Idaho AGC Student Chapter Earns Construction Management Skills Award…AGAIN
PHOTOS COURTESY OF GARRETT LOVELL.
By Hailey Reyes, Idaho AGC
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he Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) announced that the AGC Student Chapter at Boise State University — that’s Idaho AGC’s Student Chapter for those keeping score at home — has earned the Construction Management Skills
Award in the 2021 AGC Outstanding Student Chapter Contest. The project the student chapter submitted was the restructuring
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of the woodshed at the now-historic Schick-Ostolasa Farmstead. As with any project, the group experienced classic setbacks and challenges, which rumbled their timeline such as unanticipated levels of groundwater on site and the universally felt challenge of material shortages. It also faced less traditional challenges such as the project calling for the original part of the shed to be unchanged, meaning the group had to dismantle the shed but