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Chicago Building Congress Names Merit Winners
The Chicago Building Congress has announced the winners of
its 50th Annual Merit Awards Program.
New Construction Chicago: Conservation and Relocation of
the U-505 Submarine, Chicago.
The project team designed a 35,000-sq.-ft. underground exhibit
for the submarine with two levels of access, the jury noted,
the jury said.
New Construction Suburbs: Orland Park Public Library.
Many sustainable design elements were incorporated without
the cost premiums normally associated with green design.
Rehab Construction: Cook County Domestic Violence Courthouse,
Chicago.
The courthouse is the fulfillment of a promise made by Cook
County Board President John Stroger Jr. to delivery a 21st-Century
court facility that would provide improved safety and a secure
environment for the hearing of domestic violence cases, the
jury said.
Construction Under $10 Million: Rogers Park Montessori School,
Chicago.
The Rogers Park Montessori School in a nonprofit, nonsectarian,
parent-governed school providing programs for children in
the Montessori philosophy.
Projects in the Chicago area completed during the past two
years were eligible. The 40 nominees were reviewed by a panel
of 17 judges, and the competition was narrowed to 16 finalists
and finally one winner in each category.
Mesha to Lead ACEC Illinois
Peter Mesha, group president of Darien-based Wight &
Co., was installed as the president of the Springfield-based
American Council of Engineering Cos. of Illinois for 2006-07.
Also installed were President-Elect Reginald Benton, president
of Jacksonville-based Benton & Associates Inc., and
Secretary-Treasurer Mohammad Hassan, vice president and
transportation sector manager, Chicago-based URS Corp.
Vice Presidents comprise Susan Fullerton, senior vice president
of Westmont-based Parsons; Michael Klingner, president of
Quincy-based Klingner and Associates; George Jamison, vice
president of Taylorville-based Goodpaster-Jamison Inc.;
and Wayne Swafford, senior vice president of Chicago-based
Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers Inc.
Serving as Directors are Paul DeBruyne, senior vice president
- secretary of Rockford-based McClure Engineering Associates
Inc.; James Huff, vice president of LaGrange-based Huff
& Huff Inc.; Pedro Cevallos-Candau, executive vice president
of Chicago-based Primera Engineers Ltd.; John Coombe, executive
vice president of Springfield-based Hanson Professional
Services; Gerald Heimsoth, president of Chicago-based Ciorba
Group Inc.; and Gregg Foltz, managing partner of Decatur-based
Homer L. Chastain & Associates LLP.
Donald Rutledge, secretary of Bloomington-based Farnsworth
Group, is the Immediate Past-President, and Thomas Jester,
vice president of Chicago-based Edwards and Kelcey Inc.,
is serving as the National Director to the American Council
of Engineering Cos.
Indiana Student Gets Memorial Scholarship
William "Brandon" Rice of Centerville, Ind.,
will receive financial assistance because his father, Willie
Jr., was disabled during a road construction project.
Brandon Rice is one of seven students nationwide to receive
the Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship for children of
road workers killed or permanently disabled on the job,
the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation
Builders Association's Transportation Development Foundation
announced. His father was disabled in a 2002 accident while
working for Atlas Excavating in West Lafayette.
Brandon Rice is attending Purdue University, where he is
studying veterinary medicine.
More than 1,000 people-including more than 100 highway workers-died
in 2004 in roadway construction work zone accidents, ARTBA
noted. An additional 40,000 people were injured in these
sites.
AEM Opens New Headquarters
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers recently hosted
an open house to showcase its new suburban Milwaukee headquarters
and also educate attendees about the AEM.
The office is located in the former Allis-Chalmers tractor
manufacturing plant in West Allis.
Entering the new AEM office, visitors are greeted by dozens
of detailed machinery models of all sizes and types, many
of them decades old. While the AEM has a heritage of more
than 100 years of service, it is focused on the future and
its leadership role helping members and the industry meet
the challenges of the global marketplace.
AEM had been in its previous location in downtown Milwaukee
for more than 30 years and needed more space and a reconfigured
design to operate more efficiently as it expanded its scope
and services.
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