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ABOUT THE COVER The Orleans Landing residential development re-establishes the urban streetscape in the East Riverfront area. The re-established street grid offers a direct sightline to the towers of the GMRENCEN. The Orleans Landing project team includes developer, McCormack Baron Salazar, Detroit; executive architect/landscape architect, Hamilton Anderson Associates, Detroit; urban design and planning, Urban Design Associates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and construction manager, O’Brien Construction/Brinkmann Constructors Joint Venture, Troy, St. Louis, Missouri. Photo Supplied by Hamilton Anderson Architects, Inc.
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Butcher & Butcher Construction Co., Inc. Supports Friends of Foster Kids at Christmas For the fourth straight year, Butcher & Butcher (B&B), Rochester Hills, has teamed up with Friends of Foster Kids (FoF) to fulfill Christmas "wish lists" for 20 local foster children. FoF is a non-profit organization that provides Christmas for children who have been removed from their home due to abuse or neglect, and placed in temporary housing or shelters. Many of these children have never received Christmas presents. This year, FoF fulfilled over 1,400 wish lists for children in Oakland, Wayne and Macomb Counties. After seeing the overwhelming generosity from employees in the efforts to support 14 foster kids last year, B&B upped the ante and provided for 20 kids in 2017. A giving tree garland with over 120 gifts went up in the shop with Play Stations 4s, bicycles, American Girl dolls, wagons, car seats, clothes, blankets and toys. Within the first few days only a handful of tags remained. "Our amazing employees once again went above and beyond our expectations in helping to provide Christmas to foster children. 8 CAM MAGAZINE MARCH 2018
There were some pretty big-ticket items on the garland that we planned to purchase as a company - Mountain bikes, Play Station 4s. The tags were gone and the gifts purchased before we had a chance,” said Jackie Butcher, marketing director of B&B. "We also had employees get their families involved. One of our guys, Charles, had his mother-in-law sew two blankets that were personalized with names, and a homemade stuffed bear. Everyone loves to participate and it’s incredibly heartwarming. This is by far my favorite part of the holiday season.” B&B is a highly diversified construction company specializing in residential and commercial roofing, glass, sheet metal, and historic restoration, and has been in business for more than 40 years. B&B has additional divisions in Harbor Springs, MI and Pompano Beach, FL. B&B has been awarded the prestigious Firestone Master Contractor and Inner Circle of Quality awards multiple times, and was recognized as RSI National Contractor of the Year. B&B employs just over 100 men and women at all three locations.
Detroit Students Present Vision for Islandview to City Officials AIA Detroit to Celebrate Conclusion of Grant-Winning K-8 Outreach Program On Friday, February 2nd, at the Butzel Family Rec Center in Detroit’s Islandview Neighborhood, 50 Detroit students, ranging from 1st to 6th grade, presented their vision for their community to a host of public officials and members of the AEC industry, including representatives of the Planning & Development Department, the Mayor’s Office, the DEGC, and the Department of Neighborhoods. This presentation and reception served as the
conclusion of the first iteration of AIA Detroit’s K-8 outreach program, titled Architecture Building Communities: Detroit, (ABC:D). The program is run in partnership with Cranbrook Art Museum and the Center for Success, and was supported as one of the inaugural recipients of the Architects' Foundation / Armstrong World Industries Foundation K8 Architecture and Design Education Grant. Educators from Cranbrook and volunteer mentors from AIA Detroit had been meeting with students at the Center for Success, an after-school program on Detroit's east side. Two groups of students met with their instructors and mentors each week to learn about a real City of Detroit Planning & Development Department initiative, located just blocks away from the Center. After a group site visit to the Islandview neighborhood, mentors worked with students to illuminate the planning processes behind adaptive reuse, new construction, and urban redevelopment, and empowered them to craft their own visions for how they'd like to see their community evolve. The program seeks not only to encourage youth and community engagement in the planning process, but also to promote the value of STEM education and the many career opportunities in the AEC and design industries, particularly here in Detroit. Following the student presentations, representatives of AIA Detroit, Cranbrook, and the Center for Success shared background on the formation of the new program, and highlighted future plans for additional educational engagement aimed at fostering a more equitable and diverse pipeline into the AEC and design professions.
CORRECTION: In the December 2017 issue, page 47, the list for the Little Caesars Arena prime contractors should have given credit for the Carpet/Flooring Systems to Shock Brothers Floor Covering, Inc. of Roseville. CAM Magazine regrets this error.
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Safety Tool Kit EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AT ALL LEVELS
By Jason Griffin CAM DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND SAFETY SERVICES
n the February edition of CAM Magazine, this series of articles kicked off with an introduction of the seven core elements of a safety and health management system (SHMS) and discussed the element of management commitment. This article addresses the topic of employee engagement and looks at tools that can be used to drive the interaction of employees with the SHMS at all levels in an organization. In smaller organizations, safety programs are generally managementdriven, with little to no input from employees. Larger organizations generally have more mechanisms in place to address and involve employees in their SHMS. There are many tools that employers, regardless of size, can utilize to engage employees. Some of the more common methods utilized include:
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Employers should provide the opportunity for and encourage employee engagement in the SHMS. Whether it be a suggestion box system or a method of actively asking employees for their input on processes or procedures, employees should feel that their input is a valued part of an organization’s safety culture. Other ways to involve employees include rotating the responsibility for jobsite or equipment inspections to include nonsupervisory employees in the process. Employees should also have a mechanism for and be encouraged to make safety suggestions or report near misses/incidents to their employers through a formalized process that emphasizes root cause analysis versus assigning of blame. The use of safety committees is another effective means of including employees in an organization’s safety culture. Committees made up of both management and employees is important to create a dialogue that is representative of the entire organization, and assists in the identification of safety issues, employee perceptions, system deficiencies, and things that are working effectively. As an organization that may serve as a general contractor or construction manager on a multiemployer project, the safety committee may be composed of subcontractor members and address issues that are specific to a particular project site. If a collective bargaining is in place on a
project, then the union representative should also participate in these meetings. It is also important to recognize barriers that may limit employee engagement on a project or within an organization. If employee incentive programs are in place that are tied to injury and illness numbers or to financial incentives, it may lead to underreporting of incidents. Additionally, some employees may also not feel comfortable reporting incidents or unsafe conditions if they feel that they may be discriminated against for raising a concern. It is important for both employers and employees to know that discrimination against employees for exercising their right to raise a concern is against Section 11(C) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The next article in this series will address the element of hazard identification and assessment. Worksite analysis for the identification of hazards is essential for the determination of the method of control. For more information on this topic, contact Jason Griffin by email at griffin@BuildwithCAM.com or by phone at (248) 972-1141. Resources: www.cpwrconstructionsolutions.org www.toolboxtalks.com www.osha.gov www.michigan.gov/MIOSHA
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Electric Autos Move Closer Take Away from the 2018 North American International Auto Show
By Douglas Elbinger, Energy Systems Analyst, Newman Consulting Group LLC
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s automakers envision the future, it’s increasingly more high voltage than high octane. Beyond all the dazzling displays of the world’s finest automobiles at the 2018 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), I came away with the distinct impression that electric and autonomous vehicles are going to be with us sooner than you think. The promise of an electric and autonomous future was a dominant theme this year at the NAIAS. The high-tech companies participating in the auto show focused on achievements that will propel electric and self-driving vehicles into your driveways and parking lots. As of today, electric vehicles (EV) in the United States comprise less than 1 percent of the market, but are expected to reach 20 percent by 2022. Most of the automakers confirmed that electric vehicles are on the horizon. Ford said it will spend $11 billion on electrified vehicles by 2022, including 16 new, full battery-electric models. Its plans include a gas-electric hybrid version of its cornerstone pickup, the F150, as well as a high-performance all-electric supercar, which it’s calling the Mach 1. A few weeks earlier, GM's CEO, Mary Barra, said they are committed to an “all-electric future” with 20 new models by 2022. Two of those will be battery-electric crossovers based on the Chevy Bolt in the next 18 months. It has also been widely reported that Norway is already at the 50 percent mark for electric vehicle market penetration and expects to be fully electric by 2025. The appearance of EVs on the road doesn’t mean you’ll have to give up your gasoline-powered car or SUV - at least not yet. When auto executives talk about electrification, they don’t just mean cars like the Chevrolet Bolt or Tesla’s luxury models. They mean a mix of models that are either entirely powered by batteries (think Tesla Model 3), gas-electric hybrids (Toyota Prius), plug-in hybrid or range extender vehicles (Chevy Volt) and, increasingly, cars called “mild hybrids."
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How will the Construction Industry Benefit from these Changes? Opportunity Knocks. In terms of new infrastructure, this means that solar carports and EV charging stations will no longer be expensive options but a costeffective necessity - and the numbers are pointing in that direction. This represents a window of opportunity to get ahead of the curve. Going forward, architects, urban planners, real estate developers, and contractors will want to include solar carports and EV charging stations as part of the package. One of the exhibitors at the NAIAS, iSunEnergy, had several noteworthy solar carports, canopies, and charging solutions. Sass Peress, CEO of iSunEnergy, explains that pre-fab kits save installation time and take advantage of a variety of EV charging products that can be installed in minutes and relocated any time you like. Solar carports not only provide protection for vehicles from heat, rain, snow & UV, they are easy to permit, install, and are eligible for solar investment tax credits and other incentives. Charging your EV directly from the sun saves on energy costs. Onboard battery storage allows drivers to charge their EV during the day, at night, and even when there’s a blackout. In commercial settings, using your solar carports for outdoor media (advertising) is another option. Your message can be visible on renewable energy platforms and consumers will appreciate your positive impact on the environment. Smart Solar Canopies for the Home Sass Peress answers the question of why can’t electric vehicle or home owners benefit from the same kind of technology? The team at iSunEnergy started brainstorming the features they’d want if designing the ideal solar shelter or canopy for the home and developed the iSun Oasis. The resulting product and platform combine the best of solar technology hardware, easy-to-use software, and a host of other features. From smart, connected lighting and EV chargers, to simple touches like plant holders and USB/110V plugs power outlets for our favorite devices. Obviously, each will
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decide where they want to place it and with an online configurator, determine which accessories (and eventually color) they want. Some will be able to use it as a carport, some as a gazebo, some as a patio cover. Whatever the use, it will shelter your family and your things beautifully, while producing clean solar power each day. Even the curve of the roof was designed to capture sunlight no matter the layout of your driveway, patio or garden, while allowing rain or snow to slide off the sides. According to Sass Peress, “When you configure your iSun Oasis online, you’ll see lifetime energy savings, grants and incentives in your zip code and finance options.”
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roof positive. Jim MacInnes, CEO and co-owner of Crystal Mountain - a ski, golf and spa resort in Benzie County, Michigan - is ahead of the curve. “As a long-time EV owner, I see the widespread adoption of EVs in our state to improve public health while generating significant savings. Clean air and a clean environment are vital to our company’s success. Crystal Mountain was among the first businesses in northern Michigan to install public EV charging stations, and we now have five stations to support employee and customer EV charging. They also have a real impact on our bottom line, by attracting new guests who need access to charging and seek out destinations with EV charging capabilities.” For more information contact: Mr. Sass Peress, CEO, at www.iSunEnergy.com Crystal Mountain Resort www.crystalmountain.com
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THE BUILT-ENVIRONMENT & TIME
By Mark Westphal, AIA Neumann/Smith Architecture
onsidering the built-environment, I always find myself coming back to one central theme: time. The word brings with it a full wave of preconceived thoughts and connotations. When time is considered as it pertains to a building, we likely think of its age. How old is the building or how long is it going to last? In its aggregate, we may think of the building by component; material longevity, system and corresponding lifespans, observable in the same way we can recognize erosion over time. Thoughts percolate about scheduling, mapping time intervals between construction bench-marks. These things are measured by time, but ultimately are metadata and do not create a complete picture. Time, in this sense, is to gauge its own passage - it does not offer a deeper reading of the built-environment. Because time is such a perplexing concept, it’s difficult to visualize the relationship of time and the built-environment in any abstract way, and not bring with it any of the presuppositions mentioned above, so an analogy serves better. We may begin to think about the built-environment as a palimpsest - a page of antiquated text that has been scraped off and used over again. This comparison can be clearly translated architecturally, if we think of every architectural alteration - a building or otherwise - as a new layer on this page, each either physically or metaphysically built upon the previous ones. Often times, the previous layers of the palimpsest are not completely erased, leaving behind traces of the original texts. In architectural terms, a building may be constructed over the foundations of a previous structure, leaving behind traces of its existence. Every architectural alteration then, is responding to a condition shaped by events of the past. Although this parallel may help create a new perspective on the built-environment, all this pontification eventually leads to the question, “Is this way of reading the builtenvironment merely a mental exercise, or is there a greater value?”
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The answer is not nearly as esoteric as the analogy; it helps inform the architect. The majority of the work in the architectural profession is not “new builds” on virgin land, but remodels, renovations, and additions and alterations of existing buildings and spaces. We are typically beginning our projects with a new bucket of paint on an existing canvas. The process and exercise of studying the builtenvironment through this reading helps contextualize the space, both physically and historically (in the purest sense of the word). We can create an understanding of the built-environment as a sequence of events that has led to a present condition. This is not only useful in a design sense, where the historical fragments
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can inspire the architect during the design process, but in a very tangible and physical sense. Knowing when the building was conceived may offer insight to construction methods; why things were built a certain way or certain materials were used. It affords the architect the ability to infer characteristics of the building based on clues left behind. Subsequent alterations can shed light on past problems the building may have experienced or provide lessons learned that can be applied moving the project forward. These fragments together help provide a complete image of the project, as it exists in a present condition, and it’s with this image that the architect may provide greater value to their industry. As is the nature of the beast, the construction industry is constantly evolving. Technical innovations streamline the process of creation, from the conception of an idea to its manifestation in the built-environment. Our societal access to instantaneous information - and our interconnectivity - allow us to disseminate information as quickly as we can conceive it. Material advancements allow designers and architects to push the envelope aesthetically, structurally and environmentally to deliver new and increasingly efficient projects to clients. The ease with which we are able to create and relay information (verbal, graphic, or otherwise) naturally brings with it a corollary rise in client expectations, specifically in terms of project delivery and project turnaround. In the advent of all things automated, revolutionary software, and the technological advancements that keep people within a finger swipe of each other, the ability for clients to go from planning to occupation in as short amount of time as possible is paramount. As clients opt for accelerated or fast-tracked projects, the traditional design-bid-build project deliveries are being supplanted with the creation of construction documents and construction taking place at the same time - making traces faster and faster. “The Voice of The Construction Industry®”
Our advancements as a society have made us more efficient in terms of creating and delivering a built product. The programmatic and technical achievements, both within and outside of the profession of architecture, not only facilitates a quicker means of delivering the design and details that go into a project, but also provides a means of recording and analyzing the layers of information and data that we collect. But even during this technological evolution, there is something the capabilities of this new technology does not streamline: the ability to read a building. Only time can do that. Every building studied, designed and detailed helps further our ability at reading the continuously evolving built-environment. Each successive architectural chronicle overlaid with one another, building on the foundations by those who preceded, inform us. The start of every new project, the next page of a sketchbook‌ grooved and dimpled with traces of the past. About the Author: Mark Westphal, AIA is a project architect at Neumann/Smith Architecture (N/S), Southfield. He grew up in Ortonville and attended the University of Detroit Mercy, completing grad school in 2010. Mark got his first job in the industry at the age of 16, working as a hand-draftsman in a local residential architecture firm. He is both a licensed architect and an avid painter, and has been with N/S for seven years.
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Planting the Seeds for a New Type of Urban Farm
By Mary Kremposky McArdle Associate Editor n a sparsely populated area of Detroit, dotted with vacant fields, storefront churches and a few homes and businesses, Hamilton Anderson Associates, Inc., Detroit, has planted a new idea: a farm in an urban environment rather than an urban farm. It’s not just semantics, but a flexible master plan for a regional-scale agricultural operation capable of preserving the urban street grid and a llowing for future growth of commercial buildings and homes.
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Under rows of these newly installed hoop houses, the RecoveryPark organization grows lettuce and tomatoes for Southeast Michigan restaurants. RecoveryPark itself has a broader vision for a different type of harvest: Assisting recovering addicts and former prisoners in re-entering the workforce. In addition to job creation, the organization’s mission, according to its website, is to re-build on vacant land and help to revitalize this historic Detroit neighborhood. The area was once a thriving Polish community clustered along the commercial spine of Chene Street. Hamilton Anderson’s master plan dovetails perfectly with this neighborhood recovery mission. RecoveryPark may even become a national model for a commercial-grade agricultural operation in an urban setting. What makes it different from a more conventional urban farm? First, “the urban grid of streets is maintained,” said
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Hamilton Anderson’s master plan for a development called RecoveryPark blankets 300 acres almost directly east of Wayne State University and Interstate 75. O’Brien Construction Company, Detroit, installed hoop houses - a bowed structure covered in heavy greenhouse plastic - for RecoveryPark’s beta or test farm that grows produce in raised beds stocked with imported soil. “O’Brien Construction has been great, and we have a very good partnership with them,” said Hamilton Anderson Director of Landscape Architecture and Planning Angela Hicks, ASLA, CLARB, AICP, LEED® AP. Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com
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Hicks. “All the streets are open and everything is connected. It is important that people realize that the site isn’t going to be fenced off. It is going to be part of the community, and the community is still a neighborhood.” Very few buildings currently exist along the Chene commercial corridor, one structure being the once thriving Chene-Ferry Market shed. Hamilton Anderson’s flexible master plan calls for the planting of lush orchards in this corridor, while still promoting future commercial development clustered around this vintage marketplace. “We are identifying the area around the historic Chene-Ferry Market as a commercial node to encourage businesses to build in this node,” said Hicks. “In the meantime, we are going to plant three rows of trees to form a series of orchards. The orchard becomes almost a mass in and of itself 20 CAM MAGAZINE MARCH 2018
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Part of the program is to renovate the historic Chene-Ferry Market building into a community anchor. Rather than re-open as a major market, it would be re-activated and filled with agriculture-related businesses and public demonstration areas, or even potentially a restaurant.
architecturally speaking, because an orchard creates a street wall, bringing more density and beauty to the area.” Because orchards do not typically have an extremely long life span, “if the opportunity arises for an infill commercial building, the trees could be phased out or replaced,” adds Hamilton Anderson Landscape Architect Chris Riggert. Residential homes, both current and future, are offered the same flexibility as the commercial corridor plan. Under the plan, glass greenhouses will be installed in vacant residential areas. “If we have people who want to remain in the neighborhood, the plan calls for the installation of smaller hoop houses,” said Hicks. “Again, we have a flexible design. If we have sufficient space, we will place glass greenhouses, and if we don’t have enough space, we will install hoop houses.” Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com
Within RecoveryPark, the master plan has identified a residential node of five to 10 houses on one block. “We thought, ‘Let’s build on that and designate that area for current and future residential,” said Hicks. “We could have just taken out all the roadways, put up a big fence and installed greenhouses. The master plan offers a more sensitive way that understands and honors the context of the existing area.” This approach also gains the buy-in of the people in the neighborhood. “The success of this development is going to be its integration with its context and with the folks that have already been in that neighborhood for a long time,” said Riggert. “RecoveryPark’s owner, Gary Wozniak, has been very active in interfacing with the community and in working very closely with the city. He has created CAM MAGAZINE MARCH 2018
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great partnerships and built up momentum, which is what I think will ultimately make RecoveryPark successful.” Part of the program is to renovate the Chene-Ferry Market building into a community anchor. “The building would be a place for RecoveryPark to invite the neighborhood and region to come and experience the site,” said Riggert. “It would not re-open as a major market like Eastern Market, but it would be reactivated and filled with agriculture-related businesses and public demonstration areas or even potentially a restaurant.” In addition to a holistic community approach, HAA’s innovative master plan also calls for an integrated storm water management system for RecoveryPark and beyond. “All the blocks will have bio-swales that will lead to a storm water boulevard, which will have 100 feet of land on either side of the road,” said “The Voice of The Construction Industry®”
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Left: The first glass greenhouse for this regionalscale agricultural operation will be installed in 2018. Bio-swales and a storm water boulevard are also part of this innovative master plan’s integrated storm water management system.
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Above: This plot of edible nasturtiums is only one of the plants that will be supplied to Southeast Michigan restaurants. RecoveryPark’s mission is not only to become a large-scale agricultural operation but also to assist recovering addicts and former prisoners in re-entering the workforce, as well as to revitalize the neighborhood almost directly east of Wayne State University and Interstate 75.
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ow celebrating 20 years in business, Strategic Energy Solutions, Inc. (SES) continues to live up to its name, both at its own LEED Gold office in Berkley and for its enviable list of clients. At the office: SES operates in a repurposed tool and die shop along Eleven Mile Road. Polished concrete floors and a 30-foot-long wood lunch/conference table, repurposed from a bowling alley in a vintage Detroit building, mark the sustainably designed interior. On the exterior, a geothermal heating and cooling system snakes below the parking lot. For the client: SES has designed a geothermal heating and cooling system for the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing. The system calls for approximately 224 vertical bores 500 feet under the Capitol lawn, said SES Principal and electrical engineer John Abraam. Once installed under the construction management of The Christman Company, the geothermal, or more accurately geo-exchange, system will save about $300,000 annually in operating costs for the 138-year-old building.
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SES also applied its electrical and mechanical engineering expertise to the revitalization of the David Whitney Building in Detroit. “Because of the building’s thick flooring, a new HVAC system was a challenge,” the SES website states. The solution: SES designed a 600ton variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system that is both a cost- and energy-efficient option. It’s no wonder that SES has been called to work on such Detroit gems as the Broderick, the Outdoor Adventure Center, Midtown’s Strathmore and now SES is teaming with an architectural firm to design and engineer a confidential client’s new downtown Detroit office in an historical building near Cobo Center. SES is working on some of the most prominent projects now in design in Detroit, including 1475 Jefferson, a multitenant, residential development with a major grocery store on the street level. The project will be built on the site of the former University Club along East Jefferson. SES has also served as engineering consultant on a showcase sustainable project in Jackson called the Consumers Energy Innovation Center. Metering: Taking the Lead on LEED v4 The Consumers Energy Innovation Center repurposes a vintage, four-story F.W. Woolworth department store into a contemporary, collaborative work space for Consumers Energy’s Innovation Group and for the building’s tenants, as well, according to SES-supplied information. The interior has few open offices, because the intent is to offer an assortment of common areas for both tenants and Consumers Energy to join together in a spirit of collaboration. Hobbs + Black Associates, Inc., Ann Arbor, was the architect and R.W. Mercer Co., Jackson, was the general contractor on the $7 million center. The facility is also a showcase for innovation and leadership in energy management and efficiency. In late 2017, the facility received LEED Silver under the newer and more rigorous LEED Version Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com
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has clicked off their digital drawings, packed up their tools and gone on to the next job. The design and construction industry is now familiar with LEED and knows how to construct a “green” building. “What we are talking about now is how these buildings actually operate,” said Abraam. “Everybody can build a ‘green’ building now. Selecting a low-VOC carpet or paint – we got that down. The story now is what’s the building’s energy usage, what is it consuming and how do we improve it.” Metering is one method to track a building’s energy consumption. For that reason, it is now a prerequisite in LEED v4’s Energy and Atmosphere section. “Projects must now track the total building energy consumption at least monthly for five years and report the measurements back to the USGBC,” according to USGBC’s website. Tracking the building’s energy performance over time in the postoccupancy period goes beyond LEED’s
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SES designed the metering system for the Consumers Energy Innovation Center. The HVAC system, the lighting system and the plug or receptacle-type loads are each circuited, metered and measured separately to determine the amount of energy consumed by each system. Separating each system gives the building owner the ability to trace any energy “leaks” in a building to a specific source or system. “The sub-metering system captures each system’s energy usage individually,” said Abraam. “We are doing a building owner a disservice if we turn over a building to an owner and they don’t know how to operate or control systems or what systems are consuming what amount of energy. Having this separation of metering in different systems is the first step in helping building owners identify where they are consuming power and energy.” Ownership must be committed to metering, because of the associated costs. “As an engineer, you could bring HVAC loads to an electrical panel to be circuited, and then lighting loads, but there is a cost associated with the separation of those circuits,” said Abraam. “There is also a cost for the metering system components. A great many sub-meters are used to capture those loads, and then they are all added together in a software system.” Ultimately, the cost of metering is offset over time, because the “energy hogs” of the building would be identified and any “The Voice of The Construction Industry®”
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A host of measures reduces the Consumers Energy Innovation Center’s electrical consumption, including daylight harvesting, LED lighting, 54 solar photovoltaic panels, separate metering of the lighting system, and automatic shutdown of 50 percent of the building’s electrical receptacles when not in use.
problem remedied. Twenty years ago, many balked at the cost of sustainable buildings, but as building owners began to experience energy savings and other benefits more joined the “green” bandwagon. Material-wise, costs declined as usage of low-VOC materials, low-flow plumbing fixtures and other measures rose and segued from cutting edge to commonplace. The revolutionary became ordinary. Abraam believes metering will become more common, especially given the push towards postoccupancy evaluation of a building’s performance in LEED and other rating systems. Let There Be Energy-Efficient Light The Consumers Energy Innovation Center employs another notable energy strategy: 50 percent of electrical receptacles automatically shut down when not in use. Few buildings have this type of system, at least at this time. Abraam briefly explains its workings: “The system is set on an occupancy timer controlling the spaces almost like a lighting control panel that operates on hours of use. For a certain portion of time at the Innovation Center, it shuts those plug loads down through Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com
control at the panel level. It actually happens within smart circuit breakers.” Automatic receptacle shutdown is part of the ASHRAE 90.1-2010 and 2013 standard. Adopted in 2017, the 2015 Michigan Energy Code is tied to ASHRAE 2013, but Michigan ultimately exempted the automatic receptacle shutdown from the Michigan’s new code, according to Abraam. “Michigan did not mandate it at this time, but it is recommended for private offices, print and copy rooms, some individual work stations, conference rooms, break rooms and classrooms,” said Abraam. The Michigan 2015 Energy Code does require “parking garage lighting controls, hotel guest room controls, exterior lighting controls that automatically reduce power when daylighting is available,” added Abraam. “It also has a post-occupancy, functional testing requirement to ensure that these controls are working as programmed.” To further trim electrical consumption at the Innovation Center, the interior is outfitted with vacancy controllers, or sensors, that prevent lights from turning on in unused spaces as people walk through the open layout. “For most
manufacturers, the same device can be programmed to operate either as a vacancy or an occupancy sensor,” said Abraam. “The only difference is that vacancy controllers are programmed differently. They are ideal for transitional spaces. We have been doing a great deal of work in multi-tenant residential where the occupant turns on the light manually but the light goes off automatically when the person leaves the area. In schools, sometimes the occupancy sensor in a classroom is triggered by someone walking down a corridor. In that case, the vacancy sensor would prevent this false reading.” A host of other measures, including the installation of 54 solar photovoltaic panels, daylight harvesting and LED lighting, also reduce the building’s electrical consumption. According to Abraam, the solar PV panels generate 13.5kW, providing approximately 6.1 percent of the building’s total electrical energy. As a daylighting strategy, a 20 x
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20-foot skylight draws natural light all the way to the basement, thanks to a series of glass floors and ceilings in work spaces directly below the skylight. As the third leg of this triad, the building’s artificial illumination is all energy-efficient LED lighting. Smart Solutions Showcase The 1930s era building has completely new mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems to increase efficiency and improve indoor environmental quality. The challenge in working on an historical building is balancing the HVAC loads with the energy efficiency of the often outdated building envelope – or the lack thereof. “The question is the impact of the façade, especially the use of existing vintage glass on the sizing of the HVAC equipment,” said Abraam. “On one hand, the project could gain available historic tax credits by
retaining the existing glass, but on the other hand, it might lead to increasing the size and capacity of the HVAC equipment due to the lesser quality building envelope. At the Innovation Center, it made sense to replace the existing glass.” As part of the project, SES also conducted a thorough analysis of various HVAC systems. The two finalists were a variable refrigerant flow system (VRF) or a cold-air variable air volume (VAV) system. According to Abraam, both systems are energy efficient and both are capable of meeting the owner’s requirements for temperature and humidity control, meaning a stable, consistent temperature can be maintained throughout a building and each space is evenly heated or cooled. Many an office worker has experienced the unpleasant phenomenon of one side of the building feeling like Antarctica and the other side like the steamy Amazon – or even dramatic
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temperature swings from one cubicle to another. Either of these two systems could be the cure, however, the lower cost of the cold-air VAV system, as compared to the then higher cost of a VRF, and the owner’s reservation regarding a newer technology, led to its selection. “At the time of the project, the VRF systems were still newer to the market, and so it had a higher cost,” said Abraam. “The VAV system allows you to vary the air flow to the spaces, so we were able to zone the building appropriately.” Abraam also offers a smart energy solution that has nothing to do with VAV systems or circuit breakers, but everything to do with the ultimate success of any “green” project. Abraam emphasizes the importance of early owner involvement in selecting an HVAC system. “One needs to get ownership involved early and get their buy-in or agreement on what type of HVAC system fits their needs and desires – whether, for instance, it’s a simple rooftop unit or a variable refrigerant flow system,” he said. “The team also needs to know how the owner is ultimately going to operate their building.” Additionally, the Consumers Energy Innovation Center also features several other sustainability measures: • Low-flow plumbing fixtures reduce water consumption by approximately 40 percent • Highly efficient condensing boilers maximize efficiency at lower temperatures • A white reflective roof reduces the heat island effect Ultimately, the cumulative impact of the project’s entire list of initiatives - as calculated for LEED’s Energy and Atmosphere credit - produced a building whose energy usage was approximately 21.7 percent above the baseline building performance in the ASHRAE 90.1-2010 standard. The end results of SES’s efforts are on full display in the Consumers Energy Innovation Center’s Smart Energy Efficient Solutions Room. “The room has, for lack of a better term, almost a dashboard showing energy consumption in real time,” said Abraam. From the Michigan State Capitol to “The Voice of The Construction Industry®”
downtown Detroit and west to the Consumers Energy Innovation Center in downtown Jackson, SES is working its magic to create a more sustainable world. Although not a known sum, SES has undoubtedly reduced the collective carbon footprint of Michigan building owners over the course of 20 years of engineering practice. About the Company Founded in 1997, Strategic Energy Solutions has been tackling energy-efficiency and sustainability for two decades. As consulting mechanical engineers, their services include commissioning, energy simulations, HVAC systems and geoexchange systems. As consulting electrical engineers, SES offers power evaluations, primary and secondary power distribution design and lighting design services. As a part of the firm’s financial engineering services, the company provides energy audits, facilities assessment and lifecycle cost analysis. SES’s direct sustainability services include geothermal design/build/construct, energy modeling, daylight harvesting and solar PV system design. SES recently expanded its office into a formerly unoccupied warehouse section of its Berkley headquarters. This once vacant space is now filled with 16 new work stations and a commercial kitchen. The work stations of eight new employees who joined the SES team in the last two years are located in this newly renovated area. The commercial kitchen has been a great success with the company providing chefprepared lunches a minimum of three days per week. Along with SES, sustainable and energyefficient buildings are on the rise as are the organizations measuring their effectiveness. Today, LEED has spawned or inspired a host of complementary organizations and rating systems. These systems include the Living Building Challenge, a performance standard for buildings developed by the International Living Future Institute. “There are also the International Well Building Group and Fitwel, two organizations focused on making buildings more sustainable and attractive to the people occupying them,” added Abraam.
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ith a blank brick exterior, a single door, and a few narrow windows, the oldest building and public face of Walsh College along Livernois Road gave no indication of the exceptional learning experience within those deceptively average walls. A $15 million improvement project changed all that, demolishing an outdated building from the 1970s, and replacing it with a new 30,000-square-foot addition that features three distinct pavilions: a student lounge, a one-stop shop for student services and a success center. Design, engineering and construction-wise, the entire addition could be called a success center, thanks to the talented team of Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, Inc., Chicago; Strategic Energy Solutions, Inc., Berkley; and Frank Rewold And Son, Inc., Rochester. Strategic Energy Solutions (SES) brought its 20 years of expertise in sustainable buildings to this well-planned metamorphosis from brick to almost all glass. Large expanses of glass, framed in angled masonry and metal panels, are now the public face of Walsh College along Livernois Road. As part of its mission, SES managed the added heat load of the building’s predominately glass design. “The large glass expanses of the addition face west, and especially during the summer and in the late afternoon, the solar and heat load becomes a challenge,” said Abraam. “From an engineering perspective, we had to be sure to provide the capacity in the HVAC system to cool the addition’s large open spaces. We designed a perimeter heating and cooling zone on that west façade.” Most of the solar load is welcome as it shines on the building’s 76 solar photovoltaic panels designed to generate approximately 7.1 percent of the building’s total energy. Michigan Solar & Wind Power Solutions, Commerce Township, installed the PV system. The building’s vegetated roof terrace also basks in the sunlight while performing its “green” duties, including reducing storm water runoff, and energy usage and lessening the heat island effect. As part of the building’s lighting control system, “Some of the smaller individual spaces have individual occupancy and/or vacancy controllers, but the addition’s open spaces have integrated dimming modules,” said SES Principal John Abraam. The use of varied lighting
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fixture types called for the integration of these lighting and dimming controls. SES used select fixtures with specialty ballasts and connectors that allowed for unified dimming. Once in place, the level of light emitted from each fixture was able to be finely tuned to function with surrounding fixtures, as well as with the natural daylighting in each space. This approach produced uniform lighting levels throughout the building. Horizon Engineering Associates, LLP, Ann Arbor, commissioned the project, ensuring the building operates as designed by “witnessing the startup and operation of an X number of equipment for X number of hours to be sure the systems are maintaining heat or space temperatures and that lighting controls are functioning as intended for their selected time schedules,” said Abraam. Other sustainability measures in the new addition include occupancy sensors, lowflow plumbing fixtures and CO2 sensors providing demand-control ventilation. Overall, this LEED Silver v. 2009 building was 28.8 percent above the baseline building performance of ASHRAE 90.1-2010. The cumulative impact of all of a project’s sustainability measures is used to calculate this percentage and to earn a LEED Energy and Atmosphere credit. Thanks to its design and construction team, Walsh College not only has a stunning new presence along Livernois Avenue, but also a building able to meet the energy challenges of the 21st Century. Project profile courtesy of SES and CAM Magazine editorial staff
• Tile – East Side Tile & Marble, Inc., Harrison Township; Michielutti Brothers, Inc., Eastpointe • Concrete – Gemeli Concrete, LLC, Romeo • Landscaping Design – Great Lakes Landscaping, Warren • Carpet & Flooring – Ideal Floor Covering, Inc., Rochester • Construction Materials – International Building Products, Livonia • Site Work – Jacklyn Contracting, LLC, Washington • Landscaping – KLM Landscape, Armada • Custom Woodworking – Mod Interiors, Inc., Ira Township • Roofing – Molnar Roofing Co., Inc., Riverview • Masonry Restoration – Nawkaw Mideast, Hartland • Furniture – NBC Commercial Interiors, Troy • Elevator – Otis Elevator Co., Farmington Hills • Glass & Glazing – Peterson Glass Co., Ferndale • Concrete & Foundations – Poured Brick Walls, Inc., Brighton • Acoustical Contractor – R.E. Leggette Co., Dearborn • Architectural Metal – Retail Specialty, Inc., Shelby Township • Signage – Rochester Sign Shop, Rochester • Flagpole Installation – Rocket Enterprise, Inc., Warren • Piping Contractor – S.E. Kalchik Mechanical, Inc., Northville • Fire Suppression – Shambaugh & Son, LP, Southfield • Excavating – Simone contracting Corporation, Sterling Heights • Audio/Visual – Sound Planning Communications, Redford Township • Window Treatments – The Sheer Shop, Shelby Township • Security – Wiltec Technologies, Ann Arbor • Accordion Doors – Won-Door Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT
Walsh College Addition & Renovation Owner: Walsh College, Troy General Contractor: Frank Rewold & Son, Inc., Rochester Architect: Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, Chicago MEPFp Engineer: Strategic Energy Solutions, Inc., Berkley Civil Engineering: Nowak & Fraus, Pontiac Structural Engineering: Robert Darvas Associates, Ann Arbor Lighting Design: Hugh Lighting Design, Oak Park, IL Acoustical Design – Kirkegaard Associates, Chicago, IL Trade Contractors: • Demolition – Adams Group, Inc., Royal Oak • Electrical – Advantage Electric & Control, Shelby Township • Painting – Alton Group, Inc., Dryden • Gas Fireplace – American Fireplace & Barbeque Dist., Ferndale • Interior Finishes – Ann Arbor Ceiling & Partition, LLC, Ypsilanti • Masonry – Brazen & Greer, Inc., Livonia • Mechanical Contractor – Bumler Mechanical , Sterling Heights • Structural Steel – Casadei Structural Steel, Inc., Sterling Heights • Weatherproofing – DC Beyers Company, Detroit
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he Huron River is a typical Southeast Michigan waterway. It rises out of the Huron Swamp in Indian Springs Metropark in White Lake Township in northern Oakland County and flows into Lake Erie on the boundary between Wayne County and Monroe County, dropping from an elevation of 1,020 feet above sea level to 564 feet above sea level over its 130-mile run. The river is cool and clean, providing a recreational resource used for swimming, fishing, canoeing, kayaking and tubing. The river has 19 dams on the main stream. At least a dozen were built for mill or hydroelectric power and formed new lakes behind them. Argo Dam is one of those. It is a 92 acre impoundment which stretches for two miles behind the dam. The Argo head raceway was state-ofthe-art when it was commissioned in 1830. By controlling the rate at which the river water was allowed to flow through the raceway, the speed of the various water wheels was controlled. The wheels turned gears, spun grinding stones, rotated axles and spindles which caused leather straps to transmit mechanical power to conveyors, sifters and other pieces of equipment. The headrace powered the Argo flour mills for 75 years; however, grist mills are notoriously volatile due to the dry flour dust which would fill the air. On the afternoon of January 4, 1904, friction on a belt in the roller room ignited the flour dust. The fire spread fast and the loss was catastrophic. The mills at Argo dam were gone. Eastern Michigan Edison took over the property in 1905 and installed hydroelectric generators. The 1,500-footlong headrace was rebuilt in 1913 to be 70 feet wide and 13 feet deep, contained by an earthen dam. EM-Edison was merged into Detroit Edison in 1931 and the headrace continued to power the generating station until 1959, when Detroit Edison decommissioned the Ann Arbor facility. The dam was sold to the City of Ann Arbor in 1963. On June 27, 1968, a 100-year storm cause the Huron River to crest 16 feet above flood stage. Several dams, including Argo Dam were damaged. Voters approved $3.5 million in bonds in 1970. Argo Dam was reconstructed in 1971-1972, but the head raceway remained untouched.
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By the end of 20th Century, Argo Pond was a popular recreational facility. Argo Canoe livery rented canoes and kayaks which plied the smooth waters of the pond. The Argo head raceway had become a stagnant, overgrown backwater held up by its aging earthen embankment. Paddlers who wished to portage around the Argo Dam were forced to travel a quarter-mile to the eastern end of the trash-filled channel and haul their craft down crumbling stairs to the lower river, eighteen feet below. The more troubling concern was the condition of the earthen embankment which separated the headrace from the river below. It was showing serious signs of age and neglect. The toe drains, a series of pervious tiles or pipes used to collect external seepage along the downstream toe of an embankment, were no longer working. Water was beginning to percolate through the embankment. Collapse of the earthen embankment was becoming an ominous possibility.
In 1995, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) had published its Huron River Assessment (HRA), in which it identified Argo Dam in Ann Arbor as a candidate for removal. The report suggested that removal of this dam could “benefit the aquatic environment through improved water quality, fisheries, and riverine habitat.” This report gave fuel to environmental activist organizations like the Huron River Watershed Council (HRWC). The HRWC had been lobbying for removal of the Argo Dam since the early 1990s. A 2001 report by the MDEQ identified the clogged or otherwise impaired toe drains on the Argo Dam head raceway embankment as a problem which required “immediate attention” by the city. HRWC commissioned its own paper in 2004, having five graduate students in the Natural Resources and Environment program at the University of Michigan study the feasibility of removing the dam and restoring the river to its natural
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species like zebra mussels and sea lampreys. The negative impacts of larger dams on the river, which are eight feet and higher in spillover, were that almost all have a toxic sludge buildup at the bottom of the upstream side of the dam. Release of this contaminated sediment would unleash a loblolly of heavy metals, discarded pharmaceuticals, and agricultural runoff into the established downriver environs resulting in devastated fisheries and aquatic despoilment. For the Argo Dam in particular, there was also the issue of whether the newly released river would overrun the coal tar-contaminated MichCon property just past the river bend below the dam. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) seemed to give the HRWC hope in 2007 when it ordered the City of Ann Arbor to clear the flora which had covered the 4-inch toe drains along the 1,500-foot-long embankment. The city pushed back claiming that the estimated $600,000
course. The paper ignited a firestorm of debate between two camps, labeled by the local media as Dam-Ins versus DamOuts. The Dam-Ins wanted Argo Dam to remain in place and the recreational use of Argo Pond preserved. The impoundment was used for a training facility for the sculling and rowing teams from U-M and some of area high schools. Loss of the pond would mean additional travel expenses that some of the teams would not be able to afford. The DamOuts wanted the dam to go away and believed that the river should be restored to its natural state. Aficionados of kayaking seemed to side with the DamOuts in the hopes that the loss of the dam would result in a faster flowing river channel with some descending gradients. Tempers flared and both sides became passionately entrenched. As with most issues of this nature, there were no clear cut answers. Dams served a positive purpose in that they prevented the further upriver migration of invasive
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compliance cost was not only too high, but it would also destroy the natural habitat for the endangered purple turtlehead flower. This debate raged back and forth until August 6, 2009, when the MDEQ sent a letter to the city of Ann Arbor ordering it to completely shut off the flow from the impoundment to the headrace and dewater the headrace on or before November 1, 2009. Again, Ann Arbor pushed back saying that doing so would create a public safety hazard. The debate finally came down to the $1-million price tag for removing the dam and restoring the river. To the public, the cost far outweighed the perceived benefits. In September 2010, the city issued a separate request for proposal (RFP) for the redesign and reconstruction of the headrace and embankment. The team, led by Redford-based CAM member TSP Environmental, included Recreation Engineering and Planning (REP) of “The Voice of The Construction Industry®”
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Boulder, Colorado, and landscape architectural firm Beckett and Raeder of Ann Arbor, was the only qualifying bid. REP President Gary Lacy is the premier in-stream design engineer in the nation and has pioneered many innovations in whitewater parks, dam modifications and integration of urban river corridors. His design mitigated the city’s toe drain issue, averting the inevitable collapse of the headrace earthen embankment. It also eliminated the difficult portage currently facing canoeists. On November 15, 2010, the council approved a $1.2 million bypass around the Argo dam that would remove and replace the aging Argo headrace. The City awarded the project to the TSP team in December 2010, with the stipulation that construction had to begin by June 1, 2011, and be completed in just five months. Following two months of maneuvering through the permitting process, TSP hired Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com
CAM member Soils & Materials Engineering, Inc., of Shelby Township, to do the due diligence testing and survey of the project soil conditions and existing utilities. The headrace was sealed off with a steel sheet piling wall. A coffer dam was erected on the bank of the river and three tiered settling ponds were built to receive the 1.2 million gallons of stagnant water that was pumped out of the abandoned and overgrown headrace. When the water was gone, a century-old mess was discovered. “We had to work fast to relocate the stranded fish,” said TSP’s Ron Swan. “This was complicated by a layer of muck on the bottom that ranged from three feet deep on the west end to eight feet deep on the east end. In the muck, we found discarded machine parts, tires, and even a steam engine drive piston.” Clean fill was brought in to fill the original headrace channel, which was then graded and compacted to produce a CAM MAGAZINE MARCH 2018
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gentle sloping bypass channel from west to east. 8,000 tons of limestone rocks were used to build the pools between the nine drops. Pool depths were limited to a depth of no more than 48 inches to forestall the possibility of drowning. The flow channel at each drop was created by a hand-selected, 18-inch-thick, single piece of limestone cut to exacting specifications. This allowed for a smooth transition at each drop and limited the drop to between 12 and 18 inches at a low-flow design depth of 24 inches. On either side of flow channel, limestone rocks were used to build containment wings. These walls were constructed to appear to be random, natural piles of rocks; however, they were placed on a compacted six-inch aggregate base, keyed into the slope, and grouted in such a manner as to conceal the grouting as the stones followed the grade of the channel slope. The gravel and dirt path along the top of the headrace embankment was widened to ten feet and paved to make it ADA-accessible. Pedestrian bridges were built across each end of bypass channel. This incorporated 1,500 feet of newlypaved pathway into the Border-to-Border trail. 38 CAM MAGAZINE MARCH 2018
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The biggest challenges TSP faced during construction was performing the work within an active recreational area. Heavy equipment operators had to be alert for the presence of trail bikers and joggers who were not deterred from using their normal route. Another challenge was that equipment and materials were stored at the DTE Broadway substation on the east end of the project. On one occasion, pumps and generators were stolen while the TSP crew was working, and watching, on the project’s west end. The project that became known as “Argo Cascades� opened in May 2012. It has turned out to be as close to a win-win compromise as anyone could have hoped to achieve. It eliminated the structural deficiencies along the headrace embankment and not only preserved, but has managed to improve, the river’s recreation opportunities. The project removed the aging millrace and crumbling portage, replacing it with a series of nine drop pools which could be easily negotiated by the most novice canoeist. The dam bypass also allowed fish in the river to migrate around the dam, addressing one of the main contentions of the environmentalists. The project came in on schedule and was below budget at a cost of $1,180,000. The success of Argo Cascades has had a ripple effect on other sites along the river. Revenues at the Argo Canoe Livery have risen by 300 percent, and the Argo Cascades has turned an abandoned, overgrown mill headrace into a must visit attraction to anyone visiting the Ann Arbor area. “A project like this can be a real economic driver for any city with a riverfront and an aging dam,� said Lacy. “I may have designed Argo Cascades, but Ron Swan and TSP are the real heroes on this project.� Lacy and TSP have since teamed on a whitewater park in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, that has also turned into a very popular destination for kayakers and experienced canoeists. Lacy looks forward to working with TSP on more dam bypass projects in Michigan in the near future.
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Hamilton. Today, this particular design concept is a living reality as bike-riding residents and dog-walking dwellers of Orleans Landing tangibly demonstrate the residential possibilities of the East Riverfront. Designing a Neighborhood At Orleans Landing, Hamilton Anderson turned a vacant expanse of land into a neighborhood, conjuring four revitalized blocks out of the weeds and subsurface rubble. Orleans Landing encompasses 20 buildings that create a nearly continuous street frontage. Resident parking is tucked behind the buildings, within the blocks, and on-street parking is available for public use. Each individual housing unit in this three and four-story development directly faces the street to foster community and to encourage activity on the street. “The project has building frontage on the street, including front porches and stoops facing the sidewalk, along with front doors and windows, creating ‘eyes on the street,’ ” said Hamilton. “At Orleans Landing, we are building a neighborhood. We are not building an isolated, gated community.” Retaining and strengthening the urban grid
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of existing streets is part of this neighborhood design. “We wanted to re-establish an urban streetscape in the East Riverfront area that would reinforce the urban grid of Detroit,” said Hamilton. Visually and physically, the reestablished street grid also connects Orleans Landing to the greater city by offering a direct sightline to the towers of the GMRENCEN and a convenient route to downtown Detroit. As part of neighborhood-making, Hamilton Anderson designed spaces for small-scale commercial retail or coffee shops in this newly formed riverfront community. The firm fought hard to preserve the project’s commercial element and its on-street parking. Live/work spaces were also included and can be converted to commercial spaces should the need arise. Current zoning laws mandate off-street parking for commercial retail operations. “It came down to a meeting with Detroit City Council,” said Hamilton.“We suggested that instead of putting parking for the corner retail internally to the project that we rely on on-street parking to satisfy parking needs. We said,‘Let this small retail rely on on-street parking for those visiting the neighborhood, and if you are in the neighborhood, you have the opportunity to walk
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and increase activity in the area.’ We took a huge risk, but we got on-street parking approved for the corner retail.” This strategy encourages the creation of a safer and more vibrant community. “Off-street parking for retail would have been a huge detriment to the project,” said Hamilton Anderson Landscape Architect Chris Riggert. “On-street parking increases activity on the street, and the more people and activity on the street means a safer community.” Designing a Walkable Community Hamilton Anderson celebrates sensible urban place making, and at Orleans Landing the firm’s architects and landscape architects joined forces to create a walkable community. As landscape architects, “It was important for us to create obvious and intuitive connections between Orleans Landing and the RiverWalk,” said Hamilton Anderson Director of Landscape Architecture and Planning Angela Hicks ASLA, CLARB, AICP, LEED® AP.“We had to make sure that it is easy to get to all of these riverfront amenities, and that the connections are integrated.”
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Hamilton Anderson lined the streets with trees and used other landscape architectural elements to shape a pleasant environment and encourage foot traffic. “Residential units are pulled back a few feet from the sidewalk to create a space for landscaping in front of the units,” said Riggert. Architecturally, designing varied building facades breaks down the scale of each building along the street. “We used a variety of materials, including a great deal of masonry and some siding materials to break up the facades and to create more interest,” said Hamilton. “We also staggered the planes to create more diversity.” This approach creates a more authentic-looking “and more organically developed neighborhood in the city,” added Hamilton Anderson Landscape Architect Meghan Diecchio, PLA. “Even though each building is constructed as one unit and structurally it is all interconnected, the different facades and planes make it feel as though it is different buildings as you walk down the street.” This merging of disciplines has created a wonderful and walkable place to live. “A resident can walk off their front stoop on Atwater, cross
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the street and be at the RiverWalk in a minute,” said Hamilton. “The design encourages people to walk their dogs, to cycle and to explore the RiverWalk. I think it was wonderful that McCormack Baron Salazar and the design teams shared in the vision that this should be a walkable neighborhood.” Detroit Down Under Good design takes a great deal of work. The foundations alone added complexity to the project. “Because Orleans Landing was a market test project, the buildings are low-rise to avoid the cost of deep foundations,” said Hamilton. Typically, high-rise buildings constructed on downtown Detroit’s soft clay soils require drilled piers reaching 30 to 60 feet or more down to load-bearing soil or bedrock. “Orleans Landing was built on shallow foundations and formed of lightweight construction – a steel-framed first level and wood framed above,” said Hamilton. “However, I am hoping that the next wave of buildings on the riverfront will be high-rise residential.” Even shallow foundations – in this case concrete trench footings and pads – presented
formidable obstacles. Historically, “As Detroit grew, material excavated for foundations was used as fill on the river’s edge,” said Hamilton. “It’s not uncommon to encounter rubble and debris.” The riverfront land, previously used for ship building and industrial manufacturing, contained remnants of railroad and building foundations. “One block had once supported an old foundry, leaving an old railroad spur and remnant footings, each the size of a small dump truck,” according to Hamilton Anderson-supplied information. “The alley also was an old railroad right-of-way, leaving solid concrete measuring about 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep. This unusual site debris, along with obtaining and delivering utilities to the site, added to the challenge of construction. Additionally, the Brownfield site contained other debris and materials that had to be either removed or mitigated. HAA Hits a Homerun Orleans Landing offers one- and two-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom town houses, along with live-work units. “The live-work units can either be utilized as residential or it can have
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building on Orleans Landing. There is demand for new housing in Detroit, and for contemporary housing in Detroit. The next five years are going to be amazing.” Project Team • Developer: McCormack Baron Salazar, Detroit • Construction Manager: O’Brien Construction/Brinkmann Constructors Joint Venture, Troy, St. Louis, MO • Urban Design & Planning: Urban Design Associates, Pittsburgh, PA • Executive Architect/Landscape Architect: Hamilton Anderson Associates, Detroit
A pool and an outdoor fireplace is only one of the amenities at Orleans Landing. The RiverWalk, the Dequindre Cut’s pedestrian/bike path and the MDNR’s Outdoor Adventure Center are virtually at the doorstep of this 270-unit residential development.
a commercial aspect, such as a studio for a photographer or artist,” said Riggert. One Hamilton Anderson staff member is even a resident of Orleans Landing. Call it design-bidbuild-live. Orleans Landing has clearly proved that demand exists for riverfront living in an urbandesigned neighborhood.“We asked, ‘Will people be interested in buying or renting units on the water’s edge and rental units that have balconies and front doors that face the street?” said Hamilton. Given that the development is well occupied, the answer is a resounding yes. “I think Orleans Landing is a homerun,” said Hamilton. Hitting this homerun took a mix of public and private funds. A gap still exists between Detroit and other communities in the rental price persquare-foot. Gap financing - a mix of tax credits, federal and state grants and loans – fills in the discrepancy. “Because the cost of the projects is about the same, you can build more in other communities and the project will support itself,” said Hamilton. “Every project contemplated in Detroit has a financial gap that developers try to fill with other funding sources. When teams go to Lansing to ask for tax incentives, it is absolutely appropriate. They are making those requests, because one can’t charge the same rents that one could in a community like Birmingham – yet.” Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com
Hamilton believes the future is literally looking up in more ways than one. “We have so much undeveloped, vacant property on the East Riverfront, we should be going vertical because that property is so valuable,” said Hamilton. “The riverfront east of the Belle Isle Bridge is lined with vertical residential properties offering great views of the river. The area between the Belle Isle Bridge and the GMRENCEN should follow suit. I consider Orleans Landing to be a test of the market, but I support going vertically on the East Riverfront, because we need to increase the density in that area.” In the firm’s own future, Hamilton Anderson is “anticipating additional work in the East Riverfront area,” said Hamilton. Currently, the firm is in conceptual design for a mixed-use, residential/commercial project at Jefferson Avenue and West Grand Boulevard. Once occupied by a Big Boy restaurant, the site is located directly across from the Uniroyal site and Belle Isle Park. “Hamilton Anderson is working on the project with a developer called the Platform and with wHY Architecture as a design partner,” added Hamilton. For the East Riverfront as a whole, “many developments are now appearing after Orleans Landing, which is now one-year-old,” said Hamilton. “We are working on residential projects in Corktown and in Brush Park that are
Design Team • Environmental Consultant: AKT Peerless, Detroit • Owner’s Hardware Consultant: Allegion, Livonia office • Owner's Energy Consultant: ASERusa, St. Louis, MO • Structural Engineering: Desai Nasr Consulting Engineers, Inc., West Bloomfield • Electrical Engineering: ETS Engineering, Royal Oak • Irrigation Consultant: Graber & Associates, LLC, New Baltimore • Civil Engineering: Giffels Webster, Detroit • Lighting Designer: Illuminart, Ypsilanti • Mechanical Engineering: Potapa - Van Hoosear Engineering, Shelby Township • Owner’s Soils Consultant: Testing Engineers & Consulting, Inc., Troy • Specifications Consultant: WDEO Associates, Wichita Falls, TX • Low Voltage Wiring Consultant: Wiltec Technologies, Inc., Ann Arbor Construction Team • Storefront Windows – Aalcor, Detroit • Mailboxes – Advanced Specialties, Inc., Clawson • Exterior Fencing and Gates – American Fence & Supply Co., Inc., Warren • Asphalt Paving and Site Curbing – Asphalt Specialists, Inc., Pontiac • Exterior Pool – B&B Pools and Spas, Livonia • Fire Suppression System – C & H Fire Protection, Detroit • Drywall and Painting – Raychaiah Investments, Walled Lake • Closet Shelving – Closets Plus, Grand Ledge • Window Blinds and Shades – Creative Windows, Ann Arbor • Foundations – Dearborn Mid-West Company LLC, Taylor CAM MAGAZINE MARCH 2018
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• Site Furnishings – Great Lakes Recreation Company, Zeeland • Countertops – Hard Rock Stone Works, Sterling Heights • Plumbing – Jermor Plumbing & Heating, Detroit • Low Voltage (Intercoms) – JR Technical, Inc., Oak Park • Final Cleaning – Just Klean, LLC, Clinton Township; Metro Plus Services, Grand Blanc • Concrete Underlayment – Kent Companies, Inc., Grand Rapids • Cabinets – Kurtis Kitchen & Bath Centers, Livonia • Structural Steel Installer – Lapeer Steel, Inc., Metamora • Membrane Roofing – MacDermott Roofing, Inc., Livonia • Tile – Marson Enterprises, Inc., Southfield • Irrigation – Michigan Automatic Sprinkler, Commerce • Window Supplier – Midwest Door & Window, LLC, Livonia • Metal Roofing and Siding – MW Morss Roofing, Inc., Romulus • Exterior Signage – Northern Sign Co., Pontiac • Shingle Roofing – Northwest Contracting, Inc., Whitmore Lake • Awnings and Canopies – Ohio Awning & Manufacturing Co., Cleveland • Garage Doors – Overhead Door and Fireplace, Waterford Township • Caulking – Pasky & Sons, Inc., West Bloomfield • Drywall – Professional Drywall, LLC, Walled Lake • Waterproofing – RAM Construction Services, Inc., Livonia • Site Utilities and Earthwork – RBV Contracting, Inc., Detroit • Electrical – Resnick Electric Company, Wixom • Elevators – Schindler Elevator Corp., Livonia • Mechanical – Sherman Heating and Cooling, Swartz Creek • Flooring and Carpet – Solar Contract Carpet, Redford • Partitions, Fire Extinguishers and Lockers – S orella Group, Lenexa • Carpentry – Starky’s Construction, Inc., Livonia • Landscaping – Stuart Leve, Inc., Milford • Door Hardware Supplier – Tupper Door & Hardware, Inc., Farmington Hills • Interior and Exterior Fireplaces – Williams Distributing, Pontiac
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Eaton Offers a Simple LowVoltage Solution for Power, LED Lighting and Controls that Saves Up to 40 Percent on Installation Labor Hours Power management company Eaton offers the Distributed Low Voltage Power (DLVP) system, a flexible and electrically efficient low-voltage system combining power, LED lighting and controls into one simple, energy code compliant, project solution by blending the benefits of both alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power distribution. The easily configured “plug-and-play” system reduces installation labor by up to 40 percent with a total installed system cost savings of up to 20 percent. The energy-efficient, commissioning DLVP solution utilizes AC power for transmission and DC power for connectivity, offering a complete lowvoltage, simple solution for applications with repeated spaces and matching configurations including schools, private and open commercial offices, conference rooms and healthcare facilities such as doctor’s offices, urgent care and rehabilitation centers. The light-emitting diode system was recently installed in the Cincinnati, Ohio-based offices of USGreentech, a company focused on the development and distribution of progressive synthetic turf infill for the sports field industry. “Whether managing a single room or entire facility, customers and installers want a safe, cost-conscious, easy-toconfigure system that simplifies code compliance,” said Quentin Mecklenborg, owner, Brooks and Sons Remodeling, who installed USGreentech’s DLVP system. “It took one person less than a day to install a 2,000-square-foot space with lighting, from running the wire to the power module and connecting all the fixtures to working order versus traditional wiring, which would have taken two Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com
electricians over a day to wire the same amount of fixtures.” The out-of-the-box functionality of the DLVP system provides design-build contractors, installers and owners an LED lighting and controls solution that offers fast, simple installation with reduced wiring materials and minimal complexity. The sustainable solution allows customers the ability to control and program different lighting products based on occupancy and daylighting. Our system provides energy code compliant lighting, receptacle and emergency controls capabilities without commissioning. The DLVP system components include a power module, available in 300 and 600 watts; traditional lighting control options including occupancy and daylight sensors; zone and scene wall stations that offer out-of-the-box control; and receptacle control switch packs to control receptacle plug loads. The DLVP system includes hand-held programming and personal remotes. The programming remote sets sensor hold times and sensitivity, daylight gains by zone, sensor range and assigns fixtures with integrated sensors to control zones. The personal remote provides the user the ability to individually control zones and create scenes to customize their lighting environments. The system is compatible with models representing Eaton’s most popular lighting product lines including Metalux, Corelite, Neo-Ray, Portfolio and Halo Commercial. To learn more about the DLVP system, visit www.eaton.com/DLVP, read the Design Guide or brochure and watch a video. For additional information on the Eaton’s lighting and connected lighting solutions, visit www.eaton.com/lighting.
Bosch All-Purpose and HighPressure Laminate Carbide Jig Saw Blades Deliver a Quality Cut in Tough Applications Carbide Brazing Technology Results in Blades that have 10x Life Versus Standard Bi-Metal Blades The days of having to change jig saw blades in the middle of a job for fear of hitting a nail or a screw in wood or laminate are over. Bosch Carbide for All-
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Larson Electronics Releases a 500 Watt LED Crane Light with Stainless Steel Mounting Bracket
Emerson Warm Tiles™ Systems Removes Chill from Ceramic, Stone, Marble and Laminate Floors Even in warmer climates, tile, stone, marble and laminate floors can feel uncomfortably cold. Emerson EasyHeat Warm Tiles™ floor warming products remove the chill with a gentle, continuous warmth. Emerson EasyHeat Warm Tiles electric floor warming cables and prefabricated warming mats have been keeping ceramic, stone and engineered wood flooring comfortable for over 40 years. These low-profile systems can be easily installed over plywood, concrete or cement backerboard subflooring, plus can be embedded in thinset or self-leveling underlayment, making the systems ideal for both new construction and remodeling projects. Whether installed in a basement, bathroom or any other room in a home, Warm Tiles provide unlimited design configurations for even the most difficultshaped room. Best of all, Warm Tiles comfort costs less than a penny per-square-foot per day and operates on ordinary electric current. Once it's up and running, a Warm Tiles system can achieve up to 30 percent more efficiency than forced-air heating, depending on how well insulated a house is. And there's no comparison when it comes to comfort. To learn more, visit www.emerson.com/en-us/commercialresidential/easyheat.
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Larson Electronics continues its commitment to providing high grade lighting equipment to specialty markets with the release of a high intensity 500 watt LED crane light that is a direct replacement for 1,000 watt metal halide fixtures. The GAU-HB-500W-LED-SS heavy duty LED crane light from Larson Electronics produces 60,990 lumens of high intensity light while drawing 500 watts from a 120 volt electrical system. This high mast LED flood light offers intense light output and is ideal for flood lighting, crane lighting, light towers, as well as industrial and outdoor lighting applications. This 500 watt high intensity LED light fixture is an ideal replacement for fragile and hot running 1,000 watt metal halide lamps. They offer low power requirements, high durability and a versatile mounting system that makes these LED light emitters a superior lighting solution for demanding applications where power and reliability is critical. Each unit is equipped with a back mount trunnion style bracket constructed of 304 stainless steel. The bracket allows the light to be attached to flat surfaces and be adjusted through 160° of vertical movement. To adjust the unit after mounting, the user simply loosens the set screws located on either side of the unit, moves it into the desired position, then retightens the screws. The base of the mounting trunnion is equipped with several machined slots which allow users to utilize existing mounting holes and slide the unit for precise mount positioning. The heavy duty design and high power of these LED lights make them suitable for a wide array of applications including high mast lighting, light plant LED retrofits, military, mining, industrial manufacturing, machine visioning, security and law enforcement, commercial structure
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Toro Introduces New Riding Trencher Cab Option Integrated Cab Assembly Provides Operator Benefits Focused on Comfort and Productivity Toro introduces an optional cab assembly specifically engineered to be factory installed on the Toro® RT1200 riding trencher. The cab assembly provides a number of features focused on accessibility, safety and operator comfort. In terms of accessibility, the cab features doors on both sides of the trencher for simple entry and exit to and from the operator’s station, regardless of jobsite obstacles or challenging terrain. Various safety features have been incorporated into the cab assembly including front and rear windshield wipers for maximum visibility in less-than-ideal conditions, and a pressurized cab which virtually eliminates dust and debris from entering the operator’s station. The pressurized cab also reduces noise from outside the cab, to help minimize operator fatigue. When it comes to ergonomics, the new cab assembly for the RT1200 has incorporated key features to keep the operator comfortable and productive. For example, heat and air conditioning are integrated into the cab design to allow use of the machine in both extreme heat and cold. Additionally, for operation on pleasant days, the operator has the ability to open both the rear window, and lock the cab doors open with an extended door latch, providing optimum ventilation in the cab. Adding a cab option for the popular RT1200 riding trencher essentially allows operators to get more year-round usage out of their equipment by providing a safe “The Voice of The Construction Industry®”
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to produce pressurized water and reduce airborne dust, wherever the jobsite may be. The Hilti integrated water pump comes with 10 feet of hose and is compatible with Hilti gas-powered DSH 700-X and 900-X handheld saws. Like Hilti gas saws, the Hilti integrated water pump DSH-P is available as a Hilti fleet item which provides a 1-year, no questions asked, repair coverage period; and a guaranteed 1-day turn-around on repairs. For more information on Hilti gas saws and integrated water pump, please contact Hilti Customer Service. From the U.S. call Hilti, Inc. at (800) 879-8000 or visit www.hilti.com. From Canada call Hilti (Canada) Corporation at (800) 363-4458 or visit www.hilti.ca .
Deliver Innovation Wherever it’s Needed with the Hilti Integrated Water Pump DSH-P Water has long been used as a means for dust control in the professional construction industry. But what do you do when a pressurized water source is hard to come by? You bring the Hilti integrated water pump DSH-P to the job. The Hilti integrated water pump DSH-P is the first of its kind in the industry and provides unparalleled dust control portability. No more being limited by distance. Simply fill-up a bucket of water or use another static water source and attach a DSH-P integrated water pump system to your Hilti gas-powered handheld saw to control dust on your jobsite. The Hilti integrated water pump DSH-P leverages the power of your Hilti gas saw Visit us online at www.BuildwithCAM.com
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Peter Basso Associates (PBA), Troy, is pleased to announce the promotion to principal of Bill Edgerton, CPD and the promotion to associate Edgerton of Nathan Mielke. Edgerton started his career with PBA in 1996. A member of PBA’s Higher Education Group, Edgerton has worked on many notable and award-winning Mielke projects. Mielke, a member of PBA’s Commissioning Group, is an active member of the Building Commissioning Association, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, and Mechanical Service Contractors of America. In his 21 years of experience, he has provided commissioning services to a number of notable projects.
The Board of Directors of TMP Architecture, Inc., Bloomfield Hills, recently promoted Nandita P. Mishra to senior associate of the firm. Mishra, a native of Mishra India, began her architectural career with TMP in 1996. She is a registered architect with the Indian Institute of Architects and received her LEED Accredited Professional designation Castellana in 2005 from the United States Green Building Council. Also, John Castellana, FAIA, Chairman of TMP Architecture, was elected Secretary of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows Executive Committee. Castellana was honored as a member of the College of Fellows with the American Institute of Architects in 1988. He was chosen for his outstanding
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professional achievements at the young age of 39, the youngest architect to be selected in Michigan and one of the youngest nationally. He served as the Chair of the Jury of Fellowes in 2015. It was through his involvement with the Jury and his dedication to the College of Fellows that led to his election to the Executive Committee.
Michael B. Thomas has accepted the position of Business Development Manager-Michigan with GEM Energy of the Rudolph Libbe Group. Thomas, who joined the Thomas Rudolph Libbe Group’s Michigan business development team in 2015, will now specialize in HVAC preventive maintenance and facility management for Michigan customers. He has over 25 years of industrial sales, management and marketing experience with a focus on facility equipment and upgrades. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield.
Grand Rapids-based Triangle Associates recently presented three of its most prestigious employee services awards to Doug Hodson, project superintendent; Mark Buczek, project superintendent; and Theresa Riley, project administrator. Hodson was awarded the Golden Hard Hat Award which recognizes an individual who best exemplifies Triangle’s values of safety, collaboration, innovation, integrity and care for family and community. The Safety
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Advocacy Award was presented to Buczek who excels and embraces Triangle’s core safety values: best safety practices, adherence to corporate safety procedures and leading others by setting the “safe” example. Riley earned the Community Service Award in recognition of her contributions to the West Michigan community during the past year by lending her talents, resources and energy to Triangle’s community involvement efforts as well as her own personal causes.
Aristeo, Livonia, announced that it will begin transitioning to a new generation of management in 2018. Michelle Barton will assume an elevated Barton leadership role throughout 2018 and will succeed Joe Aristeo as president by the end of the year. After serving the business for over 12 years in a variety of cross functional Rigoni leadership roles, Barton brings with her a unique depth of knowledge about Aristeo and the industry. Jon Rigoni has been promoted to chief operating officer. For the last five years of his 21Martinelli year career with Aristeo, Rigoni served as Aristeo’s general manager of construction. Anne Martinelli recently joined the Aristeo team as the chief strategy officer. Over the course of her 17-year career, Martinelli has led operating, purchasing, and strategy teams at consumer facing, Fortune 500 businesses. Throughout these changes, Joe Aristeo will remain a part of Aristeo’s leadership. He will focus on fostering strong industry and client relationships, as well as supporting and mentoring the management team.
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Wolverine Building Group, Grand Rapids, has new owners. On December 20, 2017 Aaron Jonker and Curt Mulder became the fifth owners of the 79-yearJonker old company. The transition of leadership and ownership had been in progress for the past 18 months. Jonker joined Wolverine in 2007 as a project manager, became vice president Mulder in 2010, and was promoted to co-president in 2016. Mulder has vast experience in all aspects of the business. He has been with Wolverine for 20 years, starting out as an intern and working in the field. In 2000 Mulder joined the team as a project manager, was promoted to vice president in 2010, and co-president in 2016. The two men purchased the company from Mike Kelly and Dick VanderZyden. VanderZyden will serve as chairman for the next two years.
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Grand Rapids-based Fleis & VandenBrink (F&V) has announced five new associates and a new senior associate. Blair Selover was named senior associate and Matt Hosier, Elaine Venema, Steve Bishop, Chris Munson and Jeremy Patzer were named as associates. Venema and
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Bishop are PEs. The changes in the leadership and ownership transition team were announced in January during the firm’s 25th annual breakfast. Detroita Webster, Giffels firm consulting headquartered specializing in infrastructure and land development solutions for public, private and institutional clients, announced the addition of Chris Asiala, PS, as the firm’s newest partner. As the survey manager of all global positioning system (GPS) applications and high-definition 3D laser scanning at Giffels Webster, Asiala brings more than 20 years of surveying experience.
WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS AMCOMM TELECOMMUNICATIONS BRIGHTON ATLAS OIL COMPANY TAYLOR BELL WIRE COMMUNICATION CONSTRUCTION, LLC NORTH BRANCH BINGHAM INSURANCE SERVICES CHARLEVOIX CARGO CO. RAPID CITY CB ASPHALT BELLEVILLE DALY MERRITT INSURANCE SERVICES WYANDOTTE DESANTIS CONSTRUCTION CO, INC. NOVI ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES GROUP WIXOM FACILITY SOLUTIONS GROUP GREAT LAKES REGION LIVONIA
Corporate News For the third consecutive year, Triangle Associates, Grand Rapids, has been named one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in the nation for 2017. The winning companies were assessed by National Association for Business Resources (NABR) which reviewed a number of key categories relative to other nationally recognized winners. They include compensation, benefits and employee solutions, employee enrichment, engagement and retention, employee education and development, recruitment, employee recognition, and achievement communication and shared vision, diversity and inclusion work-life balance, community initiatives, and strategic company performance.
FAST SIGNS BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM GALE BRIGGS, INC. CHARLOTTE GOMPERS, CORNISH & BARR MACOMB HANK GRAFF CHEVROLET DAVISON HERSHEY INSURANCE GROUP TROY J.B. HARRISON INSURANCE AGENCY ALTO JENSEN BRIDGE & SUPPLY COMPANY SANDUSKY JOE'S QUALITY CONSTRUCTION, LLC STERLING HEIGHTS KAMAR OFFICE EXPRESS TROY KEMNER IOTT BENZ ADRIAN LOTTIE M SCHMIDT & THOMPSON INSURANCE AGENCY CHESTERFIELD MECHANICAL PIPING SOLUTIONS MILFORD MICHAEL ENGINEERING LTD. MT PLEASANT MOURER-FOSTER, INC. LANSING R & R ASPHALT MILFORD SWEET INSURANCE AGENCY BINGHAM FARMS TELECOM CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC. HOWELL WORLD STONE GROUP MT CLEMENS
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May 31 – June 1, 2018 AIASF 2018 NEXT Conference – New Urban Agenda
San Francisco, CA The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter (AIASF), will hold its 2018 NEXT Conference in San Francisco. The conference will be dedicated to the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda. For more information, call (415) 874-2620.
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