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Wilson with the CCC Salutatorian,\nGabriella Fields.&nbsp; She is currently employed at S.M. Wilson as an intern in project management and will study engineering this fall at\nSIU-Edwardsville.</strong></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Two graduates recognized for outstanding achievement during tonight\\\'s ceremonies are Gabrielle Fields and Bryant K. Williams.&nbsp; Miss Fields was the youngest intern ever to work for S.M. 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DED and Sara Tetley, AIA-St. Louis chapter officer.<br /><br /><strong>2008 KEYSTONE AWARD FINALISTS</strong><br /><strong><br />General Contractor or Construction Manager, Building Construction Project Under $5 Million</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor: Helmkamp Construction Company:&nbsp; Project: G. Building Patio ADA Improvements, Owner: Monsanto Company<br /><br />2.) Contractor:The Lawrence Group Projects, LLC; Project: Kirberg Companies Headquarters Complex; Owner: DCE Properties LLC<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />3.) Contractor: Paric Corporation; Project: Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark; Owner: Lodging HospitalityManagement<br /><br /><br /><strong>General Contractor or Construction Manager, Building Construction Project $5-$20 Million</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor: HBD Contracting, Inc; Project:.Franklin School Apartments; Owner:Franklin Partners, L.P.<br /><br />2. Contractor:Paric Corporation; Project: Tudor Building; Owner:Tudor Development, LP/Tudor Retail Partners, LLC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />3. Owner:Volk Construction Company; Project:Washington University New Data Center for Genome Sequencing Center; Owner: Washington University School of&nbsp; Medicine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br /><br /><strong>General Contractor or Construction Manager, Building Construction Project $20 Million Or More</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor: Alberici Constructors, Inc.; Project SSM Cardinal Glennon Children\\\'s Medical Center Surgery Expansion; Owner SSM Health Care&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />2.) Contractor: Alberici Constructors, Inc.; Project:St. Louis Children\\\'s Hospital East Expansion, Owner: BJC Healthcare&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />3.) 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Contractor: Tarlton Corporation; Project: Chesterfield Village Site, Utility Master Plan (CVSUMP); Owner: Pfizer Inc.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><br />Interior Build Out</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor Helmkamp Construction Company; Project,&nbsp; AB Law, William H. Webster Faculty Commons; Owner: Washington University in St. Louis<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />2.) Contractor: Interface Construction&nbsp; Corporation; Project: St. Mary\\\'s Health Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fourth Floor Renovation; Owner: SSM Health Care <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />3.) Contractor: The Lawrence Group Projects, LLC; Project: Lawrence Group Offices; Owner: Security Building Partners LLC<br /><br /><br /><strong>Specialty Contractor, Building Construction Project Under $2 Million</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor: ACME Constructors &amp; Erectors; Project: Anheuser-Busch Law Building Renovation; Owner: Washington University in St. Louis<br /><br />2.) 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Well, no.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">I reached  the  foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch a</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">nd everything was under many feet of water. I  cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing  and  behind the Lumie</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">re\nCasino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the\ntrail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and\nthe flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot&nbsp; of concerns. <br /><br /></span><img alt=\\\"St. Louis floodwall at Riverfront Trail\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/levee.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">The whole\nlevee situation is concerning, but one that is being addressed...\nfinally. Last August, FEMA asked the Corps of Engineers if the Illinois\nand Missouri levees would fail in a 100-year-flood (which, since Global\nWarning have been happening about ever 15 years). The Corps said yes,\nindeed we could be up to our eyeballs in the Big Muddy.<br /><br />This\nprompted some hand-wringing in Missouri, where the legislature had been holding levee improvements hostage and in the riverfront areas Illinois, where developers and builders feared that it would\nlose projects when developers couldn\\\'t get flood insurance. Three Illinois counties passed a quarter-cent sales sales tax and the City of St. Louis authorized bond dollars to fix the most immediate problems. In June, a levee conference &mdash;&nbsp; which drew levee officials from Illinois to California &mdash; was held here. During the conference the corps and\nlocal officials discussed what progress had been made.<br /></span></p>\n<p>The release of the St. Louis bond funds led to a May 13 award to A&amp;H Contractors Inc., Detroit, of $1.7 million to add 70 relief wells and replace another 103 along an 11-mile stretch of the St. Louis Flood Protection Project. Although the contract is administered by the Corps, the funds come from a city bond issue and were made available by a special project partnership agreement.</p>\n<p>The St. Louis flood-protection system has been in place for almost 50 years, and many elements are failing, Tamara Atchley, project manager for the district said. Under-seepage relief wells need to be replaced. Floodgates are rusty and deteriorating, gravity drains and valve flaps no longer work, and electrical components are wearing out in pump stations. Parts for the aging equipment often are no longer available.</p>\n<p>The Illinois tax is dedicated to refurbishing non-federal levees in the Wood River, East St. Louis, Chain of Rocks, Prairie Dupont and Fish Lake Drainage &amp; Leveedistricts. 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The 2008 Keystone Awards mark only the second year in the awards\\\' eleven-year history that the work of a promising new contractor will be recognized with the Emerging Contractor award. Emerging contractors can only be considered an emerging contractor for three years, thus limiting the projects available for submission.</p>\n<p>The 2008 Keystone Awards ceremony is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 3, at the Millenium Hotel.<br />\\\"Every year it is inspiring to see how these local companies take advances in technology and building procedures and use them to construct such fabulous examples of industry excellence,\\\" said Leonard Toenjes, AGC president. <br />The judges of the 2008 Keystone Awards include the following: Ed Alizadeh, ACEC-MO chapter officer; Dan Esarey, IFMA-St. Louis chapter officer and retired from the St. Louis Art Museum; James Freeman, ASA Midwest chapter officer; Steve Gantner, CSI chapter officer; Dr. Eric Showalter, UMR; Kevin Stover, Mo. DED and Sara Tetley, AIA-St. Louis chapter officer.<br /><br /><strong>2008 KEYSTONE AWARD FINALISTS</strong><br /><strong><br />General Contractor or Construction Manager, Building Construction Project Under $5 Million</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor: Helmkamp Construction Company:&nbsp; Project: G. Building Patio ADA Improvements, Owner: Monsanto Company<br /><br />2.) Contractor:The Lawrence Group Projects, LLC; Project: Kirberg Companies Headquarters Complex; Owner: DCE Properties LLC<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />3.) Contractor: Paric Corporation; Project: Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark; Owner: Lodging HospitalityManagement<br /><br /><br /><strong>General Contractor or Construction Manager, Building Construction Project $5-$20 Million</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor: HBD Contracting, Inc; Project:.Franklin School Apartments; Owner:Franklin Partners, L.P.<br /><br />2. Contractor:Paric Corporation; Project: Tudor Building; Owner:Tudor Development, LP/Tudor Retail Partners, LLC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />3. Owner:Volk Construction Company; Project:Washington University New Data Center for Genome Sequencing Center; Owner: Washington University School of&nbsp; Medicine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br /><br /><strong>General Contractor or Construction Manager, Building Construction Project $20 Million Or More</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor: Alberici Constructors, Inc.; Project SSM Cardinal Glennon Children\\\'s Medical Center Surgery Expansion; Owner SSM Health Care&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />2.) Contractor: Alberici Constructors, Inc.; Project:St. Louis Children\\\'s Hospital East Expansion, Owner: BJC Healthcare&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />3.) Contractor: McCarthy Building Companies; Project: Lumiere Place; Owner: Pinnacle Entertainment<br /><br /><strong>General Contractor or Construction Manager, Industrial/Infrastructure Construction Under $15 Million</strong><br />&nbsp;<br />1.) Contractor: Helmkamp Construction Company; Project:Char Ash System for Sioux Char Ash Upgrade project; Owner: Ameren&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />2.) Contractor: Kozeny-Wagner, Inc.; Project: Dougherty Ferry Bridge Over I-270: Owner:MoDOT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />3.) Contractor: Volk Construction Company; Project Washington University School of Medicine Replacement of Two Boilers; Owner: Washington University School of Medicine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br /><strong>General Contractor or Construction Manager, Industrial/Infrastructure Construction $15 Million Or More</strong><br /><br />1. Contractor: McCarthy Building Companies; Project Holcim Silos; Owner: Holcim (US) Inc.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />2.) Contractor: Tarlton Corporation; Project: Chesterfield Village Site, Utility Master Plan (CVSUMP); Owner: Pfizer Inc.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><br />Interior Build Out</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor Helmkamp Construction Company; Project,&nbsp; AB Law, William H. Webster Faculty Commons; Owner: Washington University in St. Louis<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />2.) Contractor: Interface Construction&nbsp; Corporation; Project: St. Mary\\\'s Health Center&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fourth Floor Renovation; Owner: SSM Health Care <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />3.) Contractor: The Lawrence Group Projects, LLC; Project: Lawrence Group Offices; Owner: Security Building Partners LLC<br /><br /><br /><strong>Specialty Contractor, Building Construction Project Under $2 Million</strong><br /><br />1.) Contractor: ACME Constructors &amp; Erectors; Project: Anheuser-Busch Law Building Renovation; Owner: Washington University in St. Louis<br /><br />2.) 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Griffonetti Concrete Cutting, LLC; Project: Grand Glaize WasteWater Improvements; Owner: Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:28:\"/images/uploads/keystone.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(449,168,4,2,1215115075,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-07-03 09:52 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:63:\"Cement Association Says Housing  Starts Will Slump Through 2010\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:62:\"cement_association_says_housing_starts_will_slump_through_2010\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:63:\"Cement Association Says Housing  Starts Will Slump Through 2010\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:161:\"Housing starts are expected to be 36 percente lower than 2007 levels, creating  three straight years of declines, a Portland Cement Association survey reported. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:19:\"PCA, housing starts\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1725:\"<p>Housing starts in 2008 are expected to be 36 percent lower than 2007 levels, creating three straight years of declines.&nbsp; According to a recent Portland Cement Association (PCA) Economic Research report, the toxic mix of weak economic conditions, tight credit conditions, and tepid sales are causing huge housing inventory overhangs that must be cleaned up before housing construction can begin its recovery.<br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"housing construction\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"173\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/housing-construction.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"260\\\" />\\\"Despite large home price declines and improved affordability, sales remain sluggish and offer little hope that the inventory glut will be worked off anytime soon,\\\" says PCA Chief Economist Ed Sullivan. \\\"The economic environment remains weak, being dragged down by high energy costs and weak employment fundamentals.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br />Sullivan says current home inventories stand at a 10.5-month supply, more than double the 5-month supply that normally accelerates start activity.&nbsp; Continual cutbacks in starts and marginal gains in sales are expected to be more than offset by increases in housing foreclosures that will be added to the market\\\'s inventory in 2008 and 2009.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />PCA projects an additional one percent start decline in 2009, with recovery to take place in 2010.<br />&nbsp;<br />Even then, the onset of recovery will vary among regions and states.&nbsp; States that fully participated in the housing boom, like California, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida, will have a disproportionally high number of defaults and foreclosures and even more delayed housing start recoveries.<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(450,169,2,2,1215624108,'a:28:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-07-09 07:04 AM\";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:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:64:\"Now We\\\'re Talking: Autodesk, Bentley Interoperability Announced\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:60:\"now_were_talking_autodesk_bentley_interoperability_announced\";s:4:\"save\";s:10:\"Quick Save\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:85:\"Now We\\\'re Talking: Autodesk, Bentley Interoperability Announced, Should Advance BIM \";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:204:\"The move toward BIM received a big boost Tuesday with the joint announcement by Autodesk and Bentley Systems that they have agreed to facilitate easy information exchange between their competing  systems.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:22:\"Autodesk, Bentley, BIM\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:5243:\"<p>The move toward BIM received a big boost Tuesday with the joint announcement by Autodesk and Bentley Systems that they have agreed to facilitate easy information exchange between their competing&nbsp; 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Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries,\nincluding Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write\nthe companies\\\' respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments\nwith greater fidelity.</p>\n<p>In addition, the two companies will facilitate\nwork process interoperability between their AEC applications through\nsupporting the reciprocal use of available Application Programming\nInterfaces (APIs). With this agreement, the companies aim to improve\nAEC workflows by enabling broader reuse of information generated during\nthe design, construction, and operation of buildings and\ninfrastructure, and by enhancing the ability of project teams to choose\namong multiple software sources.</p>\n<p>Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, CEO of HOK\nand a founder and current chairman of the International Alliance for\nInteroperability (IAI) said, \\\"As a longtime advocate of interoperability, I\nwelcome this agreement as an important step toward enabling AEC\ninformation to be more broadly shared, increasing the value of BIM to\nour clients.\\\"</p>\n<p>Interoperability has emerged as a critical issue for users of\ndesign and engineering software. A 2004 study by the U.S. National\nInstitute of Standards and Technology found that users bear direct\ncosts of almost $16 billion annually from time wasted due to inadequate\nAEC software interoperability. By virtue of this agreement, and the\ninteroperable offerings that it will enable, AEC firms will be free to\nemploy software tools of choice from either Autodesk or Bentley to\naccept or submit either DWG or DGN files. By improving fidelity of work\nshared between the two file formats, users will be able to focus on\nbeing creative and getting work done, rather than being constrained by\nfile-compatibility considerations.</p>\n<p>Through supporting the reciprocal use of their available APIs,\nAutodesk and Bentley will enable AEC project teams to combine products\nfrom both providers within integrated workflows. For instance, a design\nteam could use a mixture of Autodesk and Bentley software, such as\nAutodesk\\\'s <a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=3761844&amp;siteID=123112\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">Revit</a> platform and Bentley\\\'s STAAD and RAM structural products, and simulate\nand analyze their designs or manage project information using Autodesk\nNavisWorks software or Bentley\\\'s ProjectWise.</p>\n<p>Norbert Young, FAIA, president of McGraw-Hill Construction and\nformer chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability in\nNorth America, said, \\\"This groundbreaking agreement directly addresses\nmany of the critical issues detailed in the October 2007 McGraw-Hill\nConstruction study on interoperability in the construction industry (<a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf</a>). 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Well, no.<br /></span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\"></span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">I reached  the  foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch a</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">nd everything was under many feet of water. I  cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing  and  behind the Lumie</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">re\nCasino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the\ntrail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and\nthe flow was really boiling.It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot&nbsp; of concerns. <br /><br /></span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">The whole\nlevee situation is concerning, but one that is being addressed...\nfinally. Last August, FEMA asked the Corps of Engineers if the Illinois\nand Missouri levees would fail in a 100-year-flood (which, since Global\nWarning have been happening about ever 15 years). The Corps said yes,\nindeed we could be up to our eyeballs in the Big Muddy.<br /><br />This\nprompted some hand-wringing in Missouri, where the legislature had been holding levee improvements hostage and in the riverfront areas Illinois, where developers and builders feared that it would\nlose projects when developers couldn\\\'t get flood insurance. Three Illinois counties passed a quarter-cent sales sales tax and the City of St. Louis authorized bond dollars to fix the most immediate problems. In June, a levee conference &mdash;&nbsp; which drew levee officials from Illinois to California &mdash; was held here. During the conferenc the corps and\nlocal officials discussed what progress had been made.<br /></span></p>\n<p>The release of the St. Louis bond funds led to a May 13 award to A&amp;H Contractors Inc., Detroit, of $1.7 million to add 70 relief wells and replace another 103 along an<br />11-mile stretch of the St. Louis Flood Protection Project. Although the contract is administered by the Corps, the funds come from a city bond issue and were made<br />available by a special project partnership agreement.</p>\n<p>The St. Louis flood-protection system has been in place for almost 50 years, and many elements are failing, Tamara Atchley, project manager for the district said.<br />Under-seepage relief wells need to be replaced. Floodgates are rusty and deteriorating, gravity drains and valve flaps no longer work, and electrical components are wearing out in pump stations. Parts for the aging equipment often are no longer available.</p>\n<p>The Illinois tax is dedicated to refurbishing non-federal levees in the Wood River, East St. Louis, Chain of Rocks, Prairie Dupont and Fish Lake Drainage &amp; Leveedistricts. 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The Corps said yes,\nindeed we could be up to our eyeballs in the Big Muddy.<br /><br />This\nprompted some hand-wringing in Missouri, where the legislature had been holding levee improvements hostage and in the riverfront areas Illinois, where developers and builders feared that it would\nlose projects when developers couldn\\\'t get flood insurance. Three Illinois counties passed a quarter-cent sales sales tax and the City of St. Louis authorized bond dollars to fix the most immediate problems. In June, a levee conference &mdash;&nbsp; which drew levee officials from Illinois to California &mdash; was held here. During the conferenc the corps and\nlocal officials discussed what progress had been made.<br /></span></p>\n<p>The release of the St. Louis bond funds led to a May 13 award to A&amp;H Contractors Inc., Detroit, of $1.7 million to add 70 relief wells and replace another 103 along an<br />11-mile stretch of the St. Louis Flood Protection Project. 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Well, no.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">I reached  the  foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch a</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">nd everything was under many feet of water. I  cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing  and  behind the Lumie</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">re\nCasino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the\ntrail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and\nthe flow was really boiling.It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot&nbsp; of concerns. <br /><br /></span><img alt=\\\"St. Louis floodwall at Riverfront Trail\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/levee.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">The whole\nlevee situation is concerning, but one that is being addressed...\nfinally. 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I figured that the Mississippi had gone down enough. Well, no. I reached the foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch and everything was under many feet of water. I cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing and behind the Lumiere Casino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the trail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and the flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot  of concerns. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:37:\"levee, riverfront, Corps of Engineers\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4625:\"<h5><br /></h5>\n<p><em>by Tom Finan, Publisher</em></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">Yesterday I had was going to try to ride my bike up\nthe Riverfront Trail. I figured that the Mississippi had gone down\nenough. Well, no.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">I reached  the  foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch a</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">nd everything was under many feet of water. I  cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing  and  behind the Lumie</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">re\nCasino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the\ntrail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and\nthe flow was really boiling.It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot&nbsp; of concerns. <br /><br /></span><img alt=\\\"St. Louis floodwall at Riverfront Trail\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/levee.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">The whole\nlevee situation is concerning, but one that is being addressed...\nfinally. Last August, FEMA asked the Corps of Engineers if the Illinois\nand Missouri levees would fail in a 100-year-flood (which, since Global\nWarning have been happening about ever 15 years). The Corps said yes,\nindeed we could be up to our eyeballs in the Big Muddy.<br /><br />This\nprompted some hand-wringing in Missouri, where the legislature had been holding levee improvements hostage and in the riverfront areas Illinois, where developers and builders feared that it would\nlose projects when developers couldn\\\'t get flood insurance. Three Illinois counties passed a quarter-cent sales sales tax and the City of St. Louis authorized bond dollars to fix the most immediate problems. In June, a levee conference &mdash;&nbsp; which drew levee officials from Illinois to California &mdash; was held here. During the conferenc the corps and\nlocal officials discussed what progress had been made.<br /></span></p>\n<p>The release of the St. Louis bond funds led to a May 13 award to A&amp;H Contractors Inc., Detroit, of $1.7 million to add 70 relief wells and replace another 103 along an 11-mile stretch of the St. Louis Flood Protection Project. Although the contract is administered by the Corps, the funds come from a city bond issue and were made available by a special project partnership agreement.</p>\n<p>The St. Louis flood-protection system has been in place for almost 50 years, and many elements are failing, Tamara Atchley, project manager for the district said. Under-seepage relief wells need to be replaced. Floodgates are rusty and deteriorating, gravity drains and valve flaps no longer work, and electrical components are wearing out in pump stations. Parts for the aging equipment often are no longer available.</p>\n<p>The Illinois tax is dedicated to refurbishing non-federal levees in the Wood River, East St. Louis, Chain of Rocks, Prairie Dupont and Fish Lake Drainage &amp; Leveedistricts. The combined 98 miles of levees protect about 323,000 people, 195,700 acres of land and billions of dollars in oil refineries and chemical plants.<span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\"><br /></span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">&ldquo;Until August\nlast year, we didn&rsquo;t know a whole lot about levees or think about them\nmuch,&rdquo;Les Sterman, executive director of the East-West Gateway Council\nof Governments said. &ldquo;We had a rude awakening when we were told our\nlevee systems are inadequate, and that the area would be subject to\nincreased flood risk.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p>There was nothing magical that changed the level of risk facing the St. Louis Metro Area from levee failure: \\\"That&rsquo;s just when the public became aware of it, \\\" Col. Lewis F. 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I figured that the Mississippi had gone down enough. Well, no. I reached the foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch and everything was under many feet of water. I cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing and behind the Lumiere Casino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the trail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and the flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot  of concerns. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:37:\"levee, riverfront, Corps of Engineers\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4626:\"<h5><br /></h5>\n<p><em>by Tom Finan, Publisher</em></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">Yesterday I had was going to try to ride my bike up\nthe Riverfront Trail. I figured that the Mississippi had gone down\nenough. Well, no.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">I reached  the  foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch a</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">nd everything was under many feet of water. I  cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing  and  behind the Lumie</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">re\nCasino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the\ntrail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and\nthe flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot&nbsp; of concerns. <br /><br /></span><img alt=\\\"St. Louis floodwall at Riverfront Trail\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/levee.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">The whole\nlevee situation is concerning, but one that is being addressed...\nfinally. Last August, FEMA asked the Corps of Engineers if the Illinois\nand Missouri levees would fail in a 100-year-flood (which, since Global\nWarning have been happening about ever 15 years). The Corps said yes,\nindeed we could be up to our eyeballs in the Big Muddy.<br /><br />This\nprompted some hand-wringing in Missouri, where the legislature had been holding levee improvements hostage and in the riverfront areas Illinois, where developers and builders feared that it would\nlose projects when developers couldn\\\'t get flood insurance. Three Illinois counties passed a quarter-cent sales sales tax and the City of St. Louis authorized bond dollars to fix the most immediate problems. In June, a levee conference &mdash;&nbsp; which drew levee officials from Illinois to California &mdash; was held here. During the conferenc the corps and\nlocal officials discussed what progress had been made.<br /></span></p>\n<p>The release of the St. Louis bond funds led to a May 13 award to A&amp;H Contractors Inc., Detroit, of $1.7 million to add 70 relief wells and replace another 103 along an 11-mile stretch of the St. Louis Flood Protection Project. Although the contract is administered by the Corps, the funds come from a city bond issue and were made available by a special project partnership agreement.</p>\n<p>The St. Louis flood-protection system has been in place for almost 50 years, and many elements are failing, Tamara Atchley, project manager for the district said. Under-seepage relief wells need to be replaced. Floodgates are rusty and deteriorating, gravity drains and valve flaps no longer work, and electrical components are wearing out in pump stations. Parts for the aging equipment often are no longer available.</p>\n<p>The Illinois tax is dedicated to refurbishing non-federal levees in the Wood River, East St. Louis, Chain of Rocks, Prairie Dupont and Fish Lake Drainage &amp; Leveedistricts. The combined 98 miles of levees protect about 323,000 people, 195,700 acres of land and billions of dollars in oil refineries and chemical plants.<span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\"><br /></span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">&ldquo;Until August\nlast year, we didn&rsquo;t know a whole lot about levees or think about them\nmuch,&rdquo;Les Sterman, executive director of the East-West Gateway Council\nof Governments said. &ldquo;We had a rude awakening when we were told our\nlevee systems are inadequate, and that the area would be subject to\nincreased flood risk.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p>There was nothing magical that changed the level of risk facing the St. Louis Metro Area from levee failure: \\\"That&rsquo;s just when the public became aware of it, \\\" Col. Lewis F. 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I figured that the Mississippi had gone down enough. Well, no. I reached the foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch and everything was under many feet of water. I cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing and behind the Lumiere Casino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the trail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and the flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot  of concerns. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:37:\"levee, riverfront, Corps of Engineers\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4622:\"<h5><br /></h5>\n<p><em>by Tom Finan, Publisher</em></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">Yesterday I was going to try to ride my bike up\nthe Riverfront Trail. I figured that the Mississippi had gone down\nenough. Well, no.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">I reached  the  foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch a</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">nd everything was under many feet of water. I  cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing  and  behind the Lumie</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">re\nCasino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the\ntrail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and\nthe flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot&nbsp; of concerns. <br /><br /></span><img alt=\\\"St. Louis floodwall at Riverfront Trail\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/levee.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">The whole\nlevee situation is concerning, but one that is being addressed...\nfinally. Last August, FEMA asked the Corps of Engineers if the Illinois\nand Missouri levees would fail in a 100-year-flood (which, since Global\nWarning have been happening about ever 15 years). The Corps said yes,\nindeed we could be up to our eyeballs in the Big Muddy.<br /><br />This\nprompted some hand-wringing in Missouri, where the legislature had been holding levee improvements hostage and in the riverfront areas Illinois, where developers and builders feared that it would\nlose projects when developers couldn\\\'t get flood insurance. Three Illinois counties passed a quarter-cent sales sales tax and the City of St. Louis authorized bond dollars to fix the most immediate problems. In June, a levee conference &mdash;&nbsp; which drew levee officials from Illinois to California &mdash; was held here. During the conferenc the corps and\nlocal officials discussed what progress had been made.<br /></span></p>\n<p>The release of the St. Louis bond funds led to a May 13 award to A&amp;H Contractors Inc., Detroit, of $1.7 million to add 70 relief wells and replace another 103 along an 11-mile stretch of the St. Louis Flood Protection Project. Although the contract is administered by the Corps, the funds come from a city bond issue and were made available by a special project partnership agreement.</p>\n<p>The St. Louis flood-protection system has been in place for almost 50 years, and many elements are failing, Tamara Atchley, project manager for the district said. Under-seepage relief wells need to be replaced. Floodgates are rusty and deteriorating, gravity drains and valve flaps no longer work, and electrical components are wearing out in pump stations. Parts for the aging equipment often are no longer available.</p>\n<p>The Illinois tax is dedicated to refurbishing non-federal levees in the Wood River, East St. Louis, Chain of Rocks, Prairie Dupont and Fish Lake Drainage &amp; Leveedistricts. 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I figured that the Mississippi had gone down enough. Well, no. I reached the foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch and everything was under many feet of water. I cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing and behind the Lumiere Casino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the trail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and the flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot  of concerns. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:37:\"levee, riverfront, Corps of Engineers\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4623:\"<h5><br /></h5>\n<p><em>by Tom Finan, Publisher</em></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">Yesterday I was going to try to ride my bike up\nthe Riverfront Trail. I figured that the Mississippi had gone down\nenough. Well, no.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">I reached  the  foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch a</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">nd everything was under many feet of water. I  cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing  and  behind the Lumie</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">re\nCasino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the\ntrail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and\nthe flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot&nbsp; of concerns. <br /><br /></span><img alt=\\\"St. Louis floodwall at Riverfront Trail\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/levee.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">The whole\nlevee situation is concerning, but one that is being addressed...\nfinally. Last August, FEMA asked the Corps of Engineers if the Illinois\nand Missouri levees would fail in a 100-year-flood (which, since Global\nWarning have been happening about ever 15 years). The Corps said yes,\nindeed we could be up to our eyeballs in the Big Muddy.<br /><br />This\nprompted some hand-wringing in Missouri, where the legislature had been holding levee improvements hostage and in the riverfront areas Illinois, where developers and builders feared that it would\nlose projects when developers couldn\\\'t get flood insurance. Three Illinois counties passed a quarter-cent sales sales tax and the City of St. Louis authorized bond dollars to fix the most immediate problems. In June, a levee conference &mdash;&nbsp; which drew levee officials from Illinois to California &mdash; was held here. During the conference the corps and\nlocal officials discussed what progress had been made.<br /></span></p>\n<p>The release of the St. Louis bond funds led to a May 13 award to A&amp;H Contractors Inc., Detroit, of $1.7 million to add 70 relief wells and replace another 103 along an 11-mile stretch of the St. Louis Flood Protection Project. Although the contract is administered by the Corps, the funds come from a city bond issue and were made available by a special project partnership agreement.</p>\n<p>The St. Louis flood-protection system has been in place for almost 50 years, and many elements are failing, Tamara Atchley, project manager for the district said. Under-seepage relief wells need to be replaced. Floodgates are rusty and deteriorating, gravity drains and valve flaps no longer work, and electrical components are wearing out in pump stations. Parts for the aging equipment often are no longer available.</p>\n<p>The Illinois tax is dedicated to refurbishing non-federal levees in the Wood River, East St. Louis, Chain of Rocks, Prairie Dupont and Fish Lake Drainage &amp; Leveedistricts. 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Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries,\nincluding Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write\nthe companies\\\' respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments\nwith greater fidelity.</p>\n<p>In addition, the two companies will facilitate\nwork process interoperability between their AEC applications through\nsupporting the reciprocal use of available Application Programming\nInterfaces (APIs). With this agreement, the companies aim to improve\nAEC workflows by enabling broader reuse of information generated during\nthe design, construction, and operation of buildings and\ninfrastructure, and by enhancing the ability of project teams to choose\namong multiple software sources.</p>\n<p>Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, CEO of HOK\nand a founder and current chairman of the International Alliance for\nInteroperability (IAI) said, \\\"As a longtime advocate of interoperability, I\nwelcome this agreement as an important step toward enabling AEC\ninformation to be more broadly shared, increasing the value of BIM to\nour clients.\\\"</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tin Can Phone\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tin-can-phone.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Interoperability has emerged as a critical issue for users of\ndesign and engineering software. A 2004 study by the U.S. National\nInstitute of Standards and Technology found that users bear direct\ncosts of almost $16 billion annually from time wasted due to inadequate\nAEC software interoperability. By virtue of this agreement, and the\ninteroperable offerings that it will enable, AEC firms will be free to\nemploy software tools of choice from either Autodesk or Bentley to\naccept or submit either DWG or DGN files. By improving fidelity of work\nshared between the two file formats, users will be able to focus on\nbeing creative and getting work done, rather than being constrained by\nfile-compatibility considerations.</p>\n<p>Through supporting the reciprocal use of their available APIs,\nAutodesk and Bentley will enable AEC project teams to combine products\nfrom both providers within integrated workflows. For instance, a design\nteam could use a mixture of Autodesk and Bentley software, such as\nAutodesk\\\'s <a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=3761844&amp;siteID=123112\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">Revit</a> platform and Bentley\\\'s STAAD and RAM structural products, and simulate\nand analyze their designs or manage project information using Autodesk\nNavisWorks software or Bentley\\\'s ProjectWise.</p>\n<p>Norbert Young, FAIA, president of McGraw-Hill Construction and\nformer chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability in\nNorth America, said, \\\"This groundbreaking agreement directly addresses\nmany of the critical issues detailed in the October 2007 McGraw-Hill\nConstruction study on interoperability in the construction industry (<a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf</a>). 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Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries,\nincluding Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write\nthe companies\\\' respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments\nwith greater fidelity.</p>\n<p>In addition, the two companies will facilitate\nwork process interoperability between their AEC applications through\nsupporting the reciprocal use of available Application Programming\nInterfaces (APIs). With this agreement, the companies aim to improve\nAEC workflows by enabling broader reuse of information generated during\nthe design, construction, and operation of buildings and\ninfrastructure, and by enhancing the ability of project teams to choose\namong multiple software sources.</p>\n<p>Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, CEO of HOK\nand a founder and current chairman of the International Alliance for\nInteroperability (IAI) said, \\\"As a longtime advocate of interoperability, I\nwelcome this agreement as an important step toward enabling AEC\ninformation to be more broadly shared, increasing the value of BIM to\nour clients.\\\"</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tin Can Phone\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tin-can-phone.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Interoperability has emerged as a critical issue for users of\ndesign and engineering software. A 2004 study by the U.S. National\nInstitute of Standards and Technology found that users bear direct\ncosts of almost $16 billion annually from time wasted due to inadequate\nAEC software interoperability. By virtue of this agreement, and the\ninteroperable offerings that it will enable, AEC firms will be free to\nemploy software tools of choice from either Autodesk or Bentley to\naccept or submit either DWG or DGN files. By improving fidelity of work\nshared between the two file formats, users will be able to focus on\nbeing creative and getting work done, rather than being constrained by\nfile-compatibility considerations.</p>\n<p>Through supporting the reciprocal use of their available APIs,\nAutodesk and Bentley will enable AEC project teams to combine products\nfrom both providers within integrated workflows. For instance, a design\nteam could use a mixture of Autodesk and Bentley software, such as\nAutodesk\\\'s <a href=\\\"http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&amp;id=6861034\\\">Revit</a> platform and Bentley\\\'s STAAD and RAM structural products, and simulate\nand analyze their designs or manage project information using Autodesk\nNavisWorks software or Bentley\\\'s ProjectWise.</p>\n<p>Norbert Young, FAIA, president of McGraw-Hill Construction and\nformer chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability in\nNorth America, said, \\\"This groundbreaking agreement directly addresses\nmany of the critical issues detailed in the October 2007 McGraw-Hill\nConstruction study on interoperability in the construction industry (<a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf</a>). I applaud both companies for their foresight and leadership.\\\"</p>\n<p>Bentley http://www.bentley.com has annual revenues of over $500 million and is&nbsp; the second-largest provider of spatial design software. Autodesk, Inc. http://www.autodesk.com is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software. &nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:33:\"/images/uploads/tin-can-phone.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(453,169,2,2,1215626673,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"169\";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:\"2008-07-09 07:04 AM\";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:\"2\";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:64:\"Now We\\\'re Talking: Autodesk, Bentley Interoperability Announced\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:60:\"now_were_talking_autodesk_bentley_interoperability_announced\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:85:\"Now We\\\'re Talking: Autodesk, Bentley Interoperability Announced, Should Advance BIM \";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:204:\"The move toward BIM received a big boost Tuesday with the joint announcement by Autodesk and Bentley Systems that they have agreed to facilitate easy information exchange between their competing  systems.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:22:\"Autodesk, Bentley, BIM\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4277:\"<p>The move toward BIM received a big boost Tuesday with the joint announcement by Autodesk and Bentley Systems that they have agreed to facilitate easy information exchange between their competing&nbsp; systems.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Autodesk Bentley\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"129\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/autodesk-bentley.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"210\\\" />Autodesk, Inc.and Bentley\nSystems, Incorporated, two of the leading providers of design and\ninfrastructure software, announced an agreement to expand\ninteroperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering and construction (<a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&amp;id=10326880\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">AEC</a>)\nsoftware. Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries,\nincluding Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write\nthe companies\\\' respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments\nwith greater fidelity.</p>\n<p>In addition, the two companies will facilitate\nwork process interoperability between their AEC applications through\nsupporting the reciprocal use of available Application Programming\nInterfaces (APIs). With this agreement, the companies aim to improve\nAEC workflows by enabling broader reuse of information generated during\nthe design, construction, and operation of buildings and\ninfrastructure, and by enhancing the ability of project teams to choose\namong multiple software sources.</p>\n<p>Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, CEO of HOK\nand a founder and current chairman of the International Alliance for\nInteroperability (IAI) said, \\\"As a longtime advocate of interoperability, I\nwelcome this agreement as an important step toward enabling AEC\ninformation to be more broadly shared, increasing the value of BIM to\nour clients.\\\"</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tin Can Phone\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tin-can-phone.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Interoperability has emerged as a critical issue for users of\ndesign and engineering software. A 2004 study by the U.S. National\nInstitute of Standards and Technology found that users bear direct\ncosts of almost $16 billion annually from time wasted due to inadequate\nAEC software interoperability. By virtue of this agreement, and the\ninteroperable offerings that it will enable, AEC firms will be free to\nemploy software tools of choice from either Autodesk or Bentley to\naccept or submit either DWG or DGN files. By improving fidelity of work\nshared between the two file formats, users will be able to focus on\nbeing creative and getting work done, rather than being constrained by\nfile-compatibility considerations.</p>\n<p>Through supporting the reciprocal use of their available APIs,\nAutodesk and Bentley will enable AEC project teams to combine products\nfrom both providers within integrated workflows. For instance, a design\nteam could use a mixture of Autodesk and Bentley software, such as\nAutodesk\\\'s <a href=\\\"http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&amp;id=6861034\\\">Revit</a> platform and Bentley\\\'s STAAD and RAM structural products, and simulate\nand analyze their designs or manage project information using Autodesk\nNavisWorks software or Bentley\\\'s ProjectWise.</p>\n<p>Norbert Young, FAIA, president of McGraw-Hill Construction and\nformer chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability in\nNorth America, said, \\\"This groundbreaking agreement directly addresses\nmany of the critical issues detailed in the October 2007 McGraw-Hill\nConstruction study on interoperability in the construction industry (<a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf</a>). I applaud both companies for their foresight and leadership.\\\"</p>\n<p>Bentley http://www.bentley.com has annual revenues of over $500 million and is&nbsp; the second-largest provider of spatial design software. Autodesk, Inc. http://www.autodesk.com is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software. &nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:33:\"/images/uploads/tin-can-phone.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(454,167,2,2,1215626955,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"167\";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:\"2008-07-03 06:38 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";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:15:\"Our Leaky Levee\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:15:\"our_leaky_levee\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:15:\"Our Leaky Levee\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:590:\"Yesterday I was going to try to ride my bike up the Riverfront Trail. I figured that the Mississippi had gone down enough. Well, no. I reached the foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch and everything was under many feet of water. I cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing and behind the Lumiere Casino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the trail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and the flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot  of concerns. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:37:\"levee, riverfront, Corps of Engineers\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4623:\"<h5><br /></h5>\n<p><em>by Tom Finan, Publisher</em></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">Yesterday I was going to try to ride my bike up\nthe Riverfront Trail. I figured that the Mississippi had gone down\nenough. Well, no.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">I reached  the  foot of Washington Avenue near the Arch a</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">nd everything was under many feet of water. I  cut through Laclede\\\'s Landing  and  behind the Lumie</span><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">re\nCasino to the entrance of the trail, which was dry. Riding along the\ntrail was really strange. The Mississippi was just a few feet away and\nthe flow was really boiling. It gave me a whole new respect for the job that we\\\'re asking our floodwall/levee system to handle... and raised a lot&nbsp; of concerns. <br /><br /></span><img alt=\\\"St. Louis floodwall at Riverfront Trail\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/levee.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">The whole\nlevee situation is concerning, but one that is being addressed...\nfinally. Last August, FEMA asked the Corps of Engineers if the Illinois\nand Missouri levees would fail in a 100-year-flood (which, since Global\nWarning have been happening about ever 15 years). The Corps said yes,\nindeed we could be up to our eyeballs in the Big Muddy.<br /><br />This\nprompted some hand-wringing in Missouri, where the legislature had been holding levee improvements hostage and in the riverfront areas Illinois, where developers and builders feared that it would\nlose projects when developers couldn\\\'t get flood insurance. Three Illinois counties passed a quarter-cent sales sales tax and the City of St. Louis authorized bond dollars to fix the most immediate problems. In June, a levee conference &mdash;&nbsp; which drew levee officials from Illinois to California &mdash; was held here. During the conference the corps and\nlocal officials discussed what progress had been made.<br /></span></p>\n<p>The release of the St. Louis bond funds led to a May 13 award to A&amp;H Contractors Inc., Detroit, of $1.7 million to add 70 relief wells and replace another 103 along an 11-mile stretch of the St. Louis Flood Protection Project. Although the contract is administered by the Corps, the funds come from a city bond issue and were made available by a special project partnership agreement.</p>\n<p>The St. Louis flood-protection system has been in place for almost 50 years, and many elements are failing, Tamara Atchley, project manager for the district said. Under-seepage relief wells need to be replaced. Floodgates are rusty and deteriorating, gravity drains and valve flaps no longer work, and electrical components are wearing out in pump stations. Parts for the aging equipment often are no longer available.</p>\n<p>The Illinois tax is dedicated to refurbishing non-federal levees in the Wood River, East St. Louis, Chain of Rocks, Prairie Dupont and Fish Lake Drainage &amp; Leveedistricts. The combined 98 miles of levees protect about 323,000 people, 195,700 acres of land and billions of dollars in oil refineries and chemical plants.<span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\"><br /></span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: arial;\\\">&ldquo;Until August\nlast year, we didn&rsquo;t know a whole lot about levees or think about them\nmuch,&rdquo;Les Sterman, executive director of the East-West Gateway Council\nof Governments said. &ldquo;We had a rude awakening when we were told our\nlevee systems are inadequate, and that the area would be subject to\nincreased flood risk.&rdquo;</span></p>\n<p>There was nothing magical that changed the level of risk facing the St. Louis Metro Area from levee failure: \\\"That&rsquo;s just when the public became aware of it, \\\" Col. Lewis F. Setliff, III, commander of the St. Louis District Corps of Engineers said. &ldquo;Managing flood risk is much bigger than any one group can do,&rdquo; Setliff said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re never going to fix these levees and get them repaired without everybody participating.&rdquo;</p>\n<p>Communication of risk is integral to rallying the public, politicians and local governments behind infrastructure improvements, Setliff says. It is also a key component in improving evacuation and emergency preparedness plans. In New Orleans, many people didn&rsquo;t know the risk, says Brig. Gen. Michael J. Walsh, commander of the Mississippi River Division and president-designee of the Mississippi River Commission. &ldquo;They assumed levees, pumps and floodwalls were all in place and would work.&rdquo;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:25:\"/images/uploads/levee.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(457,169,2,2,1215628195,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"169\";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:\"2008-07-09 07:04 AM\";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:\"2\";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:64:\"Now We\\\'re Talking: Autodesk, Bentley Interoperability Announced\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:60:\"now_were_talking_autodesk_bentley_interoperability_announced\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:85:\"Now We\\\'re Talking: Autodesk, Bentley Interoperability Announced, Should Advance BIM \";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:204:\"The move toward BIM received a big boost Tuesday with the joint announcement by Autodesk and Bentley Systems that they have agreed to facilitate easy information exchange between their competing  systems.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:22:\"Autodesk, Bentley, BIM\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4352:\"<p>The move toward BIM received a big boost Tuesday with the joint announcement by Autodesk and Bentley Systems that they have agreed to facilitate easy information exchange between their competing&nbsp; systems.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Autodesk Bentley\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"129\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/autodesk-bentley.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"210\\\" />Autodesk, Inc.and Bentley\nSystems, Incorporated, two of the leading providers of design and\ninfrastructure software, announced an agreement to expand\ninteroperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering and construction (<a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&amp;id=10326880\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">AEC</a>)\nsoftware. Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries,\nincluding Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write\nthe companies\\\' respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments\nwith greater fidelity.</p>\n<p>In addition, the two companies will facilitate\nwork process interoperability between their AEC applications through\nsupporting the reciprocal use of available Application Programming\nInterfaces (APIs). With this agreement, the companies aim to improve\nAEC workflows by enabling broader reuse of information generated during\nthe design, construction, and operation of buildings and\ninfrastructure, and by enhancing the ability of project teams to choose\namong multiple software sources.</p>\n<p>Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, CEO of HOK\nand a founder and current chairman of the International Alliance for\nInteroperability (IAI) said, \\\"As a longtime advocate of interoperability, I\nwelcome this agreement as an important step toward enabling AEC\ninformation to be more broadly shared, increasing the value of BIM to\nour clients.\\\"</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tin Can Phone\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tin-can-phone.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Interoperability has emerged as a critical issue for users of\ndesign and engineering software. A 2004 study by the U.S. National\nInstitute of Standards and Technology found that users bear direct\ncosts of almost $16 billion annually from time wasted due to inadequate\nAEC software interoperability. By virtue of this agreement, and the\ninteroperable offerings that it will enable, AEC firms will be free to\nemploy software tools of choice from either Autodesk or Bentley to\naccept or submit either DWG or DGN files. By improving fidelity of work\nshared between the two file formats, users will be able to focus on\nbeing creative and getting work done, rather than being constrained by\nfile-compatibility considerations.</p>\n<p>Through supporting the reciprocal use of their available APIs,\nAutodesk and Bentley will enable AEC project teams to combine products\nfrom both providers within integrated workflows. For instance, a design\nteam could use a mixture of Autodesk and Bentley software, such as\nAutodesk\\\'s <a href=\\\"http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&amp;id=6861034\\\">Revit</a> platform and Bentley\\\'s STAAD and RAM structural products, and simulate\nand analyze their designs or manage project information using Autodesk\nNavisWorks software or Bentley\\\'s ProjectWise.</p>\n<p>Norbert Young, FAIA, president of McGraw-Hill Construction and\nformer chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability in\nNorth America, said, \\\"This groundbreaking agreement directly addresses\nmany of the critical issues detailed in the October 2007 McGraw-Hill\nConstruction study on interoperability in the construction industry (<a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf</a>). I applaud both companies for their foresight and leadership.\\\"</p>\n<p><a href=\\\"http://www.bentley.com\\\">Bentley</a> has annual revenues of over $500 million and is&nbsp; the second-largest provider of spatial design software.  <a href=\\\"http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&amp;id=1860142\\\">Autodesk</a> is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software. &nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:33:\"/images/uploads/tin-can-phone.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(458,170,4,2,1215703710,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-07-10 04:44 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Colorful G.W. Lofts on Washington Completed\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:41:\"colorful_gw_lofts_on_washington_completed\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:43:\"Colorful G.W. Lofts on Washington Completed\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:1:\"4\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:147:\"The historic renovation of G.W. Lofts at 2615 Washington Avenue in St. Louis is brightening up the western reaches of the Washington  loft district\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:24:\"G.W. Lofts, Roseman, HBD\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2715:\"<p>The historic renovation of G.W. Lofts at 2615 Washington Avenue in St. Louis is brightening up the western reaches of the Washington&nbsp; loft district. With 60 rental units, G.W. Lofts\\\' surprising colored facades liven up the community and provide residents a unique urban living opportunity.<br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"G.W. Lofts\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"320\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/GW-Lofts-3-2.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />Architects on the project were Roseman and Associates. The colorful design arose after a golden glazed terra cotta brick was exposed during preliminary planning. According to Project Architect Gary Rogowski, AIA, this inspired a Miami art deco color scheme breathing new life into the property. The transformation, he says, encourages development and advancement to the west along Washington Avenue of Downtown.<br />&nbsp;<br />Originally home to the Edwin F. Guth Lighting Company, the century old complex consists of 6 buildings. \\\"Each building had a separate, historic identity,\\\" explains Rogowski. \\\"The varying colors help the individual buildings remain unique, just as the floor plan does for the interiors,\\\" says Rogowski.<br />&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Rosemann\\\'s floor plan design situates public spaces and residential units around especially large windows allowing natural light to span entire units. \\\"The windows reveal a captivating view of the Downtown skyline,\\\" says Rogowski. \\\"It was important for us to keep the view while maintaining a certain degree of privacy for residents.\\\"<br />&nbsp;Project team members include developer George E. Walsh Building, LLC, HBD Construction, Inc., KPFF Consulting Engineers, C.E. Jarrell Mechanical Engineers, Dickherber Electric Inc. and Bi-State Fire Protection. Rental units range from 1241 SF to 877 SF with 28 two-bedrooms and 32 one-bedrooms. Two units on the second floor meet ADA compliancy.<br />&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Complicating the historic renovation were remodels that occurred on all six buildings had occurred in the last 50 years.<br />&nbsp;<br />\\\"It\\\'s always difficult when modernizing a building\\\'s use,\\\" explains Rogowski. \\\"But with bright exterior colors, a modern floor plan and a dedicated project team, this once monotonous structure has been transformed into a fun, aesthetic gem.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br />Project team members include developer George E. Walsh Building, LLC, HBD Construction, Inc., KPFF Consulting Engineers, C.E. Jarrell Mechanical Engineers, Dickherber Electric Inc. and Bi-State Fire Protection. Rental units range from 1241 square feet to 877 square feet,&nbsp; with 28 two-bedrooms and 32 one-bedrooms. 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The all steel, quick-connect low profile access floor provides a strong, stable raised floor. A flooring installer can put 1,000 square feet in place in a day, Prince Company President Tony Prince said.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Over 20 million square feet of FreeAxez raised floor are installed\nworldwide.</p>\n<p>The modular design of the gravity-held FreeAxez raised floor / access floor / computer floor\nsupports rapid installation. Components snap together with no glue, screws, or fasteners. Installation time is a fraction of\nconventional tall raised floor designs, Prince said. Unlike the tall raised floors, the FreeAxez low-profile raised access floor does not\nrequire labor intensive gluing or bolting of pylons to the floor surface and fastening of screws into panels.</p>\n<p>Prince said that the double 16-gauge zinc galvanized steel modules support 1,900 PSI. The system is available in two fixed floor\nheights&mdash;2.75 or 1.60 inches &mdash; which&nbsp; he said is&nbsp; the lowest profile available anywhere.\n\\\"To put that into perspective, the raised floor is about the height of\ntwo sheets of plywood. Most\nraised flooring installations are over four inches and often\nrequire ceiling adjustments, as well as slope and rail\nadditions,\\\" Prince said.</p>\n<p>FreeAxez is the low-profile\naccess floor listed in the GreenSpec directory of environmentally\npreferred products. Owners and designers gain LEED credits by\nspecifying FreeAxez. 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Almost five miles of new 24-inch diameter water mains have been installed, plus thousands of feet of smaller-diameter pipelines. Fifteen new highway crossings link water lines on both sides of the<br />highway, increasing service reliability to the water distribution systems separated by the highway.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Missouri American\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"78\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/missouri-american.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"215\\\" />The newly-relocated water lines that parallel the highway are generally located further away from the driving surface. 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The roof was blessed by Father Vincent Bommarito of St. Ambrose Church. Holding court on a corner of the roof was Hill \\\"royalty\\\", Rich LoRusso of LoRusso\\\'s Cucina<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"rooftop garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rooftop-garden.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />So what brought Mayor Slay, Father Bommarito, and Rich LoRusso up on the roof?&nbsp; Sustainability, technology, and heck of a view all came into play. Tom Suter of Shield Systems, Inc. has transformed the building\\\'s roof into a garden with a sculpture, flowers, and herbs.<br />&nbsp;<br />Suter has been an architectural representative in the St. Louis area for 30 years, specializing in moisture protection. His product lines include below-grade waterproofing, sealers for masonry and concrete, waterproofing systems for plaza decks and garden roofs, traffic membrane systems for concrete exposed to vehicular or pedestrian traffic and a full range of exterior and interior expansion joints.<br /><br />About nine years ago Suter bought a boarded-up tavern in the Hill neighborhood. Doing much of the work himself, he has restored the building into offices for his own company, a salon, a caterer and two apartments on the second floor. The rooftop garden serves as both a demonstration center for a green roof system developed by CETCO, a line that Suter reps, and as a tenant amenity. <br /><br />The lightweight assembly allows the 2\\\" X 12\\\" roof timbers to carry five inches of lightweight growing medium. The first task in installing the green roof system was to remove the existing built-up roof and add decking to receive CETCO hot, rubberized, fluid-applied CETCO waterproofing. Ninety mils of hot rubber membrane was reinforced with scrim cloth. A second coat of hot rubber at 125 mils was then applied and a protection course was placed in the curing rubber. <br /><br />To increase energy efficiency two inches of Dow Styrofoam was placed over the entire deck area. On the non-garden area, CETCO pedestals were then used to level the deck area. 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The roof was blessed by Father Vincent Bommarito of St. Ambrose Church. Holding court on a corner of the roof was Hill \\\"royalty\\\", Rich LoRusso of LoRusso\\\'s Cucina restaurant.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"rooftop garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rooftop-garden.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />So what brought Mayor Slay, Father Bommarito, and Rich LoRusso up on the roof?&nbsp; Sustainability, technology, and heck of a view all came into play. Tom Suter of Shield Systems, Inc. has transformed the building\\\'s roof into a garden with a sculpture, flowers, and herbs.<br />&nbsp;<br />Suter has been an architectural representative in the St. Louis area for 30 years, specializing in moisture protection. His product lines include below-grade waterproofing, sealers for masonry and concrete, waterproofing systems for plaza decks and garden roofs, traffic membrane systems for concrete exposed to vehicular or pedestrian traffic and a full range of exterior and interior expansion joints.<br /><br />About nine years ago Suter bought a boarded-up tavern in the Hill neighborhood. Doing much of the work himself, he has restored the building into offices for his own company, a salon, a caterer, and two apartments on the second floor. The rooftop garden was created as both a demonstration center for the green roof system developed by CETCO, a line that Suter reps, and as a tenant amenity. <br /><br />The lightweight assembly allows the 2\\\" X 12\\\" roof timbers to carry five inches of lightweight growing medium. The first task in installing the green roof system was to remove the existing built-up roof and add decking to receive CETCO hot, rubberized, fluid-applied CETCO waterproofing. Ninety mils of hot rubber membrane was reinforced with scrim cloth. A second coat of hot rubber at 125 mils was then applied and a protection course was placed in the curing rubber. <br /><br />To increase energy efficiency two inches of Dow Styrofoam was placed over the entire deck area. On the non-garden area, CETCO pedestals were then used to level the deck area. In the pathway areas, precise Wausau pavers were placed directly on the pedestals in a similar manner to that used for raised computer flooring. <br /><br />On the garden sections of the roof a heavy polyethylene roof bock material was installed, followed by the Dow Styrofoam covered by a reinforced scrim to help with loading. <br />CETCO Aquadrain &mdash; an eggcrate-shaped material with cups that collect and store irrigation and rain water &mdash; was then placed on top of the scrim and covered with four inches of engineered soil, a lightweight material filled with organics. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"finished garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"124\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Finish-Garden-5_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"185\\\" />\\\"From an educational viewpoint I wanted a living a garden and an exhibit to be able to show architects and owners CETCO Greenscapes roof systems,\\\" Suter said. \\\"And I wanted my tenants to be able to enjoy the space.\\\" <br /><br />Suter said that the both the commercial and residential tenants appreciate the views and quiet afforded by the garden. 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Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries,\nincluding Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write\nthe companies\\\' respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments\nwith greater fidelity.</p>\n<p>In addition, the two companies will facilitate\nwork process interoperability between their AEC applications through\nsupporting the reciprocal use of available Application Programming\nInterfaces (APIs). With this agreement, the companies aim to improve\nAEC workflows by enabling broader reuse of information generated during\nthe design, construction, and operation of buildings and\ninfrastructure, and by enhancing the ability of project teams to choose\namong multiple software sources.</p>\n<p>Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, CEO of HOK\nand a founder and current chairman of the International Alliance for\nInteroperability (IAI) said, \\\"As a longtime advocate of interoperability, I\nwelcome this agreement as an important step toward enabling AEC\ninformation to be more broadly shared, increasing the value of BIM to\nour clients.\\\"</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tin Can Phone\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tin-can-phone.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Interoperability has emerged as a critical issue for users of\ndesign and engineering software. A 2004 study by the U.S. National\nInstitute of Standards and Technology found that users bear direct\ncosts of almost $16 billion annually from time wasted due to inadequate\nAEC software interoperability. By virtue of this agreement, and the\ninteroperable offerings that it will enable, AEC firms will be free to\nemploy software tools of choice from either Autodesk or Bentley to\naccept or submit either DWG or DGN files. By improving fidelity of work\nshared between the two file formats, users will be able to focus on\nbeing creative and getting work done, rather than being constrained by\nfile-compatibility considerations.</p>\n<p>Through supporting the reciprocal use of their available APIs,\nAutodesk and Bentley will enable AEC project teams to combine products\nfrom both providers within integrated workflows. For instance, a design\nteam could use a mixture of Autodesk and Bentley software, such as\nAutodesk\\\'s <a href=\\\"http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&amp;id=6861034\\\">Revit</a> platform and Bentley\\\'s STAAD and RAM structural products, and simulate\nand analyze their designs or manage project information using Autodesk\nNavisWorks software or Bentley\\\'s ProjectWise.</p>\n<p>Norbert Young, FAIA, president of McGraw-Hill Construction and\nformer chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability in\nNorth America, said, \\\"This groundbreaking agreement directly addresses\nmany of the critical issues detailed in the October 2007 McGraw-Hill\nConstruction study on interoperability in the construction industry (<a href=\\\"http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=+0xL6f+F2M0=&amp;docid=AQTU53308072008-1&amp;redirect=1&amp;url=http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow\\\">http://construction.ecnext.com/mcgraw_hill/includes/SMRI.pdf</a>). 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The roof was blessed by Father Vincent Bommarito of St. Ambrose Church. Holding court on a corner of the roof was Hill \\\"royalty\\\", Rich LoRusso of LoRusso\\\'s Cucina restaurant.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"rooftop garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rooftop-garden.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />So what brought Mayor Slay, Father Bommarito, and Rich LoRusso up on the roof?&nbsp; Sustainability, technology, and heck of a view all came into play. Tom Suter of Shield Systems, Inc. has transformed the building\\\'s roof into a garden with a sculpture, flowers, and herbs.<br />&nbsp;<br />Suter has been an architectural representative in the St. Louis area for 30 years, specializing in moisture protection. 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In the pathway areas, precise Wausau pavers were placed directly on the pedestals in a similar manner to that used for raised computer flooring. <br /><br />On the garden sections of the roof a heavy polyethylene roof bock material was installed, followed by the Dow Styrofoam covered by a reinforced scrim to help with loading. <br />CETCO Aquadrain &mdash; an eggcrate-shaped material with cups that collect and store irrigation and rain water &mdash; was then placed on top of the scrim and covered with four inches of engineered soil, a lightweight material filled with organics. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"finished garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"124\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Finish-Garden-5_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"185\\\" />\\\"From an educational viewpoint I wanted a living a garden and an exhibit to be able to show architects and owners CETCO Greenscapes roof systems,\\\" Suter said. \\\"And I wanted my tenants to be able to enjoy the space.\\\" <br /><br />Suter said that the both the commercial and residential tenants appreciate the views and quiet afforded by the garden. 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The roof was blessed by Father Vincent Bommarito of St. Ambrose Church. Holding court on a corner of the roof was Hill \\\"royalty\\\", Rich LoRusso of LoRusso\\\'s Cucina restaurant, which catered the event.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"rooftop garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rooftop-garden.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />So what brought Mayor Slay, Father Bommarito, and Rich LoRusso up on the roof?&nbsp; Sustainability, technology, and heck of a view all came into play. Tom Suter of Shield Systems, Inc. has transformed the building\\\'s roof into a garden with a sculpture, flowers, and herbs.<br />&nbsp;<br />Suter has been an architectural representative in the St. Louis area for 30 years, specializing in moisture protection. His product lines include below-grade waterproofing, sealers for masonry and concrete, waterproofing systems for plaza decks and garden roofs, traffic membrane systems for concrete exposed to vehicular or pedestrian traffic and a full range of exterior and interior expansion joints.<br /><br />About nine years ago Suter bought a boarded-up tavern in the Hill neighborhood. Doing much of the work himself, he has restored the building into offices for his own company, a salon, a caterer, and two apartments on the second floor. The rooftop garden was created as both a demonstration center for the green roof system developed by CETCO, a line that Suter reps, and as a tenant amenity. <br /><br />The lightweight assembly allows the 2\\\" X 12\\\" roof timbers to carry five inches of lightweight growing medium. The first task in installing the green roof system was to remove the existing built-up roof and add decking to receive CETCO hot, rubberized, fluid-applied CETCO waterproofing. Ninety mils of hot rubber membrane was reinforced with scrim cloth. A second coat of hot rubber at 125 mils was then applied and a protection course was placed in the curing rubber. <br /><br />To increase energy efficiency two inches of Dow Styrofoam was placed over the entire deck area. On the non-garden area, CETCO pedestals were then used to level the deck area. In the pathway areas, precise Wausau pavers were placed directly on the pedestals in a similar manner to that used for raised computer flooring. <br /><br />On the garden sections of the roof a heavy polyethylene root block material was installed, followed by the Dow Styrofoam covered by a reinforced scrim to help with loading. <br />CETCO Aquadrain &mdash; an eggcrate-shaped material with cups that collect and store irrigation and rain water &mdash; was then placed on top of the scrim and covered with four inches of engineered soil, a lightweight material filled with organics. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"finished garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"124\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Finish-Garden-5_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"185\\\" />\\\"From an educational viewpoint I wanted a living a garden and an exhibit to be able to show architects and owners CETCO Greenscapes roof systems,\\\" Suter said. \\\"And I wanted my tenants to be able to enjoy the space.\\\" <br /><br />Suter said that the both the commercial and residential tenants appreciate the views and quiet afforded by the garden. 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All proceeds support the Kwame Foundation\\\'s scholarships. <br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;Registration and lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. with the shotgun start at 1 p.m. The cocktail reception, awards ceremony and auction begin at 5:30 p.m.<br />&nbsp;<br />Last year, the Kwame Foundation Golf Tournament netted more than $80,000 for the foundation\\\'s scholarship program. For more information about the tournament or to become a sponsor, contact Tanja Kendall (314) 862-5344.<br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;The Kwame Foundation endows scholarships at colleges and universities that improve educational opportunities for minorities, providing approximately $150,000 a year in scholarships and grants.</p>\n<p><a href=\\\"http://kwamebuildinggroup.com\\\">Kwame Building Group</a> is a pure program and construction management firm providing estimating, scheduling, project planning, value engineering and other project management services as an independent advocate for owners and developers.&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"8\";}'),(512,180,4,1,1216369209,'a:32:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"8\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"180\";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:\"2008-07-17 04:42 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"8\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";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:36:\"\\\"Recruiting Professionals\\\" Program\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:32:\"recruiting_professionals_program\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:37:\"\\\"Recruiting Professionals\\\" Program \";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:153:\"\\\"Recruiting  Professionals\\\" will be the next program for the construction industry hosted by the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers (SLCCC).  \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:32:\"recruiting  professionals, SLCCC\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:19:\"2008-07-24 11:30 AM\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1981:\"<p>\\\"Recruiting&nbsp; Professionals\\\" will be the next program for the construction industry hosted by the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers (SLCCC).&nbsp; The program will be <br />11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Thursday, July 24, 2008 at the St. Louis Community College &ndash; Florissant Valley, 3400 Pershall, Florissant, MO&nbsp; 63135.</p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;What are the challenges of recruiting qualified professionals?<br />&bull; How do you appeal to candidates from different generations (e.g. Gen X, Gen Y) and cultures?<br />&bull;&nbsp; How can you use new and emerging technologies (e.g. Monster.com, Facebook, My Space, LinkedIn . . .) available to recruit and screen candidates?<br />&bull;&nbsp; What does the incoming generation of professionals expect from the job experience and their career?</p>\n<p><strong>Pr</strong><strong>esenters:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&bull; Mike Rapp, E-SEARCH, LLC<br />&bull; Dawn Naney, BJC HealthCare<br />&bull; Jerome Houston, Illinois Dept. of Transportation<br />Sponsored by&nbsp; Ambitech Engineering<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />This program has been designed to permit participants to qualify for 1 Professional Development Hour (PDH) for Professional Engineers under Missouri statutes and 1 Learning Unit (LU) through the American Institute of Architect</p>\n<p>&bull;Intern / co-op student registration is complimentary.</p>\n<p>&bull;SLCCC Member registration is $35 per person.</p>\n<p>&bull;Nonmember registration is $55 per person.</p>\n<p><br />Registration includes lunch and is transferable but is noncancellable,</p>\n<p>Mail or fax registration and make checks payable to:<br /><strong>ST. 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That seems to be the consensus among prominent national construction economists.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:31:\"construction  market, recession\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:6894:\"<p><em>by Peter Downs</em><br /><br />The U.S. construction market is entering a recession from which it will not recover until 2010. That seems to be the consensus among prominent national construction economists.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"recession\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recession.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />Robert Murray, vice president of economic affairs for McGraw-Hill Construction, said new construction starts for 2008 will fall an estimated 11 percent to $558.5 billion. The commercial building market, which had grown in 2006 and 2007, started to lose momentum in the second quarter of 2008, he said. The market will fall back eight percent in dollar volume and 16 percent in square feet for the year, he said, with construction of stores and warehouses suffering the most. Single-family will follow a terrible year with an even worse one, he said, declining 28 percent in dollar volume and 31 percent in dwelling units for the year. <br /><br />FMI has revised down its outlook for 2009 and expects nonresidential construction \\\"to falter late in 2008 and into 2009.\\\" According to Heather Jones, construction economist for FMI\\\'s Research Services, total construction spending will fall four percent in 2008 and one percent in 2009. \\\"The decline in 2009 will be driven by a decrease in nonresidential construction for the first time since 2003,\\\" she said.<br /><br />Kermit Baker, chief economist for the American Institute of Architects (AIA), predicts a \\\"dramatic drop\\\" in nonresidential construction activity in 2009, especially in the office and retail sectors. The consensus forecast developed by the AIA foresees a 1.9 percent drop in inflation adjusted construction activity this year followed by a 6.7 percent drop in 2009.<br /><br />\\\"We\\\'ve seen a dramatic contraction in design activity in recent months,\\\" Baker said. \\\"Right now things are especially hard in the West and in the commercial and multifamily residential sectors. This weakness in design activity can be expected to produce a contraction in these construction sectors later this year and into 2009,\\\" he added.<br /><br />\\\"The one bit of good news is that this contraction in activity is likely to be considerably milder than the construction recessions of the early 1990\\\'s and earlier this decade,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Baker cautioned that inflation could make the contraction worse than predicted. \\\"The cost of construction materials has increased more than twice that of consumer products and services - up 37 percent versus 18 percent since 2004,\\\" he said, and that could hold back demand for new buildings.<br /><br />\\\"Surging prices for diesel fuel, asphalt, steel and other materials are clobbering construction budgets,\\\" said Ken Simonson, chief economist for The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).<br /><br />The PPI for inputs to construction industries--materials used in all types of construction plus items consumed by contractors, such as diesel fuel--surged 10.4 percent over the past 12 months. The index for highway and street construction leaped 18.9 percent.<br /><br />\\\"Bad as those figures sound, the increases in asphalt and steel costs have been even worse since these prices were collected in mid-June,\\\" Simonson said. \\\"In the first two weeks of July, asphalt prices have jumped by 40 percent in several parts of the country. Prices for rebar--steel used to reinforce concrete in highways, bridges and buildings--soared $200 per ton.\\\"<br /><br />In the futures markets, aluminum has been setting records, while natural gas has doubled in price from a year ago. That has triggered jumps in the cost of construction plastics--such as polyvinyl chloride pipe, insulation and flooring--that use natural gas as a feedstock.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"recession\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"226\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recession-house.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />\\\"Unless Congress passes additional funding in the next few weeks to keep highway construction funds flowing, many states will stop awarding contracts,\\\" Simonson warned. \\\"Other public agencies, as well as private owners, must adjust their budgets promptly to reflect the new price realities for construction,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) noted that job losses already are mounting in construction, an indication that activity has already started to slow.<br /><br />According to Gerry Fritz, a spokesman for the ABC, the nonresidential construction sector lost 5,600 jobs in June; 29,100 jobs over the last six months, and 43,900 jobs since June 2007. Total construction employment, he said, is down 452,000 since June 2007, a decline of nearly six percent.<br /><br />With developers faced with rising construction costs \\\"the industry can expect far fewer nonresidential construction starts in the year ahead,\\\" he said The ABC, he added, \\\"anticipates continued nonresidential construction job losses in the remaining months of 2008 and into 2009.\\\"<br /><br />Ed Sullivan, chief economist of the Portland Cement Association (PCA), said construction already is in recession and he expects it will not rebound until 2010 as the economy \\\"is being dragged down by high energy costs and weak employment fundamentals.\\\" Focusing on the home building industry, he predicted housing starts will fall 36 percent in 2008 compared to 2007, for a third straight year of declines. By then it should be near bottom and housing starts probably will fall only one more percent in 2009, he said.<br /><br />The number of single-family home starts in June was at its lowest monthly level in 17 years, 64.5 percent below the peak of the building boom in January of 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Home builders do not expect it to get any better any time soon.<br />&nbsp;<br />\\\"Builders are reporting that traffic of prospective buyers has fallen off substantially in recent months,\\\" said National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Chief Economist David Seiders. \\\"Given the systematic deterioration of job markets, rising energy costs and sinking home values aggravated by the rising tide of foreclosures, many prospective buyers have simply returned to the sidelines until conditions improve,\\\" he said. Builder confidence levels and sales outlooks in June hit their lowest marks ever in the Wells Fargo/NAHB Housing Market Index.<br /><br />Construction economists aren\\\'t the only ones predicting recession, according to Kevin Kliesen, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Writing in the July issue of The Regional Economist, he noted that, \\\"Escalating oil price and commodity prices, a sharp contraction in the housing market, and financial market turbulence have increased the odds of recession this year, according to most forecasters.\\\"<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:29:\"/images/uploads/recession.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(516,188,2,2,1216707970,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"188\";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:\"2008-07-21 08:08 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:\"2\";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:43:\"Is Commercial Construction Recession Bound?\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"is_commercial_construction_recession_bound\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:44:\"Is Commercial Construction Recession Bound? \";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:176:\"The U.S. construction market is entering a recession from which it will not recover until 2010. That seems to be the consensus among prominent national construction economists.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:31:\"construction  market, recession\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:6894:\"<p><em>by Peter Downs</em><br /><br />The U.S. construction market is entering a recession from which it will not recover until 2010. That seems to be the consensus among prominent national construction economists.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"recession\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recession.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />Robert Murray, vice president of economic affairs for McGraw-Hill Construction, said new construction starts for 2008 will fall an estimated 11 percent to $558.5 billion. The commercial building market, which had grown in 2006 and 2007, started to lose momentum in the second quarter of 2008, he said. The market will fall back eight percent in dollar volume and 16 percent in square feet for the year, he said, with construction of stores and warehouses suffering the most. Single-family will follow a terrible year with an even worse one, he said, declining 28 percent in dollar volume and 31 percent in dwelling units for the year. <br /><br />FMI has revised down its outlook for 2009 and expects nonresidential construction \\\"to falter late in 2008 and into 2009.\\\" According to Heather Jones, construction economist for FMI\\\'s Research Services, total construction spending will fall four percent in 2008 and one percent in 2009. \\\"The decline in 2009 will be driven by a decrease in nonresidential construction for the first time since 2003,\\\" she said.<br /><br />Kermit Baker, chief economist for the American Institute of Architects (AIA), predicts a \\\"dramatic drop\\\" in nonresidential construction activity in 2009, especially in the office and retail sectors. The consensus forecast developed by the AIA foresees a 1.9 percent drop in inflation adjusted construction activity this year followed by a 6.7 percent drop in 2009.<br /><br />\\\"We\\\'ve seen a dramatic contraction in design activity in recent months,\\\" Baker said. \\\"Right now things are especially hard in the West and in the commercial and multifamily residential sectors. This weakness in design activity can be expected to produce a contraction in these construction sectors later this year and into 2009,\\\" he added.<br /><br />\\\"The one bit of good news is that this contraction in activity is likely to be considerably milder than the construction recessions of the early 1990\\\'s and earlier this decade,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Baker cautioned that inflation could make the contraction worse than predicted. \\\"The cost of construction materials has increased more than twice that of consumer products and services - up 37 percent versus 18 percent since 2004,\\\" he said, and that could hold back demand for new buildings.<br /><br />\\\"Surging prices for diesel fuel, asphalt, steel and other materials are clobbering construction budgets,\\\" said Ken Simonson, chief economist for The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).<br /><br />The PPI for inputs to construction industries--materials used in all types of construction plus items consumed by contractors, such as diesel fuel--surged 10.4 percent over the past 12 months. The index for highway and street construction leaped 18.9 percent.<br /><br />\\\"Bad as those figures sound, the increases in asphalt and steel costs have been even worse since these prices were collected in mid-June,\\\" Simonson said. \\\"In the first two weeks of July, asphalt prices have jumped by 40 percent in several parts of the country. Prices for rebar--steel used to reinforce concrete in highways, bridges and buildings--soared $200 per ton.\\\"<br /><br />In the futures markets, aluminum has been setting records, while natural gas has doubled in price from a year ago. That has triggered jumps in the cost of construction plastics--such as polyvinyl chloride pipe, insulation and flooring--that use natural gas as a feedstock.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"recession\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"226\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recession-house.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />\\\"Unless Congress passes additional funding in the next few weeks to keep highway construction funds flowing, many states will stop awarding contracts,\\\" Simonson warned. \\\"Other public agencies, as well as private owners, must adjust their budgets promptly to reflect the new price realities for construction,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) noted that job losses already are mounting in construction, an indication that activity has already started to slow.<br /><br />According to Gerry Fritz, a spokesman for the ABC, the nonresidential construction sector lost 5,600 jobs in June; 29,100 jobs over the last six months, and 43,900 jobs since June 2007. Total construction employment, he said, is down 452,000 since June 2007, a decline of nearly six percent.<br /><br />With developers faced with rising construction costs \\\"the industry can expect far fewer nonresidential construction starts in the year ahead,\\\" he said The ABC, he added, \\\"anticipates continued nonresidential construction job losses in the remaining months of 2008 and into 2009.\\\"<br /><br />Ed Sullivan, chief economist of the Portland Cement Association (PCA), said construction already is in recession and he expects it will not rebound until 2010 as the economy \\\"is being dragged down by high energy costs and weak employment fundamentals.\\\" Focusing on the home building industry, he predicted housing starts will fall 36 percent in 2008 compared to 2007, for a third straight year of declines. By then it should be near bottom and housing starts probably will fall only one more percent in 2009, he said.<br /><br />The number of single-family home starts in June was at its lowest monthly level in 17 years, 64.5 percent below the peak of the building boom in January of 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Home builders do not expect it to get any better any time soon.<br />&nbsp;<br />\\\"Builders are reporting that traffic of prospective buyers has fallen off substantially in recent months,\\\" said National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Chief Economist David Seiders. \\\"Given the systematic deterioration of job markets, rising energy costs and sinking home values aggravated by the rising tide of foreclosures, many prospective buyers have simply returned to the sidelines until conditions improve,\\\" he said. Builder confidence levels and sales outlooks in June hit their lowest marks ever in the Wells Fargo/NAHB Housing Market Index.<br /><br />Construction economists aren\\\'t the only ones predicting recession, according to Kevin Kliesen, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Writing in the July issue of The Regional Economist, he noted that, \\\"Escalating oil price and commodity prices, a sharp contraction in the housing market, and financial market turbulence have increased the odds of recession this year, according to most forecasters.\\\"<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:29:\"/images/uploads/recession.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(517,175,2,2,1216708138,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"175\";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:\"2008-07-14 08:26 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";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:43:\"Tom Suter Creates Beauty \\\"Up on the Roof\\\"\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:39:\"tom_suter_creates_beauty_up_on_the_roof\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:44:\"Tom Suter Creates Beauty \\\"Up on the Roof\\\" \";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:183:\"In early July a dedication ceremony was held in an unlikely location: the rooftop of a two-story storefront at the corner of Marconi and Bischoff in the Hill neighborhood of the city.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:34:\"Suter, Shield Systems, roof, green\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4097:\"<p><em>\\\"When this old world starts getting me down<br />And people are just too much for me to face<br />I climb way up to the top of the stairs<br />And all my cares just drift right into space<br />On the roof, it\\\'s peaceful as can be<br />And there the world below can\\\'t bother me...\\\"<br /><br />From the song \\\"Up on the Roof\\\" by Gerry&nbsp; Coffin and Carole King</em><br /><br />In early July a dedication ceremony was held in an unlikely location: the rooftop of a two-story storefront at the corner of Marconi and Bischoff in the Hill neighborhood of the city.&nbsp; Attending was St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. The roof was blessed by Father Vincent Bommarito of St. Ambrose Church. Holding court on a corner of the roof was Hill \\\"royalty\\\", Rich LoRusso of LoRusso\\\'s Cucina restaurant, which catered the event.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"rooftop garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rooftop-garden.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />So what brought Mayor Slay, Father Bommarito, and Rich LoRusso up on the roof?&nbsp; Sustainability, technology, and heck of a view all came into play. Tom Suter of Shield Systems, Inc. has transformed the building\\\'s roof into a garden with a sculpture, flowers, and herbs.<br />&nbsp;<br />Suter has been an architectural representative in the St. Louis area for 30 years, specializing in moisture protection. His product lines include below-grade waterproofing, sealers for masonry and concrete, waterproofing systems for plaza decks and garden roofs, traffic membrane systems for concrete exposed to vehicular or pedestrian traffic and a full range of exterior and interior expansion joints.<br /><br />About nine years ago Suter bought a boarded-up tavern in the Hill neighborhood. Doing much of the work himself, he has restored the building into offices for his own company, a salon, a caterer, and two apartments on the second floor. The rooftop garden was created as both a demonstration center for the green roof system developed by CETCO, a line that Suter reps, and as a tenant amenity. <br /><br />The lightweight assembly allows the 2\\\" X 12\\\" roof timbers to carry five inches of lightweight growing medium. The first task in installing the green roof system was to remove the existing built-up roof and add decking to receive CETCO hot, rubberized, fluid-applied CETCO waterproofing. Ninety mils of hot rubber membrane was reinforced with scrim cloth. A second coat of hot rubber at 125 mils was then applied and a protection course was placed in the curing rubber. <br /><br />To increase energy efficiency two inches of Dow Styrofoam was placed over the entire deck area. On the non-garden area, CETCO pedestals were then used to level the deck area. In the pathway areas, precise Wausau pavers were placed directly on the pedestals in a similar manner to that used for raised computer flooring. <br /><br />On the garden sections of the roof a heavy polyethylene root block material was installed, followed by the Dow Styrofoam covered by a reinforced scrim to help with loading. <br />CETCO Aquadrain &mdash; an eggcrate-shaped material with cups that collect and store irrigation and rain water &mdash; was then placed on top of the scrim and covered with four inches of engineered soil, a lightweight material filled with organics. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"finished garden\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"124\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Finish-Garden-5_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"185\\\" />\\\"From an educational viewpoint I wanted a living a garden and an exhibit to be able to show architects and owners CETCO Greenscapes roof systems,\\\" Suter said. \\\"And I wanted my tenants to be able to enjoy the space.\\\" <br /><br />Suter said that the both the commercial and residential tenants appreciate the views and quiet afforded by the garden. The herbs grown on the roof are used in preparing food for the catering business.&nbsp; <br /><br />A plaque on the roof dedicates the garden to Suter\\\'s mother, Theresa Suter, who died a short time before the dedication ceremony.<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:34:\"/images/uploads/rooftop-garden.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(518,189,4,2,1216773948,'a:32:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-07-22 02:27 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";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:52:\"Davis Street Land Opens St. Charles Lifestyle Center\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:51:\"davis_street_land_opens_st_charles_lifestyle_center\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:52:\"Davis Street Land Opens St. Charles Lifestyle Center\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:151:\"Davis Street Land Company is opening a “lifestyle centerâ€ shopping experience – The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis in Lake Saint Louis on Aug. 23.  \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:96:\"The Meadows at Lake St. Louis, Davis Street Land Company, M+H Architects, Brinkmann Constructors\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:3048:\"<p><a href=\\\"http://www.dslandco.com\\\">Davis Street Land Company</a> is opening a \\\"lifestyle center\\\" shopping experience - The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis in Lake Saint Louis on Aug. 23. &nbsp;\n<br /><br /><a href=\\\"http://www.mharch.com/\\\">M+H Architects</a> designed the project. <a href=\\\"http://www.askbrinkmann.com/\\\">Brinkmann Constructors</a> is the general contractor. <br /><br />Streetscapes, a central plaza, a three-acre lake, buildings in variations of brick and stone, and luxury retailers and restaurants will be&nbsp; part of the center. &nbsp;<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"The Meadows at Lake St. Louis\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"167\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/meadows.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />The first phase includes nearly 30 retailers and restaurants, including 13 opening their only stores in St. Charles County plus three making their Missouri debut. <br /><br />Located on a 64-acre site at Lake Saint Louis Boulevard and I-64), Phase I features four retail buildings totaling 260,000 square feet clustered around an inviting central plaza with seating and performance spaces. &nbsp;<br /><br />A 15-foot tall bronze sculpture by local artist Marty Linson stands at the plaza\\\'s center.&nbsp; A 40-foot-tall clock tower marks the octagonal-shaped plaza with a stage for center and community events.&nbsp; A pergola with a redwood trellis forms the backdrop for the stage.&nbsp; Four 12-foot-high stone columns topped with limestone planters mark gateways to the plaza. &nbsp;<br /><br />Each of The Meadows\\\' four buildings will contain 10 to 15 retailers.&nbsp; Storefronts contrast deep-set, limestone frames with 11- to 15-plus-foot-tall shop windows and clerestories accented with brick and limestone facades.<br /><br />Shops feature distinctive entrances that emphasize individual brands. Continuity is expressed in cast medallions bearing the logo of The Meadows and store addresses, a limestone ribbon around each building and gabled roofs with slate-style shingles and ornamental copper gutters, downspouts and flashing. <br /><br />A dozen patterns and types of brick pavers and stamped concrete are used to subtly direct way finding.&nbsp; Cast iron benches and decorative railing framing landscaped stretches add to the charm.&nbsp; The center is planted with more than 100 varieties of trees, grasses and flowers.&nbsp; A roundabout slows and directs automobile traffic around the plaza. &nbsp;<br /><br />At night architectural lighting illuminates elements of building facades shadowed during the day, including basket weave brick patterns beneath eaves and medallions.&nbsp; Landscape lighting and cast iron streetlights brighten walks for shoppers.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis is owned, leased and managed by Davis Street Land Company in partnership with Johnston, a lifetime resident of St. Louis with more than 25 years of retail real estate experience.&nbsp; Based in Chicago, Davis Street develops and owns upscale specialty and lifestyle centers. &nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(519,189,4,2,1216797220,'a:32:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"189\";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:\"2008-07-22 02:27 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";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:52:\"Davis Street Land Opens St. Charles Lifestyle Center\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:51:\"davis_street_land_opens_st_charles_lifestyle_center\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:52:\"Davis Street Land Opens St. Charles Lifestyle Center\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:151:\"Davis Street Land Company is opening a “lifestyle centerâ€ shopping experience – The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis in Lake Saint Louis on Aug. 23.  \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:96:\"The Meadows at Lake St. Louis, Davis Street Land Company, M+H Architects, Brinkmann Constructors\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:19:\"2008-08-22  8:13 PM\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:3048:\"<p><a href=\\\"http://www.dslandco.com\\\">Davis Street Land Company</a> is opening a \\\"lifestyle center\\\" shopping experience - The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis in Lake Saint Louis on Aug. 23. &nbsp;\n<br /><br /><a href=\\\"http://www.mharch.com/\\\">M+H Architects</a> designed the project. <a href=\\\"http://www.askbrinkmann.com/\\\">Brinkmann Constructors</a> is the general contractor. <br /><br />Streetscapes, a central plaza, a three-acre lake, buildings in variations of brick and stone, and luxury retailers and restaurants will be&nbsp; part of the center. &nbsp;<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"The Meadows at Lake St. Louis\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"167\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/meadows.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />The first phase includes nearly 30 retailers and restaurants, including 13 opening their only stores in St. Charles County plus three making their Missouri debut. <br /><br />Located on a 64-acre site at Lake Saint Louis Boulevard and I-64), Phase I features four retail buildings totaling 260,000 square feet clustered around an inviting central plaza with seating and performance spaces. &nbsp;<br /><br />A 15-foot tall bronze sculpture by local artist Marty Linson stands at the plaza\\\'s center.&nbsp; A 40-foot-tall clock tower marks the octagonal-shaped plaza with a stage for center and community events.&nbsp; A pergola with a redwood trellis forms the backdrop for the stage.&nbsp; Four 12-foot-high stone columns topped with limestone planters mark gateways to the plaza. &nbsp;<br /><br />Each of The Meadows\\\' four buildings will contain 10 to 15 retailers.&nbsp; Storefronts contrast deep-set, limestone frames with 11- to 15-plus-foot-tall shop windows and clerestories accented with brick and limestone facades.<br /><br />Shops feature distinctive entrances that emphasize individual brands. 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Its construction and architecture embraces a variety of positive influences under one roof,\\\" said Steven Street, Clayco\\\'s project director. \\\"For instance, the new University Center integrates sustainable design elements, functional public spaces, thought-provoking interior and exterior finishes, and practical amenities in one meeting place to inspire learning and creativity. Furthermore, careful collaboration between the design, construction and ownership team facilitated the completion of the new facility in time for the 2008 fall semester students to enjoy its outstanding features.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"Danforth University Center\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"366\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Danforth-Center.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />Finished in just 16 months, Danforth University Center is located between Simon Hall and Mallinckrodt Center on the Washington University campus. The new three-story University Center houses WUTV-TV, Student Life newspaper, the student union, student and faculty dining areas, conference rooms, campus life offices, a game room and a common area. Built over a pre-constructed, three-story 520-car parking garage which was an earlier Clayco project, the University Center features reinforced concrete with a granite stone facade, complementing the collegiate Gothic architecture displayed throughout the campus. <br />&nbsp;<br />In addition, Clayco completed a variety of other projects to improve the campus infrastructure prior to the facility\\\'s construction. These included incorporating extensive landscaping to conceal the garage, installing underground utilities to support the central underground garage and main garage, and building a 92,000-square-foot addition to the Snow Way parking garage.<br />&nbsp;<br />Beginning designs for the project included pursuing certification in USGBC\\\'s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. However with great effort from all team members involved, the project jumped from Certified to Gold standard. LEED is USGBC\\\'s leading rating system for designing and constructing the world\\\'s greenest, most energy efficient, and high performing buildings. <br />&nbsp;<br />Danforth University Center was designed to incorporate a number of sustainable strategies that positively impact the project itself and the broader community. These features include the use of natural materials and lighting controls.<br /><br />\\\"We are proud to construct buildings that defend and protect our community\\\'s environment while at the same time being the best value for our clients,\\\" added Street. \\\"Bringing these two critical elements together in new and innovative ways is what drives our company\\\'s success.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br />Clayco\\\'s project team included Kirk Warden, Clayco Senior Vice President and Partner and project executive; Pat Moriarity, senior project manager; Jamie Callaway, project manager; Craig Buchheit, project superintendent; Gary Marrin, operations manager; and Street. TSOI/Kobis &amp; Associates of Cambridge, Mass., was the architect. Joining Clayco on the project were CommArts, interior designer; Woolpert Inc., civil engineer; KPFF Consulting Engineers, structural engineer; Bell Electrical Contractors, electrical engineer; Murphy Co., mechanical engineer; Corrigan Co., plumbing; and Ahern Fire Protection, fire protection.<br />&nbsp;<br />Clayco Inc. is a full-service real estate development, design and construction firm with annual revenues of $871 million, specializing in \\\"the art and science of building.\\\" With offices in St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit, Clayco provides design-build project delivery on a nationwide basis for the corporate, financial, industrial, institutional and residential markets. 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The 115,880-square-foot University Center also achieved LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:57:\"Washington University, Clayco, Danforth University Center\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:4202:\"<p>Clayco Inc. has completed construction on Washington University\\\'s new\nDanforth University Center in St. Louis, Mo. The&nbsp; $43 million,\n115,880-square-foot University Center also achieved LEED Gold\ncertification by the U.S.en Building Council (USGBC). <br /><br />\\\"The Danforth University Center project is a marquis for Clayco. Its construction and architecture embraces a variety of positive influences under one roof,\\\" said Steven Street, Clayco\\\'s project director. \\\"For instance, the new University Center integrates sustainable design elements, functional public spaces, thought-provoking interior and exterior finishes, and practical amenities in one meeting place to inspire learning and creativity. Furthermore, careful collaboration between the design, construction and ownership team facilitated the completion of the new facility in time for the 2008 fall semester students to enjoy its outstanding features.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"Danforth University Center\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"366\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Danforth-Center.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />Finished in just 16 months, Danforth University Center is located between Simon Hall and Mallinckrodt Center on the Washington University campus. The new three-story University Center houses WUTV-TV, Student Life newspaper, the student union, student and faculty dining areas, conference rooms, campus life offices, a game room and a common area. Built over a pre-constructed, three-story 520-car parking garage which was an earlier Clayco project, the University Center features reinforced concrete with a granite stone facade, complementing the collegiate Gothic architecture displayed throughout the campus. <br />&nbsp;<br />In addition, Clayco completed a variety of other projects to improve the campus infrastructure prior to the facility\\\'s construction. These included incorporating extensive landscaping to conceal the garage, installing underground utilities to support the central underground garage and main garage, and building a 92,000-square-foot addition to the Snow Way parking garage.<br />&nbsp;<br />Beginning designs for the project included pursuing certification in USGBC\\\'s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. However with great effort from all team members involved, the project jumped from Certified to Gold standard. LEED is USGBC\\\'s leading rating system for designing and constructing the world\\\'s greenest, most energy efficient, and high performing buildings. <br />&nbsp;<br />Danforth University Center was designed to incorporate a number of sustainable strategies that positively impact the project itself and the broader community. These features include the use of natural materials and lighting controls.<br /><br />\\\"We are proud to construct buildings that defend and protect our community\\\'s environment while at the same time being the best value for our clients,\\\" added Street. \\\"Bringing these two critical elements together in new and innovative ways is what drives our company\\\'s success.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br />Clayco\\\'s project team included Kirk Warden, Clayco Senior Vice President and Partner and project executive; Pat Moriarity, senior project manager; Jamie Callaway, project manager; Craig Buchheit, project superintendent; Gary Marrin, operations manager; and Street. TSOI/Kobis &amp; Associates of Cambridge, Mass., was the architect. 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Its construction and architecture embraces a variety of positive influences under one roof,\\\" said Steven Street, Clayco\\\'s project director. \\\"For instance, the new University Center integrates sustainable design elements, functional public spaces, thought-provoking interior and exterior finishes, and practical amenities in one meeting place to inspire learning and creativity. Furthermore, careful collaboration between the design, construction and ownership team facilitated the completion of the new facility in time for the 2008 fall semester students to enjoy its outstanding features.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"Danforth University Center\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"366\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Danforth-Center.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />Finished in just 16 months, Danforth University Center is located between Simon Hall and Mallinckrodt Center on the Washington University campus. The new three-story University Center houses WUTV-TV, Student Life newspaper, the student union, student and faculty dining areas, conference rooms, campus life offices, a game room and a common area. Built over a pre-constructed, three-story 520-car parking garage which was an earlier Clayco project, the University Center features reinforced concrete with a granite stone facade, complementing the collegiate Gothic architecture displayed throughout the campus. <br />&nbsp;<br />In addition, Clayco completed a variety of other projects to improve the campus infrastructure prior to the facility\\\'s construction. These included incorporating extensive landscaping to conceal the garage, installing underground utilities to support the central underground garage and main garage, and building a 92,000-square-foot addition to the Snow Way parking garage.<br />&nbsp;<br />Beginning designs for the project included pursuing certification in USGBC\\\'s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. However with great effort from all team members involved, the project jumped from Certified to Gold standard. LEED is USGBC\\\'s leading rating system for designing and constructing the world\\\'s greenest, most energy efficient, and high performing buildings. <br />&nbsp;<br />Danforth University Center was designed to incorporate a number of sustainable strategies that positively impact the project itself and the broader community. These features include the use of natural materials and lighting controls.<br /><br />\\\"We are proud to construct buildings that defend and protect our community\\\'s environment while at the same time being the best value for our clients,\\\" added Street. \\\"Bringing these two critical elements together in new and innovative ways is what drives our company\\\'s success.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br />Clayco\\\'s project team included Kirk Warden, Clayco Senior Vice President and Partner and project executive; Pat Moriarity, senior project manager; Jamie Callaway, project manager; Craig Buchheit, project superintendent; Gary Marrin, operations manager; and Street. TSOI/Kobis &amp; Associates of Cambridge, Mass., was the architect. Joining Clayco on the project were CommArts, interior designer; Woolpert Inc., civil engineer; KPFF Consulting Engineers, structural engineer; Bell Electrical Contractors, electrical engineer; Murphy Co., mechanical engineer; Corrigan Co., plumbing; and Ahern Fire Protection, fire protection.<br />&nbsp;<br />Clayco Inc. is a full-service real estate development, design and construction firm with annual revenues of $871 million, specializing in \\\"the art and science of building.\\\" With offices in St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit, Clayco provides design-build project delivery on a nationwide basis for the corporate, financial, industrial, institutional and residential markets. 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On Wednesday, the Cardinals unveiled the outline of a new development agreement with the City of St. Louis that provides them with more flexibility as to what they will build.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:27:\"Ballpark Viklage, Cardinals\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3111:\"<p>Cardinals Unveil New Targets for Ballpark Village<br /><img alt=\\\"boutique Row\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/boutique-row_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" /><br />Battered by a shifting economy and tighter credit markets, 2008 turned into a rebuilding year for the Cardinals\\\' plans for Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis. On Wednesday, the Cardinals unveiled the outline of a new development agreement with the City of St. Louis that provides them with more flexibility as to what they will build.<br /><br />Under the new plan, the Cardinals agree to build between 100,000 and 750,000 square feet of Class A office space, the first new office construction in downtown in two decades. Under the old agreement, the Cardinals committed to building 300,000 square feet of office space. <br /><br />The retail component also has become cloudier. The existing plan called for constructing 300,000 square feet of retail space in Phase I. The new agreement gives the Cardinals a range to shoot for: 225,000 to 360,000 square feet.<br /><br />The estimated cost of building Phase 1 has risen to $320 million from the previous estimate of $280 million. Although the percentage of the cost that the city and state are responsible for financing is decreased in the new agreement to 32 percent, the top amount of that commitment has increased by nearly $4.5 million to $102.4 million<br /><br />The new plan also has a small residential component, 100 to 250 units, which would likely be built in Phase 2. The estimated cost of the total two-phase project also is given as a range in the new agreement: somewhere between $387 million and $600 million.<br /><br />Cardinals\\\' President Bill DeWitt and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay commended Stifel Nicolaus for assisting in the negotiations that led to the new agreement. Stifel President Ron Kruszewski said, \\\"We were charged with modifying the previous development agreement to give the development team more flexibility to respond to changing market conditions while also preserving the City\\\'s core principles. This new agreement accomplishes all of these goals.\\\"<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Rawlings Ballpark Vilalge\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"222\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rawlings_11.2.06-resized.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />Slay said he will recommend the new agreement for immediate approval to the Board of Estimate &amp; Apportionment, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, and the State of Missouri, a process that is expected to take eight to 10 months.<br /><br />The off-again-on-again project has languished while mud and water accumulate in the hole at the old stadium site. The Cardinals hope that with this agreement the project will finally move forward. DeWitt announced that site work will begin shortly - an exact date is be announced in the coming weeks - to give developers a jump on the construction schedule pending approval by the Board of Aldermen and the Missouri Assembly. It also will give them a jump on the All Star Game, which will be played in St. Louis in July 2009.<br /></p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:34:\"/images/uploads/boutique-row_1.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(524,188,2,2,1216935871,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"188\";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:\"2008-07-21 08:08 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";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:43:\"Is Commercial Construction Recession Bound?\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"is_commercial_construction_recession_bound\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:44:\"Is Commercial Construction Recession Bound? \";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:176:\"The U.S. construction market is entering a recession from which it will not recover until 2010. That seems to be the consensus among prominent national construction economists.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:31:\"construction  market, recession\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:6894:\"<p><em>by Peter Downs</em><br /><br />The U.S. construction market is entering a recession from which it will not recover until 2010. That seems to be the consensus among prominent national construction economists.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"recession\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recession.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />Robert Murray, vice president of economic affairs for McGraw-Hill Construction, said new construction starts for 2008 will fall an estimated 11 percent to $558.5 billion. The commercial building market, which had grown in 2006 and 2007, started to lose momentum in the second quarter of 2008, he said. The market will fall back eight percent in dollar volume and 16 percent in square feet for the year, he said, with construction of stores and warehouses suffering the most. Single-family will follow a terrible year with an even worse one, he said, declining 28 percent in dollar volume and 31 percent in dwelling units for the year. <br /><br />FMI has revised down its outlook for 2009 and expects nonresidential construction \\\"to falter late in 2008 and into 2009.\\\" According to Heather Jones, construction economist for FMI\\\'s Research Services, total construction spending will fall four percent in 2008 and one percent in 2009. \\\"The decline in 2009 will be driven by a decrease in nonresidential construction for the first time since 2003,\\\" she said.<br /><br />Kermit Baker, chief economist for the American Institute of Architects (AIA), predicts a \\\"dramatic drop\\\" in nonresidential construction activity in 2009, especially in the office and retail sectors. The consensus forecast developed by the AIA foresees a 1.9 percent drop in inflation adjusted construction activity this year followed by a 6.7 percent drop in 2009.<br /><br />\\\"We\\\'ve seen a dramatic contraction in design activity in recent months,\\\" Baker said. \\\"Right now things are especially hard in the West and in the commercial and multifamily residential sectors. This weakness in design activity can be expected to produce a contraction in these construction sectors later this year and into 2009,\\\" he added.<br /><br />\\\"The one bit of good news is that this contraction in activity is likely to be considerably milder than the construction recessions of the early 1990\\\'s and earlier this decade,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Baker cautioned that inflation could make the contraction worse than predicted. \\\"The cost of construction materials has increased more than twice that of consumer products and services - up 37 percent versus 18 percent since 2004,\\\" he said, and that could hold back demand for new buildings.<br /><br />\\\"Surging prices for diesel fuel, asphalt, steel and other materials are clobbering construction budgets,\\\" said Ken Simonson, chief economist for The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).<br /><br />The PPI for inputs to construction industries--materials used in all types of construction plus items consumed by contractors, such as diesel fuel--surged 10.4 percent over the past 12 months. The index for highway and street construction leaped 18.9 percent.<br /><br />\\\"Bad as those figures sound, the increases in asphalt and steel costs have been even worse since these prices were collected in mid-June,\\\" Simonson said. \\\"In the first two weeks of July, asphalt prices have jumped by 40 percent in several parts of the country. Prices for rebar--steel used to reinforce concrete in highways, bridges and buildings--soared $200 per ton.\\\"<br /><br />In the futures markets, aluminum has been setting records, while natural gas has doubled in price from a year ago. That has triggered jumps in the cost of construction plastics--such as polyvinyl chloride pipe, insulation and flooring--that use natural gas as a feedstock.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"recession\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"226\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recession-house.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />\\\"Unless Congress passes additional funding in the next few weeks to keep highway construction funds flowing, many states will stop awarding contracts,\\\" Simonson warned. \\\"Other public agencies, as well as private owners, must adjust their budgets promptly to reflect the new price realities for construction,\\\" he said.<br /><br />Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) noted that job losses already are mounting in construction, an indication that activity has already started to slow.<br /><br />According to Gerry Fritz, a spokesman for the ABC, the nonresidential construction sector lost 5,600 jobs in June; 29,100 jobs over the last six months, and 43,900 jobs since June 2007. Total construction employment, he said, is down 452,000 since June 2007, a decline of nearly six percent.<br /><br />With developers faced with rising construction costs \\\"the industry can expect far fewer nonresidential construction starts in the year ahead,\\\" he said The ABC, he added, \\\"anticipates continued nonresidential construction job losses in the remaining months of 2008 and into 2009.\\\"<br /><br />Ed Sullivan, chief economist of the Portland Cement Association (PCA), said construction already is in recession and he expects it will not rebound until 2010 as the economy \\\"is being dragged down by high energy costs and weak employment fundamentals.\\\" Focusing on the home building industry, he predicted housing starts will fall 36 percent in 2008 compared to 2007, for a third straight year of declines. By then it should be near bottom and housing starts probably will fall only one more percent in 2009, he said.<br /><br />The number of single-family home starts in June was at its lowest monthly level in 17 years, 64.5 percent below the peak of the building boom in January of 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Home builders do not expect it to get any better any time soon.<br />&nbsp;<br />\\\"Builders are reporting that traffic of prospective buyers has fallen off substantially in recent months,\\\" said National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Chief Economist David Seiders. \\\"Given the systematic deterioration of job markets, rising energy costs and sinking home values aggravated by the rising tide of foreclosures, many prospective buyers have simply returned to the sidelines until conditions improve,\\\" he said. Builder confidence levels and sales outlooks in June hit their lowest marks ever in the Wells Fargo/NAHB Housing Market Index.<br /><br />Construction economists aren\\\'t the only ones predicting recession, according to Kevin Kliesen, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Writing in the July issue of The Regional Economist, he noted that, \\\"Escalating oil price and commodity prices, a sharp contraction in the housing market, and financial market turbulence have increased the odds of recession this year, according to most forecasters.\\\"<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:29:\"/images/uploads/recession.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(525,192,2,2,1217291007,'a:28:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-07-28 02:08 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:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:38:\"Kit Bond Brainchild Target of Scammers\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:38:\"kit_bond_brainchild_target_of_scammers\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:38:\"Kit Bond Brainchild Target of Scammers\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:185:\"An investigation by the Government Accountability Office of a federal economic development program known as the HUBZone program has found that lax oversight has left it rife with fraud.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:29:\"HUBZone, Kit Bond, GAO, fraud\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:6767:\"<p>An investigation by the Government Accountability Office of a federal economic development program known as the HUBZone program has found that lax oversight has left it rife with fraud.<br /><br />In the six month long investigation, which ended in June 2008, the GAO obtained HUBZone certification from the Small Business Administration for four fake business. Certification qualifies the business for federal contracts under the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Kit Bond\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/kit-bond.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />In addition, the GAO, 10 of 17 HUBZone businesses it looked into in Washington, D.C. failed to meet the eligibility requirements for the program. Those same 10 firms have received more than $105 million in federal contracts since 2006. In the case of one of the firms, the GAO made multiple visits to the site listed as the firm\\\'s principal office, but found that no employees were working at the location and the only business equipment present was a computer and a filing cabinet. That firm received $3.9 million in HUBZone contracts from the Army and the Air Force during fiscal year 2006-2007, but its principal office was actually in McLean, VA, an upscale Washington, D.C., suburb that is not in a HUBZone.<br /><br />The House Committee on Small Business heard about the results of the investigation in a public hearing on July 17. The committee chair, Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), said in her opening statement that the findings of the investigation were \\\"appalling.\\\" <br />&nbsp; <br />\\\"It\\\'s tougher to get a library card than it is to get into the HUBZone program,\\\" she said. \\\"All you need is a bit of White-out. It\\\'s absolutely shameful.\\\"<br /><br />The investigation was undertaken at the committee\\\'s request.<br /><br />Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), wrote the 1997 bill that created the HUBZone program to promote economic development and employment growth in distressed rural and urban areas by giving small companies located in those areas preference in Federal contracting opportunities. Since then, he has pushed federal agencies to increase contracting through the program. A year ago, he criticized federal agencies for falling far short of meeting the goal set by Congress of awarding three percent of prime contracts to HUBZone companies.<br /><br />To qualify for HUBZone certification, a firm must be owned and controlled by at least one U.S. citizen, 35 percent of its full-time employees must reside in a HUBZone, and he firm\\\'s principal office must be in a HUBZone area.<br /><br />In the bi-state area, the City of St. Louis, University City, Pagedale, Pinelawn and additional parts of North County in Missouri and East St. Louis, Centreville, Washington, Fairmont City, Brooklyn, and Venice in Illinois are all in HUBZones.<br /><br />The GAO estimated that $8 billion in federal spending flow to the 14,000 firms in the program. HUBZone firms are supposed to get a 10 percent price preference when competing against large businesses for contracts. In other words, HUBZone firms can charge up to 10 percent more than their non-HUBZone competitors and still get the federal contract. According to the Missouri Small Business Development Centers, federal contracting officers also can restrict contracts to HUBZone companies if they think two or more HUBZone companies will submit bids. For contracts worth less $3 million, they can designate a HUBZone company as a sole source provider. In addition, federal agencies are supposed to require a HUBZone subcontracting plan on any prime contract with a non-HUBZone company worth more than $500,000. <br /><br />In a statement emailed by Sen. Bond\\\'s office, Missouri\\\'s senior senator said, \\\"Fraud, abuse and poor management found by the GAO investigators was not just troubling, but unacceptable.&nbsp; While I am pleased that SBA has already taken steps to address these problems, I will monitor carefully their efforts to ensure that the program operates as intended by the Congress.\\\"<br /><br />This not the first time that allegations of lax oversight and fraud have dogged the HUBZone program.<br /><br />\\\"The GAO report confirms the claims contractors have been making for years - that the Small Business Administration (SBA) has failed to execute its oversight authority over the HUBZone program,\\\" said AGC\\\'s chief executive officer Stephen Sandherr. \\\"The HUBZone program has been a huge administrative failure, which has cost the program its potential as a legitimate contracting vehicle, the opportunity for growth for these disadvantaged communities and billions of lost taxpayer dollars.\\\"<br /><br />AGC has long expressed significant concerns about the effectiveness and fairness of the HUBZone program as it is applied to the construction industry and has advocated that significant improvements be enacted to reform the program. The program does not realize its goal of increasing employment and reinvesting in economically disadvantaged areas.<br /><br />AGC advocates the following changes to the HUBZone program:</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Applying the HUBZone program only to contracts for the construction of federal projects within a 150-mile radius of the HUBZone contractor\\\'s principal place of business. According to the AGC, only those projects can offer employment to a significant number of HUBZone residents, and only those projects can promise to make a lasting change in their economic circumstance.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Requiring that HUBZone residents receive at least 30% of the payroll needed to perform all HUBZone contracts. 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On Wednesday, the Cardinals unveiled the outline of a new development agreement with the City of St. Louis that provides them with more flexibility as to what they will build.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:27:\"Ballpark Viklage, Cardinals\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3105:\"<p>Cardinals Unveil New Targets for Ballpark Village<br /><img alt=\\\"boutique Row\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/boutique-row_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" /><br />Battered by a shifting economy and tighter credit markets, 2008 turned into a rebuilding year for the Cardinals\\\' plans for Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis. On Wednesday, the Cardinals unveiled the outline of a new development agreement with the City of St. Louis that provides them with more flexibility as to what they will build.<br /><br />Under the new plan, the Cardinals agree to build between 100,000 and 750,000 square feet of Class A office space, the first new office construction in downtown in two decades. Under the old agreement, the Cardinals committed to building 300,000 square feet of office space. <br /><br />The retail component also has become cloudier. The existing plan called for constructing 300,000 square feet of retail space in Phase I. The new agreement gives the Cardinals a range to shoot for: 225,000 to 360,000 square feet.<br /><br />The estimated cost of building Phase 1 has risen to $320 million from the previous estimate of $280 million. Although the percentage of the cost that the city and state are responsible for financing is decreased in the new agreement to 32 percent, the top amount of that commitment has increased by nearly $4.5 million to $102.4 million<br /><br />The new plan also has a small residential component, 100 to 250 units, which would likely be built in Phase 2. The estimated cost of the total two-phase project also is given as a range in the new agreement: somewhere between $387 million and $600 million.<br /><br />Cardinals\\\' President Bill DeWitt and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay commended Stifel Nicolaus for assisting in the negotiations that led to the new agreement. Stifel President Ron Kruszewski said, \\\"We were charged with modifying the previous development agreement to give the development team more flexibility to respond to changing market conditions while also preserving the City\\\'s core principles. This new agreement accomplishes all of these goals.\\\"<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Rawlings Ballpark Vilalge\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"222\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/rawlings_11.2.06-resized.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />Slay said he will recommend the new agreement for immediate approval to the Board of Estimate &amp; Apportionment, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, and the State of Missouri, a process that is expected to take eight to 10 months.<br /><br />The off-again-on-again project has languished while mud and water accumulate in the hole at the old stadium site. The Cardinals hope that with this agreement the project will finally move forward. DeWitt announced that site work will begin shortly - an exact date is be announced in the coming weeks - to give developers a jump on the construction schedule pending approval by the Board of Aldermen and the Missouri Assembly. It also will give them a jump on the All Star Game, which will be played in St. Louis in July 2009.</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:34:\"/images/uploads/boutique-row_1.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(527,192,2,2,1217295065,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"192\";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:\"2008-07-28 02:08 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:\"2\";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:38:\"Kit Bond Brainchild Target of Scammers\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:38:\"kit_bond_brainchild_target_of_scammers\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:38:\"Kit Bond Brainchild Target of Scammers\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:185:\"An investigation by the Government Accountability Office of a federal economic development program known as the HUBZone program has found that lax oversight has left it rife with fraud.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:29:\"HUBZone, Kit Bond, GAO, fraud\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:6767:\"<p>An investigation by the Government Accountability Office of a federal economic development program known as the HUBZone program has found that lax oversight has left it rife with fraud.<br /><br />In the six month long investigation, which ended in June 2008, the GAO obtained HUBZone certification from the Small Business Administration for four fake businesses. Certification qualifies the businesses for federal contracts under the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Kit Bond\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/kit-bond.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />In addition, 10 of 17 HUBZone businesses the GAO looked into in Washington, D.C. failed to meet the eligibility requirements for the program. Those same 10 firms have received more than $105 million in federal contracts since 2006. In the case of one of the firms, the GAO made multiple visits to the site listed as the firm\\\'s principal office, but found that no employees were working at the location and the only business equipment present was a computer and a filing cabinet. That firm received $3.9 million in HUBZone contracts from the Army and the Air Force during fiscal year 2006-2007, but its principal office was actually in McLean, VA, an upscale Washington, D.C., suburb that is not in a HUBZone.<br /><br />The House Committee on Small Business heard about the results of the investigation in a public hearing on July 17. The committee chair, Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), said in her opening statement that the findings of the investigation were \\\"appalling.\\\" <br />&nbsp; <br />\\\"It\\\'s tougher to get a library card than it is to get into the HUBZone program,\\\" she said. \\\"All you need is a bit of White-out. It\\\'s absolutely shameful.\\\"<br /><br />The investigation was undertaken at the committee\\\'s request.<br /><br />Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), wrote the 1997 bill that created the HUBZone program to promote economic development and employment growth in distressed rural and urban areas by giving small companies located in those areas preference in Federal contracting opportunities. Since then, he has pushed federal agencies to increase contracting through the program. A year ago, he criticized federal agencies for falling far short of meeting the goal set by Congress of awarding three percent of prime contracts to HUBZone companies.<br /><br />To qualify for HUBZone certification, a firm must be owned and controlled by at least one U.S. citizen, 35 percent of its full-time employees must reside in a HUBZone, and he firm\\\'s principal office must be in a HUBZone area.<br /><br />In the bi-state area, the City of St. Louis, University City, Pagedale, Pinelawn and additional parts of North County in Missouri and East St. Louis, Centreville, Washington, Fairmont City, Brooklyn, and Venice in Illinois are all in HUBZones.<br /><br />The GAO estimated that $8 billion in federal spending flow to the 14,000 firms in the program. HUBZone firms are supposed to get a 10 percent price preference when competing against large businesses for contracts. In other words, HUBZone firms can charge up to 10 percent more than their non-HUBZone competitors and still get the federal contract. According to the Missouri Small Business Development Centers, federal contracting officers also can restrict contracts to HUBZone companies if they think two or more HUBZone companies will submit bids. For contracts worth less $3 million, they can designate a HUBZone company as a sole source provider. In addition, federal agencies are supposed to require a HUBZone subcontracting plan on any prime contract with a non-HUBZone company worth more than $500,000. <br /><br />In a statement emailed by Sen. Bond\\\'s office, Missouri\\\'s senior senator said, \\\"Fraud, abuse and poor management found by the GAO investigators was not just troubling, but unacceptable.&nbsp; While I am pleased that SBA has already taken steps to address these problems, I will monitor carefully their efforts to ensure that the program operates as intended by the Congress.\\\"<br /><br />This not the first time that allegations of lax oversight and fraud have dogged the HUBZone program.<br /><br />\\\"The GAO report confirms the claims contractors have been making for years - that the Small Business Administration (SBA) has failed to execute its oversight authority over the HUBZone program,\\\" said AGC\\\'s chief executive officer Stephen Sandherr. \\\"The HUBZone program has been a huge administrative failure, which has cost the program its potential as a legitimate contracting vehicle, the opportunity for growth for these disadvantaged communities and billions of lost taxpayer dollars.\\\"<br /><br />AGC has long expressed significant concerns about the effectiveness and fairness of the HUBZone program as it is applied to the construction industry and has advocated that significant improvements be enacted to reform the program. The program does not realize its goal of increasing employment and reinvesting in economically disadvantaged areas.<br /><br />AGC advocates the following changes to the HUBZone program:</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Applying the HUBZone program only to contracts for the construction of federal projects within a 150-mile radius of the HUBZone contractor\\\'s principal place of business. According to the AGC, only those projects can offer employment to a significant number of HUBZone residents, and only those projects can promise to make a lasting change in their economic circumstance.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Requiring that HUBZone residents receive at least 30% of the payroll needed to perform all HUBZone contracts. 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At crosswalks throughout the city\\\'s central business district the city is installing a three-quarter inch overlay of BrickPrint from Traffic Calming USA to slow traffic and draw attention to where pedestrians cross.<br /><br />The high-tech material in BrickPrint is installed using age-old work practices reminiscent of blacksmithing. Glyn Owen, vice president of operations for Traffic Calming, described the BrickPrint material as essentially molten brick. The material includes recycled glass, sand, and 25-30 percent granite stone flecks. Special equipment heats it to 400 degrees Fahrenheit to melt it.<br /><br />The key to working with BrickPrint is the same as the key to working with iron: keeping it hot enough mold into shape. The installation crew from Traffic Calming use hot spreaders - thick metal rods with flat surfaces welded onto their ends - which they warm in a heat box under the blast of a propane torch, much like a blacksmith might heat his metal before working it. 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The certification makes the dealership the first LEED Certified Harley-Davidson dealership in the country.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Frieze Harley-Davidson\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"163\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Frieze-interior.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />\\\"I am very excited to be the first Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealer to construct a LEED Certified building,\\\" stated Jenny Frieze, owner and general manager of Frieze Harley-Davidson.&nbsp; \\\"I hope other business owners and Harley-Davidson dealers will be encouraged to take similar steps when constructing new facilities. I am very proud to have the opportunity to contribute to a program that will have a positive impact on preserving our environment.\\\"<br /><br />Karasek Architects were the designers of the new eco-friendly building. Trumpet Builders was the project\\\'s general contractor. Vertegy Consultants was the sustainability consultant. <br /><br />The 33,000 square foot Frieze showroom and maintenance&nbsp; shop is partially powered by a wind turbine. It was constructed with insulated concrete forms (ICFS), an energy-efficient structural wall system providing an insulation R-value of 40. <br /><br />The building\\\'s environmentally-friendly aspects include rapidly renewable bamboo wood flooring, specialty coatings in the display area, and a combination of lighting means. Natural light that is emitted through the northwest showroom windows and more than 40 solatubes ia supplemented by the computer-controlled light system, which provides an energy savings mode for all of the artificial light fixtures. Another energy saving feature is the maintenance shop\\\'s radiant floor system, which is heated from burned waste oil. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Frieze Harley-Davidson exterior\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"142\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/frieze-exterior.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />The building is sited within naturally landscaped grounds, using native grasses, plants, and drought-tolerant shrubs and trees. 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The certification makes the dealership the first LEED Certified Harley-Davidson dealership in the country.<br /><br />\\\"I am very excited to be the first Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealer to construct a LEED Certified building,\\\" stated Jenny Frieze, owner and general manager of Frieze Harley-Davidson.&nbsp; \\\"I hope other business owners and Harley-Davidson dealers will be encouraged to take similar steps when constructing new facilities. I am very proud to have the opportunity to contribute to a program that will have a positive impact on preserving our environment.\\\"<br /><br />Karasek Architects were the designers of the new eco-friendly building. Trumpet Builders was the project\\\'s general contractor. Vertegy Consultants was the sustainability consultant. <img alt=\\\"Frieze Harley-Davidson exterior\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"142\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/frieze-exterior.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" /><br /><br />The 33,000 square foot Frieze showroom and maintenance&nbsp; shop is partially powered by a wind turbine. It was constructed with insulated concrete forms (ICFS), an energy-efficient structural wall system providing an insulation R-value of 40. <br /><br />The building\\\'s environmentally-friendly aspects include rapidly renewable bamboo wood flooring, specialty coatings in the display area, and a combination of lighting means. Natural light that is emitted through the northwest showroom windows and more than 40 solatubes ia supplemented by the computer-controlled light system, which provides an energy savings mode for all of the artificial light fixtures. 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Certification qualifies the businesses for federal contracts under the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Kit Bond\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/kit-bond.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />In addition, 10 of 17 HUBZone businesses the GAO looked into in Washington, D.C. failed to meet the eligibility requirements for the program. Those same 10 firms have received more than $105 million in federal contracts since 2006. In the case of one of the firms, the GAO made multiple visits to the site listed as the firm\\\'s principal office, but found that no employees were working at the location and the only business equipment present was a computer and a filing cabinet. That firm received $3.9 million in HUBZone contracts from the Army and the Air Force during fiscal year 2006-2007, but its principal office was actually in McLean, VA, an upscale Washington, D.C., suburb that is not in a HUBZone.<br /><br />The House Committee on Small Business heard about the results of the investigation in a public hearing on July 17. The committee chair, Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), said in her opening statement that the findings of the investigation were \\\"appalling.\\\" <br />&nbsp; <br />\\\"It\\\'s tougher to get a library card than it is to get into the HUBZone program,\\\" she said. \\\"All you need is a bit of White-out. It\\\'s absolutely shameful.\\\"<br /><br />The investigation was undertaken at the committee\\\'s request.<br /><br />Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), wrote the 1997 bill that created the HUBZone program to promote economic development and employment growth in distressed rural and urban areas by giving small companies located in those areas preference in Federal contracting opportunities. Since then, he has pushed federal agencies to increase contracting through the program. A year ago, he criticized federal agencies for falling far short of meeting the goal set by Congress of awarding three percent of prime contracts to HUBZone companies.<br /><br />To qualify for HUBZone certification, a firm must be owned and controlled by at least one U.S. citizen, 35 percent of its full-time employees must reside in a HUBZone, and the firm\\\'s principal office must be in a HUBZone area.<br /><br />In the bi-state area, the City of St. Louis, University City, Pagedale, Pinelawn and additional parts of North County in Missouri and East St. Louis, Centreville, Washington, Fairmont City, Brooklyn, and Venice in Illinois are all in HUBZones.<br /><br />The GAO estimated that $8 billion in federal spending flow to the 14,000 firms in the program. HUBZone firms are supposed to get a 10 percent price preference when competing against large businesses for contracts. In other words, HUBZone firms can charge up to 10 percent more than their non-HUBZone competitors and still get the federal contract. According to the Missouri Small Business Development Centers, federal contracting officers also can restrict contracts to HUBZone companies if they think two or more HUBZone companies will submit bids. For contracts worth less $3 million, they can designate a HUBZone company as a sole source provider. In addition, federal agencies are supposed to require a HUBZone subcontracting plan on any prime contract with a non-HUBZone company worth more than $500,000. <br /><br />In a statement emailed by Sen. Bond\\\'s office, Missouri\\\'s senior senator said, \\\"Fraud, abuse and poor management found by the GAO investigators was not just troubling, but unacceptable.&nbsp; While I am pleased that SBA has already taken steps to address these problems, I will monitor carefully their efforts to ensure that the program operates as intended by the Congress.\\\"<br /><br />This not the first time that allegations of lax oversight and fraud have dogged the HUBZone program.<br /><br />\\\"The GAO report confirms the claims contractors have been making for years - that the Small Business Administration (SBA) has failed to execute its oversight authority over the HUBZone program,\\\" said AGC\\\'s chief executive officer Stephen Sandherr. \\\"The HUBZone program has been a huge administrative failure, which has cost the program its potential as a legitimate contracting vehicle, the opportunity for growth for these disadvantaged communities and billions of lost taxpayer dollars.\\\"<br /><br />AGC has long expressed significant concerns about the effectiveness and fairness of the HUBZone program as it is applied to the construction industry and has advocated that significant improvements be enacted to reform the program. The program does not realize its goal of increasing employment and reinvesting in economically disadvantaged areas.<br /><br />AGC advocates the following changes to the HUBZone program:</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Applying the HUBZone program only to contracts for the construction of federal projects within a 150-mile radius of the HUBZone contractor\\\'s principal place of business. According to the AGC, only those projects can offer employment to a significant number of HUBZone residents, and only those projects can promise to make a lasting change in their economic circumstance.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Requiring that HUBZone residents receive at least 30% of the payroll needed to perform all HUBZone contracts. According to AGC, using payroll as the measure will avoid pass through purchases of materials and supplies that encourage brokering by legal HUBZones entities that nonetheless are not actually building construction projects.</li>\n<li> Requiring the SBA to routinely investigate alleged abuses of the program within 10 days. </li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Reducing the price preference in construction to five percent.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Letting contractors protest a sole source designation on the grounds that the HUBZone contractor does not actually qualify for the program.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> Requiring construction firms - companies that experience large fluctuations in employment throughout the course of any given year - to provide certified payroll records at the end of each year to demonstrate that HUBZone residents truly worked at least 35% percent of all the hours worked in that year.</li>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:28:\"/images/uploads/kit-bond.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:92:\"Kit Bond, who wrote the legislation launching the HUBZone  program, now calls for controls. \";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(534,196,4,2,1217487409,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-07-30 08:48 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:49:\"Jamestown Mall to be Reborn  as Mixed-Use Center \";s:9:\"url_title\";s:47:\"jamestown_mall_to_be_reborn_as_mixed_use_center\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:49:\"Jamestown Mall to be Reborn  as Mixed-Use Center \";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:232:\"Carlyle Development Group, the owner of Jamestown Mall in North County, has unveiled plans to convert the property from a traditional enclosed mall into a mixed-use commerce center where area residents can live, work, dine and shop.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:41:\"Jamestown Mall, Carlyle Development Group\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:3001:\"<p>Carlyle Development Group, the owner of Jamestown Mall in North County, has unveiled plans to convert the property from a traditional enclosed mall into a mixed-use commerce center where area residents can live, work, dine and shop. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Jamestown Mall\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"169\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/jamestownrendering.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />&ldquo;We\\\'re developing an economic driver for North County,\\\" said Thomas Fear, senior vice president of Carlyle Development Group, the firm that owns and is redeveloping the property. &ldquo;Our goal is to restore energy to the mall and make it an exciting, fresh destination.&rdquo;&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />The project master plan contains four phases with many significant changes taking place in its initial phase. One of the major components of Phase I is the conversion of the vacant 215,000 square-foot space, formerly occupied by Dillard&rsquo;s department store, into back-office space. The plan also calls for the closing of 100,000 square feet of other retail space in the Dillard\\\'s wing.&nbsp; &ldquo;The level of vacancies in that particular wing is detrimental to the overall success of the mall,&rdquo; says Fear.&nbsp; &ldquo;Our goal is to reinvigorate the property by bringing all of the retail occupants together in designated parts of the property while taking the excess retail space out of the picture.&rdquo;&nbsp; The excess retail will be furloughed until it is the right time to lease it as traditional retail, service retail or ancillary office space.<br />&nbsp;<br />Existing retailers in the Dillard&rsquo;s wing will be relocated to the north and east wings of the property.&nbsp; This shift will increase occupancy in the mall and result in a more vibrant retail environment, Carlyle Group said.&nbsp; The estimated cost of the master plan is in excess of $120 million and is projected to commence in the first quarter of 2009. Carlyle Development Group is actively pursuing office tenants and is anticipating announcing newly signed tenants over the course of the next few months. <br />&nbsp;<br />&ldquo;The vacant square footage may never return to retail,&rdquo; Fear noted.&nbsp; &ldquo;It was time for some fresh thinking. Retail is no longer the sole driver for successful development. We analyzed the property and knew we had to change the mix.&rdquo;&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />Future phases of the plan include The Residences at Coldwater Creek, a 200-unit, active adult and senior living community which will be located off of Old Jamestown Road and approximately 360,000 square feet of suburban low-rise office along Lindberg Boulevard (Highway 67).&nbsp; A small service retail component along Lindbergh Boulevard is also planned.<br />&nbsp;<br />&ldquo;North County needs a vision for the future,&rdquo; says Michael O\\\'Mara, councilman for St. Louis County\\\'s 4th District. &ldquo;The redevelopment of Jamestown Mall is central to that vision.&rdquo;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(535,197,4,2,1217488628,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-07-30 09:02 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"5\";}s:9:\"author_id\";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:35:\"PRIDE Honors Four Industry Builders\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:35:\"pride_honors_four_industry_builders\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:35:\"PRIDE Honors Four Industry Builders\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:161:\"On Aug. 13, four area leaders will be honored by PRIDE for their teamwork-building efforts to advance St. Louis as the best place to build at an awards luncheon.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:45:\"PRIDE, Wrighton, Elsperman, Schaefer, Bernard\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:3790:\"<p>On Aug. 13, four area leaders will be honored by PRIDE for their teamwork-building efforts to advance St. Louis as the best place to build at an awards luncheon.</p>\n<p>The honorees are:</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"PRIDE logo\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"157\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/pride-logo.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"119\\\" /><br /><strong>Mark S. Wrighton</strong>, chancellor, Washington University. While not a developer, few over the last decade have had a larger impact on the St. Louis construction industry.&nbsp; Wrighton will be honored with the PRIDE Industry Impact Award for expanding Washington University&rsquo;s legacy of excellence that in the 13 years of his tenure has led to the commissioning of 30 new buildings.&nbsp;&nbsp; He has also encouraged significant minority participation in building projects.&nbsp; Further, Wrighton has advanced the university&rsquo;s tradition of educating architects, engineers and construction managers through improvements to the Sam Fox Arts School of Design and Visual Arts, the John M. Olin School of Business and the soon-to-expand school of engineering. <br /><strong><br />Robert P. Elsperman</strong>, P.E., chairman, Tarlton Corp. A fixture in the St. Louis construction industry for more than 55 years, Elsperman brought a construction entrepreneurs&rsquo; perspective to the PRIDE board when he served as management co-chair from 1998 to 2003.&nbsp; Elsperman, who continues to attend PRIDE board meetings, has been affiliated with the organization for nearly 30 years.&nbsp; Elsperman will be receiving the Al Fleischer Management Award named for the late Alfred J. Fleischer, who helped co-found PRIDE and was its first management co-chair. <br /><br /><strong>Rick Schaefer</strong>, director of department planning and capital projects, Malinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine.&nbsp; As PRIDE owner co-chair from 2004 to 2007, Schaefer fostered greater two-way communications between union construction industry stakeholders and the buyers of their services. Prior to being named co-chair, Schaefer served on a number of committees to help advance construction industry proficiency in the region.&nbsp; Schaefer will be honored with the Joe Rinke Owner Award.&nbsp; The award is named for Joseph W. Rinke, PRIDE&rsquo;s first owner co-chair. <br /><strong><br />William Bernard</strong>, president emeritus, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers. A native St. Louisan, Bernard rose from the rank of apprentice in Asbestos Workers Local 1 in 1950 to become a national and international ambassador for the tenets of PRIDE.&nbsp; He led the historic negotiations that unified the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union, which set a national and international precedent on cooperation between unions.&nbsp; Bernard will be honored with the Dick Mantia Labor Award.&nbsp; The award is named for Dick Mantia, who co-founded PRIDE and remains board member emeritus of the organization. <br /><br /><br />&ldquo;These are stalwarts of our industry,&rdquo; said Jim LaMantia, executive director of PRIDE.&nbsp; &ldquo;Each has embraced and furthered the principles of cooperation to build a better future for the St. Louis area and its union construction industry.&rdquo;<br /><br />The award recipients will be honored at luncheon at the Renaissance St. Louis Grand &amp; Suites Hotel in downtown St. Louis.<br /><br />PRIDE, founded in 1972, is an acronym for Productivity and Responsibility Increase Development &amp; Employment.&nbsp; For more than 35 years, PRIDE has worked to maintain harmony and build cooperation among St. Louis area AFL-CIO construction craft workers, contractors, construction buyers, architects, engineers and suppliers.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"5\";}'),(536,198,4,2,1217633949,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-08-01 01:08 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Lake St. Louis \\\"Lifestyle Center\\\" to Open\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:38:\"lake_st_louis_lifestyle_center_to_open\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:43:\"Lake St. Louis \\\"Lifestyle Center\\\" to Open\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:76:\"Davis Street Land Co. is opening The Meadows at Lake St. Louis  on Aug. 23. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:57:\"The Meadows, Davis Street Land, M+H  Architects, Brinkman\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:4164:\"<p><a href=\\\"http://www.dslandco.com\\\">Davis Street Land Co</a>. is opening The Meadows at Lake St. Louis on Aug. 23. The Meadows is the first lifestyle center developed in St. Charles County.&nbsp; The first phase includes nearly 30 retailers and restaurants, including 13 opening their only stores in St. Charles County plus three making their Missouri debut. Designer of the complex is <a href=\\\"http://mharch.com\\\">M+H Architects</a>.&nbsp; <a href=\\\"http://askbrinkmann.com\\\">Brinkmann Constructors</a> is the general contractor on the $33 million project. Other team members are Stock and Associates , civil engineer; Alper Audi Inc., structural engineer; Durrant, M/E/P; and SWT, landscape/hardsca</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"The Meadows\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"244\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/meadows1_314x314.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" /> Located on a 64-acre site at Lake Saint Louis Boulevard and Interstate 64 (I-64), the center will include such retailers as&nbsp; BC\\\'s Kitchen, Banana Republic, Cach&eacute;, Chico\\\'s, Clarkson Jewelers, Coldwater Creek, Eddie Bauer, Jos. A. Bank, New Balance St. Louis, Puddle Ducks, Salon Kashmir, Talbots and The Walking Company.&nbsp; Three retailers will be making their Missouri debut at The Meadows, including Von Maur Department Store (to open in 2010); Backwoods, the outdoor apparel chain opening in early 2009; and Bachrach.<br />&nbsp;<br />Phase I features four retail buildings totaling 260,000 square feet clustered around an inviting central plaza with seating and performance spaces.&nbsp; A 15-foot tall bronze sculpture by local artist Marty Linson stands at the plaza\\\'s center.&nbsp; A 40-foot-tall clock tower marks the octagonal-shaped plaza with its venue for festive events presented on an inviting stage.&nbsp; A pergola with a redwood trellis forms the backdrop for the stage.&nbsp; Four 12-foot-high stone columns topped with limestone planters mark gateways to the plaza.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;Each of The Meadows\\\' four buildings hosts 10 to 15 retailers.&nbsp; Storefronts contrast deep-set, limestone frames with 11- to 15-plus-foot-tall shop windows and clerestories accented with brick and limestone facades. Shops feature distinctive entrances which emphasize individual brand. Continuity is expressed in cast medallions bearing the logo of The Meadows and store addresses, a limestone ribbon around each building and gabled roofs with slate-style shingles and ornamental copper gutters, downspouts and flashing. <br />&nbsp;<br />A dozen patterns and types of brick pavers and stamped concrete are used to subtly direct way-finding.&nbsp; Cast iron benches and decorative railing framing landscaped stretches add to the charm.&nbsp; The center is planted with more than 100 varieties of trees, grasses,&nbsp; and flowers. Parking is provided via discreet, intuitively navigated roundabout slowing and directing automobile traffic around the plaza.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />At night, architectural lighting illuminates elements of building facades shadowed during the day, including basket weave brick patterns beneath eaves and medallions.&nbsp; Landscape lighting and cast iron street lights brighten walks for shoppers.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"The Meadows aerial view\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"244\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/meadows2_314x314.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis is owned, leased and managed by Davis Street Land Company in partnership with Bruce Johnston, a lifetime resident of St. Louis with more than 25 years of retail real estate experience.&nbsp; Based in Chicago, Ill., Davis Street develops and owns upscale specialty and lifestyle centers.&nbsp; The principals of the company are responsible for such unique retail properties as Plaza Frontenac and The Shops at Clarkson Corner in St. Louis, Renaissance Place and Orland Park Crossing in Chicago, The Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, Tenn. and The Gardens on El Paseo in Palm Desert, Calif.&nbsp; To learn more, visit www.dslandco.com &lt;http://www.dslandco.com&gt;&nbsp; &lt;http://www.dslandco.com/&gt; .<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(537,207,4,2,1217636492,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-08-01 02:16 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:38:\"Lambert Launches Improvement  Projects\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:37:\"lambert_launches_improvement_projects\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:37:\"Lambert Launches Improvement Projects\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:1:\"9\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:183:\"Lambert-St. Louis International Airport officially kicked off the Airport Experience renovation program announcing the first projects underway totaling $16.9 million in improvements.\n\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:29:\"Lambert, Hrabko, improvements\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:4098:\"<p>Lambert-St. Louis International Airport officially kicked off the Airport Experience renovation program announcing the first projects underway<br />totaling $16.9 million in improvements.<br /><br />The Airport Experience is a multi-phase program to modernize and upgrade the Main Terminal and concourses. The first Airport Experience project beginning in July is the interior restoration of Lambert\\\'s four historic domes.&nbsp; A complete replacement of Lambert\\\'s Main Terminal in-bound baggage system - at an estimated cost of $5 million - is scheduled to begin in early 2009. That<br />project will include all new carousels and oversize luggage retrieval systems. The six carousels will be replaced one at a time. The third project, also set for early 2009, is the makeover of Lambert\\\'s roadway signage program, expected to cost $1.5 million. This \\\"Wayfinding\\\" project involves creation of a master plan for all signs and the installation of all<br />new messaging to help travelers and airport users better navigate to andfrom Lambert.<br /><br />Other projects within the renovation program will be phased in over the nextfive years. <br /><br />Kwame Building Group is providing oversight, programming, design coordination and procurement, and will manage implementation of the \\\"Airport<br />Experience Program.\\\" Other consultants selected for the project are:<br /><br />&nbsp;&bull;Teng &amp; Associates, Inc.: Dome renovations design, Main Terminal ticketing hall and mid-level architectural renovations design; concourses architectural renovations design.<br /><br />&bull;Kozeny-Wagner, Inc.: In-bound conveyers and baggage claims design/build.<br /><br />&bull; Apple Designs, Inc.: Entrance monuments and wayfinding signage design.<br /><br />&bull;Burns and McDonnell: Main Terminal ticketing hall and mid-level mechanical, electrical, plumbing and special systems (MEPPS) renovations<br />design; concourses mechanical, electrical, plumbing and special systems (MEPSS) renovations design.<br /><br />The schedule for installing many of those improvement will not be determined until designs are complete.<br /><br />\\\"We\\\'re proud to begin these much anticipated improvements after listening to our passengers, airport users and the community,\\\" said Richard Hrabko,<br />Director of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. \\\"In spite of these volatile and uncertain times in the travel industry, we currently have the<br />ability to begin the transformation of our historic facility while remaining fiscally responsible.\\\"<br /><br />Hrabko added, however, that the health of the industry and the airport will determine when the addition projects move into construction.<br /><br />\\\"From the start, Lambert intended for the renovation program to proceed with<br />only those projects that deliver the most impact for airport users and/or to<br />improve airport operations. That continues to be our goal,\\\" he said. \\\"As we<br />move through the design phase of the next projects, we will carefully<br />monitor our budget and the economic landscape of the airline and airport<br />industries to make sure the airport is financially secure before we proceed<br />with the construction of our next projects.\\\"<br /><br />The $16 million facility renovation program is in addition to HMSHost\\\'s<br />agreement to invest $16 million ($13 million by 2011) to introduce more<br />local and upscale dining venues. Three new concepts are now under<br />construction in the Main Terminal. Local favorite, The Pasta House Co., will<br />open in the lower level in the fall of 2008.&nbsp; Brioche Dor&eacute;e Caf&eacute; and<br />Missouri Vineyards, a new wine bar concept are scheduled to open in early<br />2009 in the Ticketing Hall of the Main Terminal.<br /><br />Other new dining options could include Mosaics Tapas Fusion, which has been<br />named one of top restaurants in St. Louis; Fitz\\\'s Root Beer; Baja Fresh and<br />a new Fresh&euml;ns.&nbsp;&nbsp; The construction schedules and opening dates for those<br />venues will be determined at a later date.<br /></p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(538,208,4,2,1217637063,'a:31:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-08-01 02:24 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:32:\"Nuns Tickled Pink  Over KAI  Job\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:30:\"nuns_tickled_pink_over_kai_job\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:30:\"Nuns Tickled Pink Over KAI Job\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:132:\"KAI Design & Build has completed a 10,000-square-foot addition to the Mount Grace Convent at 1438 E. Warne Avenue in St. Louis, MO. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:28:\"Pink  Sisters, KAI, addition\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2274:\"<p>KAI Design &amp; Build has completed a 10,000-square-foot addition to the Mount Grace Convent at 1438 E. Warne Avenue in St. Louis, MO. The convent is home to the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters, known as the \\\"Pink Sisters\\\" because of their unique rose-colored habits.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Pink Sisters\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"178\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Pink-Sisters-Rendering.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />Established in St. Louis in 1928, the Mount Grace Convent is one of only 18 convents of the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters in the world.&nbsp; KAI provided design/build, architecture and estimating/scheduling services on the $2.8 million project, which included demolition of the existing termite-damaged rectory and two adjacent residences, and construction of a new two-story addition, garage and 65-space parking lot. The lay office remained open and operational during the construction.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"The project started at $120,000 to simply replace the existing termite-damaged rectory,\\\" said KAI Project Manager Marcus Moomey. \\\"Then, the Pink Sisters wanted to add three bedrooms for visitors and guests, as well as a kitchen, eight bedrooms for themselves and a basement. When the Mother Sister came from Germany to meet with KAI, she decided that all future international conferences would be held in St. Louis, so even more rooms were needed for the visiting sisters.</p>\n<p>Eventually, the Pink Sisters decided to buy the adjacent lots and create a 65-space parking lot for special events.\\\"&nbsp; The new addition was constructed of load bearing masonry with precast floors and roofs. Special attention was given to matching the detailed brick and cut stone of the original convent. The project began in September 2006 and was completed in February 2008, on-time and within the sisters\\\' new budget.</p>\n<p>To help pay for the parking lot, the Pink Sisters held fundraisers and sold t-shirts.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>By utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, KAI was able to provide the sisters with realistic images of what the new facility would look like before it was constructed. 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This IBM system\\\'s enhanced computing power will enable scientists and researchers across the United States to make extraordinary leaps in scientific discovery.<br /><br />The PCF will feature a command center, system administration center and office space for 50 staff members. It will also contain a 20,000-square-foot machine room with a six-foot raised floor large enough to house Blue Waters, as well as other systems. Current plans also call for 24 MW electrical capacity and 5,400 tons of water cooling capacity from the University\\\'s chilled water distribution loop. <br /><br />\\\"Clayco\\\'s experience in data center design and construction will allow us to work in harmony with the innovative computer architecture and the needs of the scientists,\\\" said Scott Murnick, project director at Clayco and on the NCSA Petascale Computing Facility project. \\\"We are excited for the challenge to drive the creation of a facility that embraces the requirements of operating an unprecedented research infrastructure while offering strategies for a system with the least impact on the environment.\\\"<br /><br />Energy efficiency and sustainability are pivotal to the design and construction of this project. The PCF will achieve LEED certification, with LEED Silver certification as the goal.<br /><br />Environmental efforts include building three on-site cooling towers to provide water that has been naturally chilled by the cold outdoor air, rather than electrically cooled and eliminating the installation of an Uninterruptible Power Supply to minimize floor spaced required and increase energy efficiency. Since Illinois is ranked among the top states in tornado frequency, the building is also designed to withstand an F3 tornado and winds of 165 mph. <br /><br />Clayco added Nova as a team member.&nbsp; \\\"We just finished a Mission Critical project with Nova in Chicago.&nbsp; This is a winning combination,\\\" said Steve Street, project executive.&nbsp; Nova is a Mission Critical Contractor based in New York, New York. <br />&nbsp;<br />Clayco\\\'s project team includes Steve Street, project executive; Frank Baum, project estimator; Chad Derus, project manager; Frank Wiza, project superintendent; Scott Murnick, project director; and Kevin McKenna, Regional Vice President. The architect is EYP Mission Critical Facilities and the interior designer is M. Arthur Gensler Jr. &amp; Associates. 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M. Wilson & Co. was selected by Continental Cement Company, LLC to build a new $15 million barge unloading facility and dome storage facility at the company\\\'s terminal in downtown St. Louis.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:40:\"Wilson, Continental, unloading, downtown\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_38\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_38\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_39\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_39\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_40\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_40\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1076:\"<p>S. M. Wilson &amp; Co. was selected by Continental Cement Company, LLC to build a new $15 million barge unloading facility and dome storage facility at the company\\\'s terminal in downtown St. Louis.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Continental Cement\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"183\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/continental.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"244\\\" />Construction will be completed in two phases. Phase I will involve the construction of a 40,000 ton cement storage dome with an adjoined cement transportation center. In addition, a 1000 square foot building also will be built to house equipment. Phase II of the project will include the construction of the new barge unloading facility on the Mississippi River. A utility bridge will be constructed to connect the new unloading facility to the storage dome.</p>\n<p>Construction for Phase I is scheduled for completion in late 2008, while Phase II is targeted for completion in May 2009.</p>\n<p>EDG Consulting Engineers, based in Columbus, Ohio, is the engineering firm for the project.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),