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McCarthy Manages Construction of $36.6M Southern Illinois University Student Services Building to On-Time, In-Budget Completion

Construction Superintendent Magazine

LOUIS, Mo. -- McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. served as construction manager for the recently completed Student Services Building for Southern Illinois University – Carbondale in Carbondale, Ill. million, four-story complex, was built on time and within budget entirely with student fees.

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4 distribution center projects that changed The Korte Company forever

The Korte Company

He furnished the phone number of the Walgreens project manager in charge. The project bids in seven days.”. He invited the project manager to talk to a man at a new United Stationers facility just a few miles from Walgreens headquarters. Ninety minutes later, the project manager called Dennis back. “I

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Sandy Grapperhaus could tell you stories

The Korte Company

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 Now that’s what they call a comeback Under Mike Tubbs, Sandy moved from the St. Louis office to a construction site for the first time. “We

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2022

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Mechanical Engineer & Project Manager, AKF Group. As Mechanical Engineer & Project Manager, Jason oversees the implementation of digital platforms in a multi-building and multi-phase project. He is solution-oriented and is incredibly effective in managing relationships across different teams.”.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

Jack had used the design process while working under Eero Saarinen (yes, the same designer of the St. Louis Arch and Lincoln Center). . In the mid-1970s, Ralph Korte came to FGM with a potential project. It was a “seemingly impossible” budget; closer to $15 or $18 a square foot would have been more realistic.

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Mindy Keiser always knows where to look

The Korte Company

In those days, she thought she was destined for a career in project management. Now I see them on my projects. It’s translating the needs of real-life crews into black-and-white budgets. Whenever she gets a new project, she always starts the same way: by checking the database she helped digitize. “I I was shocked.”

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Protecting hospital patients from power outages

CK Power

It requires a team of experts to customize a long-lasting, dependable system within budget. That’s why we were called in to help create a standby power system for one of St. Louis’ largest healthcare providers. . Budgeting is everything. Louis is within the New Madrid Seismic Zone.