a comprehensive checklist of 64 scope definition elements in an easy-to-use score sheet format that is supported by detailed descriptions of these elements. Each element is also weighted based on its relative importance to the other elements, and the checklist makes it easy to isolate high risk areas for further work. Research has shown that a PDRI score of 200 or less greatly increases the probability of a successful project.</p>\n<p>There are three main sections of the PDRI - basis of project decision, basis of design, and execution approach - each of which is broken down into a series of categories, which in turn are further broken down into elements.</p>\n<p>\\\"We get stakeholders in a room for four-to-six hours to discuss the front end planning effort using the PDRI. We\\\'re even using the PDRI on small projects. It really identifies the gaps in our planning,\\\" Ellen said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Front end planning, nailing down the scope, and deciding how to manage changes are the key decisions for owners to make,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Front end planning is one of those important Construction Industry Institute Best Practices that we strictly adhere to at Solutia,\\\" said Greg Kanteres, worldwide engineering major project manager and chairman of the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers\\\' Best Practices Committee.</p>\n<p>Kantares breaks front end planning into two parts.</p>\n<p>One part, which he calls \\\"alignment,\\\" is making certain that all individuals and companies involved on a project know the overall objectives of the project and how their part is essential to the overall project success.</p>\n<p>That is a part that Scott Wittkop, central division president of McCarthy Building Cos., said is often is missing.</p>\n<p>\\\"It has amazed me just how poor communication has gotten between owners, design teams, contractors, and subcontractors, despite the electronic age and everyone copying everyone with everything,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>And, it is not just about the parties talking at each other. \\\"You have to ask, \\\'Mr. Architect, what did you hear me say?\\\' or \\\'Mr. Contractor, what did you hear me say?\\\' to be clear,\\\" Wittkop said.</p>\n<p>It is far too common for teams to overlook that step, \\\"and get four months into a project and find that the owner, the architect, and the contractor aren\\\'t on the same page,\\\" he said. \\\"That is wasting money,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>The other part of front end planning is pre-project planning.</p>\n<p>\\\"At the onset of a project, a team must make many very important decisions. One of those important areas is documenting the execution strategy - what type of contract strategies will be used, who is doing what, when, why and where? ... No single strategy is going to work for all projects,\\\" Kantares said. <br />Kantares said Solutia uses the Construction Industry Institute\\\'s PDRI or Independent Project Analysis\\\' Front End Loading Index to help corporate teams understand if they have completely defined the work that is to be done. They use the Construction Industry Institute\\\'s Project Delivery and Contracting Strategy tool to help determine the most appropriate contracting strategy for a project.</p>\n<p>Many owners, however, are not the savvy consumers of design and construction services that Ameren and Solutia are. They may hire an architect, construction manager, or designer/builder and rely on them to take the planning process in hand.<br />Often, they make uneducated decisions, \\\"because they lack the appropriate knowledge,\\\" said Lauren Talley, commercial project manager at Kozeny-Wagner Inc</p>\n<p>.A good owner\\\'s representative can help educate an owner as to the owner\\\'s responsibilities, help clarify the owner\\\'s vision, and help the owner clarify internal lines of decision-making authority.\\\"I would bet that any owner\\\'s rep out there would be able to prove their worth at the end of the job by saving at least twice their fee just by asking the right questions. It creates a clear line of communication and facilitates decision-making,\\\" she said.Regardless of who the owner hires, the owner should provide enough time for planning. \\\"Technology makes us think that everything can happen fast, but good design and construction takes thought. 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In January, the Chinese government designated China Cargo Airlines to negotiate with St. Louis.<br /><br />China Cargo Airlines is a subsidiary of China\\\'s largest air cargo carrier, China Eastern Airlines. Last year, China Eastern Airlines sold minority stakes in China Cargo Airlines to Singapore International Airlines and Taiwan-based EVA airlines to raise cash for its expansion.<br /><br />Kasarda said getting an agreement with China Cargo Airlines is just the start of a very steep climb to build an air cargo hub.<br /><br />&ldquo;St. Louis has lost a lot of its logistics infrastructure, hard and soft, with the decline of manufacturing there, the end of TWA, and the loss of American Airlines,&rdquo; he said, explaining that landing freight is only part of the process, getting it out of the airport and to its destination quickly is the other part.<br /><br />&ldquo;St. Louis will have to build relationships with freight forwarders and third-party logistics providers, establish procedures for fast customs clearance, for quick licensing and permitting, for electronic transactions, and so on,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And it takes landing more than one flight a day to develop that,&rdquo; he said.<br /></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(2985,1146,2,4,1300201017,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:4:\"1146\";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:\"2011-03-14 08:12 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:30:\"MODOT\\\'s Spending Headed South\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:28:\"modots_spending_headed_south\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:30:\"MODOT\\\'s Spending Headed South\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:322:\"Missouri could lose highway and bridge construction jobs over the next five years unless something is done to increase transportation funding, Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) district engineer told the audience at a St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers\\\' presentation on transportation infrastructure.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:26:\"MODOT, Hassenger, spending\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:1691:\"<p>MoDOT Belt Tightening</p>\n<p>Missouri could lose highway and bridge construction jobs over the next five years unless something is done to increase transportation funding, Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) district engineer told the audience at a St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers\\\' presentation on transportation infrastructure.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Downward Sigh\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/downward-sign.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />For the last four years, MoDOT spent an average of $1.2 billion a year on construction that employed over 21,600 workers, with a peak of $1.36 billion in 2009.</p>\n<p>This year, MoDOT has only $662 million to spend on construction. Hassenger said MoDOT\\\'s construction budget is expected to average only $600 million a year over the next five years.</p>\n<p>\\\"We will honor commitments to the new Mississippi River Bridge, the Dorsett/270 interchange, and the 141/Page-Olive Connector,\\\" he said, but beyond those projects, \\\"we will be unable to invest in economic development,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"And we will do our best to maintain the existing system,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>The drop-off in funding has several causes: MoDOT used up the funds from a highway construction bond issue, federal stimulus funding has ended, and gas tax revenue began falling two years ago.</p>\n<p>Hassenger noted that a statewide group, the Missouri Transportation Alliance, has formed to try to figure out what comes next for Missouri\\\'s transportation systems. 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Issues arise or something doesn\\\'t work out, and he gets mad at the architect or general contractor,\\\" said Zachary Hamilton, vice president, Kwame Building Group.</p>\n<p>When SSM Healthcare began considering the construction of a new hospital in Jefferson City, MO, the company engaged in a process Cates calls functional programming before they made the decision to build. Cates, who guided the process, said, \\\"it is a lot like the internal planning that most business do for their business, but is rarely done in construction projects.\\\"</p>\n<p>The typical challenges in a construction project, he said, include defining a project\\\'s scope of work; co-ordinating design and construction; getting the right mix of expertise and experience among project team members; responsible estimating, value analysis, and budgeting; scheduling, sequencing and phasing of activities; and efficient and effective communication.</p>\n<p>With functional programming, \\\"you start by defining the basis or purpose of the project - the project objectives,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"You look at the business case for the project; the operational models the owner could use; applicable codes and standards; and space needs.</p>\n<p><br />Then you look at the choices regarding building systems, materials, equipment, and furnishings. From that you develop expectations regarding cost and schedule, which allows you to create a budget. All of this is done before the project is approved. Once you have the budget, you then go to the owner or board of directors for approval of the project. If approved, then you begin design and specifying scopes of work,\\\" Cates said.</p>\n<p>Architects, contractors, and vendors have to be involved in the programming process to get good information about choices, costs, and time frames for ordering materials and equipment.</p>\n<p>\\\"You pay them a consulting fee to get good ideas from them, but everyone knows there isn\\\'t a project yet and if it is approved, there will be a selection process by the owner. If it moves forward, the intent is to use them on the project, but they are not guaranteed a job,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"With all the new choices out there, particularly with regards to technology and sustainability, it is exciting and all the more reason to have a team that can give you the pros and cons of each choice early,\\\" said Michael Perry, president of HBD Construction and 2011 chairman of the AGC of St. Louis.</p>\n<p>Cates, said, \\\"working on the Jefferson City hospital project, we hired an architect - a joint venture of The Lawrence Group and HGA - to plan the amount of space needed; an engineer - Heideman Associates - to develop the choices of M.E.P. (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) systems for the different functional areas and the pros and cons of each; and a construction manager - Alberici - to help us understand the complexities of the site and pricing in the marketplace. We had 25 people in the room, including M.E.P.. subs, a structural guy, a code guy, and medical equipment vendors.</p>\n<p>\\\"The functional program we developed will serve as the basis of the budget and the basis of design. Everything will be checked back against it. It cost $2 million for a project that we estimate will cost $220 million, but it is where you save money. Changes are ten times more expensive to make in design than they are in planning, and once you are in construction, where you are locked in, changes are 100 times more expensive to make,\\\" Cates said.</p>\n<p>The project delivery method is the last piece of the plan, he said. \\\"We promote integrated project delivery, but even if the job is hard bid, the functional program keeps the scope constant so you really are comparing apples to apples,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Two other local owners who believe strongly in advance planning are Ameren and Solutia.</p>\n<p>\\\"We start at the conceptual phase and really focus on nailing down the scope. We feel that is going to drive the other areas: cost, schedule, risk, and quality,\\\" said Ryan Ellen, manager of enterprise risk and project management in Ameren\\\'s corporate planning group and also a member of the Best Practices Committee of the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers.</p>\n<p>\\\"Research from the Construction Industry Institute has been very helpful, especially the Project Definition Rating Index,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) is a simple tool for measuring the completeness of a project scope definition. The PDRI offers a comprehensive checklist of 64 scope definition elements in an easy-to-use score sheet format that is supported by detailed descriptions of these elements. Each element is also weighted based on its relative importance to the other elements, and the checklist makes it easy to isolate high risk areas for further work. Research has shown that a PDRI score of 200 or less greatly increases the probability of a successful project.</p>\n<p>There are three main sections of the PDRI - basis of project decision, basis of design, and execution approach - each of which is broken down into a series of categories, which in turn are further broken down into elements.</p>\n<p>\\\"We get stakeholders in a room for four-to-six hours to discuss the front end planning effort using the PDRI. We\\\'re even using the PDRI on small projects. It really identifies the gaps in our planning,\\\" Ellen said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Front end planning, nailing down the scope, and deciding how to manage changes are the key decisions for owners to make,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Front end planning is one of those important Construction Industry Institute Best Practices that we strictly adhere to at Solutia,\\\" said Greg Kanteres, worldwide engineering major project manager and chairman of the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers\\\' Best Practices Committee.</p>\n<p>Kantares breaks front end planning into two parts.</p>\n<p>One part, which he calls \\\"alignment,\\\" is making certain that all individuals and companies involved on a project know the overall objectives of the project and how their part is essential to the overall project success.</p>\n<p>That is a part that Scott Wittkop, central division president of McCarthy Building Cos., said is often is missing.</p>\n<p>\\\"It has amazed me just how poor communication has gotten between owners, design teams, contractors, and subcontractors, despite the electronic age and everyone copying everyone with everything,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>And, it is not just about the parties talking at each other. \\\"You have to ask, \\\'Mr. Architect, what did you hear me say?\\\' or \\\'Mr. Contractor, what did you hear me say?\\\' to be clear,\\\" Wittkop said.</p>\n<p>It is far too common for teams to overlook that step, \\\"and get four months into a project and find that the owner, the architect, and the contractor aren\\\'t on the same page,\\\" he said. \\\"That is wasting money,\\\" he added.</p>\n<p>The other part of front end planning is pre-project planning.</p>\n<p>\\\"At the onset of a project, a team must make many very important decisions. One of those important areas is documenting the execution strategy - what type of contract strategies will be used, who is doing what, when, why and where? ... No single strategy is going to work for all projects,\\\" Kantares said. <br />Kantares said Solutia uses the Construction Industry Institute\\\'s PDRI or Independent Project Analysis\\\' Front End Loading Index to help corporate teams understand if they have completely defined the work that is to be done. They use the Construction Industry Institute\\\'s Project Delivery and Contracting Strategy tool to help determine the most appropriate contracting strategy for a project.</p>\n<p>Many owners, however, are not the savvy consumers of design and construction services that Ameren and Solutia are. They may hire an architect, construction manager, or designer/builder and rely on them to take the planning process in hand.<br />Often, they make uneducated decisions, \\\"because they lack the appropriate knowledge,\\\" said Lauren Talley, commercial project manager at Kozeny-Wagner Inc</p>\n<p>.A good owner\\\'s representative can help educate an owner as to the owner\\\'s responsibilities, help clarify the owner\\\'s vision, and help the owner clarify internal lines of decision-making authority.\\\"I would bet that any owner\\\'s rep out there would be able to prove their worth at the end of the job by saving at least twice their fee just by asking the right questions. It creates a clear line of communication and facilitates decision-making,\\\" she said.Regardless of who the owner hires, the owner should provide enough time for planning. \\\"Technology makes us think that everything can happen fast, but good design and construction takes thought. 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In January, the Chinese government designated China Cargo Airlines to negotiate with St. Louis.<br /><br />China Cargo Airlines is a subsidiary of China\\\'s largest air cargo carrier, China Eastern Airlines. Last year, China Eastern Airlines sold minority stakes in China Cargo Airlines to Singapore International Airlines and Taiwan-based EVA airlines to raise cash for its expansion.<br /><br />Kasarda said getting an agreement with China Cargo Airlines is just the start of a very steep climb to build an air cargo hub.<br /><br />&ldquo;St. Louis has lost a lot of its logistics infrastructure, hard and soft, with the decline of manufacturing there, the end of TWA, and the loss of American Airlines,&rdquo; he said, explaining that landing freight is only part of the process, getting it out of the airport and to its destination quickly is the other part.<br /><br />&ldquo;St. Louis will have to build relationships with freight forwarders and third-party logistics providers, establish procedures for fast customs clearance, for quick licensing and permitting, for electronic transactions, and so on,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And it takes landing more than one flight a day to develop that,&rdquo; he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(2989,1148,10,4,1300203964,'a:30:{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:\"2011-03-15 05:36 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:38:\" Program Features Commissioning Expert\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:37:\"program_features_commissioning_expert\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_58\";s:38:\" Program Features Commissioning Expert\";s:11:\"field_ft_58\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_62\";s:183:\" NAWIC  Presents Guest Speaker Thomas Lillie , Senior Partner at Horizon Engineering Associates, LLP.  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They have served as commissioning authority for more than 30 million square feet and $15 billion in construction cost.  <br /> <br />Thomas Lillie has an extensive background and over 40 years experience in consulting, commissioning and preventative maintenance for HVAC and&nbsp; specialty laboratory systems. <br /> <br />Prior to starting his own company, Mr. Lillie was the head of a 40-person mechanical and plumbing design department. His commis-sioning and design experiences led him to recognize the gaps in the current preventative maintenance systems often implemented following commissioning, and founded a software division to develop and implement custom automated PM data collection and processing systems. He has presented at numerous events including Labs21 Technology and Ser-vices Fair and U.S. Green Building Council\\\'s Green build conference.</p>\n<p>Cost is $30 per person. 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Now I understand when people are brand spanking new to the sales dynamic this behavior occurs, though it should be a short lived excuse. \";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:16:\"proactive, sales\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:1807:\"<p>As I continue to train sales reps and managers I am amazed by a trend I see developing.</p>\n<p>It is becoming epidemic that people wait to be told what to do in relation to selling and then react to that information. Now I understand when people are brand spanking new to the sales dynamic this behavior occurs, though it should be a short lived excuse.</p>\n<p>The more surprising issue hat seasoned sales veterans are also being more reactive than proactive. This is an economic climate that requires proactively seeking sales angles and methods. I\\\'m at the point that I\\\'m literally telling people how to communicate with other people. Establishing relationship is simply being approachable, communicative and listening. Not complicated!<br /> Waiting to be told what to do puts all the growth and success of your sales territory in the hands of someone else. Whether that is a sales manager, general manager or owner. The problem is that all of these people have other responsibilities to attend to. Not that your sales effort isn\\\'t important but it\\\'s one of many cogs in a company\\\'s wheel house.</p>\n<p>At some point you need to take the bull by the horns. Do the prospecting, research, learning and lead generation yourself. Once again get deeply involved in associations and develop your network. Seat of the pants selling is destine for failure in this day and age. Get to meetings that can help you and expose you to network or customer contacts. <br /></p>\n<p>Hoping your company drops great opportunities in your lap is a bit pie in the sky. If you have responsibility to sell and find business then do so. 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Atrium\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:407:\"The  team of Directions In Design, Inc (DID). and M2 Architecture Studio was selected by Washington University in St. Louis  to renovate a three-story atrium on the university\\\'s Danforth Campus. The atrium area connects two engineering buildings, Urbauer and Lopata, that house the School of Engineering & Applied Science\\\'s offices, classrooms and laboratories, many of which overlook the areas renovated.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2137:\"<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The&nbsp; team of Directions In Design, Inc. and M2 Architecture Studio was selected by Washington University in St. Louis&nbsp; to renovate a three-story atrium on the university\\\'s Danforth Campus. The atrium area connects two engineering buildings, Urbauer and Lopata, that house the School of Engineering &amp; Applied Science\\\'s offices, classrooms and laboratories, many of which overlook the areas renovated.</p>\n<p>The university\\\'s goal for the renovation was to create a student friendly area to provide food services and a gathering place for student and faculty interaction. The food is an assortment of \\\"grab &lsquo;n\\\' go\\\" items such as made-to-order wraps, sandwiches, soups, pastries, coffee and other beverages.</p>\n<p>Responding to that goal, DID created an area that aesthetically projects a progressive, appealing and sophisticated engineering identity. One of the sensory elements the team has incorporated into the design is the depiction of motion or movement. The feeling of motion is conveyed in angled drywall projections and sculpted wall panels. Bright colors add both to the visual movement and interest of the space. Walls on level one will be light kiwi green ceramic enhanced paint for durability. Levels two and three combine sculpted wall panels with standard dry wall finishes. An orange-red wall also accents the computer area with a rectangular light fixture, backlit to reinforce the theme of motion.</p>\n<p>Comfortable furniture (tables, chairs and lounge seating) invites inhabitants of the buildings to enjoy the contemporary ambience. Lounge furnishings may be easily reconfigured to accommodate a diverse range of groupings and allow for greater flexibility for other functions, such as receptions.</p>\n<p>The interior appearance and functionality of the newly renovated space were planned for maximum enjoyment and convenience for all types of users. Washington University continues to update its campus buildings by incorporating sustainable materials and furnishings, to make the campus \\\"greener\\\" and also to create an improved positive effect on indoor air quality.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),