| Funding Establishes
Disaster Recovery Curriculum
Purdue University in West Lafayette,
Ind., has announced funding of a faculty position to oversee a program that will
prepare students to rebuild communities affected by large-scale disasters.
Several
leading restoration and reconstruction companies from around the country have
come together to create an endowed professorship of reconstruction and disaster
restoration in the College of Technology's Department of Building Construction
Management. The faculty member in the position will be charged with developing
and overseeing an academic emphasis for students who want to specialize in this
area.
A consortium of companies that work in the reconstruction and renovation
industries have pledged $1.5 million to establish the endowed professorship, which
will be named at a later date.
Purdue's Department of Building Construction
Management began in 1946 as a non-degree program designed to teach building skills
to returning World War II veterans.
Huge Distribution Center First in Morris Facility An
806,400-sq.-ft. distribution facility will be constructed ProLogis Park 80 in
Morris, Ill., the first building in the 183-acre business park on the Interstate
80 corridor. The project is scheduled for completion in second-quarter 2006.
The
multi-tenant, cross-dock facility is expandable to 1,750,000 sq. ft. The features
will include exterior precast walls, 32-ft. clear height, 126 exterior trailer
stalls, parking for 155 cars and 195 truck docks.
Itasca-based FCL Builders
is constructing the facility.
Purdue Student Gets Cement Fellowship Lesley Sneed, a graduate student at Purdue
University in West Lafayette, Ind., has received a $20,000 fellowship from the
Skokie-based Portland Cement Association Education Foundation.
The fellowship
comes for her work, "The Effect of Member Depth on the Shear Strength of
Reinforced Concrete Flexural Members."
The PCA Education Foundation
Research Fellowship identifies and rewards outstanding master- and doctoral-degree
students in the fields of engineering and physical sciences who are studying areas
that advance the science and technology of cement and concrete.
Water Works Group to Upgrade Internet Services The DeKalb-based Illinois Section
of the American Water Works Association has approved a contract with Crystal Lake-based
B&W Control Systems Integration for customized, Internet software to improve
membership services.
B&W will construct a secured web portal that ISAWWA's
11,000 members can log onto to renew their memberships, register for classes and
print their training certificates.
The website's architecture will allow
ISAWWA personnel to easily maintain and update membership information as well
as expand the web portal to new uses in the future.
B&W Control Systems
Integration is a subsidiary of Baxter & Woodman Inc. that provides government-related
technology.
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