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How to Choose the Best General Contractor to Partner with for your “First” Commercial Construction Project

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Sure, there are drawings and designs, but there are also usually details and ideas in the client’s head that haven’t made it on paper yet. Navigating the ins and outs of a new market: If you take a set of plans and build the exact same project in both St. Louis and Los Angeles, you’re likely to have two very different experiences.

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Paul Robinson on the Role of ConstructReach in Workforce Development 

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Louis-based workforce development organization also helps employers become more proactive with recruitment by presenting career paths, developing curricula, and connecting with future interns and new employees. . Of course we want to be in our hometown of St. We know you have union and non-union and we have to hear from both sides.

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Sandy Grapperhaus could tell you stories

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You’d put a piece of coated paper under the original drawings so that the light could get through everything except where the original drawing lines were. That’s why she voluntarily stepped down and took a job as a project management assistant to Mike Tubbs at the St. Louis Union Station Office. “A

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Eric Kues: From smalltown roots to big-time projects

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At this time, he studied architecture at Ranken Technical College in St. I thought, ‘If I’m going to draw it, I want to understand and know the best way to build it first,’” Eric said. Eric got a letter of intent for the Carpenters Union. Becoming an apprentice carpenter took him out of the office drawing plans.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

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In grade school, Dennis’s art teacher noted his ability to draw and suggested he consider a career in art. He did return every summer to work on a permit as a union carpenter with his father. Jack had used the design process while working under Eero Saarinen (yes, the same designer of the St. Louis Arch and Lincoln Center). .

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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Access to an educated, skilled and motivated workforce is one of Greater Omaha’s key assets because it draws business to the area and spurs economic growth. Union Pacific, ConAgra Foods, Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc. In fact, two of Greater Omaha’s Fortune 1000 companies are in this sector, Union Pacific and Werner Enterprises.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Located in the heart of Illinois; in the great Midwest; within 200 miles of metropolitan areas of Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis; and with more than 95 million customers within a 500-mile radius, Decatur is well positioned to get you where you want to go and access customers you want to reach. DECATUR, IL RULES THE HEARTLAND.