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Theater in Rockford Tops Design Awards
The Bengt Sjostrom/Starlight Theater in Rockford, Ill., received
top honors in the 2003 Design Award Program sponsored by the
Barrington, Ill.-based Association of Licensed Architects.
The Presidential Award and a Gold Award went to Jeanne Gang
of Chicago-based Studio Gang for the facility.
In all, 36 design awards were announced. The other Gold Medal
Award winners were the following:
Louis Narcisi and Ray Chocholek of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based
Team Interplan for the Conserve School dormitories in Land
O' Lakes, Wis.
Gedeon Trias Jr. and John Saunders of Rockford-based Larson
& Darby Group for Danfoss Drives in Loves Park, Ill.
John Schroeder of Milwaukee-based John Schroeder Architect
for the Garden Room in Shorewood, Wis.
Arthur Dyson of Fresno, Calif.-based Dyson, Karby, Siegrist,
Janzen Architects for the Huber Chapel in Bakersfield, Calif.
Entries were judged on criteria that included program solution,
site and space planning, overall design solution and construction
system and details.
Ten Silver Metal and 21 Awards of Merit honorees were also
announced.
In other news, six ALA members in Illinois were recently named
fellows of the association in recognition of achievement in
architecture and public service and contributions to architecture
and the ALA.
They comprise Allen Belli of Wheeling-based Belli & Belli
Architects and Engineers; Frederick Gilmore of Dundee-based
Gilmore Architects; Richard Hansen of Prospect Heights-based
Hansen Associates-Architects; Arthur Jakl of Medinah-based
Arthur Jakl & Associates; Anthony Lapasso of Chicago-based
Lapasso and Associates; and Steven Pate of Barrington-based
Ruck/Pate Architecture.
Dapp to Head Indiana AGC
Thomas Dapp, president of Indianapolis-based Gradex Inc.,
was named president of the Associated General Contractors
of Indiana Inc.
Other newly elected officers were Vice President Stephen
Henry, president and chief operating officer of South Bend-based
The Robert Henry Corp., and Treasurer William Ripberger,
president of Zionsville-based J.C. Ripberger Construction
Corp.
Lee Carmichael, president of Bloomington-based Weddle Bros.
Construction Co. Inc., and Philip Kenney, president of Indianapolis-based
F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc., will sit on the executive
committee.
Delano to Lead Sheet Metal Group
John Delano, president of Chicago-based William J. Perkinson
Co., was elected president of the Chicagoland Sheet Metal
Contractors Association.
Also recently elected were Vice President William Niehoff
Jr., president of Lemont-based Fresh Aire Test & Balance,
and Secretary-Treasurer Jack Baer, vice president of engineering
for Burr Ridge-based AMS Mechanical Systems Inc.
Elected to three-year terms on the Board of Directors were
James Cesak, president of Crestwood-based Tal-Mar Custom
Metal, and Michael Vinci, president of Mount Prospect-based
Advance Mechanical Systems Inc.
ASCE: $36B Needed To Fix Nation's Dams
The deterioration of the nation's dams is acute, according
to the Reston, Va.-based American Society of Civil Engineers.
In response to this concern, the Association of State Dam
Safety Officials in Lexington, Ky., has compiled state and
national estimates for the cost of dam rehabilitation.
A nine-member ASDSO task committee has concluded that the
cost of upgrading or repairing all of our nation's nonfederal
dams would exceed $36 billion.
The committee's also report finds that almost one-third
of this amount is needed for the nation's most critical
dams, those whose failure would cause loss of human life.
States currently regulate more than 10,000 of these "high-hazard-potential"
structures.
In the past two years, at least 21 dam failures have occurred
in the U.S. The May 2003 failure of Silver Lake Dam, in
Michigan's Upper Peninsula, caused the failure of downstream
Tourist Park Dam and the evacuation of more than 1,800 people
in Marquette. The failures resulted in more than $100 million
in damage.
In the coming year, ASDSO will ask Congress to establish
a national dam financing solutions program.
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