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FEATURES

26 Wood to the Rescue

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CONSTRUCTION HIGHLIGHT

14 Making Money Grow on Trees

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34 Fighting Fire with Cold Hard Cash

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18 Through the Looking Glass 12 Safety Tool Kit
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WCA Honors Winners of 2010
PYRAMID Awards
In late March, the Washtenaw Contractors
Association (WCA) honored the winners of its
13th annual PYRAMID Awards before a group
of the county's leading contractors,
architects, construction project owners and
labor leaders. Each of these prestigious
awards represents exceptional effort in the
areas of teamwork, service or innovation. To
be chosen as a winner of a PYRAMID Award, a
nomination had to be truly outstanding. An
independent jury, composed of industry
experts in Evansville, IN, selected the winners
listed below.
BEST PROJECT TEAM AWARDS
To be selected as a winner for a Best Project
Team Award, the project had to involve an
extremely high level of cooperation between
the owner, architect and contractor, resulting
in true synergism between these three
entities. This cooperation and synergism
must have resulted in an improvement in
some critical aspect of the construction
project, such as quality, budget, completion
time, safety record or other key parameter.
BEST PROJECT TEAM - PROJECTS UNDER
$3 MILLION
Detroit Zoo Dinosauria Exhibit
Installation, Royal Oak
• Architect – studiozONE llc, Dearborn
• Contractor – JC Beal Construction,
Ann Arbor
• Owner – Detroit Zoological Society,
Royal Oak
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BEST PROJECT TEAM – PROJECTS
BETWEEN $3 MILLION & $25 MILLION
Zaragon Place, Ann Arbor
• Architect – Neumann/Smith
Architecture, Southfield
• Contractor – O’Neal Construction,
Ann Arbor
• Owner – Zaragon Inc., Chicago, IL
BEST PROJECT TEAM - PROJECTS OVER
$25 MILLION
Bay City Public Schools, Bay City
• Architect – Wigen Tincknell Meyer
& Associates, Saginaw
• Contractor – Spence Brothers,
Saginaw/Ann Arbor
• Owner – Bay City Public Schools,
Bay City
BEST SUBCONTRACTOR AWARD
To be selected as a winner for a Best
Subcontractor Award, the subcontractor
must have provided an exceptional level of
service that resulted in a significant
improvement in some critical aspect of the
construction project, such as project quality,
design, budget, completion time, safety
record, or other key parameter. The
improvement must have been documented,
and the exceptional level of service
supported in writing by the project owner,
architect, general contractor or construction
manager.
BEST SUBCONTRACTOR AWARD -
CONTRACTS UNDER $500,000
Eagle Excavation, Flint
• U of M Tunnels Phase IV project,
Ann Arbor
BEST SUBCONTRACTOR AWARD -
CONTRACTS OVER $500,000
Huron Valley Electric, Ann Arbor/
Motor City Electric, Detroit
• The U of M MCIT Data Center project,
Ann Arbor
BEST INNOVATION AWARD
To be selected as a winner of the Best
Innovation Award, the nomination must have
represented a new and unique contribution
to the construction industry. The innovation
could have been a significant improvement
to any aspect of the construction process,
including administration, design, crafts-
manship, equipment, labor relations,
materials, and training.
BEST INNOVATION
JC Beal Construction, Ann Arbor
• Thompson Block Emergency Façade
Stabilization System, Ypsilanti
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 The PYRAMID Awards presentation is a
hallmark evening, because it is the only event
for which virtually all sectors of the
construction industry in Washtenaw County
gather together to celebrate the great
achievements of the past year. Major
sponsors of the event were Bricklayers and
Allied Craftworkers Local 9, Michigan Council
of Employers, Laborers Local 499 - Employers’
Cooperation and Education Trust Fund,
Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters, and
the Washtenaw County Industry
Advancement Program.
WCA Names Tom Tocco 2010
W. Nelson Vander Hyden
Award Recipient
The Washtenaw Contractors Association
(WCA) recently presented Tom Tocco, director
for facilities, engineering & construction for
St. Joseph Mercy Health Systems, with the
2010 W. Nelson Vander Hyden Award. The
award recognizes an individual who is a
leader in both the construction industry and
the community.
As director, Tocco oversees maintenance of
3 million square feet of space, as well as
design and construction activities. In this
role, Tocco championed a comprehensive
energy management program that resulted
in utility costs savings measured in the
millions of dollars, receipt of a number of
energy conservation awards, and numerous
requests for speaking engagements to share
his successful energy savings ideas with other
health organizations. Last year, his responsi-
bilities were expanded once again to include
capital construction project leadership for
seven hospitals and provision of consulting
services for St. Joseph Mercy Health Systems
on a nationwide basis.
Tocco joined St. Joseph Mercy Health
System in 1984 in Construction Engineering.
He was promoted several times, first to
manager of construction services in 1989. His
role was expanded in the 1990s to include
responsibility for construction activities for
three hospitals and several satellite facilities.
In 2004 he was promoted to director for
facilities, engineering & construction.
In keeping with the high standards set by
Vander Hyden for community service, Tocco is
also involved in many activities outside his
own organization. He actively supports
teaching and internships for students in
various construction, biomedical and other
technical trades. He has served his
community as a member of the Superior
Township Appeals Board. He is involved with
Gleaners Food Bank as a donor and volunteer.
He is actively involved in his church, teaching
Sunday school, assisting with youth activities,
and working with Love, Inc., an arm of the
church that assists families in need. And
finally, he is actively involved in the lives of his
wife and three daughters, including serving
in the important roles of coach, cheerleader
and chauffeur.
Tocco’s 2010 award marks the 32nd year
that WCA has presented the W. Nelson Vander
Robert Malcom (right) presents award to
Tom Tocco (left).

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Hyden Award. The award’s namesake was
active in the construction industry of
Washtenaw County during the 1960s and
1970s. With the presentation of this award,
WCA commemorates the high standards of
moral character, ethics and professionalism
that Vander Hyden demonstrated during his
years as a part of the area’s construction
industry. In addition to being involved in the
construction of many signature projects in
Washtenaw County, he was committed to the
improvement of the construction industry as
a whole, and always found time to give back
to his community.
Nominations for the W. Nelson Vander
Hyden Award are solicited each year from
throughout the construction industry, with
the selection being made by a committee
composed of past recipients.
KraftMaid Cabinetry Launches
Education Series on YouTube
VIDEO TUTORIALS FOR DESIGNERS AND
ARCHITECTS FEATURED ON YOUTUBE
KraftMaid Cabinetry recently launched an
Education Channel on YouTube to help
architects and designers stay current with the
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latest design technology. The company’s first
video offerings are a series of Google
SketchUp™ screencasts, digital videos
explaining how to use Google SketchUp and
the collection of more than 1,000 3-D
KraftMaid cabinet models in the Google 3D
Warehouse.
Google SketchUp was developed to
provide quick 3-D forms for conceptual
stages of design, including a repository of 3-D
objects that accelerate the design process,
called the Google 3D Warehouse. SketchUp
models can be converted into many CAD
products without having to draw designs
twice. Dynamic Components are SketchUp
components to which attributes have been
assigned. Attributes can be simple pieces of
additional information, such as part numbers,
dimensions, and behaviors, such as animation
and smart scaling.
The KraftMaid series consists of several 90-
second videos with tips for a variety of digital
design-related topics, such as how to
download and install the free version of
Google SketchUp, and how to access
KraftMaid's catalog of 3-D cabinet models.
Another video shows advanced users how to
create stunning client presentations that help
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Igloo Studios, producers of the popular
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screencasts for KraftMaid Cabinetry. Igloo
Studios is a digital media firm that creates
immersive 3-D and video media solutions for
AEC industry companies. Responsible for
creating interactive 3-D models for Google
Earth and the Google 3-D Warehouse, Igloo
creates powerful new media experiences
being leveraged by building product
manufacturers, real estate developers, and
designers to reach clients and consumers in a
visually meaningful way. “School” (http://go-
2-school.com), Igloo’s educational studio,
trains Google SketchUp users through online
video podcasts, DVDs, and live training.
“These video screencasts make it easy for
designers to learn and use free and affordable
design software from Google, along with
KraftMaid’s new 3-D cabinet models,” said
Mark Johnson, FAIA, director of sales &
marketing education at KraftMaid Cabinetry.
“We're committed to helping the design
community leverage our 3-D cabinet
collections for design, presentations and the
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 The KraftMaid Education Channel makes
the video series easy to access on YouTube
and share from a computer, smart phone or
even the new Apple® iPad™. According to
Johnson, “Our entire series has been created
in high definition, the default setting for
videos on the iPad, and other popular media
devices. This makes the SketchUp
demonstrations of the KraftMaid screencasts
look stunning, no matter where designers
view them. We envision that designers will
soon be using tablets like the iPad for their
SketchUp projects for client presentations.”
To access the screencasts, visit
www.youtube.com/MascoCabinetry and
view the KraftMaid Education playlist. For
more information about KraftMaid, visit
http://www.kraftmaid.com or call 440-632-
5333. For more information about Igloo
Studios, visit www.igloostudios.com.
Brownfield to Wind Tower
Manufacturing: Ventower
Breaks Ground!
Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc. (SME) and
DeMattia Group, both of Plymouth, joined
Ventower Industries, LLC, Governor Jennifer
Granholm, U.S. Congressman John Dingell,
state and local officials, and others, in late
March 2010 to celebrate the groundbreaking
for Ventower’s new 115,000-square-foot wind
tower manufacturing plant at the Port of
Monroe in Monroe. DeMattia Group is
providing architectural and construction
services for Ventower's new manufacturing
facility. The Monroe site has access to rail,
water and truck routes to allow components
to be delivered to all areas east of the
Mississippi.
“DeMattia Group is honored to provide our
design and construction services for the
initial wind tower manufacturing facility in
Michigan,” states Gary D. Roberts, AIA,
president of DeMattia Group. “Reclaiming a
nearly 35-acre Brownfield site will have its
challenges, but it is certainly proof that we are
all shifting toward ‘green’ practices and
renewable energy options, which will assist in
revitalizing southeastern Michigan.”
SME assisted Ventower and the project
team in securing $16.5 million in financial
incentives, including:
• $2.07 million state Brownfield grants
and loans
• $2 million federal EPA Brownfield loan
• $3.5 million state Brownfield tax credits
• $5 million Brownfield tax increment
financing
• $4 million Small Business Administration
Section 504 loan.
SME also simultaneously managed
Ventower’s environmental due diligence
requirements and provided geotechnical
engineering solutions for complicated
foundation issues associated with
construction at the former industrial waste
landfill site. SME designed and will be coordi-
nating environmental response actions to
address contamination issues on the site.
“Clean energy is one of the economic
sectors we’ve targeted in our ongoing efforts
to diversify Michigan’s economy,” Governor
Granholm said. “Ventower’s state-of-the-art
facility will help us toward our goal of making
Michigan a center for green manufacturing.”
Ventower is a fabricator and supplier of
industrial-scale wind turbine towers.
DeMattia estimates construction will take
nine months, allowing manufacturing to
begin in early 2011. The company anticipates
building up to 250 towers a year at the site
and initially employing 150 people.

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recognizes projects from around the world

The facility’s design incorporates a planned
expansion of 76,000 square feet. The
manufacturing processes will bend, weld,
paint and assemble plate steel into 15-foot
diameter monotubes. Combined sections
will reach 240 feet in height. The facility will
have 40-ton cranes as well as process and
material handling equipment to
accommodate individual tower sections up
to 115 feet in length.
For more information about SME, please
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Bridging a Great Divide
WORLD’S LONGEST CABLE-STAYED
BRIDGE WINS PRESTIGIOUS U.S. CIVIL
ENGINEERING AWARD
The American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) recently announced that the Sutong
Bridge in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province,
China has won the 2010 Outstanding Civil
Engineering Achievement Award (OCEA).
The Sutong Bridge, which spans the
Yangtze River in China’s Jiangsu Province, is
for their contribution to the wellbeing of
the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge.
people and communities, their resource-
With a main span measuring 1,088 meters or
fulness in planning and design challenges,
about 3,600 feet, it is the first cable-stayed
and their innovative use of materials and
bridge with a span that passes the 1,000-
techniques. The other finalists were:
meter or 3,280-foot mark. The bridge also
• The Arrowhead Tunnels Project,
has two side-spans that are 300 meters or
Inland Feeder Program,
about 984 feet, as well as four smaller cable
San Bernardino, CA
spans.
• The Concordia University Wisconsin
The bridge provides a vital link between
Lakeshore Environmental
the cities of Suzhou and Nantong in Jiangsu
Enhancement and Education Project,
Province. The expanse dramatically reduces
Mequon, WI
the journey between Suzhou and Nantong -
• The Sound Transit Central Link Light
which used to require a four-hour ferry trip –
Rail, Section 710 Beacon Hill Station
to just an hour.
and Tunnels, Seattle, WA
In addition to its record-setting length,
• The Utah State Capitol Seismic Base
the bridge’s construction included a number
Isolation and Restoration, Salt Lake
of significant achievements. The bridge’s
City, UT
two-pylon foundations – each founded on
Founded in 1852, the American Society of
131 piles - were the largest ever attempted,
Civil Engineers represents more than
and the 300-meter bridge pylons were the
144,000 civil engineers worldwide, and is
tallest ever constructed. Additionally, the
America’s oldest national engineering
577-meter or 1,900-foot long, stayed cables
society. For more information, please visit
were the longest ever manufactured.
www.asce.org.
Established in 1960, the OCEA program

SAFETY TOOL KIT

Safety Achievement Awards
By Joe Forgue, Director of Safety and Education Services

A
t the April 14th CAMSAFETY Construction the recordable rate was 1.23 - both
Safety Training Workshop, the 2009 Safety well below the industry averages. In
Achievement Awards were presented. For each category, the top three companies
2009, 28 member companies recorded lost were awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze designations,
workday and recordable injury rates below the as depicted below, left.
construction industry average, as reported by the One last very important award was also given to the company
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Companies were with the lowest EMR. That award went to Douglas Steel Fabricating
grouped into three categories by work hours, as Corporation of Lansing.
shown below. Many companies worked through Other Awardees: Alberici Constructors, Inc.; Authority Group Concrete;
Joseph M. Forgue 2009 without an injury. Those ties were then Baker Construction Company; Boone & Darr, Inc.; Broadcast Design &
Director of Safety & ranked by Experience Modification Rating (EMR). Construction; Colasanti Specialty Services; Commercial Contracting
Education Services
As a group, the lost workday case rate was .23 and Corporation; De-Cal, Inc.; J. J. Barney Construction; Kasco, Inc.; OEMC Rentals;
O’Neal Construction Inc.; R. C. Hendrick & Son; Turner Construction Company;
0 – 99,999 100,000 – 299,999 Above 300,000 Spence Brothers; Strut Tech Systems, LLC; and Will H. Hall & Son, Inc.
Gold
Walsh Construction George W. Auch Brand Energy & All of these companies posted excellent safety numbers, but there were
Company Company Infrastructure still some recordable and lost workday injuries. Since your employees are
clearly your greatest asset, keeping them safe and sound while at work must
Silver Adamo Demolition North American Center Line be of paramount importance to any thriving, growing company. As always, if
Dismantling Electric, Inc. there is anything CAMSAFETY can do to help you with your safety program,
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Remember CAMSAFETY is offering free, on-site Focus Four safety training
Bronze Barrett Paving Roncelli, Inc. Dee Cramer, Inc. under our Grant from MIOSHA. To find out more about this opportunity,
Materials, Inc.
and please contact me at 248-972-1141 or at forgue@cam-online.com. You can
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W
e’ve all heard that money doesn’t workplace environment – often reducing Green find that money can grow on trees; in
grow on trees, but CAM Member operating costs in the process. J.S. Vig’s energy efficient appliances, in photovoltaic
J. S. Vig Construction Co., Taylor, Project Green Team focuses on best panels, and in many other technologies.
offers clients the next best thing – a practices in sustainable, commercial
specialized division that develops project- construction, and the division also operates THE PROCESS
specific guidance designed to reduce the Project Green Institute in Ann Arbor, a Sustainable building, like all other market
carbon emissions while improving energy unique space that showcases many of these sectors, is obviously impacted by less than
efficiency, water efficiency, and the techniques. Clients who work with Project favorable market conditions. The key differ-
ence is that investing in green technology
can pay short and long-term dividends.
The light pole seen here represents a significant investment in sustainability at the Project Facility owners who want to realize these
Green Institute, but the portable photovoltaic panel seen in front of the building was chosen dividends must work with contractors who
because it made more financial sense than a built-in system at the rented facility. understand them.
“I see two big barriers right now,”
explained Joshua Brugeman, LEED AP, direc-
tor of Project Green for J.S. Vig. “The first is
that people don’t have access to capital, but
we can bring incentives for sustainable
building and financing solutions to the table
that they may not know about. The other
big barrier is lack of knowledge. People
don’t know what is possible, or how to do it.
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Water that is not collected in this
rain barrel seeps through
permeable pavers instead of
overwhelming storm sewers.
The inside of the facility is a treasure
trove of recycled materials, many of
which can be seen here.
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Project Green uses a four-phase process
to provide owners with a comprehensive
blueprint they can follow in meeting their
sustainability goals. The first phase involves
investigating green goals and benchmark-
ing the performance of existing buildings.
Owners who are eager to see dust start fly-
ing would be well advised not to rush this
crucial step. Electrical and moisture issues,
along with a host of other concerns, are
often unearthed during this step. Brugeman
cited an example where an existing build-
ing’s high energy costs were initially attrib-
uted to inefficient mechanical systems. After
further investigation, it was determined that
the system was working all too well and sup-
plying much more fresh air than was needed
in the space. Fine-tuning the existing equip-
ment brought the energy bills down without
costly replacements.
Data gathered in the first phase is crucial
to the second phase of the process, in which
sustainability experts make recommenda-
tions based on their findings.
“We develop an a la carte list of things
that a building owner can do to make a facil-
ity more energy-efficient and sustainable,”
said Brugeman. “We look at the investment
cost, expected savings and payback window.
Every solution that we suggest is backed
with a detailed explanation.”
Owners who are armed with this informa-
tion can make educated choices in regard to
their sustainability efforts. Developers who
are looking for a quick return on their invest-
ments, for example, will typically be much
less receptive to green technologies that
take a long time to pay for themselves, than
owners who will occupy a space for a long
time, will be. As green building becomes
more common, builders will be asked to pro-
vide information on expected paybacks
more often. Brugeman believes that those
who cannot do this will be “left in the dust”
in a competitive marketplace.
Phase three of the process offered by J.S.
Vig’s Green Team involves project imple-
mentation with careful regard to sustainabil-
ity goals, while phase four includes a com-
prehensive evaluation to ensure that these
goals were met. Instead or merely seeing
the potential results of this process on
paper, the Green Team also provides clients
with a unique opportunity to see positive
results up close.
THE TOUR
Sustainable building embodies many
complex concepts that can be difficult to
visualize. Many of these ideas are on display
at J.S. Vig’s Project Green Institute.
Numbered tour stations, 24 in all, highlight
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the multitude of green technologies that are
packed inside the 1,000-square-foot office
space, which is expected to earn Gold-Level
Certification under the USGBC’s LEED rating
system.
The tour begins outside with a light pole
that is powered exclusively with solar and
wind energy that is stored in underground
batteries. Efficient water management is
highlighted with the combination of an effi-
cient irrigation system that uses low-flow
technology to prevent evaporation, thereby
achieving the same result as a conventional
system with 20 to 50 percent less water.
Water that is not collected in the rain barrel
seeps through permeable pavers instead of
overwhelming storm sewers. Native grasses
and flowers were selected for the landscap-
ing, as these require less water than other
landscaping choices. Effective use of native
plants can deliver a traditional look in a
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back,” said Brugeman. “There are a variety of
solutions available.”
Other outdoor elements include a green
wall that provides an attractive exterior
along with superior sound and thermal insu-
lation properties and a solar shade that pro-
tects against solar gain in the summer while
transmitting full sunlight in the winter for
warmth. A variety of green roof mats are
also on display outside the building, includ-
ing thinner mats that weigh only 15 pounds
per-square-inch, making them a viable
option for some existing buildings.
The inside of the facility is likewise a treas-
ure trove of sustainable examples including
recycled materials, energy efficient lighting
and low-flow plumbing fixtures. The team
that designed the Project Green Institute
evaluated sustainable ideas against financial
realities in the exact same way that Project
Green clients do.
“We went through the same exercise that
anyone else would,” said Brugeman. “We put
our dream list together, then we looked at
the budget realities and had to narrow it
down.”
Since J.S. Vig rents the space, long term
investments like a gray water system or an
extensive photovoltaic system wouldn’t
have made sense. Still, the facility includes a
portable photovoltaic panel, and the renew-
able energy light post outside does repre-
sent a significant financial investment, as the
J.S. Vig has lofty goals for its newly formed
Project Green Division. By 2015, the firm
aims to retrofit 100,000,000 square feet,
reduce operating costs by $100,000,000 and
avoid 650,000 tons of carbon emissions.
These goals will only be possible if the firm
demonstrates that money can grow on trees
to a large number of clients who are eager to
rake in substantial savings.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF TRAINOR GLASS COMPANY

By David R. Miller, Associate Editor

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M
ichigan’s brutal occupied building,” said Swindle.
economy has taken “Typically, you don’t need to take
a toll on the entire working hours into consideration
construction when a building isn’t occupied. If
industry, and glazing you want to start early, you can.
contractors are no exception. Logistics become an issue with an
Firms have weathered bad occupied building because you
times before and will do so won’t have an open jobsite where
again, but the troubling fact is you can come and go freely. There
that some will never see the are stricter requirements for
light at the end of this particular access and increased security. All
tunnel. Most contractors are of those issues can make the job
focusing their energies on more complex, so they need to be
simply staying in business until understood.”
the economy gets better, Trainor Glass Company is also
essentially operating in a pursuing opportunities in the
survival mode. CAM Magazine residential market. The firm
recently spoke with two glazing provides a wide variety of
contractors, Peterson Glass Co., bathroom and kitchen fixtures

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Ferndale, and Trainor Glass
Company, Allen Park, to see
what both firms are doing to
stay afloat during these
challenging times. It is hoped
that their coping strategies
might provide real insight to
other glazing contractors as
they face the same issues Trainor Glass Company is pursuing new markets and diversifying its product modification to be effective with
themselves. line without forgetting the core business the company is known for:
working on commercial projects like the one seen in this photograph.
TRAINOR GLASS COMPANY
Like most contractors, Trainor Glass Company has seen fewer
opportunities in recent months.
“We’ve seen tighter margins across the board, not just in Michigan,
but across the Midwest and the country as a whole,” said Tim Swindle,
Midwest regional manager for Trainor Glass Company. “We’ve been in
the glazing business for 57 years, so we have strong relationships with
architects, general contractors and owners. We’re relying on those
existing relationships as we go after sectors where there seems to be
more activity – healthcare, university and government work. Certain
markets are being affected more than others.”
Contractors will obviously go where the work is, but a certain
amount of caution is warranted when stepping into unfamiliar
territory. Contractors who performed primarily on smaller projects
may chase bigger jobs, but Swindle warned that these are often
more complex in terms of project management and cash flow. Labor
and installation can be more difficult, requiring additional staffing,
which can lead to a crippling increase in overhead costs. Healthcare
work also often takes place at operational facilities. Contractors who
are not used to working around the public will need to learn these
skills quickly.
“Logistics are an issue whenever you are working with an
including tub and shower
enclosures, sinks, faucets and
countertops. These products are
available at three retail design
centers or online. The approach
that brought Trainor Glass
Company success in the
commercial market needed some
individual homeowners.
“Residential work requires a
different marketing approach
because you are reaching out to a larger audience just to get to a
single buyer,” explained Swindle. “The volume is also much lower.
After you make the sale, you might not see that customer for a period
of years, or ever again, so the repeat business is not consistent like it
is in commercial glazing.”
In addition to pursuing work in other markets, Trainor Glass
Company is diversifying its product line to grow its business in a
down economy. The company now installs a stone cladding product
that uses curtain wall technology and a line of solar panels. These
products were carefully selected as they include processes and
materials that are already familiar to a glazing contractor.
“It is easy to overextend yourself and forget about your core
business,” said Swindle. “While we are determined to be successful
with these new products, we’re not forgetting where we came from.”
Swindle believes that entering new market segments and offering
new products are viable strategies for coping with a down economy.
These actions increase opportunities at a time when an overall
reduction can be expected.
“There just aren’t as many good opportunities in new construction
right now – that’s a fact,” said Swindle. “You need to be lean and mean
to survive.”

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Kevin Hickey, president of Peterson Glass Co., believes

that contractors with good reputations for quality can
benefit from the trust they have built up over time.
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PETERSON GLASS CO. better suited than some to survive lean to,” said Hickey. “Our overhead costs aren’t
Peterson Glass Co. is also coping with a times because their overhead costs can be really affected by low volume because we
decrease in sales volume. According to very low. The company’s office staff consists would all be here anyway.”
Kevin Hickey, president of Peterson Glass, of three brothers plus an administrative Hickey firmly believes that there will be a
the actions of some contractors are affecting person. light at the end of the tunnel for contractors
everyone. He noted that it is difficult to “We can expand and contract as we need who embrace quality and refuse to
complete with bids where the submitting
company is obviously willing to accept a loss
or is planning to ignore prevailing wage
requirements.
“We’re trying to weather the storm by
sticking to our guns,” he said. “There is no
point in taking work if there is no money left
over when you are done. We’re
concentrating on getting the work that we
can and on managing those jobs correctly,
so we end up with some money leftover to
cover our overhead and some kind of profit.”
Peterson Glass has taken some steps to
reduce employee healthcare costs and other
expenditures, and has also diversified its
product offerings to include solar panels,
though Hickey noted that solar panels can
only make money for his firm if customers
have the money to install them. Although
making a profit is a challenge now, Hickey is
seeing some encouraging signs. He noted
that no company that consistently bids work
below cost can be expected to be in
business forever. Owners are beginning to
realize this simple truth, in his opinion.
“We do get some work because of the
failures of other companies,” he admitted.
“Some people might have had bad
experiences with other companies –
whether they went out of business, didn’t
meet the schedule, or got themselves
thrown off the job for some reason. We’re
getting by based on our past performance
because people trust us to do the job right
and get it done on schedule. It isn’t always
about the lowest bid anymore. People are
going back to who they trust.”
Hickey sees real reason for optimism in
this trend, but he admits that the process
has been agonizingly slow. He pointed out
that general contractors should be wary of
bids that come in well below the initial cost
estimate, but that hasn’t prevented these
bids from flooding the marketplace.
“We’re seeing ridiculously low pricing this
year, even more so than last year,” he said.
“Last year, someone might beat you by five
percent – now it’s 10 or 20 percent. It is like
a last gasp. They think they can take a lot of
cheap work and survive on volume
somehow, but it turns into a spiral when
they start adding more people all those
projects and their costs start going up.”
Family firms like Peterson Glass may be

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Hickey believes that there will be a light at
the end of the tunnel for contractors who
perform well.

participate in last gasp efforts to stay afloat.

Though relief can’t come soon enough, it
may come sooner than many people think.
“My personal feeling is that we are past
the low, but I think that recovery will be a
gradual process,” he said. “It won’t be like
past recessions, where we bounced right
back to where we were. Still, there is a little
bit more work out there. We’re seeing
automotive and healthcare work again, plus
some of the new battery facilities that are
going up. Things are starting back up again,
slowly but surely.”

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G R E E N P R I N T
F O R T H E F U T U R E

The Green Nature of

WINDOWS
By Paul Andrew Haselhuhn, AIA, LEED AP

Paul Andrew Haselhuhn,

AIA, LEED AP

T
he fact of the matter is we spend up to
90% of our lives indoors. Most of us
however, are driven to be outdoors.
Whether we realize it or not, we physically
and emotionally benefit from nature and
the sun. It’s been said that the best place to
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find religion isn’t in a church building, but by

taking a walk in the woods. Architect Alden
B. Dow embraced this idea in not only his
design of places of worship but in
architecture as a whole. The element Dow
often used in his designs to connect the Glass, seen here at the Hemlock Semiconductor Administration Building
interior with the exterior, was glass. in Hemlock, is one of architecture’s most sustainable elements.

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F O R T H E F U T U R E

PHOTO BY CLIFF AMRHEIN, COURTESY OF THE ALDEN B. DOW ARCHIVES

Architect Alden Dow used glass to connect the interior with the exterior in places of worship and other structures. Midland’s First Methodist Church
Chapel is seen here.

Glazing, that transparent component of a buildings envelope, which
connects our environments, is one of architecture’s most sustainable
elements. It impacts energy usage, ventilation and occupant health.
In many ways, more so than any other sustainable feature a building
can engage.
Prior to the addition of mechanical and electrical systems,
openings in the buildings envelope, whether infilled with glazing or
not, were the primary source of light, ventilation, cooling and even
helped to heat a building’s interior. There was a time when architects
used to take advantage of these features. But over the last century,
with some exceptions, we have largely ignored the benefits of a
building’s glazing. With the advent of electric lighting and HVAC
systems we’ve become accustomed to muscling the heating and
cooling into a building, forcing fresh air in and contaminated air out,

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and artificially lighting the interior to make
spaces usable.
The way we treated a buildings glazing
became worse during the energy crisis of
the ‘70s, when alot of reaction by architects
and building owners focused on glazing as
the primary loss of energy in a building. And
it was an easy target. Existing buildings, K-12
schools being a prime example, saw large
expanses of single pane glazing systems
replaced with EIFS infills and small double
hung replacements. Many of those schools,
when they were designed, used large
amounts of glazing for light, ventilation and
connecting the occupants with the exterior.
Additionally, new buildings were designed
with a focus on more energy efficient walls.
While a positive step for architecture as a
whole, since glazing technology was much
further behind, in many cases the windows
were a forgotten element. It was a knee-jerk
reaction; the fundamental building
elements in architecture were changing and
we were going through some growing
pains.
In recent years, low-e technology has
greatly improved, double pane, argon filled
insulated glass has become the norm, and
warm-edge spacer technology has thrust
glazing efficiently forward to catch up with
the remainder of the building envelope.
Choosing a higher performing glazing for a
building, even though it may have a higher
initial cost, can also have a quick payback, in
some cases as little as just a couple of years.
Having said that, a building’s glazing is still
its weakest point for energy loss.
Fortunately, many of today’s architects are
returning to the principals of sustainable
design they have used for centuries. No
longer do we shy away from glazing, but we
embrace it. Through understanding its
added value to a building’s space,
implementing time-tested principles of how
to control solar gain and energy loss by how
a building is oriented on its site, and through
the use of properly designed overhangs,
light shelves and sunshades.

About the Author:

An architect and LEED accredited
professional, Paul Haselhuhn is an associate
with the firm of Wigen Tincknell Meyer &
Associates, Inc. Haselhuhn has been a project
manager on a wide variety of projects for the
firm and now specializes in higher education,
healthcare and commercial facilities. In
addition to sustainable/green architecture, his
focus lies in design and construction
documents for the firm’s clients.

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W
ood came to the rescue of a $47 sheathing already installed." In fact, the use 2008. Students filled the newly built rooms,
million dollar project trapped of wood panels versus conventional stick- opening the floodgates and beginning the
between a confined site and a tight built construction accelerated the pace of flow of cash to the owner an entire year
schedule. The Courtyards is a premier rough carpentry and framing by two to before completion of the last two buildings
student housing development built deep in three months, helping Marsh to finish the in fall 2009.
maize and blue territory in Ann Arbor. The first building in time for the fall semester of
narrow rectangular site, inserted into the
existing fabric of The University of
Michigan's North Campus, lie fallow for over
20 years until a Chicago developer named
Kensington Realty Advisors, Inc. obtained
the six-acre parcel for high-end student
housing. Students can now study and The use of wood panels accelerated construction by two to three months, allowing Marsh to finish
unwind in style with a full complement of the first of three buildings in record time. Students were able to occupy the first building in
tanning domes, a game lounge and even a September 2008.
movie theater. The exterior is not your
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typical academic brick gulag, but a pleasing

harmony of hardiplank siding, brick, and
stone that says, "welcome home."
Beneath the diverse exterior is a single
material that virtually made the project
possible: custom wood panels that form the
entire structural frame and interior stud
walls of the four-story buildings. "The three,
55-foot-high buildings pushed wood
construction to its vertical limits," said
August F. Kehn, PE, vice president and senior
project manager of T.H. Marsh Construction,
the Royal Oak-based construction manager
for the 360,000-square-foot campus. "You
usually do not see wood framing much over
three stories on a building."
Cost was one of the drivers behind this
material selection. At the time of design, "a
wood frame structure cost less than steel,"
said Gene Carroll, AIA, partner, LEED AP,
Neumann/Smith Architecture, the
Southfield-based firm responsible for the
quality design of the 300-unit development.
"We did price light-gauge steel stud over
wood studs, but the current market pricing
was better for wood."
The project team turned to Cedar Creek
Carpentry, a New Baltimore carpentry
contractor, for this undertaking in wood.
Designing, fabricating and installing custom
wood panels is a Cedar Creek specialty.
"They have engineers that make the panel
work to the criteria established by the
structural engineer," said Kehn.
Cedar Creek designed and fabricated the
panels in their New Baltimore shop, creating
drawings for every panel type. "There are
easily over a hundred different panel types
on each building," said Kehn. Fabrication
was efficient and streamlined, because "the
buildings are very similar in shape, so
fabrication became a repetitious item," said
Carroll. "For speed of erection, wall panels
were shop fabricated with windows and

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CONSTRUCTION TRAFFIC COPS

Beyond cost and schedule, the panels
were a godsend on this narrow, constricted
site with a single access road for entrance
and egress. A crane could pluck the panels
directly from a semi-truck and hoist them
into place as a solution to the lack of
material storage space and the congested
work environment on a site measuring only
225 feet in width and 1,000 feet in length.
The source of this building bottleneck was
a "tri-party agreement among the
owner/developer, U-M, and the City of Ann
Arbor stating that construction activity and

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traffic was not allowed on or across U-M
property," according to Marsh-supplied
information. Unfortunately for site logistics,
the parcel is locked in on three sides by
university properties and a border of
university roads. Marsh gained site access
only at Broadway Street, located at the
northwest corner of the development. "We
had only one way in and one way out of the
Wood panels were used for both the structural frame and the interior site, because we were not allowed to use the
studs of this 360,000-square-foot development. Murfin Boulevard entry to the northeast
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 The Courtyards and The University of back down, going backwards all the way." on this narrow lane also included
Michigan North Campus Recreation Building There was simply no room for either backing coordination of crane set up with panel
to the east, Marsh inserted a narrow up trucks or laying down materials, because installation. "If we needed to set up a crane
temporary access road running the entire of site constraints and foundation work in for some other aspect of the job, we had
length of the site's west side. They were able progress on the Center Building next door. Cedar Creek deliver a couple of extra loads
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While Marsh pushed wood construction to its vertical limit, the overall development took high-end student housing to a new level of luxury and class.

Marsh served as both traffic cop and road

commission tasked with keeping the
roadway safe and clear. "Much of the work
was done in the winter," said Kehn. "In
working through a winter of record snows,
we had to plow and salt the road almost
daily to maintain traffic flow." As a further
complication, the site slopes upward 40 feet
from the northern entry point to the south
end, meaning the temporary road had to be
paved or the construction crew would
literally face an uphill battle in potentially

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PUTTING THE PIECES INTO PLACE
Marsh began working south to north in
DETROIT CARPENTRY
summer 2007, because construction of the
North Building's two-story underground
parking structure would add six months to
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the timeline and make the North Building
undeliverable by the first day of the fall TRAINING COMMITTEE
semester in 2008. Fortunately, the wood
panels were pivotal in delivering the South
Building to the owner in time for the
beginning of the traditional school year.
Every panel was marked, arriving on the DETROIT & SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
jobsite with a companion drawing showing
its placement in this structural jigsaw puzzle
in wood. Two truck-mounted cranes were
positioned for lifting the panels - an average
panel measured 20-feet-long x 10-feet-high
- and then swinging and hoisting them into
place. "They installed them like an erector
set, going up one floor at a time," said Kehn.
At the peak of the job, Cedar Creek had
about 30 rough carpenters working on the
spread of buildings.
Labor savings, quality control, and speed
were the three primary benefits of the panel
system. "Setting huge panels in place versus
not having to erect every stick or piece of
wood was definitely a labor savings in the
field," said Kehn. "Budget-wise, the cost
came out equal. Shop assembly under
controlled conditions boosts quality,
because the carpentry is not impacted by
weather or other field conditions. We were
not impacted as much by the weather in the
STRENGTH THROUGH
field either. The panels just made life easier."
Last but not least, speed of installation was KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL
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turn the entire building over to the owner.
With the use of the panel system, Marsh Web site: www.detcarpapp.org
already had the rough carpentry and
framing installed for the Center Building at
the grand opening of the South Building.
Both Center and North Buildings were
completed in late spring 2009 and open to Union Trustees Management Trustees
students in fall 2009.
Both the selection of wood as structural
frame and T.H. Marsh Construction Company Charlie Jackson, Chairman Brian Sedik, Secretary
as construction manager delivered a difficult Scott Lowes Gene Auger
project that was “a complete success with
on-time project delivery, zero lost-time
Dick Reynolds Art Hug, Jr.
incidents, and an extremely high-quality Toney Stewart Patrick Landry
product from the very first to the very last Bart Nickerson Jack Russell
unit,” added Kehn.
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A
small village with a rich heritage,
Milford has over four buildings and an
entire district on the National Register
of Historic Places. In this little hub of history,
tripling the size of a woefully inadequate fire
station called for a building compatible with
the village's pleasing weave of historical
structures. Milford Township called on the
services of a construction company with a
long history of its own, namely the 102-year-
old George W. Auch Company of Pontiac.
This centennial company preserved the
community's heritage and conserved its
budget with the renovation of the existing
fire station and construction of a new
addition. The architectural firm of Wixom-
based Coquillard, Dundon, Peterson &
Argenta Architects, Inc. (CDPA) delivered a
facility in harmony with the township’s
vision. The new facility’s old-fashioned
firehouse doors, keystone brick archways,
and a cornice of dentil trim details were
made possible by savvy material selection
that blended the township's past heritage The fire station’s detailed Fypon cornice work fits the township’s budget and the community’s
with current economic realities. rich heritage.

CONTAINING FIRE
Improperly managed, cost can spread like
wildfire. With its management expertise and
Designed to last 50 to 60 years, the four-fold doors are rated between a million to 2 million
early engagement in the project, the Auch
cycles, meaning the fire station doors can open and close several million times before reaching
Company delivered a project substantially
obsolescence.
under budget. At the township’s request,
“we initially evaluated five different sites for
cost,” said Vincent P. DeLeonardis, Auch
president, CEO, LEED AP. The township
ultimately selected 325 West Huron Street -
the existing site of Fire Station No. 1 -
because of the economy gained through
redevelopment of portions of the existing
building and for its central location within
the community. “There was land available
adjacent to the existing station for the new
addition that served as a parking lot for the
existing station,” added William Moy, Auch
project manager.
The Auch Company's extensive precon-
struction services included submittal of a list
of architectural firms with fire station design
experience to the township, plus assistance
in preparing the Request for Proposals. The
township selected CDPA, an architectural
firm that has designed over fifty different
fire stations across southeastern Michigan.
Matching the project to the team was
based on more than budget and experience
alone. “We had good chemistry,” said
DeLeonardis. The Auch Company’s
estimator and several of his family members
were volunteer firefighters in their own
communities. “Our estimator understood
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CONSTRUCTION HIGHLIGHT
Raising the roof level and installing a façade of brick and split-face block, compatible with the new addition (left), was only part of the
redevelopment of the existing fire station (above).
said DeLeonardis, “and we understood the
township’s goal of creating value. CDPA also
came across to the owner as a firm that
would listen to their needs.”
The Auch Company and CDPA worked
together closely throughout the
programming phase. "It helped us better to
translate the design into construction and
helped us do our part in formulating the
schedule," said Moy. In turn, the project
team worked closely with the community.
Proving that it takes a village to raise a fire
station, both Auch and CDPA participated in
Town Hall meetings and interacted with
numerous village and township govern-
mental units, including the Village Council,
the Village Planning Commission, the
Downtown Development Authority, and the
Historical Commission, said Stacy E.
Peterson, AIA, CDPA president.
THE LITTLE FIRE HOUSE THAT COULDN’T
After a previous bond failure, the idea for
a new station finally caught fire with voters
who passed the bond issue for a revitalized
fire station in November 2008. The small size
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of the 5,500-square-foot station ultimately
convinced the community to begin building.
The fire station interior was such a tight
squeeze that firefighters couldn’t open the
doors of two fire trucks, parked side by side,
at the same time. "The vehicles were so close
that I could walk between them and almost
touch both vehicles with my shoulders," said
Peterson.
The original 2,300-square-feet of this
“bonsai” fire station was built in 1954 with a
subsequent 2,200-square-foot addition
constructed in 1975. "It was basically an
antiquated and inadequate facility," said
DeLeonardis. The small little station lacked
space for both standard and hazardous
material training, contained only a single
shower to serve the needs of both male and
female fire fighters, and housed a single
restroom for both the firefighters and the
public.
Unrolling the blueprints for the new
18,634-square-foot station revealed a well-
planned facility capable of rescuing the fire
department from its own version of
confined space entry. The renovation of the
original station called for an administration
area, training room and a dispatch and
watch room, leaving the entire first floor of
the new 12,017-square-foot addition - called
the apparatus room - available for a fleet of
fire trucks and a host of fire equipment.
The addition's second level is designed to
serve the needs of Milford's hard-working
firefighters with a kitchen, day room and
exercise area facing West Huron Street.
Separate female and male restrooms and
showers are designed as a buffer zone
separating active areas from a small library,
sleeping quarters, and expansion space at
the back of the building. Formerly, most of
these functions were compressed into a
single, cramped room in the old facility. Built
to serve both village and township, the new
Fire Station No. 1 also allows Milford to host
and train in a haz-mat response trailer that
rotates among communities.
MAKING HISTORY
The building's function fell into place, but
the core design conundrum was working
with the community and various
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government agencies on the station's 50,000 cycles, meaning they can go up and degree of control and energy efficiency with
appearance. "We spent a great deal of time down 50,000 times before they need to be these systems.” As another point of
creating the look that everyone would buy replaced. Four-fold doors, depending on the economy and value, the existing vehicle
into,” said Peterson. “Community manufacturer, are rated between a million to exhaust system was relocated to the new
discussions steered the design toward a 2 million cycles and will last 50 to 60 years apparatus room with its host of newly
period architecture as opposed to a contem- versus the 13 years of a typical overhead installed compressed air piping, electric
porary look. Exterior features, such as the door.” In addition, the four-fold doors – drops, and other systems serving fire trucks
detailed cornice work and the keystones electrically operated with a manual option and equipment. “The owner got a lot of
above the apparatus door openings, pick up in the event of a power failure – open more bang for the buck in a fire station that is
themes of other buildings in downtown quickly. Less visible and less crucial, vertical slated to last for 50 years,” added Peterson.
Milford." sectional overhead doors were installed in
As construction manager at risk, the Auch the rear of the fire station. WORKING ON A LIMITED SITE
Company turned over this classic but cost- Value analysis drove selection of the The Auch Company launched
effective fire station "through detailed epoxy floor finish in the apparatus room, as construction on June 25, 2009, working
estimating and working within the confines of a
with the architect on tight site, hemmed in by
the selection of residential areas to the
materials," said south and the major
DeLeonardis. In lieu of traffic artery of West
more expensive stone, Huron Street to the
the ornate cornice is a north. One essential
manufactured Fypon strategy cleared the path
unit; light-colored, split- for construction on this
face block replicates tight site. Larry Waligora,
stone in the building Milford Township fire
base and accent bands. chief, forged an
In another material agreement with a local
strategy, the inviting business owner to
facade is clad in an relocate much of the fire
oversized, utility brick equipment to a vacant
designed to reduce lumberyard a block east
labor costs and blend of the station. Other
the brick with the scale operations were
of the four, large transferred to Milford
apparatus bay doors. Township’s Fire Station
"The jumbo brick fits No. 2. "The fire chief
more closely with the worked hard to come up
scale of the large 14 x 14 with a plan to relocate
foot doors," said their operations off site
Peterson. In addition, and still serve the
soldier courses of utility community," said
brick add to the period Fighting fire with fitness is all part of emergency DeLeonardis.
architecture and preparedness. The second-level fitness room is a Because of Waligora’s
visually break up the new amenity of the fire station addition. efforts, Auch was able to
wall surfaces. "Overall, eliminate many phasing
we focused on items activities that would have
that impacted short- been required to
term costs and on key items that made an well. An epoxy floor is a more costly but coordinate construction with the work of an
impact in terms of long-term investment," more durable surface, especially valuable in operational fire station. The decision to
said Peterson. a fire station continually subjected to water relocate shaved four to five months off the
Some of these key items, subject to a from fire hoses and other uncommon original 14-month schedule, enabling the
thorough value analysis, are the apparatus sources of wear and tear. "With water often fire department to return more quickly to its
bay doors, the flooring, and the HVAC present, we also added a grit finish to make newly transformed home base.
system. The four bay doors in the front are the floor slip resistant," said Peterson. The tight site still dictated key facets of
four-fold doors designed to open and close The HVAC system was another key item in the job. In fact, because of the limited site,
like an accordion. These doors re-create the the value analysis process for the $3.2 the first order of business was installation of
ambiance of an old fire station, plus add million dollar project. "We have multiple an underground storm retention system
value to the facility. "All fire doors used to be force air units with AC condenser units that directly behind the future addition. The 235
like these doors in the old days before fire serve the administrative side and the living linear feet of six-foot diameter concrete pipe
stations began using overhead doors," said quarters, and radiant unit heaters that serve provides a system with a 4,600 cubic foot
Peterson. "In terms of value, heavy-duty the apparatus room,” said Peterson. Added capacity designed to handle a 100-year
commercial overhead doors are rated at DeLeonardis, “The owner obtained a high storm event. The site also was limited

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The new fire station doors are actually a return to the type used in an earlier era.
overhead by a web of communication cables
and power lines above the south half of the
site. "While the crew was working below,
they were very mindful of the power lines
above," said Moy. Despite these overhead
obstacles, "we identified safety issues early
in the course of the project, creating a safe
project with no lost-time injuries," added
DeLeonardis.
As a management strategy on a confined
site, the Auch Company created an almost
factory-like precision for material delivery,
feeding the site with materials without
creating congestion. "We made sure the
right type and amount of materials were on
site, so that we were able to keep going in
the proper sequence," said Moy. As a further
scheduling aid, Auch worked on much of the
addition and renovation simultaneously to
"maximize the space and the work force,”
said Moy.
The Auch Company transformed the
existing station, removing its wood truss
roof, raising the roof level, and installing a
single-ply roofing membrane. The extensive
renovation basically left "the perimeter
walls, one interior wall and the existing
concrete floor slab,” said Moy. While the
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mason installed the existing station's block
and brick, the crew brought the new
addition out of the ground with installation
of trench footings and the slab on grade
footprint, followed swiftly by the structural
steel frame, a single-ply, fully adhered roof,
and the masonry block. "We finished the
masonry on the existing station and then we
were able to jump right over to the other
side to work on the addition’s masonry," said
Moy. "Sequentially, we were able to make
everything fit and flow in sequence."
Upon completion, the flow continued
with a matching façade of brick and a split-
face block in the addition and the
transformed original station. The Auch
Company achieved substantial completion
of the fire station on March 8, 2010. Under
Auch’s savvy management, site work and
landscaping was even installed the previous
fall to completely turn over the facility to
Milford firefighters without this phase
interfering with the station's life-saving
work.
Milford Township celebrated the grand
opening of its new fire station on April 24,
2010. The diligent work of Auch's team of
subcontractors was apparent in every brick
and block. "Our subcontractors performed
very well on this job," said DeLeonardis.
"They were truly exceptional." The new
building has earned high praise from the
community it serves and from Waligora,
both fire chief and president of the
Southeast Michigan Fire Chiefs Association.
Waligora proudly displayed five large
photographs of the new fire station at the
association's recent conference in Novi.
Whether on display or in action, the new Fire
Station No.1 stands ready to serve the
Milford community.
MILFORD FIRE STATION CONSULTANTS
AND SUBCONTRACTORS
• Structural Engineers - L & A, Inc.,
Farmington Hills
• Mechanical and Electrical Engineers –
MA Engineering, Birmingham
• Civil Engineers -- Zeimet Wozniak
& Associates, Novi
• Landscape Architect - Grissim Metz
Andriese Associates, Inc., Northville
• Village of Milford Civil Engineers -
Wade Trim, Taylor
• Demolition – Blue Star, Inc., Warren
• Site – Blue Ribbon Contracting, Inc.,
Belleville
• Site Paving – Nagle Paving Co., Novi
• Landscape – Chas. F. Irish Co., Warren
• Foundation – Novi Wall, Inc., Novi
• Concrete – San Angelo Construction
Co., Milford
• Masonry – Navetta Mason Co.,
Brighton
• Steel – Cass Erectors & Fabricators,
Livonia
• Carpentry – Wally Kosorski & Co.,
Clinton Twp.
• Metal Panels – Butcher & Baecker
Construction, Rochester Hills
• Roofing – Royal Roofing Co., Inc.,
Orion
• Joint Sealants – DC Byers Co., Detroit
• Doors, Frames, Hardware – Century
Architectural Hardware, Wixom
• Four-Fold/Sectional Doors –
Overhead Door West, Waterford
• Aluminum Framing, Doors, Aluminum
Window, Glass & Glazing – Crystal Glass,
Wixom
• Gypsum Board – Turner-Brooks,
Madison Heights
• Acoustical Ceilings – Jasman
Construction Co., Whitmore Lakes
• Ceramic Tile flooring – Boston Tile &
Terrazzo Co., Detroit
• Carpet/VCT Flooring – Conventional
Carpet, Inc., Sterling Heights
• Painting – Seven Brothers Painting, Inc.,
Shelby Township
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• Epoxy Flooring – Creative Surfaces, Inc.,
Macomb
• Toilet Partitions, Accessories – R.E.
Leggette Co., Dearborn
• Flag Pole – Rocket Enterprise, Inc.,
Warren
• Lockers – Steel Equipment, Inc.,
Pontiac
• Signs – Hunt Sign Co., Berkley
• HVAC – Mills Mechanical, Ortonville
• Plumbing – USA Plumbing,
Ray Township
• Fire Protection – Detroit Automatic
Sprinkler Co., Warren
• Electrical – Lakes Electrical, Pinckney
• Floor Leveling – Kent Companies,
Redford
• Relocate Existing Vehicle Exhaust System
– Hastings Air Energy Control, Inc.,
Farmington
• Testing Engineers – McDowell &
Associates, Ferndale

Subcontractors and professional consultants

listed in this feature are identified by the
general contractor, architect or owner.

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PRODUCT SHOWCASE
VEKA Implements Green
Technology
VEKA Inc. announced their intent to
implement green technology for window
and door extrusions being manufactured
for their commercial window division.
The window systems made with these
profiles will contain at least 40% pre-
consumer, recycled PVC material and will
be comprised of the company’s scrap
start-up material, obsolete inventory, cut-
offs, clean customer buy back material
and other compatible recovered material,
i.e., siding. The recycled material will be
used for the substrate of the products,
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The exterior of the co-extruded
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Because of the material’s recycled
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This announcement follows VEKA
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Hilti Introduces Its Most
Powerful Breaker Ever
Hilti is redefining what’s possible with
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TE 1500-AVR. The Hilti TE 1500-AVR
Breaker combines tremendous impact
energy with the lowest vibration in its
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With 22 foot-pounds of impact energy
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IDEAL VDV PRO™ Cuts Testing
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 The VDV PRO brings the full range of
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• For voice testing, the VDV PRO will
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For voice testing will detect RJ-11 (1, 2
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Milwaukee® Introduces New
M12™ Cordless No-Hub Driver
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
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With specific torque settings for 60 and 80
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• For data testing, the VDV PRO

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cable to T568A/B (RJ45) standards.
The full dot matrix screen shows a
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opens. It will also test cable for shield
continuity and the presence of voltage.
In addition, the VDV PRO will
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• For video testing, the VDV PRO,

primarily used in CATV and security
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terminated with F-connectors of opens
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The IDEAL VDV PRO is immediately

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PEOPLE IN CONSTRUCTION
The Constructions
Specifications Institute
(CSI) recently announced
the elevation of Jerry Reed,
CSI, CCPR, to Fellow of the
Institute at the Annual
Convention in Philadelphia
in May. Reed was selected Reed
by the Jury of Fellows in recognition of his
contributions to the Institute and the
construction industry. Reed, a Certified
Construction Product Representative, is
currently president of Reed Architectural
Solutions, Inc., an independent manufac-
turers’ representative based in Troy. Reed is
a past president of CSI’s Metro Detroit
Chapter and the Great Lakes Region, and
served three years on CSI’s National Board
of Directors. Reed will become the tenth
Fellow from the Metro Detroit Chapter in its
illustrious 55 year history.
Landscape architecture firm, Grissim Metz
Andriese Associates is pleased to announce
recent appointments to its Board of
Directors: John N. Grissim, FASLA, Chairman
Emeritus; Randall K. Metz, FASLA, president;
42 CAM MAGAZINE JUNE 2010
Susan L. Grissim, ASLA, vice president; and
Paul R. Andriese, ASLA, vice president.
Grissim Metz Andriese Associates,
headquartered in Northville, is a nationally
recognized leader in landscape architectural
design.
Charles W. Browning, a
partner of Bloomfield Hills-
based Plunkett Cooney, one
of the Midwest’s oldest and
largest law firms, was
recently selected for
membership in the
Federation of Defense & Browning
Corporate Counsel (FDCC), an international
organization whose members dedicate their
practice to the representation of corporations
and insurance companies in the defense of
civil litigation. FDCC membership is by
invitation only following an extensive peer
review selection process. The FDCC has
approximately 1,400 members, including
attorneys in private practice, corporate
counsel, risk managers and insurance claims
executives from around the world.
Skog King Nelson
Harley Ellis Devereaux, a national
architecture and engineering design firm
based locally in Southfield, announced the
promotion of Gary L. Skog, FAIA, to chief
executive officer (CEO). He takes over that
leadership role from Dennis M. King, FAIA,
who served as CEO since 1991. King will
continue as Chairman of the Board and as
interim managing principal
for the Detroit office. The
firm also announced the
retirements of John H.
Nelson, FAIA, and James W.
Page, PE, past managing
principals of the firm’s
Chicago and Detroit offices,
Page
respectively.
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 joins the firm as a structural engineering
intern. Also, SHW Group parent company,
Group Affiliates, has elected Marjorie
Simmons as Chairman of the Board.
Simmons leads the firm’s Michigan office
and has served on the Board for six years.
has extensive ophthalmology, surgery
center and medical planning experience,
and has worked in wide variety of hospital,
academic, and private sector environments.
C2AE has offices in Lansing, Gaylord,
Grand Rapids, and Escanaba.

Kelty Stickney McParland C2AE, an architectural,

Berkley-based SHW Group, an architecture,
planning, interior design and engineering
firm specializing in educational facilities,
announces the following: Matthew Kelty,
registered architect, joins the firm as a project
architect; Colleen Stickney joins the firm as
an interior designer; Megan McParland joins
the firm as an interior design intern; Tom
Roberts, AIA, joins the firm as a project
designer; Erica King joins the firm as an
architectural intern; and Richard McClary
Roberts King
engineering, surveying, C O R P O R AT E N E W S
construction oversight and
design firm, has added two Hospital officials and construction
medical planning architects partners were on hand for the official
to its Healthcare Services “Commencement of Hospital Construction” in
Team in their Grand Rapids April 2010, at the construction site for the
office. Stephen Dickerson, Dickerson new Baraga County Memorial Hospital in
AIA recently joined C2AE L’ANSE. The one-story, 71,000-square-foot
as director of healthcare hospital will replace the current facility and
services. Dickerson has will offer inpatient, outpatient, emergency,
extensive hospital, ophthal- physician, diagnostic and pharmacy
mology, surgery center, services. The facility is expected to be
orthopedics, and master completed in July 2011. Involved in the
planning experience for project are Skanska USA Building, Inc.; MD
some of the most McKercher Contracting of Baraga; Grand Traverse
prominent facilities throughout the U.S. Construction; Moyle Construction; URS
and Canada. Tom McKercher also recently Corporation; Plante Moran CRESA; and
joined the firm as a project manager, and Lancaster Pollard.
will also play a key role in business
McClary
development and marketing. McKercher

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COR POR ATE NEWS

Gourdie-Fraser (GFA), Traverse City, is Testing Engineers & Consultants, Inc.

Are You Connected? pleased to announce that the Michigan
Department of Transportation has named
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us on these popular used to reconcile differences between the
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used over time.
(TEC) has been awarded a three-year
contract with the Michigan Department of
Transportation (MDOT) to provide as-
needed pre-demolition asbestos surveys in
support of upcoming road and bridge
projects. MDOT has hundreds of road and
bridge projects planned for the 2010-2012
construction season. With offices in Troy,
Detroit, and Ann Arbor, TEC provides
professional engineering consulting services
in the environmental, geotechnical, facility
engineering fields, and construction
materials testing and inspection services.

Plymouth-based Soil and Materials

Engineers, Inc. (SME) recently teamed with
13 communities/coalitions in Michigan,
Indiana and Ohio to secure U.S. EPA
Brownfields Redevelopment Grants totaling
$5,685,000 for support of redevelopment
projects. The SME Brownfields Team
capitalized on its extensive grant writing
experience and secured over 50% of EPA
grants awarded to Michigan communities
this year. SME’s success rate for acquiring
federal Brownfield funding is over 85%.
SME also secured a $1,000,000 Revolving
Loan Fund Grant for the State of Michigan
Landbank Fast Track Authority.

SITECH Michigan is pleased to announce

that they have joined the premier network of
SITECH dealerships and have opened
operations in Novi. As a SITECH
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BUYERS GUIDE
A
s you all are probably aware, the 2010 GI-Millworks, Inc. (Formerly General Interiors, Inc.)
Construction Buyers Guide is out on the street. In 14970 Cleat St.
an effort to keep our information as accurate as Plymouth, MI 48170
possible, we’re including here all the changes and Phone: 734-451-1100 / Fax: 734-451-1139
corrections we have received for members’ company
listings as of May 5. Changes from the book are in bold. Hock Painting
To see continual, up-to-date, complete company 4276 W. Lakeside Dr.
listings, check out the Buyers Guide Online at West Branch, MI 48661
www.cam-online.com, updated monthly. Phone: 989-345-7650 / Fax: 989-345-1845
Check back to this section every month in CAM
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involving the Construction Buyers Guide. Questions? 3310 Hackett Rd.
Contact Mary Carabott at 248-972-1000 for answers and Saginaw, MI 48603
to find out how to add to your online listings. Phone: 989-781-2264 / Fax: 989-781-9316
To obtain additional copies of the Guide, stop by the
CAM office and pick them up at no additional charge, or KDI Builders
send $6 per book for shipping to have the books sent to 14400 Fort St.
your company via UPS. Please call ahead of time for Southgate, MI 48195
authorization if you need more than 20 copies. Phone: 734-284-4600 / Fax: 734-284-5394
Invoices for the listings have been generated and
mailed. Prompt payment ensures a good-standing Keer Asrchitects
membership and ability to list in the 2011 Buyers Guide. 6651 Clintonville Rd.
We will gladly answer any questions regarding charges Clarkston, MI 48348
on invoices. Phone: 248-683-4221 / Fax: 248-683-4284
Please Note: Buyers Guide renewal contracts will be
mailed in early August. These forms must be returned Mayotte Group Architects
promptly to ensure your company’s listings will be 6240 W. Mount Hope Hwy,
printed with accuracy. Lansing, MI 48917
Phone: 517-323-0577 / Fax: 517-323-0570
Brown-Campbell Co.
11800 Investment Dr. McHugh Architectural Engineering Corp.
Shelby Twp., MI 48315 P.O. Box 171 / Gaylord, MI 49734
Phone: 586-739-239 / Fax: 586-739-8739 Phone: 989-732-0770 / Fax: 989-732-9080

Conti Companies NCS Construction Services, LLC

(Formerly Conti Electric, Inc.) (Formerly NuCore Construction Services, LLC)
6417 Center Dr., Suite 120 43636 Woodward Ave., Suite 400
Sterling Hts., MI 48312 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302
Phone: 586-274-4800 / Fax: 586-274-2268 Phone: 248-338-9732 / Fax: 248-338-9736

Core Land Consulting, LLC Nix Contracting

29193 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 693
Southfield, MI 48034
11445 Bay of Firth Blvd.
Fenton, MI 48430
Cut more,
Phone: 248-932-7120 / Fax: 248-932-7124 Phone: 810-208-0566, 810-965-7305
cordless.
DLF, Inc. PJS/TRIR, LLC Come in for a demonstration.
P.O. Box 8 6749 E. Fulton, Suite B
Romeo, MI 48065 Ada, MI 4931
Phone:810-385-2353 / Fax: 810-395-4063 Phone: 616-846-4086 / Fax: 616-676-3796
Hilti. Outperform. Outlast.
The Design & Construction Group, Inc. Ronnish Construction Group
291 Elmwood Dr. 850 Stephenson Hwy., Suite 102
Troy, MI 48083 Troy, MI 48083
Phone: 248-583-5455 / Fax: 248-585-8924 Phone: 248-549-1800 / Fax: 248-549-9042

Ernest Wilhoit Painting (Formerly Erniemac Painting) Sign Concepts Corp, dba ASI Signage Innovations
12733 Universal Dr. (Formerly ASI Modulex)
Taylor, MI 48180 1119 Wheaton Ave.
Phone: 734-946-4726 / Fax: 734-946-6303 Troy, MI 48083
Phone: 248-680-8970 / Fax: 248-680-9061
Evangelista Corportation Detroit Hilti Center Grand Rapids
55800 Grand River Ave., Suite 150 Wilson Construction Consulting, LLC 28190 Sc
Schoolcraft
hoolcraft Rd. Hilti C
Center
New Hudson, MI 48165 37 Cambridge Blvd. Livonia, MI 48150 640 44th Street
Street SW
Phone: 248-888-0400 / Fax: 248-486-6426 Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069
734-522-7660 Grand
Grand Rapids, MI 49548
Phone: 248-854-8651
Fildew Hinks, PLLC
800-879-8000 616-534-7368
26622 Woodward Ave., Suite 225 800-879-8000
Royal Oak, MI 48067
Phone: 313-961-9700 / Fax: 313-961-0754
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&
Ace Cutting Equipment ..................................17

Aluminum Supply Company

/Marshall Sales ................................................6

Auch Company, George W. ............................37

W E L C O M E N E W M E M B E R S CAM Administrative Services ..........................3

CAM Affinity ......................................................13

ACTION ASPHALT
& CONCRETE, INC.
- WHITMORE LAKE
B & T GCCM - UNION LAKE
ENGINEERING DESIGN
SERVICES, INC. - AUBURN HILLS
GALUI CONSTRUCTION, INC.
- CLINTON TOWNSHIP
GIROUX HEATING & COOLING,
INC. - GROSSE POINTE PARK
HOHL INDUSTRIAL
SERVICE, INC.
- TONAWANDA, NY
J. M. WITHERIDGE
COMPANY, LLC - SAGINAW
JAMES F. MCCATTY BUILDER -
ROYAL OAK
M-1 STUDIOS - FERNDALE
MAJESTIC CONSTRUCTION,
G.C., LLC - CARO
MIDWESTERN LANDSCAPE
SOLUTIONS - LAMBERTVILLE
R. GRAHAM
CONSTRUCTION, LLC - LIVONIA
ROUSSEAUX'S EXCAVATING,
INC., BOB - WALLED LAKE
SET CONSTRUCTION, INC.
- DETROIT
SPIRIT CONCRETE SAWING
AND DRILLING - WALLED LAKE
SVS SALES, LLC - BERKLEY
THOMAS BRIDGE
CONSTRUCTION - LAKE ORION
THOMPSON PLUMBING
& HEATING, INC. - PETERSBURG
THORNTON GROUP
- WEST BLOOMFIELD
CAM Magazine ..........................................41, IBC
CAM Membership..............................................40
CAMSAFETY/CAMTEC ....................................IBC
Carpenter Contractors' Association ............29
Connelly Crane Rental Corp. ........................25
DTE Energy ............................................................5
Detroit Carpentry JATC ..................................31
Detroit Terrazzo
Contractors Association ............................10

Doeren Mayhew ................................................37

Edwards Glass Company ................................22

G2 Consulting Group ......................................28

Jun CONSTRUCTION Glazing Contractors Association ................IFC

Hartland Insurance Group, Inc. ....................44

CALENDAR
Please submit all calendar items no less than six weeks prior to the event to:
Hilti ........................................................................45

Liquid Calcium Chloride Sales ......................10

Calendar Editor, CAM Magazine, P.O. Box 3204, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302-3204.
McCoig Materials ................................................9

Industry Events Jul. 29-Sep. 16 – ASCC Events – The Navigant Consulting, Inc. ..............................25
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
Jun. 14-16 - Buildex® Chicago – MMPI will North American Dismantling Corp. ............30
has announced the following events:
launch this new trade show at the The
Jul. 29-Aug. 1 – ASCC CEO Forum – Ojai
Merchandise Mart In Chicago, IL. Buildex Chicago Oakland Companies ........................................11
Valley Inn & Spa, Ojai, CA
will feature the latest new products and cutting-
Sep. 16-19 – ASCC Annual Conference – Little Peterson Glass Company ..............................20
edge seminars, and will assist those involved in
America, Salt Lake City, UT
the building and property management industry
with strategic solutions to work efficiently and
More information is available at Plante & Moran, PLLC ......................................21
www.ascconline.org, or by calling 866-788-ASCC
effectively. Plumbing Professors ........................................42
(2722).
For more information, please visit
www.buildexchicago.com. Plunkett Cooney ..............................................39

Jun. 15 – CAM Golf Outing Rick's Portables Sanitation, LLC ....................17

June 15 – Devil’s Ridge Golf Club, Oxford
To reserve a spot in this outing, call Diana
Brown at 248-972-1000.
Jun. 19-22 – Women’s Leadership
Academy – NCCER and the National Association
of Women in Construction will host this event at
the Nature Place in Florissant, CO.
Visit www.nccer.org/leadership to register, or
call the NCCER Training and Registration
Fulfillment Coordinator at 888-622-3720 to find
out about current academy promotions.
SMRCA ..................................................................43
Training Calendar Scaffolding, Inc. ..................................................20
CAMTEC Class Schedule
CAMTEC, the training & education center of the StructureTec Corporation ..............................42
Construction Association of Michigan, has
Trend Group ......................................................BC
announced its 2010 class schedule. To register,
obtain a class listing, or for more class information, Valenti Trobec Chandler, Inc. ............................7
please visit www.cam-online.com.
Date Class Vig Construction Company, J.S. ..................15
Jun. 1 - OSHA 10-Hr.
Jun. 8 - Lien Law/Payment Bonds Zervos Group, Inc. ............................................28

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 The Trend Towards LEED Rapidly Becoming The Leading
Standard For Measuring A Building’s Environmental
Performance Has Arrived In Michigan.
Wood Is A Carbon-Negative & By Using More
Custom Architectural Wood Products Your Project Can Acquire
Wood Credits To Be Used Towards LEED Certification.

GREEN GREEN
Cork Counter Flooring
S.T. Dana Building Renovation –
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment (2003)
1st LEED-Certified Project at the University of Michigan
1st LEED-Certified Project in Ann Arbor
4th Gold LEED-Certified & 10th LEED-Certified Project in Michigan
1 of 2 Gold LEED-Rated Major Renovation Projects at a University in the U.S.

Environmentally Responsible Construction Spells Cost Savings In The Long Run.

Benign Materials, Salvaged Materials, Recycled Materials, Certified Wood.
When Your Project Demands Green, Think Orange.
Trend Group - Nurturing The Relationship Between Affluence & Environmental Conscience.

Recent Trend Group USGBC LEED Gold Certified Projects Include:

Haworth Headquarters, Holland, MI (2009)
Rayconnect Inc., Rochester Hills, MI (2010)