Michigan Contractor and Builder articles from August 2007

Michigan Contractor and Builder archives from August 2007

Detroit Edison Contractor Honored.
August 6, 2007... Staff The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) announced the recipients of the Rigging Job of the Year Awards during its Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, April 10-14. Barnhart, of Daphne, Ala., was an award recipient...

Roland Named Level II Distributor.
August 6, 2007... Staff Roland Machinery Co., a Komatsu distributor, has announced that the company has been named a Level II Distributor by Komatsu America. This distinction has been given to just 12 of Komatsu's North American distributors. In recognition...

Kenworth Dealer Opens New Facility.
August 6, 2007... Staff Eastern Michigan Kenworth recently opened its second full-service facility, conveniently located north of Detroit. The nearly 13,000-square-foot facility complements the recently improved 36,000-square-foot Dearborn site that serves...

General Manager/COO Named.
August 6, 2007... Staff Detroit Door & Hardware Company, Michigan's leading commercial door supplier, has named Kevin Rucinski, P.E., general manager and chief operating officer (COO). The addition of a COO will allow Detroit Door to improve its internal...

Prein&Newhof Elects Three Associates.
August 6, 2007... Staff At a recent shareholders' meeting, Prein&Newhof elected three additional associates: Timothy M. Bergstrom, P.E.; Christopher J. Cruickshank, P.E.; and Brandon L. Hildreth, P.E. Bergstrom has been with Prein&Newhof since 1997. He...

Bandit Welcomes New Sales Representatives.
August 6, 2007... Staff In an effort to expand sales and service throughout the nation, Bandit Industries, of Remus, introduces their newest regional sales representatives: Northwest Regional Sales Representative Chad Huber, West Coast Regional Sales...

New Management Team Members Announced.(Clark Construction Company Inc.)(Charles Worek)(Glenn Jones)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Staff Charles Clark, chief executive officer of Clark Construction, has announced the following new members of the company's management team: Charles Worek is senior project manager. Worek has more than 30 years of experience in the...

Three Earn Professional Engineer Licenses.
August 6, 2007... Staff William Fisher, P.E., Kristen B. Podnar, P.E., and Scott LaSalle, P.E., of Wade Trim earned their professional engineer licenses. Professional engineers are required to pass two exams, earn a bachelor's degree in engineering and...

GPS System Provides Efficiency.(global positioning system)
August 6, 2007... By Aram Kalousdian, Editor Elimination of hydraulic valve provides cost-effectiveness and improves operation Teri's Excavating, of Potterville, is realizing greater efficiency with the use of a Topcon global positioning system (GPS) on...

MDOT Tests GPS-Based System.
August 6, 2007... By Aram Kalousdian, Editor Business Route 127 project presents challenges An approximately 1/2-mile-long section of Business Route US-127 between US-127 and Mt. Pleasant is being reconstructed into a modified boulevard. The...

Topcon Roadshow Stops In Michigan.
August 6, 2007... By Aram Kalousdian, Editor Positioning Solutions Company presents the latest positioning systems products The Topcon Positioning Systems Technology Roadshow made a stop in Grand Rapids on July 12 to explain the advantages of...

Walbridge Aldinger Moves.
August 13, 2007... Staff Walbridge Aldinger, a Detroit-based multi-national full-service constructor, welcomed approximately 200 employees at its new downtown Detroit headquarters at 777 Woodward Avenue on July 2. Walbridge will occupy two floors, for a...

DSA Architects Hires Two.
August 13, 2007... Staff Michael Radonovich, A.I.A., and Kirk Rylance recently joined DSA Architects, A member of SHW Group; an architecture, planning, interior design, and engineering firm located in Berkley. Radonovich, a registered architect, joins...

Wade Trim Appoints Board Members.
August 13, 2007... Staff Two new corporate board members have been appointed by Wade Trim as part of internal strategies to grow staff and advance the firm's technical leadership. Leah Groya, A.I.C.P., and Tony Igwe, P.E., were selected to serve in these...

TranSystems Purchases Lichtenstein.(Lichtenstein Consulting Engineers)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Staff TranSystems of Kansas City, Mo., and Lichtenstein Consulting Engineers of Paramus, N.J., are pleased to announce the acquisition of Lichtenstein by TranSystems. The two firms are now part of a single entity that focuses purely on the...

Southeastern Equipment Company Expands.
August 13, 2007... Staff Beginning over 50 years ago in 1957, Southeastern Equipment Co., Inc. continues to expand north by opening two new branch locations in Michigan. The new Southeastern locations are located in Holt and Novi. These newly opened branches...

APWA Chapter Honors Projects.(American Public Works Association)
August 13, 2007... Staff The Michigan Chapter of the American Public Works Association (APWA) awarded the porous pavement project at Willard Beach Park in Battle Creek the 2007 Public Works Project of the Year Award in the Transportation-Less than $2 Million...

SME Relocates To Larger Offices.
August 13, 2007... Staff Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc. (SME) has relocated to larger offices in Grand Rapids. SME's new location is 4705 Clyde Park Avenue SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49509-5114. The phone number is (616) 406-1756 and the fax number is (616)...

Safety Record Honored.
August 13, 2007... Staff Some 106,783 consecutive hours without a single incident earned Durr Systems, Inc., of Plymouth, the General Motors 2006 Safety Prestige Award. The award, shared in recognition with general contractor Walbridge Aldinger, of Detroit,...

Karl Rowan Joins SAKAI America.(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Staff SAKAI America in Adairsville, Ga., has announced the appointment of Karl Rowan as district manager for its Mid-Central territory. This area includes the states of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ontario, Canada....

Beth Kilbourne Honored.
August 13, 2007... Staff Spalding DeDecker Associates' (SDA) Beth Kilbourne was presented with the "Young Engineer of the Year" Award from the Southeastern Michigan Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Kilbourne, an engineer in SDA's...

Oliver/Hatcher Promotes Salazar.
August 13, 2007... Staff Oliver/Hatcher Construction, an ISO 9001 accredited building and construction company based in Novi, has promoted Jason Salazar from senior project estimator to vice president of estimating. Company President Paul Hatcher made the...

Another Call For More Funding.
August 13, 2007... By Aram Kalousdian, Editor Road system will deteriorate unless adequate funding is provided The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has come close to attaining its goal of having 95 percent of state roads in good condition by...

Successful Bidding.
August 13, 2007... Staff Knowledge of products and services is key to being awarded a bid The art of bidding commercial and residential construction projects revolves in part around pure economics. However, successfully bidding for profit requires a...

Construction Career Days In Michigan.
August 20, 2007... By Aram Kalousdian, Editor Career event is in the planning stages in Michigan Construction Career Days, an event that presents construction industry career opportunities to high school students, is in the planning stages in Michigan....

Firestone Honors Roofing Contractors.
August 20, 2007... Staff This year, Firestone gave special recognition to 15 contractors who have earned the Master Contractor Award every year since its inception 20 years ago. Bloom Roofing Systems, Inc., of Whitmore Lake, was one of those 15 contractors....

Barton Malow Company Honored.(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Staff The Associated General Contractors (AGC) has honored Barton Malow with the 2006 National AGC Construction Safety Excellence Award (CSEA). Official conferral was held June 7 at Genoa Woods Conference Center in Brighton. The...

Construction Lien Law Changes Signed.(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Staff Amidst the flurry of activity around the passage of the new Michigan Business Tax, legislation was quietly signed into law on June 28 that would amend the state's construction lien law. New notification requirements passed in...

Appointments Announced.(James Escamilla and Brenda Longman are appointed at Byce and Associates Inc.)(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Staff The consulting engineering firm Byce & Associates, Inc. has announced that James Escamilla, P.E., president and chief executive officer, has been appointed to the Kalamazoo Downtown Development Authority. He is also currently serving...

ARTBA Scholarship Recipient Announced.
August 20, 2007... Staff The children of highway workers killed or permanently disabled on the job will receive financial assistance in their pursuit of higher education thanks to scholarships announced by the American Road & Transportation Builders...

Fratzke Joins CAM.
August 20, 2007... Staff Derek Fratzke has joined the Construction Association of Michigan (CAM), of Bloomfield Hills, as a membership sales representative in CAM's marketing division. Fratzke is an honors graduate from Baker College, with a bachelor's of...

Two Join Carter & Burgess.(Gordon Bergstrom and Bhal Amin are appointed)(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Staff Gordon Bergstrom, A.I.A., has joined Carter & Burgess Consultants, Inc. as a project architect for the Detroit area office. With more than 20 years of experience, Bergstrom has worked on many facility types, ranging from schools,...

TowerPinkster Announces Employee Accomplishments.
August 20, 2007... Staff TowerPinkster, a West Michigan architecture and engineering firm specializing in K-12, higher education, government, and health care building design projects, has announced nationally recognized accomplishments of its employees: ...

Rehabilitating South Maple Park.(Margolis Nursery, Inc.)
August 20, 2007... By Aram Kalousdian, Editor Bobcat track machine provides easy grading and less damage to turf South Maple Park on Ann Arbor's Westside is being rehabilitated in order to install new playground equipment that meets current safety...

Elaborate Tribute Constructed.(B and L Landscaping Inc.)
August 20, 2007... Staff Golf course project is dedicated to an individual who scored a hole in one A tribute at the R&S Sharf Golf Course at Oakland University in Rochester was a very interesting project to construct. This is a garden area dedicated to...

Trimble Introduces New Products.
August 20, 2007... By Aram Kalousdian, Editor Much more flexibility is offered to contractors Trimble recently introduced many new advanced positioning products at Trimble Construction Boot Camp 2007, which provided field-based and hands-on training for...

Contractors Must Manage Risks.
August 27, 2007... By Martin S. Frenkel, Esq. Five common mistakes in managing attorneys in the construction industry Working in the construction industry is a tough way to make a living. While it is frequently a challenging and rewarding business,...