Quarterly Update April 2010

2160 LHE we worked away at the design build project at 2160 Lincoln Highway East and it has now officially started. It was a fun project to be involved with up front. Working with Dale Yoder at Cornerstone Architects is a breath of fresh air. His Design process and Architectural concepts are so reasonable. I really feel that I'm dealing with world class people ILO run of the mill cover your back Architects.

We will convert this outdated looking building into something new and fresh.

Like this only the Condo Association chose darker colors so I'm anxious to see how it turns out.

The Project has been turned over to Shannon now and the physical construction is up to him. I don't doubt that he will find some way to improve the structure. He always does.

Fairmont Homes we lost to Paul Risk. All 3 bidders were within 4% of each other and I got wind that Paul Risk was selected because they did previous work in there before and really did a bang up job too so due to the fact that the low wasn't that low the owners decided to go with them. I'm convinced that Shannon and I were the low bidders.

Maple Farm is pending. This is another Dale Yoder/Cornerstone job that is a renovation of a nursing home. I took it to the next level when we priced it by taking the subs through the project one step at a time. This helped us to figure out the details of the project so that in the interview we can be better prepared. Additionally I was able to gather enough information that we could start a Maple Farms Project Manuel. It would be a great opportunity for us to renovate the nursing home. It would add to our experience.

C&D Technologies is a good one that we have in the works. They want us to revise our original number because all three Generals were to high for their budget. Basically we are partitioning off a large room in a huge warehouse and updating their underutilized facilities with more functional space.

LDS Fairview Foyer Renovation is complete. There was a little drama with the electricians loosing the key to the building, however, after much searching, asking ,and searching again, it finally turned up. Tara was going to make us rekey all the buildings in her area. That would have been 8 buildings.

LDS Whitehall has been on hold for ever because we had to get it all through the permitting process. The Lift Manufacture was trying to strong arm us into purchasing a larger lift claiming that the code required a certain size lift. The architect the code official and myself all looked into the code and couldn't find anywhere that stated the size of the platform. I just ordered the lift today and I think the worst is behind us on this job because the permitting process was a nightmare.

Roymar is a job that we needed to solicit WBE and MBE contractors for. It turns out that even though we targeted these specific types of companies to submit a bid very few responded to our adds. Perhaps 1 truly legitimate MBE responded. There were about 4-5 that responded after the deadline. Jason Binkley is the project Manager on the job and I assisted him in the FTP site and also on getting the submittal log in a good shape.

Hopewell is a challenge. We got the notice to proceed meaning it's all "Good to GO" but it turns out that apparently the county didn't do an environmental study on the property so it put the brakes on the project mid way through our demo stage. So here we have a building that's half torn down and the government wants us to stop work. there were even comments about us actually putting it all back to gather. We decided to get the demolition in a state where the site would be save and curious kids wouldn't get into trouble. Now it's just a waiting game for some body to push a piece of paper on a governmental level.

New Year New Goals

First Day back from a Great Christmas Vacation. What a good time catching up with the coworkers. It seems everybody had a good time. Dave Commented to me that the first day back from vacation is always a long one. I have to agree with him however I really like this day and the progress I made so the fact that it was long was not a negative for me. Perhaps I would have a different attitude if I came back to a lot of fires.

I decided to convert all my daily logs that I keep in my planner into digital scans. I was quite impressed with the fact that I had a year and a half accounted for. I thought that it would be so easy if I were to simply jot down a little journal entry everyday on the back of the page then I can count it as me keeping a journal. So that's my new years resolution. I will jot down a few things that have left an impression on me at the end of each day. I will try to do it at 4:00 P.M. every day but if that doesn't happen then I'll do it right before I go to bed. I'm sure I'll set other goals in the coming days but for now I'm out of time. I know I need to burn off some of this holiday weight. I definitely didn't restrain myself this year.