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An unfinished basement space affords the Masonry Institute a place to demonstrate mortal mixing and coloring.</p>\n<p>\\\"The lobby was the only thing that was not touched,\\\" said Darrell McMillian, technical director Masonry Institute of St. Louis.</p>\n<p>ICS was the general contractor. Smith Masonry was the masonry contractor. Richards Brick supplied the brick.</p>\n<p>The contractors\\\' association bought the building in 1952, and the last major renovation was completed 25 years ago. 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He added that private lodging investments were down 46 percent; retail, warehouse and farm spending were down 41 percent and private office construction investments were down 39 percent. A recovery in homebuilding may spark some improvement in retail construction later this year, and higher education and hospital construction may come back in the second half of 2010, the economist suggested.<br /><br />Simonson noted that public construction benefitted from federal stimulus funds, with a year-over-year increase of 2.7 percent. He predicted, however, those gains will continue to be tempered by sharp cutbacks in projects funded directly by states, local governments and school systems.<br /><br />Simonson said the declines in investments were leading to sweeping industry layoffs. El Centro, Calif., lost a larger percentage of its construction work force (36 percent) from November 2008 to November 2009 than any other metropolitan area according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures. The agency includes mining and logging with construction in most metro areas to prevent disclosure about industries with few employees, Simonson noted.<br /><br />Other areas experiencing sharp declines in construction employment during the year include Kokomo, Ind. (31 percent); Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, Wash. and Reno, Nev. (both 28 percent); and St. George, Utah and Grand Junction, Colo. (both 27 percent).<br /><br />Of the six metropolitan areas with an increase in construction employment during the past 12 months, only two areas had gains of more than 100 jobs: Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pa. (1,500 jobs, 12 percent gain) and Tulsa, Okla. (700 jobs, 3 percent gain.) Four metro areas had gains of 100 jobs each in construction: Anderson, Ind. (6 percent); Columbus, Ind. (5 percent); Bismarck, N.D. (3 percent) and Fargo, N.D., including nearby areas in Minnesota (1 percent).</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"80\";}'),(1882,689,4,4,1255455454,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"689\";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:\"2009-10-13 07:20 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"71\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";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:54:\"Video: AGC Gives Consumers Chance to Recycle Materials\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:53:\"video_agc_gives_consumers_chance_to_recycle_materials\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:55:\"Video: AGC Gives Consumers Chance to Recycle Materials \";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:195:\"The Associated General Contractors of St. Louis have decided to be proactive in driving home the message of sustainable construction to the consumer level by enlisting homeowners in the practice.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:26:\"Recycle, Reuse, AGC, event\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2124:\"<p>The Associated General Contractors of St. Louis have decided to be proactive in driving home the message of sustainable construction to the consumer level by enlisting homeowners in the practice.</p>\n<h4><a href=\\\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEUjUuhM7o\\\"><img alt=\\\"Honey\\\'s Birthday Surprise\\\" height=\\\"207\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/honey.jpg\\\" width=\\\"225\\\" /></a></h4>\n<h4>Click on Image to View</h4>\n<h4>A young couple really gets into the spirit of Agc\\\'s recycle/reuse event in this promotional YouTube video. <br /></h4>\n<p>Sustainable construction practices are being used every day by AGC of St. Louis members in constructing St. Louis\\\' commercial and industrial facilities. The AGC wants to bring that sustainable practice to the general public by sponsoring the (AGC)2 event -<br />Associated General Contractors Advocating Green Construction\\\".</p>\n<p>\\\"Just as many construction firms have learned to recycle and reuse construction<br />materials, this event will allow homeowners from the region to recycle construction materials that they have previously not been able to recycle,\\\" an AGC release said.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The general public is invited to bring residential asphalt roofi ng shingles and untreated/unpainted drywall, lumber, brick and landscaping blocks to be recycled. ONLY these products listed will be accepted. Any materials not listed above are considered trash and disposal fees will apply.</p>\n<p>Only homeowners will be allowed to participate in this event. Normal customers of Peerless Resource Recovery, Inc. or commercial/residential contractors will not be permitted to dump. There is a one ton limit on recycled material accepted.</p>\n<p>Directions: From I-44, take the exit for Highway 141 north. At the fi rst stop<br />light turn west on Elam Ave. and immediately turn south on S. Elam Ave.<br />Peerless Resource Recovery, Inc. is located at the very end of S. Elam<br />Ave. about half a mile. Look for (AGC)2 event signs along the way.<br />Sponsored by AGC of St. Louis in conjunction with<br />AGC of St. Louis &bull; www.agcstl.org &bull; (314) 781-2356</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"71\";}'),(1883,690,4,4,1255456844,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2009-10-13 07:48 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"71\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:50:\"Video: ASA Midwest Helps Victim of Contractor Scam\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:49:\"video_asa_midwest_helps_victim_of_contractor_scam\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:50:\"Video: ASA Midwest Helps Victim of Contractor Scam\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:223:\"When Jim Compton of Compton Roofing realized that an elderly homeowner had been scammed on a home remodeling project he decided to reach out to his fellow members of the Midwest Council American Subcontractors Association. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:71:\"Compton, Midwest Council, ASA, American Subcontractors Association, ASA\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:980:\"<p>When Jim Compton of Compton Roofing realized that an elderly homeowner had been scammed on a home remodeling project he decided to reach out to his fellow members of the Midwest Council American Subcontractors Association. The ASA tore out all the work that the contractor had done and rebuilt it using donated material and labor.</p>\n<p><br /><a href=\\\"http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=186121\\\"><img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"219\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/compton.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" /></a></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>Asa\\\'s Jim Compton with Homeowner \\\"Mrs. Bernstein\\\". Click on the image to read KSDK\\\'s report and view video. <br /></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Television Station KSDK had earlier reported on the situation. The contractor who did the faulty work had spent time in jail for scams and was barred from contracting at the time he did the work. KSDK did a followup of the work performed by the ASA member firms.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"71\";}'),(1884,691,4,4,1255457494,'a:25:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2009-10-13 08:07 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"71\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:19:\"A Day Without Water\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:19:\"a_day_without_water\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:19:\"A Day Without Water\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:208:\"On Oct. 7, Junior Achievement (JA) and the Metro Water Infrastructure Partnership (MWIP) sought to make the invisible meaningful to 80 fifth grades students from Kennard Classical Junior Academy in St. Louis.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:53:\"Water, Junior Achievement, Metro Water Infrastructure\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:3058:\"<p>On Oct. 7, Junior Achievement (JA) and the Metro Water Infrastructure Partnership (MWIP) sought to make the invisible meaningful to 80 fifth grades students from Kennard Classical Junior Academy in St. Louis.</p>\n<p>When students arrived for their second day at JA\\\'s BizTown, there was a surprise waiting for them. Water and sewer main \\\"breaks\\\" meant that they were about to experience a day without water.</p>\n<p>JA calls BizTown a \\\"working free enterprise community\\\" where each student experiences the responsibilities of running a business and acting as a consumer, saver, investor, and citizen within a \\\"mini-municipality\\\" of 17 public and private enterprises. The \\\"town\\\" includes retail shops, a bank, a stock brokerage, a newspaper, and a restaurant, in addition to utilities, city hall, and a post office.</p>\n<p>Before students arrived for the day, field crews from MSD and Missouri American Water set-up trucks and equipment outside the JA building and pumped water to simulate a water main break. Students had to cross the work area to enter BizTown.</p>\n<p>The students were told that the building had lost water and sewer service. They had already successfully operated the businesses in BizTown the previous day, but now they had a new challenge: operate the businesses and municipality without water or sewer service. The aim was to teach them the importance of something they take for granted: water and wastewater service.</p>\n<p>\\\"They\\\'ll have the normal Junior Achievement agenda, but in addition, they\\\'ll have to cope without water,\\\" said Terry Gloriod, president of MWIP.</p>\n<p>At first, students did not see the lack of water as a problem. \\\"It won\\\'t matter,\\\" said Toni Thomas, who was filling the position of CFO at Ameren-Peabody Energy in BizTown. \\\"We\\\'ll just use port-a-potties if we have to use the rest room,\\\" she said.</p>\n<p>Mar-Naye Whittaker, who played the role of store manager at Build-A-Bear, agreed that the loss of water and sewer service \\\"was not a problem\\\" for businesses.</p>\n<p>Isabella Peterson, however, thought it might be a problem for some \\\"employees.\\\" Peterson played a sales clerk at Build-A-Bear. \\\"I didn\\\'t bring anything to drink,\\\" she said. \\\"And my pay is so low at Build-A-Bear, I can\\\'t afford to buy water.\\\"</p>\n<p>MWIP, the co-sponsor of the activity, is a newly formed coalition of bi-state area water utilities and professional associations, whose goal is to advance community conversations about the importance of drinking water and wastewater systems to the quality of life for residents of the greater St. Louis metropolitan area.</p>\n<p>Lance LeComb, public affairs director for MSD, said the groups came together on October 8, 2009 to sponsor the broadcast of \\\"Liquid Assets\\\" on KETC-TV. In the coming months, they intend to launch more public outreach efforts to extend the discussion about how the metro area\\\'s drinking water and wastewater systems function and the funding needed to maintain and rehabilitate them.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"71\";}'),(1885,687,2,4,1255457839,'a:30:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"687\";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:\"2009-10-12 07:58 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";i:1;s:2:\"71\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"A Celebration of \\\'What\\\'s Right With Our Industry\\\'\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:46:\"a_celebration_of_whats_right_with_our_industry\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:52:\"A Celebration of \\\'What\\\'s Right With Our Industry\\\'\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:221:\"CNR\\\'s 40th birthday party, set for Oct. 29th, is \\\"all about what\\\'s right with our industry, especially in times like these,\\\" Publisher Tom Finan, IV said. The event is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:18:\"CNR, Habitat, 40th\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2623:\"<p>CNR\\\'s 40th birthday party, set for Oct. 29th at the Missouri Athletic Club downtown, is \\\"all about what\\\'s right with our industry, even in times like these,\\\" Publisher Tom Finan, IV said.\\\'</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Raise the Roof\\\" class=\\\"table-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/raise-the-roof_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />\\\'Finan said that the event, which is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis, would showcase, \\\"the great good that the people in the St. Louis construction industry can accomplish when they work together.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"My Dad used to say, &lsquo;The \\\'News\\\' depends upon its friends.\\\' It was both corny and sincere, \\\" Finan said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Dad envisioned a renewal of the St. Louis area. He saw a city brought to its full potential through cooperative effort, drawing on the strength and integrity of the companies and individuals who build here.</p>\n<p>\\\"Those of us who have continued his vision at CNR have survived, and grown, and learned, and prospered in more ways than we can ever count, with help from more people than I can possibly name here. It is the men and women working every day in St. Louis construction who have made CNR, \\\"The Voice for the St. Louis Construction Industry\\\" for the past 40 years.<br />\\\"By dedicating the proceeds from this event to Habitat for Humanity St. Louis we recognize my Dad\\\'s vision and faith in the ability of the people in our industry to achieve unity, diversity, and the rebuilding of St. Louis.\\\"<br />Companies and organizations have already stepped forward with over $12,000 in event sponsorships. A small silent auction will be held during the cocktail hour. The Arteaga family, of Arteaga Photos, is donating a mural of Downtown St. Louis as one of the auction items.</p>\n<p>CNR\\\'s Regional Excellence Awards will be presented to the project teams on the 14th Street Mall, Cannon Design Headquarters, Coldwater Creek Treatment Facility, Cottleville City Hall, Gateway Multi-Modal Transportation Center, and Pfizer Building MM during the event.</p>\n<p>CNR is also honoring IBEW Local 1 and the St. Louis Chapter NECA with a special Thomas J. Finan, Jr. humanitarian award, named after CNR\\\'s founder. Since 2003 IBEW/NECA has wired more than 150 homes for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis. Last year the total was 27 LEED Platinum homes, and this year it will be 24.</p>\n<p>Tickets for the event are $75 per person, or $700 for a table of 10. 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The event is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:18:\"CNR, Habitat, 40th\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2623:\"<p>CNR\\\'s 40th birthday party, set for Oct. 29th at the Missouri Athletic Club downtown, is \\\"all about what\\\'s right with our industry, even in times like these,\\\" Publisher Tom Finan, IV said.\\\'</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Raise the Roof\\\" class=\\\"table-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/raise-the-roof_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />\\\'Finan said that the event, which is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis, would showcase, \\\"the great good that the people in the St. Louis construction industry can accomplish when they work together.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"My Dad used to say, &lsquo;The \\\'News\\\' depends upon its friends.\\\' It was both corny and sincere, \\\" Finan said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Dad envisioned a renewal of the St. Louis area. He saw a city brought to its full potential through cooperative effort, drawing on the strength and integrity of the companies and individuals who build here.</p>\n<p>\\\"Those of us who have continued his vision at CNR have survived, and grown, and learned, and prospered in more ways than we can ever count, with help from more people than I can possibly name here. It is the men and women working every day in St. Louis construction who have made CNR, \\\"The Voice for the St. Louis Construction Industry\\\" for the past 40 years.<br />\\\"By dedicating the proceeds from this event to Habitat for Humanity St. Louis we recognize my Dad\\\'s vision and faith in the ability of the people in our industry to achieve unity, diversity, and the rebuilding of St. Louis.\\\"<br />Companies and organizations have already stepped forward with over $10,000 in event sponsorships. A small silent auction will be held during the cocktail hour. 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Yet there is a new threat to your business that can cause significant economic and personal damage underrated by the media, the H1N1 virus (aka \\\"swine\\\" flu). I believe it may cause a significant portion of your workforce to simultaneously miss at least a week\\\'s work, maybe two weeks. Since most of us have lean staffs in reaction to the recession, a substantial absence of key personnel could easily mean problems for our daily business operations. I am a business advisor not a medical professional, but I recently experienced the \\\"flu\\\" and found that it disrupted our business.  I believe there are 3 reasons you should take it very seriously;</p>\n<p>It is very contagious. On Sunday, August 2, 2008 I went out early for a fifty mile bike ride with some friends. Sure I woke up coughing the night before but I felt fine, in fact after the ride I picked up a dishwasher and arranged to meet my brother in law Doug at my home to install it about 3:00 -pm. Doug and his family planned to help out and stay for Sunday dinner. I started feeling bad about 4 pm and was in bed by <img alt=\\\"Swine flu virus\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"212\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/B00528_H1N1_flu_blue_sml.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"180\\\" />6:30. What I initially thought was a cold coming on hit me like a \\\"ton of bricks.\\\" On Monday my wife Jane became as ill as fast as I did, and on Tuesday Doug and his family were infected as well. His daughter (10 yrs old) tested positive for H1N1 the next day.  Here\\\'s the scary part, from my research you can start spreading the virus one day before symptoms become present! Either Jane or I could have infected Doug and his family even though at that time Jane was experiencing no symptoms. Can\\\'t imagine how many others I infected, I have no clue, but I have confidence that at least a few were infected on the ride, and at the store by having come in contact with me.</p>\n<h4>Swine flu virus, up close and personal<br /></h4>\n<p>It is a very difficult flu. It was very incapacitating. I missed the entire work week beginning Aug 2nd. All the greatest hits of the flu are present; headache, fever, body ache, upper and lower GI issues, upper respiratory infection, and by far the worst feature lower respiratory infection. Constant coughing and wheezing are so awful sleep is nearly impossible. It was so bad that I pulled muscles in my back and chest from fits of coughing. Our physician prescribed what he could to relieve the symptoms and prevent other problems, but I understand there isn\\\'t much that can be done with a virus. Know this; I have never been that sick. Monday to Thursday was very terrible for me. In addition to a high fever and body aches I coughed so frequently and hard I thought I would cough up my feet.      <br /></p>\n<p>It is persistent. I could not work from home for the first seven days. I am a workaholic, and proud of it. I love my practice. For those that needed me those seven days you have my apologies. I was out of it. In fact, I did not leave the lazy boy in our family room for any reason unless absolutely necessary. Same for my wife and my brother-in-law\\\'s family...the entire week was lost. The next week I struggled to work half time (more or less quarantined myself in my office) and even now a month later I still cough and my chest wall muscles are still sore.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"CDC Swine Flu kit\\\" height=\\\"159\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/CDC_PCR_diagnostic_testkit_sml.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"239\\\" /></p>\n<h4>A CDC H1N1 Diagnostic kit<br /></h4>\n<p>Consider the impact on your business (and family) from the combination of a contagious, persistent and difficult flu. I suspect it could run through our office in days and take out most of my work force for at least a week. Add more don\\\'t forget lost time from employee - parents forced to stay home with their children. Client / customer service and work production could grind to a halt. My partner jokes I may be the only person at the office and might need to answer the phone. Not a very good joke, even from an accountant. But he may be absolutely correct! No matter it\\\'s a very expensive possibility. For some, this could be an even more serious medical event, which will of course have a more serious impact on our personal lives as well as our business.</p>\n<p>Clearly, I am not a physician and I have no business providing any sort of medical advice. However I am strong recommending that you prepare for the H1N1 virus immediately. Please take a look at the following resources as soon as possible.</p>\n<p><a href=\\\"http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/\\\">http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/</a></p>\n<p><a href=\\\"http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-guide/swine-flu-faq-1\\\">http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-guide/swine-flu-faq-1</a></p>\n<p><a href=\\\"http://www.ct.gov/ctfluwatch/lib/ctfluwatch/h1n1/h1n1_factsheet_english.pdf\\\">http://www.ct.gov/ctfluwatch/lib/ctfluwatch/h1n1/h1n1_factsheet_english.pdf</a></p>\n<p>And the video at;</p>\n<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wK1127fHQ4</p>\n<p>These websites and many others will give you expert advice on how to deal with the H1N1 virus both at your workplace, and at your home.</p>\n<p>The virus is here and it\\\'s spreading through some St Louis area school districts as well as the general population. We know that a vaccine is not going to be available for a month or more. That may be too late.  There are procedures we can take to help reduce our risk to H1N1, the first of which is to become aware of its immediate and real threat to our family\\\'s and employees\\\' personal health and our company\\\'s financial condition.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";}'),(1891,693,5,4,1255592454,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"693\";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:\"2009-10-14 09:21 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"38\";i:1;s:2:\"25\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"5\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:37:\"H1N1 is a Medical and Financial Issue\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:37:\"h1n1_is_a_medical_and_financial_issue\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:37:\"H1N1 is a Medical and Financial Issue\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:156:\"There is a new threat to your business that can cause significant economic and personal damage underrated by the media, the H1N1 virus (aka \\\"swine\\\" flu).\n\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:22:\"O\\\'Donnell, Mark, H1N1\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:5803:\"<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The economy is stressing most of our businesses, and everyone is taking appropriate action to survive and to prosper once this recession is finally over. 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Astonishingly, though, most still rely on memory or ESP to determine whether a customer gets regular or decaf.</p>\n<p>A very few food service operators have eradicated this problem by placing a telltale coaster under each cup of decaf.</p>\n<p>No more doubt. No asking the customer about the contents of the cup. No more mistakes, or wasted time, or wasted product, or eroded customer relationships.</p>\n<p>What a simple, foolproof, and inexpensive solution to a widespread problem.</p>\n<p>Two quick questions:</p>\n<p>1) Why the heck doesn\\\'t every restaurant do this?<br />2) What\\\'s your version of this problem in your business?</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Now, I know that not all problems in business are this simple or this cut-and-dried. So, regardless of the severity or complexity of your oft-repeated errors, how about using an old saying to give this phenomenon a name?</p>\n<p>\\\"We never have time to do it right, but we always have time to do it over.\\\"</p>\n<p>Here are two important take-aways from this discussion:</p>\n<p>&bull; We\\\'re talking about a system for fixing a recurring problem.<br />&bull; Every mistake is an opportunity to improve your company.</p>\n<p>Let\\\'s look at both of these ideas.</p>\n<p>Use systems to avoid future mistakes.</p>\n<p>If your approach to errors is people-centered, I recommend that you raise your sights a bit. While mistakes do happen and they can often be attributed to human error, a lack of systems and procedures is more likely in most cases.</p>\n<p>Take the coffee example. If the manager happens to witness the decaf error, a brief conversation with the server might help avoid such mistakes for a while. The boss might even go so far as to convene a meeting of the wait staff, where they explore the importance of remembering which customer gets what coffee.</p>\n<p>All well and good, but why not put a system in place (like the coaster) to remove as much human error as possible?</p>\n<p>So I again ask, what\\\'s your version of this problem in your business? Can you fix your nagging, recurring mistakes with color-coding, forms, templates, systems or procedures?</p>\n<p>Every mistake is an opportunity to improve your company.</p>\n<p>Mistakes are costly. They waste time, money, productivity and resources. They aggravate employees. They lose customers. Even so, each and every one is a golden opportunity for improvement.</p>\n<p>Every time a mistake happens, ask: What can be done to prevent this same type of error from happening in the future?</p>\n<p>This is \\\"root cause\\\" thinking. 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The annual event\nrecognizes the contributions of St. Louis construction workers to the\neconomic strength of the community</span></p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-family: Times;\\\"></span>This year\\\'s opening ceremony took place Oct. 13 at the construction site of the new Centene Corporation headquarters building.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h4><img alt=\\\"Build St. Louis\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/build-saint-louis.jpg\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></h4>\n<h4>Charlie Dooley, St. Louis County Executive discusses the serious\nunemployment situation in the construction industry at the annual Build\nSt. Day event at the Centene Center project in Clayton.&nbsp; Scott Wilson,\nSM Wilson president and chairman of the board of AGC and Leonard Toenjes,\nPresident of the AGC look on.&nbsp; The\nannual event recognizes the contribution the 450 AGC members make to\nthe St. Louis economy. <br /></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>A consortium of banks led by U.S. Bank funded the construction loan\nto build Centene Center, the $186 million headquarters for one of St.\nLouis\\\' largest public companies. 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The event is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:18:\"CNR, Habitat, 40th\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2623:\"<p>CNR\\\'s 40th birthday party, set for Oct. 29th at the Missouri Athletic Club downtown, is \\\"all about what\\\'s right with our industry, even in times like these,\\\" Publisher Tom Finan, IV said.\\\'</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Raise the Roof\\\" class=\\\"table-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/raise-the-roof_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />\\\'Finan said that the event, which is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis, would showcase, \\\"the great good that the people in the St. Louis construction industry can accomplish when they work together.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"My Dad used to say, &lsquo;The \\\'News\\\' depends upon its friends.\\\' It was both corny and sincere, \\\" Finan said.</p>\n<p>\\\"Dad envisioned a renewal of the St. Louis area. He saw a city brought to its full potential through cooperative effort, drawing on the strength and integrity of the companies and individuals who build here.</p>\n<p>\\\"Those of us who have continued his vision at CNR have survived, and grown, and learned, and prospered in more ways than we can ever count, with help from more people than I can possibly name here. It is the men and women working every day in St. Louis construction who have made CNR, \\\"The Voice for the St. Louis Construction Industry\\\" for the past 40 years.<br />\\\"By dedicating the proceeds from this event to Habitat for Humanity St. Louis we recognize my Dad\\\'s vision and faith in the ability of the people in our industry to achieve unity, diversity, and the rebuilding of St. Louis.\\\"<br />Companies and organizations have already stepped forward with over $10,000 in event sponsorships. A small silent auction will be held during the cocktail hour. 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Current plans call for the\nbuildings, which will serve as the new training center, Local 36\nheadquarters and 1,000-seat multiple event venue, to earn Leadership in\nEnergy and Environmental Design (LEED) accreditation.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"New Local 36 Building\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"120\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Local36BuildingImage.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" />Emerging job markets, and sustainability are two key areas of business Sheet Metal Workers\\\' Local 36 has focused on in recent years to help create and keep up with growth in the sheet metal and HVAC industries.  With the support of its membership, Local 36 will soon be making those key areas priorities as it unveils plans for a new $15 million green facility.<br /> <br />\\\"The approval of this project has some incredible implications for Local 36,\\\" said Local 36 President and Business Manager David C. 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Richard Ellis Third Quarter Report Show Slow Bounce Back\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:59:\"cb_richard_ellis_third_quarter_report_show_slow_bounce_back\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:61:\"C.B. Richard Ellis Third Quarter Report Show Slow Bounce Back\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:114:\"CB Richard Ellis has released its third quarter 2009 MarketViews for the St. Louis Office and Industrial markets. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:28:\"CBRE, industrial, commercial\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2808:\"<p>CB Richard Ellis has released its third quarter 2009 MarketViews for the St. Louis Office and Industrial markets. The MarketViews are comprehensive reviews of current leasing market statistics, including vacancy, availability, absorption and average asking rental rates. 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Should the lender choose to be aggressive to immediately fill the property with tenants to boost occupancy in the hope of a future sale, lease rates could continue to decrease.</p>\n<p><br /><a href=\\\"/blogfiles/commercial.pdf\\\">To download a copy of the co</a><a href=\\\"/blogfiles/commercial.pdf\\\">e</a><a href=\\\"http://www.stlouiscnr.com/blogfiles/Commercial.pdf\\\">.</a><a href=\\\"/blogfiles/commercial.pdf\\\">mmercial report, click her</a></p>\n<p><br /><a href=\\\"http://www.stlouiscnr.com/blogfiles/Industrial.pdf\\\">To download a copy of the industrial report, click here. </a></p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"72\";}'),(1919,699,4,4,1255764663,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"699\";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:\"2009-10-16 08:58 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"72\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";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:61:\"C.B. Richard Ellis Third Quarter Report Show Slow Bounce Back\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:59:\"cb_richard_ellis_third_quarter_report_show_slow_bounce_back\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:61:\"C.B. Richard Ellis Third Quarter Report Show Slow Bounce Back\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:114:\"CB Richard Ellis has released its third quarter 2009 MarketViews for the St. Louis Office and Industrial markets. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:28:\"CBRE, industrial, commercial\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2758:\"<p>CB Richard Ellis has released its third quarter 2009 MarketViews for the St. Louis Office and Industrial markets. The MarketViews are comprehensive reviews of current leasing market statistics, including vacancy, availability, absorption and average asking rental rates. 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Her heart was so touched that she formed a group called Get The Word Out Missions.  Since then, GTWO has held successful peace rallies in a warring rural area of Kenya, conducted medical screening missions, and built a school.</p>\n<p>In August Karen sent her friends an email about Esther, a five-year-old Kenyan girl. Esther has a cancerous tumor in her neck that has surrounded her carotid artery. The condition is too complex to be treated in Kenya.</p>\n<p><br />Esther with Karen Smith<br />Karen became aware of Esther on her last trip to Kenya in June. Since then she has hoped to bring her to St. Louis for treatment.</p>\n<p>The way God works these things, Karen knew Doug Vanderslice, the CFO at BJC\\\'s Children\\\'s Hospital. I used to brew beer with Jeff Michalski, a pediatric oncologist on the BJC/Wash U. faculty. Jeff has huge heart and became Esther\\\'s champion in moving things forward</p>\n<p>When we couldn\\\'t get the medical records we needed from Kenya my sister Teri pointed out that my sister Peggy, in Atlanta, had done mission work in Kenya. It turned out that Peggy knew the head of the nursing faculty at the hospital where Esther had been treated.</p>\n<p>Through several months of these kinds of \\\"God moments,\\\" and lots of prayer and effort/cooperation among people in the U.S. and Kenya, Esther\\\'s treatment began to begin to look like a viable thing. Surgeons, ancillary services, and the medical faculty at Wash U. volunteered their services</p>\n<p>This past Friday, Oct. 16, Children\\\'s Hospital agreed to pay the cost of Esther\\\'s cancer treatment. BUT WE STILL NEED TO GET HER TO ST. LOUIS. It will cost about $4,000 to fly Esther and her guardian to St. Louis.</p>\n<p>If you can help with any amount, however small to help bring Esther to St. Louis It will be greatly appreciated. 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Her heart was so touched that she formed a group called\nGet The Word Out Missions. Since then, GTWO has held successful peace\nrallies in a warring rural area of Kenya, conducted medical screening\nmissions, and built a school.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Esther\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"310\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/esther-crop.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"248\\\" />In August Karen sent her friends an email about Esther, a\nfive-year-old Kenyan girl. Esther has a cancerous tumor in her neck\nthat has surrounded her carotid artery. The condition is too complex to\nbe treated in Kenya.</p>\n<p></p>\n<h4>Esther with Karen Smith</h4>\n<p>Karen became aware of Esther on her\nlast trip to Kenya in June. Since then she has hoped to bring her to\nSt. Louis for treatment.</p>\n<p>The way God works these things, Karen knew Doug Vanderslice, the CFO\nat BJC\\\'s Children\\\'s Hospital. I used to brew beer with Jeff Michalski,\na pediatric oncologist on the BJC/Wash U. faculty. Jeff has huge heart\nand became Esther\\\'s champion in moving things forward</p>\n<p>When we couldn\\\'t get the medical records we needed from Kenya my\nsister Teri pointed out that my sister Peggy, in Atlanta, had done\nmission work in Kenya. It turned out that Peggy knew the head of the\nnursing faculty at the hospital where Esther had been treated.</p>\n<p>Through several months of these kinds of \\\"God moments,\\\" and lots of\nprayer and effort/cooperation among people in the U.S. and Kenya,\nEsther\\\'s treatment began to begin to look like a viable thing.\nSurgeons, ancillary services, and the medical faculty at Wash U.\nvolunteered their services</p>\n<p>This past Friday, Oct. 16, Children\\\'s Hospital agreed to pay the\ncost of Esther\\\'s cancer treatment. BUT WE STILL NEED TO GET HER TO ST.\nLOUIS. It will cost about $4,000 to fly Esther and her guardian to St.\nLouis.</p>\n<p>If you can help with any amount, however small to help bring Esther\nto St. Louis It will be greatly appreciated. Get the Word Out, Inc. is\na 501(c)(3) charity, so your contribution is fully deductible.</p>\n<p>Thanks for your support, and always for your prayers.</p>\n<p>Tom Finan</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tom Signature\\\" height=\\\"89\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tom signature.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"178\\\" /></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>533 Colebrook, Suite A <br />St. Louis, MO 63119 <br />(e) tom@finan.com | (w) www.finan.com <br />(d) 314.961.4087 |&nbsp; (c) 314-517-2466<br /></p>\";}'),(1925,687,2,4,1256689107,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"687\";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:\"2009-10-12 07:58 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"A Celebration of \\\'What\\\'s Right With Our Industry\\\'\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:46:\"a_celebration_of_whats_right_with_our_industry\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:52:\"A Celebration of \\\'What\\\'s Right With Our Industry\\\'\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:221:\"CNR\\\'s 40th birthday party, set for Oct. 29th, is \\\"all about what\\\'s right with our industry, especially in times like these,\\\" Publisher Tom Finan, IV said. 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Finan Jr. His was a larger vision for the St. Louis construction industry and for the St. Louis region. He believed passionately in the ability<br />of management and labor to work together. He believed in diversity. He believed that St. Louis could be something greater, because of<br />the people here.</p>\n<p>\\\"There has long been a crying need for a strong voice that will speak for men and women in the construction industry of<br />St. Louis, \\\" he wrote in a page-one editorial in the first issue of <em>CNR</em>. He called his publication, \\\"The Voice for the St. Louis Construction<br />Industry.\\\"</p>\n<p>Dad died in 1976, so he never got to see the amazing changes that have since occurred in our city and in our industry.</p>\n<p>Oct. 29th was a celebration of all that my dad believed in. That\\\'s why CNR\\\'s 40th birthday party, held at the downtown Missouri Athletic Club was a benefit for Habitat for Humanity. We called the event \\\"Raise the Roof\\\". Sponsor, auction item, and ticket sales for the The Habitat for Humanity/CNR Anniversary celebration benefit raised approximately $10,000 to further the work of Habitat St. Louis.</p>\n<p>Event sponsors were:</p>\n<p><br /><strong>Master Constructor Sponsor ($3,000)</strong></p>\n<p>The St. Louis Electrical Connection (IBEW Local One/St. Louis Chapter NECA); and Pipefitters Local 562/Sheetmetal Workers Local 36.</p>\n<p><strong>Builder Sponsor ($1,000)</strong></p>\n<p>Associated General Contractors of St. Louis; Arteaga Photography; Arch Engraving; Masonry Institute of St. Louis; Site Improvement Association; Stone Carlie; and Washington University - Sever Institute.</p>\n<p><br /><strong>Superintendent Sponsor ($500): </strong></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Aschinger Electric; Fabick-CAT; and Kozeny-Wagner.</p>\n<p>Kimberly McKinney, CEO of Habitat St. Louis thanked the contractors, union members, and suppliers in the audience for the role they<br />have played in Habitat St. Louis\\\' programs here. The gratitude of Habitat St. Louis was expressed without words by the simple fact that<br />McKinney and her senior staff were all at our construction industry event instead of at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where the St. Louis<br />Business Journal was honoring Habitat as a \\\"Hero of the Planet\\\" that same evening. Habitat St. Louis was responsible for the construction<br />of 27 LEED Platinum-certified houses in 2008, and is completing 24 more this year.</p>\n<p>My youngest sister, Teri Finan, who has been actively involved with Habitat for over five years, told movingly about ways<br />in which Habitat exemplifies Dad\\\'s beliefs in cooperative effort, diversity, and the rebuilding of St. Louis. We recognized the team effort that Dad so much believed in with the presentation of our 2009 CNR Regional Excellence Awards. The awards recognize projects that represent<br />successful team collaborations which advance our region and exemplify excellence in design, construction, and management.</p>\n<h4>Len Toenjes, CEO of AGC of St. Louis; Tom Finan; Josh Foster, president of</h4>\n<h4>J.E. Foster; Courtney Pittman, director of resources, Habitat for Humanity</h4>\n<h4>St. Louis; and Matt Lampe, business agent, IBEW Local One.</h4>\n<h4><br /></h4>\n<h4><br /></h4>\n<h4><br /></h4>\n<h4>A lively and engaged crowd of friends of CNR caught up with one another while</h4>\n<h4>supporting Habitat for Humanity St. Louis.</h4>\n<h4></h4>\n<p><br />Honorees were:</p>\n<p><br /><strong>Neighborhood Redevelopment:</strong><br />14th Street Mall<br />Owner: Crown Village Partners, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group &amp; Regional Housing &amp; Community Development Alliance<br />Architect: Rosemann &amp; Associates<br />General Contractor: E.M. Harris Construction Company</p>\n<p><strong><br />Historic Renovation</strong><br />Cannon Design Headquarters &ndash; Powerhouse Building<br />Owner: Cannon Design<br />Architect: Cannon Design<br />General Contractor: R.G. Ross<br />Construction Company</p>\n<p><strong><br />Infrastructure</strong><br />Coldwater Creak Treatment Facility<br />Owner: Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District<br />Engineer: Black &amp; Veatch<br />Construction Manager: KAI/Jacobs-Joint Venture<br />General Contractor: Goodwin Brothers Construction Co.<strong><br /></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Public Building</strong><br />Cottleville City Hall<br />Owner: City of Cottleville, MO<br />Architect: Kostecki Architects<br />Construction Manager: Paric Corporation<br />General Contractor: C. 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Steve Schoemehl, business agent for Local One, and Doug Martin, executive<br />director of NECA, noted the commitment that their members have displayed to the people of the St. Louis community and to Habitat for<br />Humanity in particular.</p>\n<p>Since 2003, IBEW/NECA have completed more than 150 Habitat homes - representing about a $760,000 community gift - and have<br />attracted more than 500 electricians to work together with NECA contractors to build the Habitat homes. They\\\'ve also made significant<br />electrical repairs to about 260 homes owned by low-income, elderly people -- completed by nearly 700 IBEW and NECA volunteers - at<br />a value approaching $400,000. My Dad would have been tickled to see the folks that we decided to recognize with an award named<br />after him.</p>\n<p>Dad used to say, \\\"The \\\'News\\\' depends upon its friends.\\\" Corny? Sure. Sincere? You bet. The truth? 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Finan Jr. His was a larger vision for the St. Louis construction industry and for the St. Louis region. He believed passionately in the ability<br />of management and labor to work together. He believed in diversity. He believed that St. Louis could be something greater, because of<br />the people here.</p>\n<h4><img alt=\\\"Len Toenjes and others at CNR 40th\\\" height=\\\"173\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/toenjes.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"255\\\" />Len Toenjes, CEO of AGC of St. Louis; Tom Finan; Josh Foster, president of J.E. Foster; Courtney Pittman, director of resources, Habitat for Humanity St. Louis; and Matt Lampe, business agent, IBEW Local One.</h4>\n<p>\\\"There has long been a crying need for a strong voice that will speak for men and women in the construction industry of<br />St. Louis, \\\" he wrote in a page-one editorial in the first issue of <em>CNR</em>. He called his publication, \\\"The Voice for the St. Louis Construction<br />Industry.\\\"</p>\n<p>Dad died in 1976, so he never got to see the amazing changes that have since occurred in our city and in our industry.</p>\n<p>Oct. 29th was a celebration of all that my dad believed in. That\\\'s why CNR\\\'s 40th birthday party, held at the downtown Missouri Athletic Club was a benefit for Habitat for Humanity. We called the event \\\"Raise the Roof\\\". Sponsor, auction item, and ticket sales for the The Habitat for Humanity/CNR Anniversary celebration benefit raised approximately $10,000 to further the work of Habitat St. Louis.</p>\n<p>Event sponsors were:</p>\n<p><br /><strong>Master Constructor Sponsor ($3,000)</strong></p>\n<p>The St. Louis Electrical Connection (IBEW Local One/St. Louis Chapter NECA); and Pipefitters Local 562/Sheetmetal Workers Local 36.</p>\n<p><strong>Builder Sponsor ($1,000)</strong></p>\n<p>Associated General Contractors of St. Louis; Arteaga Photography; Arch Engraving; Masonry Institute of St. Louis; Site Improvement Association; Stone Carlie; and Washington University - Sever Institute.</p>\n<p><br /><strong>Superintendent Sponsor ($500): </strong></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Aschinger Electric; Fabick-CAT; and Kozeny-Wagner.</p>\n<p>Kimberly McKinney, CEO of Habitat St. Louis thanked the contractors, union members, and suppliers in the audience for the role they<br />have played in Habitat St. Louis\\\' programs here. The gratitude of Habitat St. Louis was expressed without words by the simple fact that<br />McKinney and her senior staff were all at our construction industry event instead of at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where the St. Louis<br />Business Journal was honoring Habitat as a \\\"Hero of the Planet\\\" that same evening. Habitat St. Louis was responsible for the construction<br />of 27 LEED Platinum-certified houses in 2008, and is completing 24 more this year.</p>\n<p>My youngest sister, Teri Finan, who has been actively involved with Habitat for over five years, told movingly about ways<br />in which Habitat exemplifies Dad\\\'s beliefs in cooperative effort, diversity, and the rebuilding of St. Louis. We recognized the team effort that Dad so much believed in with the presentation of our 2009 CNR Regional Excellence Awards. The awards recognize projects that represent<br />successful team collaborations which advance our region and exemplify excellence in design, construction, and management.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h4><img alt=\\\"40th anniversary fundraiser\\\" height=\\\"154\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/room.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"255\\\" />A lively and engaged crowd of friends of CNR caught up with one another while supporting Habitat for Humanity St. Louis.</h4>\n<h4></h4>\n<p><br />Honorees were:</p>\n<p><br /><strong>Neighborhood Redevelopment:</strong><br />14th Street Mall<br />Owner: Crown Village Partners, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group &amp; Regional Housing &amp; Community Development Alliance<br />Architect: Rosemann &amp; Associates<br />General Contractor: E.M. Harris Construction Company</p>\n<p><strong><br />Historic Renovation</strong><br />Cannon Design Headquarters &ndash; Powerhouse Building<br />Owner: Cannon Design<br />Architect: Cannon Design<br />General Contractor: R.G. Ross<br />Construction Company</p>\n<p><strong><br />Infrastructure</strong><br />Coldwater Creak Treatment Facility<br />Owner: Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District<br />Engineer: Black &amp; Veatch<br />Construction Manager: KAI/Jacobs-Joint Venture<br />General Contractor: Goodwin Brothers Construction Co.<strong><br /></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Public Building</strong><br />Cottleville City Hall<br />Owner: City of Cottleville, MO<br />Architect: Kostecki Architects<br />Construction Manager: Paric Corporation<br />General Contractor: C. 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Steve Schoemehl, business agent for Local One, and Doug Martin, executive<br />director of NECA, noted the commitment that their members have displayed to the people of the St. Louis community and to Habitat for<br />Humanity in particular.</p>\n<p>Since 2003, IBEW/NECA have completed more than 150 Habitat homes - representing about a $760,000 community gift - and have<br />attracted more than 500 electricians to work together with NECA contractors to build the Habitat homes. They\\\'ve also made significant<br />electrical repairs to about 260 homes owned by low-income, elderly people -- completed by nearly 700 IBEW and NECA volunteers - at<br />a value approaching $400,000. My Dad would have been tickled to see the folks that we decided to recognize with an award named<br />after him.</p>\n<p>Dad used to say, \\\"The \\\'News\\\' depends upon its friends.\\\" Corny? Sure. Sincere? You bet. The truth? 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Maybe it\\\'s at work in your company. Poor relationships between employees can be a tough nut to crack.<br />Frequently, some of these folks are more concerned with winning the battle than winning the war. They may not be \\\"traitors\\\"- as referenced in Cicero\\\'s quote - in that their goal isn\\\'t to intentionally undermine the business, but they might as well be. The impact is the<br />same.</p>\n<p>In my own businesses, I\\\'ve had employees who didn\\\'t get along and it affected the operation. In each case, my solution was simple and straightforward: \\\"I can\\\'t force you to like each other. But I absolutely insist you treat each other cordially, respectfully and professionally. It\\\'s not optional. If you can\\\'t do that, then one or both of you must leave.\\\"</p>\n<p>This gets especially sticky in a family business, when family members are the ones who can\\\'t get along. Sometimes, the parties involved have an ownership stake. 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Wilson Will Renovate Fontbonne\\\'s A-B Hall\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:44:\"s_m_wilson_will_renovate_fontbonnes_a_b_hall\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:42:\"Wilson Will Renovate Fontbonne\\\'s A-B Hall\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:195:\"S. M. Wilson & Co. has been selected by Fontbonne University to renovate and expand the recently dedicated Anheuser-Busch Hall, a three-story building on the university\\\'s main campus in Clayton.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:33:\"Wilson, Anheuser-Busch, Fontbonne\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1574:\"<p>S. M. Wilson &amp; Co. has been selected by Fontbonne University to renovate and expand the recently dedicated Anheuser-Busch Hall, a three-story building on the university\\\'s main campus in Clayton.  S. M. 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Alexander recently served for over five years as President and CEO of Emmaus Homes, Inc. Alexander brings tremendous talent and dedication to her new position.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Judy Alexander\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"210\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Judy-Alexander.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"150\\\" /></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h4>Judy ALExander, Clayco\\\'s NEW CFO<br /></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Prior to serving at Emmaus, Alexander was Chief Financial &amp; Operating Officer for Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) where she was responsible for overseeing the $25 million construction of and financing for new school and research facilg Officer for Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) where she was responsible for overseeing the $25 million consities.  Bob Clark, chairman and CEO of Clayco, served as President of the Board of CID and as interim Executive Director, during which time Alexander reported to Clark. The two worked hand in hand to reposition the organization through a series of program mergers with the Washington University School of Medicine. Alexander continues to serve on CID\\\'s Board of Managers.</p>\n<p>\\\"We are excited to welcome Judy to the Clayco team and know that her exceptional experiences from Emmaus Homes and throughout her career have positioned her for success with Clayco and as a supportive member of the business community,\\\" said Clark.<br /> <br />Emmaus Homes is a not-for-profit organization serving adults with developmental disabilities in the St. Louis area, since 2004. During her tenure, Alexander has been instrumental in trimming costs and acquiring additional state funding for the 116-year-old organization, providing the groundwork for upcoming building projects.<br /> <br />Alexander brings to the position significant contributions to the community and expertise in the financial sector that will provide Clayco\\\'s team with additional support to continue its success in the corporate, financial, industrial, institutional, government and residential markets. \\\"I am very excited to work for an organization that has such an outstanding reputation in the community,\\\" said Alexander, \\\"I look forward to adding my expertise to the Clayco team and continuing their record of service excellence.\\\"  <br /></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"7\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_2\";s:2:\"73\";}'),(1937,705,4,4,1257963899,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"705\";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:\"2009-11-11 06:33 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"73\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";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:62:\"Mungenast Opens First Lexus Dealership Built to LEED Standards\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:62:\"mungenast_opens_first_lexus_dealership_built_to_leed_standards\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:62:\"Mungenast Opens First Lexus Dealership Built to LEED Standards\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:138:\"Dave Mungenast Lexus of St. Louis opened the the first Lexus new car dealership built to LEED-NC standards in the United States on Nov. 4.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:29:\"Mungenast, LEED, dealership  \";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:5137:\"<p>Dave Mungenast Lexus of St. Louis announced the opening of what is poised to be the first LEED-NC certified Lexus new car dealership in the United States.</p>\n<p>The new dealership facility - located at 13700 Manchester Road in Manchester, Missouri - is the first Lexus new car dealership facility planned and built from the ground-up, adhering to stringent LEED for New Construction (LEED-NC) Certification guidelines.  The entire dealership project, once opened, will be the best example nationally of ecological responsibility for Lexus and luxury car owners.</p>\n<p>LEED (Leadership in Energy &amp; Environmental Design) is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. It evaluates environmental performance from a whole-building perspective, providing the standard for a \\\"green building.\\\" The LEED designation was created by the United States Green Building Council in 1994. Nationally, there are approximately 2,476 LEED-certified buildings classified as \\\"Green\\\" by the USGBC, with only 1,600 of those certified with the LEED-NC designation.</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'re committed to environmental responsibility and we intend to demonstrate the depth of that commitment by our actions with the construction and operation of this new Lexus dealership facility,\\\" comments Ray Mungenast, President of Dave Mungenast Lexus of St. Louis.</p>\n<p><br />The 70,000 square foot, two-story building showcases a showroom and service lounge featuring the latest in upscale customer amenities. The facility also houses a state-of-the-art 32 bay service area with a complimentary car wash and detail area behind the showroom, which will be able to accommodate not only Lexus models but all types of luxury vehicles.</p>\n<p>The building was designed and planned with various environmentally-friendly aspects and constructed with state-of-the-art materials, including insulated architectural precast panels and aluminum curtain walls with high-performance glazing. The roof was designed and constructed with special layers of insulation and a white membrane to reduce the heat island effect and lower energy consumption. The HVAC and electrical systems are highly efficient with advanced controls and sensors. Low-flow plumbing fixtures were installed to reduce water usage. The dealership facility has a stormwater management system in place to manage the quantity and rate of storm water runoff. And the landscaping is a water-efficient design which utilizes native plants in select areas and reduces the amount of irrigation required for the proper appearance. The new building will reduce potable water by over 40% percent and use over 15% percent less energy.</p>\n<p>Other considerations for the environment include the selection of finishes and the use materials such as certified woods, low VOC products, and recycled materials throughout the dealership. The environmentally-friendly design and construction of the new dealership is LEED registered, and is tracking for a LEED Silver designation.</p>\n<p>Mungenast notes, \\\"This project definitely involved some additional upfront expenses to meet the stringent LEED Certification standards. And our commitment to the environment didn\\\'t end there; our ongoing, daily operations will be higher than normal due to the fact that every possible item, service and process will have a recyclable directive.\\\" He continues, \\\"But we know that ultimately we will reap the benefits of this green building through lower operation costs, due to the efficiencies that were designed and implemented into the construction of our new facility.\\\"</p>\n<p>The development, contractor and construction companies who worked on the new \\\"Green\\\" Lexus dealership includes HDA Architects and Holland Construction Services, Inc. as the major partners. Other partners included Acorn Landscaping, Ameri-Structure, Inc., Budrovich Excavating, Cole &amp; Associates, Inc., Geotechnology, Inc., Kaiser Electric, Maddock, Henson &amp; Haberstroh and Murphy Company. Vertegy served as the LEED consultant on the project.</p>\n<p>According to Robin Wear, Vertegy\\\'s Manager of Operations, \\\"Dave Mungenast Lexus of St. Louis and the entire project team should be commended for their forward thinking and dedication to sustainability which pushed this &lsquo;atypical LEED project\\\' to employ innovative strategies to accomplish the project\\\'s LEED goals.\\\" Wear also mentioned the appreciation on the part of the contractors/subcontractors for the dealership to move forward with this important ecological project in a down economy.</p>\n<p>The new dealership facility is a concrete example of Dave Mungenast Lexus of St. Louis\\\' and the Mungenast Family\\\'s enduring commitment to preserving the environment for future generations - exemplified throughout the development and construction of this green facility, as well as the implementation of ecologically responsible operational initiatives. Mungenast comments, \\\"It\\\'s not even about this specific dealership.  It\\\'s really about us, our customers and the world we leave our kids and grandkids.\\\"</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"73\";}'),(1938,709,4,4,1258450895,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2009-11-16 10:37 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"74\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:39:\"Koman Opens Lafayette Square Walgreens \";s:9:\"url_title\";s:38:\"koman_opens_lafayette_square_walgreens\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:39:\"Koman Opens Lafayette Square Walgreens \";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:149:\"Koman Properties recently held a ceremony to mark the opening of the $4.5 million, 14,820-square-foot, newly-developed Walgreens in Lafayette Square.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:35:\"Koman, Lafayette Square, Walgreens \";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2001:\"<p>\n<meta name=\\\"Title\\\" />\n<meta name=\\\"Keywords\\\" />\n<meta content=\\\"text/html; charset=utf-8\\\" />\n<meta content=\\\"Word.Document\\\" name=\\\"ProgId\\\" />\n<meta content=\\\"Microsoft Word 10\\\" name=\\\"Generator\\\" />\n<meta content=\\\"Microsoft Word 10\\\" name=\\\"Originator\\\" />\n<link href=\\\"file:///Users/tom/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Clipboard/msoclip1/01/clip_clip_filelist.xml\\\" rel=\\\"File-List\\\" />\n<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal\n  0\n  0\n  1\n  311\n  1774\n  PGD\n  14\n  3\n  2178\n  10.265 </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> 0\n  0\n  0 </xml><![endif]-->\n<style></style>\nAlongside\nrepresentatives from the City of St. Louis and Walgreens, Koman Properties recently held a ceremony to mark the opening of the $4.5\nmillion, 14,820-square-foot, newly-developed Walgreens in Lafayette Square. The\nexterior of this built-to-suit location at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and\nTruman Parkway was uniquely-designed to fit within the context of the\narchitecture found in the historic Lafayette Square neighborhood.</p>\n<p>\\\"It\nhas been a pleasure to once again work with the City of St. Louis on a revitalization\nproject,\\\" commented Terry Barnes, senior vice-president of development for\nKoman Properties. \\\"With the completion of the Lafayette Square location, Koman\nProperties now has three Walgreens within the city limits. We remain hopeful\nthat this location, much like the ones at Kingshighway and Natural Bridge, and\nGrand Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, will serve as a catalyst for\ngrowth and opportunity in an underserved area.\\\"</p>\n<p>The\nproject development team for the Lafayette Square Walgreens included Koman\nProperties, IMPACT Strategies, Tri Architects and Civil Engineering Design Consultants,\nwho served as the real estate developer, general contractor, architect and\nengineer, respectively. The St. Louis Development Corporation and the City\nHospital\\\'s Development Company were credited with providing assistance with\nproperty acquisition and development.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"74\";}'),(2073,775,2,4,1264357105,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-01-24 07:16 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";i:1;s:2:\"83\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:12:\"Who Are You?\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:11:\"who_are_you\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:12:\"Who Are You?\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:97:\"Inscribed over the door of the ancient Greek temple at Delphi was the aphorism \\\"Know yourself.\\\"\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:27:\"marketing, Tom Finan, AGC, \";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4390:\"<p><em>by Tom Finan, Publisher, CNR</em></p>\n<p>Inscribed over the door of the ancient Greek temple at Delphi was the aphorism \\\"Know yourself.\\\"</p>\n<p>I\\\'m thinking of having decals made with that message - maybe in Greek so it won\\\'t be so obvious - and handing them out folks in our industry to post over the doors of their businesses.</p>\n<p>In mid-January I sat in by conference call on the regular meeting of the Associated General Contractors of America marketing committee, on which I serve.  The discussion ranged from how to present a contractor\\\'s sustainability practices to emerging markets such as wind power.</p>\n<p>A bigger question that arose out of those discussions is, \\\"Why?\\\" Why are we discussing LEED, BIM, or IPD with buyers of construction services? Is it because they truly understand the benefits they can derive from such approaches or is it because in the biggest buyers\\\' market in half a century they want to pile everything they can into their shopping cart?</p>\n<p>In our meeting Hoyt Lowder, senior vice president of FMI Corporation, the construction management and investment banking consultant, suggested that asking good questions and helping customers to understand what they really want is can lead to being able to our industry eventually charge for those services, as happened with such approaches as program management in the past.</p>\n<p>I had lunch a couple days before the AGC meeting with the chief purchasing agent for an educational institution. As an experienced buyer of construction, he told me that he truly appreciates the value of relationships and knowledge in the designers and contractors he works with. \\\"But my president is reading the same journals as everyone else in his profession and the front page is telling him that he\\\'s in a buyers\\\' market for construction. So right now we have to bid everything and negotiate harder. When this current situation turns around, the relationships will prevail.\\\"</p>\n<p>At the January meeting of the Midwest Council, American Subcontractors Association George Biderman, account executive for McGraw Hill and a former marketing director for area GCs, told the audience that we have been spoiled by the length of 18-year cycle that bottomed out with a thud in 2009. During that cycle there was so much work that companies didn\\\'t need to figure out what they were really good at.  As someone in the AGC marketing meeting pointed out dryly, there\\\'s plenty of time for introspection now. And on some level\\\'s that\\\'s a good thing.</p>\n<p>Last year at this time I taught a webinar for that American Subcontractors Association titled \\\"Getting the Right Customers.\\\"  David Mendes, ASA\\\'s education director teased me that our attendance would have been higher if the webinar had been called \\\"Getting Customers.\\\"</p>\n<p>In that webinar I outlined what I called \\\"Finan\\\'s Rules\\\".  Rule number one was, \\\"There is no good business with bad people.\\\"  Rule number two was, \\\"Strong marketing cannot help bad business practices. \\\" You get the idea. In that seminar I also cited one of our local industry\\\'s more quotable pundits, Dick Stockenberg of Gallop Johnson Neuman. Dick told me, \\\"When times are tough, contractors tend to stray outside their comfort zone. The best contractors are sticking to markets that they\\\'re good in.\\\"</p>\n<p>That\\\'s not to say that firms in our industry should not get into new areas or add new tools to their toolboxes. The important thing to understand how those new markets and services align with who our business is.  Think of the relationship with buyers of construction as a marriage. In every marriage there is always a need for accommodation and change. But if one person is trying to change what he or she is to fit a definition imposed by their partner, that relationship is doomed from the get-go.</p>\n<p>As a part of a family that has worked for three generations in the construction industry I have found that the companies that are most successful in this business are those who understand what they are... and what they are not.</p>\n<p>My Dad liked to remind me of Polonius\\\' advice to his son Laertes in Shakespeare\\\'s Hamlet:</p>\n<p>\\\"This above all: to thine own self be true,<br />And it must follow, as the night the day,<br />Thou canst not then be false to any man.\\\"</p>\n<p>Who are you?</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"83\";}'),(1941,710,2,4,1258453939,'a:30:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"710\";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:\"2009-11-16 10:47 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";i:1;s:2:\"74\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:50:\"\\\"Nine North\\\" Brings Urban Mixed-Use to St. Louis\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:45:\"nine_north_brings_urban_mixed_use_to_st_louis\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:52:\"\\\'\\\"Nine North\\\" Brings Urban Mixed-Use to St. Louis\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:134:\"True, urban mixed-use development has arrived in St. Louis, thanks to Opus Northwest, LLC and St. Louis City Treasurer Larry Williams.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:24:\"Nine North, Opus, Kaiser\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:9799:\"<p>True, urban mixed-use development has arrived in St. Louis, thanks to Opus Northwest, LLC and St. Louis City Treasurer Larry Williams.</p>\n<p>This pioneering project in the city\\\'s Central West End integrates residential condos, a public parking garage, and streetside retail into<br />what looks like a single, stylish building. The mayor\\\'s office in St. Louis named the project, dubbed Nine North by developer Opus Northwest, the \\\"Development of the Year\\\" in St. Louis in 2009. Located at Nine North Euclid Avenue, the $18 million facility is adjacent to Park East Tower, the high-rise condominium building also developed by Opus Northwest.</p>\n<p>The residential condos have what Opus Director of Construction Joseph Downs calls \\\"an urban contemporary style,\\\" with floor-to-ceiling<br />windows punctuating the precast brick exterior and an interior that features open floor plans combined with 10-foot ceilings, wood floors,<br />granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances. Each residence has a private balcony overlooking an urban garden and swimming pool built<br />on top of the parking garage.</p>\n<p>\\\"It was a challenge to design an urban, modern product that fits the context of an historical neighborhood and still strikes a chord with the<br />St. Louis market,\\\" Downs said. \\\"We\\\'ve found that the St. Louis market can only accept so much progression. If we were building in New York City,<br />we would build something a generation or two ahead of this. This has more of a homey feel to it than we would build in New York,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We characterized these units as a value purchase,\\\" Downs said \\\"They are not luxury units, but they are not lofts; they have modern amenities,\\\"<br />he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We spent a lot of time talking about how to strike a chord with St. Louis; it was something we talked about every week,\\\" he added.<br />Opus pre-sold the first residential condo of 52 in May, and by press time had sold 28 more. The retail units also are condos. The first sold in<br />April and the rest sold out during the summer.</p>\n<p>Like Park East Tower, Nine North began as a parking lot. Both projects have increased residential and consumer density in one of the city\\\'s most vibrant neighborhoods without sacrificing any existing buildings or traditional streetscape. The parking lot that occupied the site of Nine North was owned by the city.</p>\n<p>Downs said that the city treasurer\\\'s office, which operates city owned parking lots, was the main catalyst for this project. \\\"They really pushed it<br />forward,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The city retained ownership of the land and contracted with Opus to design and build a garage, which the city would own. Opus bought the air rights above the city property for condos, Downs explained. The finished facility has three ownership entities: the City of St. Louis, a retail condo association, and a residential condo association.</p>\n<p>\\\"We have reciprocal easements, common and shared mechanical and electrical systems, and common and shared property management and snow removal,\\\" Downs said.</p>\n<p>\\\"This maybe unusual for St. Louis, but we\\\'ve done deals like this elsewhere. This is what we consider a typical urban, mixed-use project,\\\" he said. That familiarity with the legal underpinnings of such projects helped pave the way for this one.</p>\n<p>\\\"The ability to articulate the ownership arrangement and how the pieces would work together was the key not just to getting the project off the ground, but also to making it explainable to prospective buyers,\\\" said Downs.</p>\n<p>Structurally, the garage is post-tensioned concrete while the condos use a metal truss and joist system.</p>\n<p>Gateway Panel, Inc., an affiliated company of Grau Contracting, provided a panelized wall system for the exterior walls, interior load bearing walls, and shear walls, and a floor truss system. The exterior wall panels delivered to the site included the metal framing, exterior sheathing, and Tyvek vapor barrier. \\\"We also incorporated Red Iron into the exterior wall panels to support the precast that is the exterior finish cladding,\\\" said Brian Shropshire, project manager for Gateway Panel.</p>\n<p>\\\"This project was unique for us and presented some unusual challenges,\\\" Shropshire said. From marrying the panel system to the concrete garage, to soundproofing, to developing ways to move panels without a crane, the Nine North project, \\\"pushed us to create new ideas and test our products in areas we had not considered before, and our company is better for it,\\\" he said. One of the challenges was soundproofing the light gauge floor truss system that was topped with a post-tensioned concrete slab.</p>\n<p>Two rating systems relate to soundproofing. The Sound Transmission Class (STC) rating measures the reduction of air-borne noise from one side of a partition to the other. Or, in others words, the amount of the noise from one room that you can hear in the neighboring room. The Impact Isolation Class<br />(IIC) rating measures the reduction of impact noise from one side of a partition to another. In everyday terms, it might measure, for example, how loud footsteps sound when someone walks on the floor above you in hard soled shoes.</p>\n<p>Achieving the STC and IIC ratings that<br />Opus wanted at Nine North was a challenge, said Shropshire. \\\"That took many hours of brainstorming and testing different products until we found a breakthrough. Our light gauge floor truss system now offers extremely high STC and IIC ratings,\\\" he said. Gateway Panel\\\'s floor truss system also received a two-hour fire rating from United Laboratories (UL) during the project.</p>\n<p>The proximity of Park East Tower meant that the crane could not reach every part of the job site. So, \\\"we invented a panel cart for moving panels across the concrete slab to their set location,\\\" said Shropshire.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Nine North\\\" class=\\\"table-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/nine-north.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /><br />Kaiser Electric Co. was the design/build electrical contractor for the garage and the residential condos and installed the distribution panel for the retail spaces. Kaiser Electric also installed the fire alarm, life safety, and telecommunications systems.</p>\n<p>\\\"It was comparable to a loft job,\\\" said Michael Murphy, Kaiser Electric\\\'s project manager.</p>\n<p>\\\"We had three different turnover times on the building,\\\" Murphy said. \\\"The public garage was completed and opened first, substantially sooner than the rest of the building, so everything that goes through the garage to service the retail and residential units had to be completed before the garage was done,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"In order to save time and money, we buried the feeder cables - they were PVC coated, metal clad cables - for the residential units in the thickened slab on top of the parking garage. That way, we could get the electrical service over to the residential units without hanging large pipe racks from the garage ceiling,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>They used high output T8 florescent lamps in the garage instead of the more traditional metal halide lamps. \\\"Sustainability was a top concern for Opus and the City of St. Louis, and for us that meant creating the desired light levels in the most economical way possible,\\\"<br />Murphy said.</p>\n<p>As there was nowhere on the job site to store materials, Opus had to carefully coordinate the crane service with everyone\\\'s material deliveries. \\\"We tried to minimize deliveries to twice weekly so as to not take up a lot of crane time,\\\" Murphy said. \\\"The crane really was needed to lift the components of the building, such as the wall panels,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Waterhout Construction was responsible for all the field carpentry. \\\"We did all the woodblocking and backing; all the interior trim, cabinets, doors and hardware; and we did the deck around the pool,\\\" said Loren Bueneman, field manager for Waterhout.</p>\n<p>The pool deck utilized GeoDeck, a composite lumber made from rice hulls and reclaimed paper by-products. \\\"This was only the third project where we installed<br />GeoDeck,\\\" Bueneman said. Like all composites, it expands and contracts in the heat. At 3,000 square feet, the deck at Nine North was a very large deck and expansion could be a problem. \\\"To counter it, we allowed for moreventilation underneath the deck to even out the temperature between the top and the bottom,\\\" Bueneman said.</p>\n<p>Bueneman said the biggest challenge was the schedule Waterhout faced. \\\"The job fell behind in the early days because of concrete issues coming out of the ground and we had to help to make it up. And then each unit is like a separate house. Different owners have different cabinet options and different contracts for moving in. That makes it challenging, but our site foreman, Todd Borrini, did a heck-of-a job managing those issues,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We really enjoyed working with Opus. They did a first-rate job coordinating the crane to get our materials up in an efficient manner. And administratively, they use a computer system, Hypen BuildPro,that helped generate an efficient schedule and effectively handled billing,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"A mixed-use project is always more complex,\\\" Downs said. \\\"These three subcontractors were most crucial to the project\\\'s success. Each of them performed at an extremely high level in both management and field operations on critical path work under extreme schedule constraints,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"It was great working with Opus,\\\" said Kaiser Electric\\\'s Murphy. \\\"They allowed us to do things correctly. They were trying to build a quality product and it showed in how they handled themselves,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:30:\"/images/uploads/nine-north.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"74\";}'),(1942,710,2,4,1258453996,'a:30:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"710\";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:\"2009-11-16 10:47 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";i:1;s:2:\"74\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:50:\"\\\"Nine North\\\" Brings Urban Mixed-Use to St. Louis\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:45:\"nine_north_brings_urban_mixed_use_to_st_louis\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:52:\"\\\'\\\"Nine North\\\" Brings Urban Mixed-Use to St. Louis\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:134:\"True, urban mixed-use development has arrived in St. Louis, thanks to Opus Northwest, LLC and St. Louis City Treasurer Larry Williams.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:24:\"Nine North, Opus, Kaiser\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:9807:\"<p>True, urban mixed-use development has arrived in St. Louis, thanks to Opus Northwest, LLC and St. Louis City Treasurer Larry Williams.</p>\n<p>This pioneering project in the city\\\'s Central West End integrates residential condos, a public parking garage, and streetside retail into<br />what looks like a single, stylish building. The mayor\\\'s office in St. Louis named the project, dubbed Nine North by developer Opus Northwest, the \\\"Development of the Year\\\" in St. Louis in 2009. Located at Nine North Euclid Avenue, the $18 million facility is adjacent to Park East Tower, the high-rise condominium building also developed by Opus Northwest.</p>\n<p>The residential condos have what Opus Director of Construction Joseph Downs calls \\\"an urban contemporary style,\\\" with floor-to-ceiling<br />windows punctuating the precast brick exterior and an interior that features open floor plans combined with 10-foot ceilings, wood floors,<br />granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances. Each residence has a private balcony overlooking an urban garden and swimming pool built<br />on top of the parking garage.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Nine North\\\" class=\\\"table-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/nine-north.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<p>\\\"It was a challenge to design an urban, modern product that fits the context of an historical neighborhood and still strikes a chord with the<br />St. Louis market,\\\" Downs said. \\\"We\\\'ve found that the St. Louis market can only accept so much progression. If we were building in New York City,<br />we would build something a generation or two ahead of this. This has more of a homey feel to it than we would build in New York,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We characterized these units as a value purchase,\\\" Downs said \\\"They are not luxury units, but they are not lofts; they have modern amenities,\\\"<br />he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We spent a lot of time talking about how to strike a chord with St. Louis; it was something we talked about every week,\\\" he added.<br />Opus pre-sold the first residential condo of 52 in May, and by press time had sold 28 more. The retail units also are condos. The first sold in<br />April and the rest sold out during the summer.</p>\n<p>Like Park East Tower, Nine North began as a parking lot. Both projects have increased residential and consumer density in one of the city\\\'s most vibrant neighborhoods without sacrificing any existing buildings or traditional streetscape. The parking lot that occupied the site of Nine North was owned by the city.</p>\n<p>Downs said that the city treasurer\\\'s office, which operates city owned parking lots, was the main catalyst for this project. \\\"They really pushed it<br />forward,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The city retained ownership of the land and contracted with Opus to design and build a garage, which the city would own. Opus bought the air rights above the city property for condos, Downs explained. The finished facility has three ownership entities: the City of St. Louis, a retail condo association, and a residential condo association.</p>\n<p>\\\"We have reciprocal easements, common and shared mechanical and electrical systems, and common and shared property management and snow removal,\\\" Downs said.</p>\n<p>\\\"This maybe unusual for St. Louis, but we\\\'ve done deals like this elsewhere. This is what we consider a typical urban, mixed-use project,\\\" he said. That familiarity with the legal underpinnings of such projects helped pave the way for this one.</p>\n<p>\\\"The ability to articulate the ownership arrangement and how the pieces would work together was the key not just to getting the project off the ground, but also to making it explainable to prospective buyers,\\\" said Downs.</p>\n<p>Structurally, the garage is post-tensioned concrete while the condos use a metal truss and joist system.</p>\n<p>Gateway Panel, Inc., an affiliated company of Grau Contracting, provided a panelized wall system for the exterior walls, interior load bearing walls, and shear walls, and a floor truss system. The exterior wall panels delivered to the site included the metal framing, exterior sheathing, and Tyvek vapor barrier. \\\"We also incorporated Red Iron into the exterior wall panels to support the precast that is the exterior finish cladding,\\\" said Brian Shropshire, project manager for Gateway Panel.</p>\n<p>\\\"This project was unique for us and presented some unusual challenges,\\\" Shropshire said. From marrying the panel system to the concrete garage, to soundproofing, to developing ways to move panels without a crane, the Nine North project, \\\"pushed us to create new ideas and test our products in areas we had not considered before, and our company is better for it,\\\" he said. One of the challenges was soundproofing the light gauge floor truss system that was topped with a post-tensioned concrete slab.</p>\n<p>Two rating systems relate to soundproofing. The Sound Transmission Class (STC) rating measures the reduction of air-borne noise from one side of a partition to the other. Or, in others words, the amount of the noise from one room that you can hear in the neighboring room. The Impact Isolation Class<br />(IIC) rating measures the reduction of impact noise from one side of a partition to another. In everyday terms, it might measure, for example, how loud footsteps sound when someone walks on the floor above you in hard soled shoes.</p>\n<p>Achieving the STC and IIC ratings that<br />Opus wanted at Nine North was a challenge, said Shropshire. \\\"That took many hours of brainstorming and testing different products until we found a breakthrough. Our light gauge floor truss system now offers extremely high STC and IIC ratings,\\\" he said. Gateway Panel\\\'s floor truss system also received a two-hour fire rating from United Laboratories (UL) during the project.</p>\n<p>The proximity of Park East Tower meant that the crane could not reach every part of the job site. So, \\\"we invented a panel cart for moving panels across the concrete slab to their set location,\\\" said Shropshire.</p>\n<p><br />Kaiser Electric Co. was the design/build electrical contractor for the garage and the residential condos and installed the distribution panel for the retail spaces. Kaiser Electric also installed the fire alarm, life safety, and telecommunications systems.</p>\n<p>\\\"It was comparable to a loft job,\\\" said Michael Murphy, Kaiser Electric\\\'s project manager.</p>\n<p>\\\"We had three different turnover times on the building,\\\" Murphy said. \\\"The public garage was completed and opened first, substantially sooner than the rest of the building, so everything that goes through the garage to service the retail and residential units had to be completed before the garage was done,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"In order to save time and money, we buried the feeder cables - they were PVC coated, metal clad cables - for the residential units in the thickened slab on top of the parking garage. That way, we could get the electrical service over to the residential units without hanging large pipe racks from the garage ceiling,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>They used high output T8 florescent lamps in the garage instead of the more traditional metal halide lamps. \\\"Sustainability was a top concern for Opus and the City of St. Louis, and for us that meant creating the desired light levels in the most economical way possible,\\\"<br />Murphy said.</p>\n<p>As there was nowhere on the job site to store materials, Opus had to carefully coordinate the crane service with everyone\\\'s material deliveries. \\\"We tried to minimize deliveries to twice weekly so as to not take up a lot of crane time,\\\" Murphy said. \\\"The crane really was needed to lift the components of the building, such as the wall panels,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Waterhout Construction was responsible for all the field carpentry. \\\"We did all the woodblocking and backing; all the interior trim, cabinets, doors and hardware; and we did the deck around the pool,\\\" said Loren Bueneman, field manager for Waterhout.</p>\n<p>The pool deck utilized GeoDeck, a composite lumber made from rice hulls and reclaimed paper by-products. \\\"This was only the third project where we installed<br />GeoDeck,\\\" Bueneman said. Like all composites, it expands and contracts in the heat. At 3,000 square feet, the deck at Nine North was a very large deck and expansion could be a problem. \\\"To counter it, we allowed for moreventilation underneath the deck to even out the temperature between the top and the bottom,\\\" Bueneman said.</p>\n<p>Bueneman said the biggest challenge was the schedule Waterhout faced. \\\"The job fell behind in the early days because of concrete issues coming out of the ground and we had to help to make it up. And then each unit is like a separate house. Different owners have different cabinet options and different contracts for moving in. That makes it challenging, but our site foreman, Todd Borrini, did a heck-of-a job managing those issues,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We really enjoyed working with Opus. They did a first-rate job coordinating the crane to get our materials up in an efficient manner. And administratively, they use a computer system, Hypen BuildPro,that helped generate an efficient schedule and effectively handled billing,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"A mixed-use project is always more complex,\\\" Downs said. \\\"These three subcontractors were most crucial to the project\\\'s success. Each of them performed at an extremely high level in both management and field operations on critical path work under extreme schedule constraints,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"It was great working with Opus,\\\" said Kaiser Electric\\\'s Murphy. \\\"They allowed us to do things correctly. They were trying to build a quality product and it showed in how they handled themselves,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:30:\"/images/uploads/nine-north.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"74\";}'),(1943,711,5,4,1258454717,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";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:\"2009-11-16 11:34 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"12\";i:1;s:2:\"74\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:25:\"The Perils of Price First\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:25:\"the_perils_of_price_first\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:25:\"The Perils of Price First\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:1:\"7\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:102:\"The pressure of a tight economy, fewer projects, and poor buying methods has created a sales quagmire.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:5124:\"<p>Grandma always said; \\\"Be careful Sonny, you get what you pay for!\\\" Ah, ol\\\' Granny was right on the money! (To use an obvious pun.) The pressure<br />of a tight economy, fewer projects, and poor buying methods has created a sales quagmire.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Money Cut\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"205\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/moneycut.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"200\\\" />The mentality driving the attitude that \\\"the cheapest price is the best way to serve the customer\\\" is crippling our industry. It is rampant across<br />the board. No architect, general contractor, subcontractor or vendor can state they haven\\\'t felt the squeeze. Fear not! What goes around comes<br />around. For everyone from a project owner to a contractor buying a drill bit, buying strictly on price is dangerous. Let me point out a little bit of<br />common sense and you be the judge.</p>\n<p>When you focus on price you drive the supplier, whether of a product or service, to take his focus off of performing for the customer<br />to managing his cost to make a profit. As a result, corners get cut, change orders or extras appear, shoddy workmanship occurs, and exceptional<br />ser<img src=\\\"file:///Users/tom/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png\\\" />vice erodes. As it trickles down on the customer, it causes long-term damage to both future business and the supplier\\\'s reputation. The<br />sweet taste of an order or project won at a bargain basement price soon turns into a profitless nightmare.</p>\n<p>I deal with frustrated contactors,both subs and generals, that hate being so price focused, yet practice it themselves. By compromising your principles in order to win work, your short-term gain may affect your future success as your customers feel the tension of poor performance or focus. By not building the case for the value you bring to the table and thereby gaining competitive separation, you agree to compete on the price-based playing field. Of course, that\\\'s the easiest way to play. Selling takes time, work, and creativity. It\\\'s much easier to cut yourprice to the bone and hope to make a little profit on<br />the backside.</p>\n<p>Most contractor owners I speak with express a desire to partner with their clients and establish a loyal, mutually beneficial relationship. Then they turn into snake oil salesmen at bid time. Many blame the customer for the position they\\\'re put in. Sorry, I don\\\'t buy it. How does the facility owner know the proverbial cost to build his or her facility? That\\\'s why he or she gets bids. Is there the potential for inferior bids? Yup! Then your job is to educate the customer on the pitfalls of poor construction and inferior performance. As well as the smoke and mirrors game being played in the pricing formulas.</p>\n<p>This pattern will not last. The window is closing and will eventually slam shut. The buying community is becoming more astute and the trustfactor in construction, which was a challenge to begin with, is collapsing. This is a perilous sales dynamic at work. As prices are driven lower and lower, good contractors will struggle, reduce performance thresholds, and some will simply go under. Get ready folks &ndash; the \\\"rub\\\" is coming.</p>\n<p>What\\\'s the solution? Put adequate time and resources into your sales effort. Not just your marketing effort, but your sales effort. As you\\\'re cutting costs and people, you cannot afford to cut your sales expense. Nope, it\\\'s not an extravagance; it\\\'s a necessity. The more you cut your customer entertainment or contact, the more you\\\'ll end up cutting staff.</p>\n<p>Projects, work, or orders do not come in without hard sales itineraries. Partner with your suppliers and lock arms to approach the marketplace. Use sources that have good strong sales efforts themselves and combine strengths. The savings of loyalty to your sources far outweigh the short-term gain of an additional five percent or a few thousand dollars. Oh, and that bid that is so much lower than all the others is WRONG! They either made a mistake, are having financial<br />trouble, or are going to hit you hard with changes on the backside. Don\\\'t believe the unbelievable.</p>\n<p>The fact that firms are practicing unrealistic selling and buying dynamics will skew the market. If you feel that you cannot gain business without playing this pricing game, you will completely fall prey to it. Those sticking to their guns AND working their sales effort diligently are doing well even in this tough market. It is imperative to truly analyze where you are as a sales organization.</p>\n<p>Are you hitting on all cylinders? Is everyone busting tail to get in front of as many potential clients as possible? Are you easy to do business with? Are you really client focused or cost focused? Do you even have any pure sales talent in your firm? These are important questions to ask. With the cold edge of winter approaching, we\\\'re entering the hottest sales season. What\\\'s your plan, building value and driving sales activity or waiting it out till spring and then jumping right back into the price-first<br />abyss? 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One clip features the director of the Pew Center on Climate Change noting that the bamboo floor was imported from China and saying that no building that expends so much climate changing fuel to import items from far distances can be truly \\\"green.\\\"<br /> <br />Cheney, however, said it was the social tensions that surrounded the project that drew him to make the film. Initially, he was asked to take time lapse photography to be used in the marketing of the building. When setting up the cameras, the carpenters, who were building the camera housings, were arguing over whether \\\"green\\\" was a good thing or not. \\\"That\\\'s when we thought we might have a film here,\\\" Cheney said.<br /> <br />Cheney pointed to the safety meeting that opens the film. \\\"The workers are asking what a \\\"green building\\\" is and the safety director does his best, but he doesn\\\'t know to be able to tell them,\\\" he said. \\\"That really shows the gulf between the developer and the architect and their vision of what the building should be and the workers who are going to build it. And we thought that was interesting,\\\" he said.<br /> <br />Wolff said he will make he movie available for others in St. Louis to see. 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The gratitude of Habitat St. Louis was expressed without words by the simple fact that<br />McKinney and her senior staff were all at our construction industry event instead of at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where the St. Louis<br />Business Journal was honoring Habitat as a \\\"Hero of the Planet\\\" that same evening. Habitat St. Louis was responsible for the construction<br />of 27 LEED Platinum-certified houses in 2008, and is completing 24 more this year.</p>\n<p>My youngest sister, Teri Finan, who has been actively involved with Habitat for over five years, told movingly about ways<br />in which Habitat exemplifies Dad\\\'s beliefs in cooperative effort, diversity, and the rebuilding of St. Louis. We recognized the team effort that Dad so much believed in with the presentation of our 2009 CNR Regional Excellence Awards. The awards recognize projects that represent<br />successful team collaborations which advance our region and exemplify excellence in design, construction, and management.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<h4><img alt=\\\"40th anniversary fundraiser\\\" height=\\\"154\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/room.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"255\\\" />A lively and engaged crowd of friends of CNR caught up with one another while supporting Habitat for Humanity St. Louis.</h4>\n<h4></h4>\n<p><br />Honorees were:</p>\n<p><br /><strong>Neighborhood Redevelopment:</strong><br />14th Street Mall<br />Owner: Crown Village Partners, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group &amp; Regional Housing &amp; Community Development Alliance<br />Architect: Rosemann &amp; Associates<br />General Contractor: E.M. 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Steve Schoemehl, business agent for Local One, and Doug Martin, executive<br />director of NECA, noted the commitment that their members have displayed to the people of the St. Louis community and to Habitat for<br />Humanity in particular.</p>\n<p>Since 2003, IBEW/NECA have completed more than 150 Habitat homes - representing about a $760,000 community gift - and have<br />attracted more than 500 electricians to work together with NECA contractors to build the Habitat homes. They\\\'ve also made significant<br />electrical repairs to about 260 homes owned by low-income, elderly people -- completed by nearly 700 IBEW and NECA volunteers - at<br />a value approaching $400,000. My Dad would have been tickled to see the folks that we decided to recognize with an award named<br />after him.</p>\n<p>Dad used to say, \\\"The \\\'News\\\' depends upon its friends.\\\" Corny? Sure. Sincere? You bet. The truth? 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The mayor\\\'s office in St. Louis named the project, dubbed Nine North by developer Opus Northwest, the \\\"Development of the Year\\\" in St. Louis in 2009. Located at Nine North Euclid Avenue, the $18 million facility is adjacent to Park East Tower, the high-rise condominium building also developed by Opus Northwest.</p>\n<p>The residential condos have what Opus Director of Construction Joseph Downs calls \\\"an urban contemporary style,\\\" with floor-to-ceiling<br />windows punctuating the precast brick exterior and an interior that features open floor plans combined with 10-foot ceilings, wood floors,<br />granite countertops, and stainless steel appliances. Each residence has a private balcony overlooking an urban garden and swimming pool built<br />on top of the parking garage.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Nine North\\\" class=\\\"table-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/nine-north.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<p>\\\"It was a challenge to design an urban, modern product that fits the context of an historical neighborhood and still strikes a chord with the<br />St. Louis market,\\\" Downs said. \\\"We\\\'ve found that the St. Louis market can only accept so much progression. If we were building in New York City,<br />we would build something a generation or two ahead of this. This has more of a homey feel to it than we would build in New York,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We characterized these units as a value purchase,\\\" Downs said \\\"They are not luxury units, but they are not lofts; they have modern amenities,\\\"<br />he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We spent a lot of time talking about how to strike a chord with St. Louis; it was something we talked about every week,\\\" he added.<br />Opus pre-sold the first residential condo of 52 in May, and by press time had sold 28 more. The retail units also are condos. The first sold in<br />April and the rest sold out during the summer.</p>\n<p>Like Park East Tower, Nine North began as a parking lot. Both projects have increased residential and consumer density in one of the city\\\'s most vibrant neighborhoods without sacrificing any existing buildings or traditional streetscape. The parking lot that occupied the site of Nine North was owned by the city.</p>\n<p>Downs said that the city treasurer\\\'s office, which operates city owned parking lots, was the main catalyst for this project. \\\"They really pushed it<br />forward,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>The city retained ownership of the land and contracted with Opus to design and build a garage, which the city would own. Opus bought the air rights above the city property for condos, Downs explained. The finished facility has three ownership entities: the City of St. Louis, a retail condo association, and a residential condo association.</p>\n<p>\\\"We have reciprocal easements, common and shared mechanical and electrical systems, and common and shared property management and snow removal,\\\" Downs said.</p>\n<p>\\\"This maybe unusual for St. Louis, but we\\\'ve done deals like this elsewhere. This is what we consider a typical urban, mixed-use project,\\\" he said. That familiarity with the legal underpinnings of such projects helped pave the way for this one.</p>\n<p>\\\"The ability to articulate the ownership arrangement and how the pieces would work together was the key not just to getting the project off the ground, but also to making it explainable to prospective buyers,\\\" said Downs.</p>\n<p>Structurally, the garage is post-tensioned concrete while the condos use a metal truss and joist system.</p>\n<p>Gateway Panel, Inc., an affiliated company of Grau Contracting, provided a panelized wall system for the exterior walls, interior load bearing walls, and shear walls, and a floor truss system. The exterior wall panels delivered to the site included the metal framing, exterior sheathing, and Tyvek vapor barrier. \\\"We also incorporated Red Iron into the exterior wall panels to support the precast that is the exterior finish cladding,\\\" said Brian Shropshire, project manager for Gateway Panel.</p>\n<p>\\\"This project was unique for us and presented some unusual challenges,\\\" Shropshire said. From marrying the panel system to the concrete garage, to soundproofing, to developing ways to move panels without a crane, the Nine North project, \\\"pushed us to create new ideas and test our products in areas we had not considered before, and our company is better for it,\\\" he said. One of the challenges was soundproofing the light gauge floor truss system that was topped with a post-tensioned concrete slab.</p>\n<p>Two rating systems relate to soundproofing. The Sound Transmission Class (STC) rating measures the reduction of air-borne noise from one side of a partition to the other. Or, in others words, the amount of the noise from one room that you can hear in the neighboring room. The Impact Isolation Class<br />(IIC) rating measures the reduction of impact noise from one side of a partition to another. In everyday terms, it might measure, for example, how loud footsteps sound when someone walks on the floor above you in hard soled shoes.</p>\n<p>Achieving the STC and IIC ratings that<br />Opus wanted at Nine North was a challenge, said Shropshire. \\\"That took many hours of brainstorming and testing different products until we found a breakthrough. Our light gauge floor truss system now offers extremely high STC and IIC ratings,\\\" he said. Gateway Panel\\\'s floor truss system also received a two-hour fire rating from United Laboratories (UL) during the project.</p>\n<p>The proximity of Park East Tower meant that the crane could not reach every part of the job site. So, \\\"we invented a panel cart for moving panels across the concrete slab to their set location,\\\" said Shropshire.</p>\n<p><br />Kaiser Electric Co. was the design/build electrical contractor for the garage and the residential condos and installed the distribution panel for the retail spaces. Kaiser Electric also installed the fire alarm, life safety, and telecommunications systems.</p>\n<p>\\\"It was comparable to a loft job,\\\" said Michael Murphy, Kaiser Electric\\\'s project manager.</p>\n<p>\\\"We had three different turnover times on the building,\\\" Murphy said. \\\"The public garage was completed and opened first, substantially sooner than the rest of the building, so everything that goes through the garage to service the retail and residential units had to be completed before the garage was done,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"In order to save time and money, we buried the feeder cables - they were PVC coated, metal clad cables - for the residential units in the thickened slab on top of the parking garage. That way, we could get the electrical service over to the residential units without hanging large pipe racks from the garage ceiling,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>They used high output T8 florescent lamps in the garage instead of the more traditional metal halide lamps. \\\"Sustainability was a top concern for Opus and the City of St. Louis, and for us that meant creating the desired light levels in the most economical way possible,\\\"<br />Murphy said.</p>\n<p>As there was nowhere on the job site to store materials, Opus had to carefully coordinate the crane service with everyone\\\'s material deliveries. \\\"We tried to minimize deliveries to twice weekly so as to not take up a lot of crane time,\\\" Murphy said. \\\"The crane really was needed to lift the components of the building, such as the wall panels,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Waterhout Construction was responsible for all the field carpentry. \\\"We did all the woodblocking and backing; all the interior trim, cabinets, doors and hardware; and we did the deck around the pool,\\\" said Loren Bueneman, field manager for Waterhout.</p>\n<p>The pool deck utilized GeoDeck, a composite lumber made from rice hulls and reclaimed paper by-products. \\\"This was only the third project where we installed<br />GeoDeck,\\\" Bueneman said. Like all composites, it expands and contracts in the heat. At 3,000 square feet, the deck at Nine North was a very large deck and expansion could be a problem. \\\"To counter it, we allowed for moreventilation underneath the deck to even out the temperature between the top and the bottom,\\\" Bueneman said.</p>\n<p>Bueneman said the biggest challenge was the schedule Waterhout faced. \\\"The job fell behind in the early days because of concrete issues coming out of the ground and we had to help to make it up. And then each unit is like a separate house. Different owners have different cabinet options and different contracts for moving in. That makes it challenging, but our site foreman, Todd Borrini, did a heck-of-a job managing those issues,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>\\\"We really enjoyed working with Opus. They did a first-rate job coordinating the crane to get our materials up in an efficient manner. 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Contractors who are participants in this agreement have a cooperative relationship with OSHA where, among other benefits, they are exempt from routine OSHA inspections.</p>\n<p>Years ago, OSHA realized that their resources could be better utilized by not wasting efforts visiting workplaces that are already being closely monitored for safety, and that have a superior safety culture in place.  Only contractors meeting a strict set of safety criteria are allowed to participate in the Partnership agreement, thus freeing up OSHA to inspect more suspect workplaces.</p>\n<h4><img alt=\\\"OSHA Partnership Signing\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"273\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/OSHA-PARTNERSHIP-SIGNING_2.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"400\\\" />Primary parties signatory to the partnership agreement are Scott Wilson, chairman of the board, AGC of St. Louis; and, Bill McDonald, area director, OSHA-St. Louis Area Office (seated).&nbsp; Standing, representing support and agreement by their organization (L to R):&nbsp; Vic Sunshine, AGC of St. Louis; Leonard Toenjes, CAE, AGC of St. Louis; Al Bond, Carpenters&rsquo; District Council of Greater St. Louis &amp; Vicinity; Mike Minicky, CSP, OSHA-St. Louis Area Office; Gerald Feldhaus, Building and Construction Trades Council; Jim LaMantia, PRIDE of St. Louis, Inc.; Gary Elliott, Eastern Missouri Laborers&rsquo; District Council; Dennis Lavallee, St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers, Tom Rehkemper (retired), AGC of St. Louis.<br /></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>\\\"This is an important and valuable agreement, not only for the benefits of working cooperatively with OSHA, but also for the greater accountability of the participants with the establishment of a company-wide safety culture that sets the standard for the St. Louis Construction industry at large,\\\" notes Scott Wilson, chairman of the AGC of St. Louis and president of S. M. Wilson &amp; Company.  \\\"This agreement is about accountability and results - not promises.  To be a participant in the partnership is to be counted among the elite in safety.\\\"</p>\n<p>Stakeholders signing the agreement were:  Bill, McDonald, area director, OSHA-St. Louis Area Office; Scott Wilson, chairman, AGC of St. Louis; Terry Nelson, executive secretary-treasurer, Carpenters\\\' District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity; Gary Elliott, business manager, Eastern Missouri Laborers\\\' District Council; Jerry Feldhaus, executive secretary-treasurer, St. Louis Building and Construction Trades Council; Jim LaMantia, executive director, PRIDE of St. Louis, Inc.; Dennis Lavallee, president, St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers.  Barbara Theriot, area director for the OSHA Kansas City Area Office will sign the agreement at a later date.</p>\n<p>Thirteen members of the AGC of St. Louis are currently part of the St. Louis OSHA - AGC Partnership:  Brinkmann Constructors, BSI Constructors, Inc., Clayco, Kozeny-Wagner, Inc., L. Keeley Construction Company, McCarthy Building Companies,  McGrath &amp; Associates, Inc., Murray Company, Pangea Group, Paric Corporation, Tarlton Corporation, S. M. Wilson &amp; Company, and Vee-Jay Cement Contracting Co., Inc.<br />The Associated General Contractors of St. Louis is the united voice of the area construction industry, representing over 450 area construction firms.  Last year alone, AGC of St. Louis member firms built projects worth more than $3 billion throughout the St. Louis region.  Celebrating its 60th year, the AGC of St. Louis builds valuable partnerships between its members and strategic government and private sector groups.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"76\";}'),(1966,723,10,4,1260380413,'a:32:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:2:\"10\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2009-12-09 06:33 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"76\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:36:\"SLCC Best Practices/Diversity Awards\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:36:\"slcc_best_practices_diversity_awards\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_58\";s:36:\"SLCC Best Practices/Diversity Awards\";s:11:\"field_ft_58\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_62\";s:260:\"The St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers (SLCCC) will present the Construction Industry Best Practices and Diversity Advocacy Awards on Thursday morning, December 17, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel St. Louis at Westport, 1973 Craigshire, St. Louis, 63146.\";s:11:\"field_ft_62\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_59\";s:57:\"Construction Consumers, best practices, diversity, awards\";s:11:\"field_ft_59\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_63\";s:74:\"Doubletree Hotel St. Louis at Westport, 1973 Craigshire, St. Louis, 63146.\";s:11:\"field_ft_63\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_57\";s:19:\"2009-12-17  7:00 AM\";s:15:\"field_offset_57\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_56\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_56\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_55\";s:6:\"7 a.m.\";s:11:\"field_ft_55\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_60\";s:5231:\"<p><br />7:00 am Registration &amp; Networking<br />7:30 am Breakfast<br />&nbsp;8:00 am Awards Program<br />&nbsp;10:00 am Adjournment<br />&nbsp;<strong><br />Diversity Excellence and Advocacy</strong><br />The Diversity Awards recognize organizations and individuals for excellence in promoting greater diversity and advocacy in the construction industry.<br />&nbsp;<br />Organization of the Year&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Metropolitan Sewer District<br />Minority/Woman Business Enterprise&nbsp;&nbsp; BAM Contracting<br />Diversity Champions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr. Deborah Henry, St. Louis Community College<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Wilson, S. 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Wilson Co.<br /><strong>&nbsp;<br />Construction Industry Safety Excellence Award &ndash; Construction User Roundtable (CURT)</strong><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Construction User Roundtable (CURT) awarded the Construction Industry Safety Excellence Award at the National Construction Conference to a Contractor from the St. Louis area.&nbsp; That award will be re-presented in recognition for their outstanding safety accomplishment to:<br />&nbsp;</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nooter Construction</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><strong>Construction Industry Best Practices</strong><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Construction Industry Best Practices Awards recognize achievement with implementation of construction industry Best Practices which have been validated by the Construction Industry Institute to provide improvements in cost and schedule. There are currently 14 Best Practices which have been validated.&nbsp; For each winner, an overview of one of the Best Practices which supported their success in winning the award will be presented.<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>Design Effectiveness&nbsp; --&nbsp; Ameren Training Center</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong> AmerenUE</strong></li>\n<li><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Burns &amp; McDonnell</strong></li>\n<li><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kozeny-Wagner</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br /><strong>Pre-Project Planning &ndash; BJC St. Peters</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BJC HealthCare</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BJC St. Peters</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pratt Design</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tarlton Corp.</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Murphy Co.</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sachs Electric</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; KJWW Engineering</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LEAN Project Consulting</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<br />Constructability &ndash; Woolworth Building Historic Renovation</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; McCormack Baron Salazar</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; S. 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Wilson Co.</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trivers Associates</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Christner</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fox Architects</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Big Brothers /&nbsp; Big Sisters</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Craft Alliance</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Grand Center</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<br />Partnering&nbsp; - SSM St. Clare Health Center</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SSM Healthcare</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alberici</li>\n<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HGA</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>SLCCC Members/Awards Winners&nbsp; @ $40/person</strong><br /><strong>Nonmembers&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; @ $60<br />Tables of 8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; @ $320 (Please forward names)<br />&nbsp;<br />Registration - Due by December 14, 2009</strong><br />If you cannot attend, you may send a substitute. Otherwise, call to cancel. Uncanceled reservations will be invoiced. Please make checks payable to the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers.<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>Mail or fax your registration to:</strong><br />ST. LOUIS COUNCIL OF CONSTRUCTION CONSUMERS<br />180 Weidman Road, Suite 127<br />Manchester, MO&nbsp; 63021-5724<br />Phone&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 636-394-6200<br />Fax&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 636-394-9641<br />E-mail&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; info@slccc.net<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"76\";}'),(1967,723,10,4,1260380528,'a:33:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:2:\"10\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"723\";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:\"2009-12-09 06:33 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"76\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:2:\"10\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:36:\"SLCC Best Practices/Diversity Awards\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:36:\"slcc_best_practices_diversity_awards\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_58\";s:36:\"SLCC Best Practices/Diversity Awards\";s:11:\"field_ft_58\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_62\";s:260:\"The St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers (SLCCC) will present the Construction Industry Best Practices and Diversity Advocacy Awards on Thursday morning, December 17, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel St. Louis at Westport, 1973 Craigshire, St. Louis, 63146.\";s:11:\"field_ft_62\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_59\";s:57:\"Construction Consumers, best practices, diversity, awards\";s:11:\"field_ft_59\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_63\";s:74:\"Doubletree Hotel St. Louis at Westport, 1973 Craigshire, St. Louis, 63146.\";s:11:\"field_ft_63\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_57\";s:19:\"2009-12-17 07:00 AM\";s:15:\"field_offset_57\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_56\";s:0:\"\";s:15:\"field_offset_56\";s:1:\"y\";s:11:\"field_id_55\";s:6:\"7 a.m.\";s:11:\"field_ft_55\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_60\";s:5536:\"<p><br />7:00 am Registration &amp; Networking<br />7:30 am Breakfast<br />&nbsp;8:00 am Awards Program<br />&nbsp;10:00 am Adjournment<br />&nbsp;<strong><br />Diversity Excellence and Advocacy</strong><br />The Diversity Awards recognize organizations and individuals for excellence in promoting greater diversity and advocacy in the construction industry.<br />&nbsp;</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Organization of the Year&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Metropolitan Sewer District</strong></li>\n<li><strong>Minority/Woman Business Enterprise&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; BAM Contracting</strong></li>\n<li><strong>Diversity Champions&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr. Deborah Henry, St. Louis Community College</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Wilson, S. 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Otherwise, call to cancel. Uncanceled reservations will be invoiced. Please make checks payable to the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers.<br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>Mail or fax your registration to:</strong><br />ST. LOUIS COUNCIL OF CONSTRUCTION CONSUMERS<br />180 Weidman Road, Suite 127<br />Manchester, MO&nbsp; 63021-5724<br />Phone&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 636-394-6200<br />Fax&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 636-394-9641<br />E-mail&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; info@slccc.net<br />&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"76\";}'),(1968,724,2,4,1260385619,'a:29:{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:\"2009-12-09 07:16 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";i:1;s:2:\"76\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:48:\"Tarlton Completes 96-Inch Pipe Diversion for MSD\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:48:\"tarlton_completes_96_inch_pipe_diversion_for_msd\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:48:\"Tarlton Completes 96-Inch Pipe Diversion for MSD\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:208:\"Tarlton Corp. recently installed a temporary diversion around a portion of the Metropolitan Sewer District\\\'s 96-inch influent pipe as part of MSD\\\'s Lemay Wastewater Treatment Wet Weather Expansion project. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:21:\"Tarlton, MSD, 96-inch\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4249:\"<p>Tarlton Corp. recently installed a temporary diversion around a portion of the Metropolitan Sewer District\\\'s 96-inch influent pipe as part of MSD\\\'s Lemay Wastewater Treatment Wet Weather Expansion project.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tarlton MSD\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tarlton-msd_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Over the last several months, the team at Lemay has been preparing for the critical task, installing temporary piping and a diversion<br />structure. The last step in activating the diversion required MSD to shut down flow to the plant for approximately 90 minutes so workers could remove a cap from an existing riser pipe to allow the influent to flow through the<br />diversion structure.</p>\n<p>After draining the system of standing water, workers had less than 45 minutes to remove the massive cap and install a butterfly-shaped \\\"stopple\\\" plug through a 60-inch opening cut in the existing 96-inch pipe at the tie-in point to force the flow through the diversion piping.&nbsp; They also erected six temporary steel gates in the grit structure to stop water from flowing between tanks. The \\\"wings\\\" of the stopple plug\\\'s butterfly are folded when it is inserted, and are unfolded to block the pipe.</p>\n<p>T.D. Williamson Inc. (TDW), a pipeline specialist from Tulsa, OK, designed, built, and installed the stopple plug. TDW has its own proprietary stopple technology, the <span style=\\\"font-size: x-small;\\\">\\\"The STOPPLE&reg; Train\\\" plugging system. The system uses utilizes TDW&nbsp; technology to provide the safety of inserting two plugging\nheads through a single fitting. The void between the two plugging heads\ncan be bled down to provide a &ldquo;zero energy&rdquo; zone. The sealing element\non the secondary plugging head provides double block features at\npressures ranging from 0 psi to 1000 psi. </span></p>\n<p>Tarlton and Haberberger Mechanical Contractors Inc. will spend the next month removing approximately 80 feet of existing pipe and installing new pieces to connect a new structure to the existing influent path, allowing MSD to more accurately measure flow into the plant and control flow into the wet weather expansion under construction. Once the new pipe is laid, another shutdown will be required to remove the plug, reattach the cap on the riser and remove the temporary gates.</p>\n<p>\\\"MSD could not shut down the pumps in the pump stations feeding the plant until flow into the plant was low,\\\" explained Steve Cronin, vice<br />president of the Tarlton Concrete Group. \\\"The long-awaited event took place at 4:30 a.m. on November 13. We\\\'re proud to say the operation went extremely well, and we\\\'re glad to have reached this milestone.\\\"</p>\n<p>Cronin credited all participating firms for \\\"working through the challenges with great cooperation and teamwork.\\\"&nbsp; In addition to MSD and<br />Haberberger, Tarlton\\\'s partners on the project are Black &amp; Veatch Corp., KAI Design &amp; Build and T.D. Williamson Inc., which installed the stopple plug.</p>\n<p>Tarlton team members include project managers Chris Lotz and John Smith; project engineers Oliver Coulson, John Siess and Jason Sternau;<br />superintendents Duke Huffman and Walter Mabie; and project assistant Stacey Madsen. Haberberger superintendent Phil Jones and vice president Jeff Roberts were instrumental in coordinating the pipe work, Cronin said.</p>\n<p>MSD tapped Tarlton in 2007 as general contractor for the $87 million, 30-month Lemay project, which will increase the peak wet-weather treatment capacity of the plant. Tarlton\\\'s work includes tunneling, 12-foot-diameter sewer piping, construction of four primary clarifiers, two grit basins, a primary sludge pump station, grit handling building and numerous cast-in-place vaults, the deepest being 74 feet underground.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Completion is scheduled for early 2010.</p>\n<p>MSD serves the city of St. Louis and about 80 percent of St. Louis County, covering an area of approximately 524 square miles, and operates seven wastewater treatment facilities. The Lemay plant is the second largest.&nbsp; Through these plants, the district treats an average daily flow of more than 330 million gallons.</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:31:\"/images/uploads/tarlton-msd.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"76\";}'),(1969,719,2,4,1260385647,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"719\";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:\"2009-11-24 12:03 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:65:\"Home Depot Foundation Recognizes Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:65:\"home_depot_foundation_recognizes_habitat_for_humanity_saint_louis\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:65:\"Home Depot Foundation Recognizes Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:179:\"The Home Depot Foundation has recognized the work that Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis (HFHSTL) has done\nin revitalizing the Jeff Vanderlou neighborhood with sustainable housing.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:32:\"Home Depot, Habitat for Humanity\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2417:\"<p>The Home Depot Foundation has recognized the work that Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis (HFHSTL) has don in revitalizing the Jeff Vanderlou neighborhood with sustainable housing. The national foundation presented Habitat Saint Louis with an \\\"Award of Excellence of for Affordable Housing Built Responsibly.\\\" The award includes a $75,000 grant.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Habitat Home Depot Award\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/habitat-home-depot.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />\\\"The Jeff Vanderlou neighborhood was once a major business and cultural area for St. Louis,\\\" the Home Depot case study stated. \\\"But over the years the area declined, leaving deteriorated, vacant properties. In partnership with the city and the local community, Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis (HFHSL) began work in the area in 2004.</p>\n<p>Their vision was to move beyond building homes, and to help bring about a positive transformation of the community.\\\" Previously to the 2008 \\\"build,\\\" HFHSTL had constructed its homes to Energy Star standards. Last year Habitat stepped up its game to another level, completing 27 LEED-platinum certified homes. The plan was to build the same number this year. Ground contamination issues on three sites stretched resources thin and pushed back the schedule on those sites, so HFHSTL will complete 24 homes built to LEED standards this year.</p>\n<p>\\\"That they built LEED Platinum homes at $75 per square foot is extraordinary,\\\" said one Awards of Excellence Committee member.</p>\n<p>\\\"Not only did they use panelized construction, but they did it themselves,\\\" said another committee member.</p>\n<p>In October the <em>St. Louis Business Journal</em> recognized HFHSTL\\\'s efforts in sustainable, energy-efficient home construction by presenting it with a \\\"Heroes of the Planet\\\" award.</p>\n<p>To read the entire Home Depot Foundation case study of the Jeff Vanderlou HFHSTL project <a href=\\\"http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/pdfs/aoe_housing09_hfh_2.pdf\\\">click here</a>. To watch a video on the project, <a href=\\\"http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/habitat_humanityvideo.html\\\">click here</a>.<a href=\\\"http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/habitat_humanityvideo.html\\\"></a></p>\n<p>For more information on Habitat for Humanity St. Louis, contact Kimberly McKinney, CEO or Kyle Hunsberger, director of construction by email, or by calling 314.371.0400.</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:38:\"/images/uploads/habitat-home-depot.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(1973,727,5,4,1260387011,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";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:\"2009-12-09 08:26 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"12\";i:1;s:2:\"76\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:26:\"Selling Green and Bad Hair\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:26:\"selling_green_and_bad_hair\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:26:\"Selling Green and Bad Hair\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:1:\"7\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:143:\" As I travel around the country speaking to contractors, suppliers and vendors two things are extremely common; Green initiatives and bad hair.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:20:\"green, energy, sales\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:1456:\"<p>As I travel around the country speaking to contractors, suppliers and vendors two things are extremely common; Green initiatives and bad hair.</p>\n<p>The advent and focus on green programs coupled with tax incentives or energy savings has captured the interest of a high percentage of the buying public. Being a \\\"too the&nbsp; core\\\" sales guru, I recognize the value of servicing what has become almost 30 percent of the consumer base.&nbsp; To ignore the growing market for green products and services is to simply have your head in the sand. I\\\'m not really an activist here and I don\\\'t apologize for the attractive revenue, as well as profit-generating aspect of the green industry.</p>\n<p>So many folks are looking for ways to recover lost revenue and this vehicle is right under their nose. To give it lip service and not genuinely investigate how your firm can maximize the growth in this market segment reflects on a lack of business saavy. Some companies throw a little marketing money and direction at green consumers, but to truly make in roads it will take more.</p>\n<p>Do your homework and find out how your products or services can meet a LEED requirement. Then get educated, gain expertise and finally sell it! Those that get ahead of the curve will reap the rewards, the rest will pick up the scraps.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Oh, the bad hair? I figure the prevalence of it relates directly to people pulling their hair out as profits dwindle.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"12\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"76\";}'),(1974,728,4,4,1260387276,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2009-12-09 08:32 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"6\";i:1;s:2:\"76\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:36:\"Paric Wins Software Innovation Award\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:36:\"paric_wins_software_innovation_award\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:36:\"Paric Wins Software Innovation Award\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:99:\"Paric was one of two companies to win a national award for innovative use of construction software.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:11:\"Paric, CMiC\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1753:\"<p>&nbsp;CMiC, a provider of software solutions for the construction industry, announced that Paric is one of two companies to win a 2009 CMiC Innovation Award. The awards, presented at CMiC Connect 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona and judged by representatives from McGraw-Hill, recognize excellence and innovation within the user community. CMiC donates the Innovation Award prize money to the charities of the winning companies&rsquo; choice.<br /><br />\\\"The Innovation Awards allows CMiC clients, the best and the brightest in the industry, to receive recognition for their continuous efforts to innovate and improve processes,\\\" said Bassem Hamdy, vice president, solutions, CMiC. \\\"As the construction industry continues to recover in this economy, innovation is necessary for survival and the 2009 award winners represent how companies can maximize their investment in CMiC software and drive the industry to a new level.\\\"<br /><br />Paric Corporation, based in O&rsquo;Fallon, MO, won for their historical database, which collects past project data. Before the innovation, request for historical project data would be directed to a few long-term employees that would data mine the accounting system and network files. The project information is useful for predicting future performance. Paric donated their award money to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.<br /><br />\\\"The winners demonstrated a considerable return on investment, both with quantifiable, hard dollar savings and qualitative improvements with their innovations to CMiC software.&nbsp; CMiC looks forward to seeing what innovations next year&rsquo;s submitters will bring,\\\" Hamdy said.<br /><br />This is the second year in a row in which Paric has been a CMiC award winner.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"6\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"76\";}'),(1975,729,4,4,1260398470,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2009-12-09 10:46 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"76\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:42:\"AIA: Best Architectural Billings in a Year\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:41:\"aia_best_architectural_billings_in_a_year\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:42:\"AIA: Best Architectural Billings in a Year\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:129:\"The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reached its highest mark since August 2008, the American Institute of Architects reported. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:25:\"ABI, AIA, index, billings\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2503:\"<p>Amidst a continued high level of inquiries for possible new projects, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reached its highest mark since August 2008, just before the serious credit problems emerged. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending.</p>\n<p>The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the October ABI rating was 46.1, up sharply from 43.1 in September.  This score, however, indicates a continued decline in demand for design services (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings). The new projects inquiry score was 58.5, following the 59.1 mark in September.</p>\n<p>\\\"This news could prove to be an early signal towards a recovery for the design and construction industry,\\\" said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA. \\\"On the other hand, because we continue to get reports of architecture firms struggling in a competitive marketplace with a continued decline in commercial property values, it is far too early to think we are out of the woods.\\\"<br /> <br /><strong>Key October ABI highlights:</strong><br /> <br />Regional averages: South (46.1), Northeast (44.3),  <strong>Midwest (43.0)</strong>, West (42.8)<br />Sector index breakdown: institutional (48.7), multi-family residential (45.4), <strong>commercial / industrial (41.7)</strong>, mixed practice (39.1),<br />Project inquiries index: 58.5</p>\n<p><strong>About the AIA Architecture Billings Index</strong><br />The Architecture Billings Index is derived from a monthly \\\"Work-on-the-Boards\\\" survey and produced by the AIA Economics  Market Research Group. Based on a comparison of data compiled since the survey\\\'s inception in 1995 with figures from the Department of Commerce on Construction Put in Place, the findings amount to a leading economic indicator that provides an approximately nine to twelve month glimpse into the future of nonresidential construction activity. The diffusion indexes contained in the full report are derived from a monthly survey sent to a panel of AIA member-owned firms. Participants are asked whether their billings increased, decreased, or stayed the same in the month that just ended. According to the proportion of respondents choosing each option, a score is generated, which represents an index value for each month. 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Growing public awareness, government regulations, and bottom-line advantages are helping fuel green building\\\'s surging popularity, the company said.Much of the green building activity will take place in retrofits and renovations since many buildings are aging and inefficient, McGraw-Hill said. 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Paric leads both projects as construction manager.<br /></p>\n<p>The 51,000-square-foot skilled nursing facility renovation is expected to begin in February, with an estimated 10-month timeline for completion.  <br />Phase II of the housing development project, which includes renovation of approximately 21,000 square feet of existing space into 15 affordable apartment units for seniors began in October. Phase I was completed in September.</p>\n<p>The project is a joint venture between The Sisters of the Most Precious Blood and McEagle Properties, LLC.  The Lawrence Group is the architect.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"83\";}'),(1980,732,2,4,1260980279,'a:30:{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:\"2009-12-16 04:54 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";i:1;s:2:\"77\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:39:\"11-Million-Gallon Tank Receives Coating\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:39:\"11_million_gallon_tank_receives_coating\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:39:\"11-Million-Gallon Tank Receives Coating\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:136:\"Utility Service Co. recently completed blasting and recoating the inside of an 11-million-gallon water storage tank in St. Louis County.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:41:\"Utility Service Co., water tank, coating \";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:1466:\"<p>Utility Service Co. recently completed blasting and recoating the inside of the largest water storage tank in St. Louis County.<br /> <br /><img alt=\\\"Missour American tank\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/people-and-water-tank.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />The 11 million gallon water storage tank, which stands 33 feet tall and measures 240 feet in diameter, serves Missouri American Water customers in 15 cities, including Overland, Creve Coeur, Ladue, Clayton, and Kirkwood. When built in 1961, it was the second largest water storage tank in the nation.<br /> <br />This water storage tank, which is located on Old Olive Street Road in Creve Coeur, MO, is one of the 34 water storage tanks in Missouri American Water\\\'s St. Louis County system. Water storage tanks help maintain consistent throughout the 4,200 miles of water mains in the system and help the company manage peaks in water use. The water company fills the tanks at night when the cost to pump water is low, and then drain them down during the day when water use is high. The peak time for water use is early morning, when people take showers and turn on lawn sprinklers, said Brian Eisenloeffel, operations manager for Missouri American Water. On the average day, St. Louis County uses 180 million gallons of water, he said.<br /> <br />Utility Service Co. also pressure washed the exterior of the tank and applied a new protective coating to it.</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:41:\"/images/uploads/people-and-water-tank.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"77\";}'),(1981,733,4,4,1260980393,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2009-12-16 05:18 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"6\";i:1;s:2:\"77\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:47:\"John Smith Masonry Gains National Certification\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:47:\"john_smith_masonry_gains_national_certification\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:47:\"John Smith Masonry Gains National Certification\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:186:\"John J. 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The last step in activating the diversion required MSD to shut down flow to the plant for approximately 90 minutes so workers could remove a cap from an existing riser pipe to allow the influent to flow through the<br />diversion structure.</p>\n<p>After draining the system of standing water, workers had less than 45 minutes to remove the massive cap and install a butterfly-shaped \\\"stopple\\\" plug through a 60-inch opening cut in the existing 96-inch pipe at the tie-in point to force the flow through the diversion piping.&nbsp; They also erected six temporary steel gates in the grit structure to stop water from flowing between tanks. The \\\"wings\\\" of the stopple plug\\\'s butterfly are folded when it is inserted, and are unfolded to block the pipe.</p>\n<p>T.D. Williamson Inc. (TDW), a pipeline specialist from Tulsa, OK, designed, built, and installed the stopple plug. 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The trains will be painted with low VOC (volatile organic compounds) paint, and an extensive exhaust system helps to further minimize the environmental impact of the process, while also reducing the risk of dust or other particles marring the paint job. Outside air flows in through the ceiling, where filters remove particles from the air before it enters the paint booth.  Exhaust fans then return the air to the environment, pulling it through filters in the paint booth pits. The filters are designed to remove paint and other particles so that the exhaust air meets environmental standards. 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Resnick</strong>, identical twins, are partners in Resnick Associates, a nationally recognized estate, business succession and life insurance planning firm with offices in Kansas City and Harrisburg, PA.</p>\n<p>The Resnicks have spoken at both the 2009 ASA National Conference in Nashville and the 2009 MCAA Mid-Year meeting in San Diego.  They have worked extensively with a large number of business and construction trade association and their members throughout the United States as well as companies such as Coke and Pepsi.</p>\n<p><strong>Jason G. Giorgio</strong>, MBA, CLU is a senior partner at Pacific Advisors, a finalcial planning firm with offices in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California.  Jason deftly motivates people to take action to better their present and future financial situation with strong focus on protection from risk.  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