The Missouri Department of Transportation was the only Midwest organization recognized for safety during the recent Roadway Work Zone Safety Awareness competition.

The program, which is sponsored by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation, recognizes outstanding efforts to help reduce roadway work zone construction accidents, injuries and fatalities.

MoDot won first place in the 2007 Work Zone Awareness Campaign category.

It used a multi-tiered approach to attract public attention to work zone safety issues. One approach was to “bathe” prominent public landmarks in orange lighting to generate public and media attention.

The second approach was to create a hard-hitting public awareness campaign, including advertising and a public service announcement, using a media interview conducted by a state road crew member, who was killed in the line of duty shortly after the interview was recorded.

Pete Rahn is the director of MoDot.

Eight other organizations were honored, each outside the four-state Midwest.

Book Covers Pervious Concrete

A new publication from the Skokie-based Portland Cement Association provides an overview and discussion of hydrologic design techniques and pervious concrete, “Hydrologic Design of Pervious Concrete.”

The publication considers the relationship between runoff characteristics, material characteristics and site geometry. It also provides guidelines for the preliminary selection of appropriate pervious concrete characteristics for specific applications and environments.

The book can provide civil engineers, landscape architects and other design professionals with guidance in the selection and design of an appropriate pervious concrete pavement system.

For more information or to order, visit the PCA Bookstore at www.cement.org/bookstore on the Internet.

Kevin Bailey to Lead Heating-Cooling Council

Kevin Bailey, inside salesperson at Island Lake-based Mechanical Equipment Inc., was recently elected 2007-2008 president of the Chicagoland Better Heating-Cooling Council.

Other officers elected included 1st Vice President June Tucker, president at Schaumburg-based International Piping Systems Inc.; 2nd Vice President Frank Bridgeford, inside sales at Addison-based Porter Pipe & Supply Inc.; and Secretary/Treasurer Michelle James, sales engineer at Freeport-based Mechanical Inc.

John Stern, project manager at Arlington Heights-based Dahme Mechanical Industries Inc., is the council’s past president.

Elected to two-year terms on the CBHCC Board of Directors were Scott Gorgius, sales Engineer at Chicago-based Able Heating & Cooling Supplies; John O’Brien, principal at Elk Grove-based GHC Mechanical Inc.; Ed Usher, treasurer at Brookfield-based Ideal Heating Co.; and Dave Gottfred, vice president at Arlington Heights-based G & O Thermal Supply.

Gottfred was also named 2006-2007 Educator of the Year for his contribution to CBHCC’s education program.

Franklin Park-based Hill Mechanical Group earned the Council’s Contractor of the Year Award, which is presented to the member who demonstrates the highest degree of involvement in Council programs.

Three Illinois Design Students Get $1,000 Scholarships

The Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers has announced three winners of the Richard R. Smith Memorial Scholarship.

The comprised Jennifer Jimenez of the Harrington College of Design in Chicago, Megan Lopez, also of Harrington, and Tyson Schrock of The Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago.

Each student received $1,000 to offset fees for tuition, books and supplies for the current school year.

The Richard R. Smith Memorial Scholarship competition is based on excellence in design. Every applicant was given an as built footprint of a space that provides a small commercial retail store with an apartment for the proprietor. Students were given all the design requirements that were needed to be met to complete the design.