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Milwaukee AGC Signs Safety Agreement
An agreement between the Associated General Contractors of
Greater Milwaukee and Occupational Safety and Health Administration
seeks to reduce the number of incidents 3 percent every year.
The target pertains to the number of injuries, illnesses and
fatalities. Incentives are expected to spur contractors' participation
in the program, which was in the works for two years.
Other goals include increasing the number of general contractors
who implement safety and health programs and provide safety
and health training.
The agreement will recognize those contractors with exemplary
safety and health programs and site-specific safety and health
plans.
School, Parking Garage Win Precast Awards
Two Midwest projects recent won awards for their precast
concrete elements in the 2003 Design Awards Competition, which
is sponsored by the Chicago-based Precast/Prestressed Concrete
Institute.
An addition to Highland Park High School in Highland Park,
Ill., won in the Best School Category, and the Resurrection
Medical Center Southeast Parking Structure in Chicago took
honors in the Best Parking Structure Category.
The Highland Park project's designer was Waukegan, Ill.-based
Legat Architects, and the precast supplier was Alsip, Ill.-based
Lombard Architectural Precast Products Co.
The Resurrection project's designer was Chicago-based Loebl
Schlossman & Hackl, and the precast supplier was Springboro,
Ohio-based Concrete Technology Inc.
Several hundred submissions were received, according to the
PCI.
Indiana BCA Gets Award
The Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Building Contractors Association
recently received a workforce investment award.
The Northeast Indiana Workforce Investment Board's award was
for the BCA's workforce development program, the Construction
Career Academy.
The CCA accepted 58 students from 16 northeast Indiana high
schools in 2002. They learned about commercial construction
and 18 trades and occupations. Five $500 awards were given
to several top students in May to help with their post-high
school education.
Structural Engineering Awards Announced
The Chicago-based Structural Engineers Association of Illinois
has announced its annual structural engineering awards.
Chicago-based Teng & Associates
won the 2003 Best Large Structure Award for the Wacker Drive
Viaduct Reconstruction in Chicago.
Omaha, Neb.-based HDR Engineering won the 2003 Best Small
Structure Award for the Chicago Avenue Pumping Station Roof
Deck Replacement in Chicago.
Seattle-based Magnusson Klemencic Associates won the 2003
Most Innovative Structure Award for the Seahawks Stadium and
Exhibition Center in Seattle.
Chicago-based Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers/LZA Technology
for the Erie on the Park condominium in Chicago.
Skokie, Ill.-based Construction Technology Laboratories
for structural repairs to the Catholic Church of St. Joseph
in Menomonee, Wis.
W. Gene Corley, also of Construction Technology
Laboratories, received the Meritorious Publication Award for
his report on the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers
after the attack of Sept. 11, 2001.
Milsk Elected Head of Heating-Cooling Group
David Milsk, president of Des Plaines-based Des Plaines Supply
Inc., was elected president of the Chicago-based Chicagoland
Better Heating-Cooling Council.
Filling the post as the council's past president is John O'Brien,
corporate secretary of Elk Grove-based GHC Mechanical Contractors.
Other newly elected officers include Vice President Andy Usher,
vice president of Brookfield-based Ideal Heating Co.; 2nd
Vice President Don Howley, sales engineer for Alsip-based
Affiliated Steam Equipment Co.; Secretary/Treasurer John Stern,
project manager for Bellwood-based Bert C. Young & Sons
Corp.
Elected to two-year terms on the Board of Directors were Scott
Gorgius of Brookfield-based Able Heating & Cooling Supplies;
June Lempa, project manager for Schaumburg-based International
Piping Systems Inc., and John Smart, technical and training
manager for Westchester-based Weil McLain Inc.
Illinois Student Gets Scholarship
Kathryn Mescher of Mount Vernon, Ill., has received a Roofing
Industry Scholarship.
She will receive $1,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate
study to support her education at an accredited postsecondary
institution.
Mescher is the daughter of Steven Merscher, vice president
of Ray Black & Sons Construction Inc. in Mount Vernon.
The program is administered by the Rosemont, Ill.-based National
Roofing Foundation, the separate but related educational and
research organization of the National Roofing Contractors
Association.
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