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NEWS
& NOTEWORTHY:
Hot New Building Products for 2013
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ASHE Annual Conference July 21-24, 2013 in Atlanta
50th Annual Conference
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Healthcare Construction Set to Boom, Eventually
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COMMODITY PRICING:
| READY-MIX CONCRETE (3000 psi, per cu. yd.) |
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CHANGE |
| December |
63.00 |
0.0% |
| November |
63.00 |
0.0% |
| October |
63.00 |
0.0% |
| September |
63.00 |
-4.5% |
| August |
66.00 |
0.0% |
| July |
66.00 |
0.0% |
| DRYWALL (4'X12'X5/8" Type X MSF) |
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CHANGE |
| December |
240.00 |
0.0% |
| November |
240.00 |
0.0% |
| October |
240.00 |
0.0% |
| September |
240.00 |
0.0% |
| August |
240.00 |
0.0% |
| July |
240.00 |
0.0% |
| COPPER (per lb.) |
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CHANGE |
| December |
3.68 |
+4.8% |
| November |
3.51 |
-5.9% |
| October |
3.73 |
-1.8% |
| September |
3.80 |
+8.0% |
| August |
3.52 |
+1.4% |
| July |
3.47 |
+4.8% |
| STRUCTURAL STEEL (per 100 lb. W18x35) |
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CHANGE |
| December |
39.00 |
0.0% |
| November |
39.00 |
+4.7% |
| October |
37.25 |
-3.9% |
| September |
38.75 |
+4.7% |
| August |
37.00 |
-5.1% |
| July |
39.00 |
-1.7% |
Commodity pricing courtesy of:
* Note: all prices are for reference only. Dollar amounts provided as a courtesy from various suppliers. Published numbers change daily so be sure to check with your local supplier for up to date pricing on commodities. |
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Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute eLearning Website
PCI is proud to offer the first education management system dedicated to the precast concrete and precast structures industries, the PCI elearning Center. All courses offered through this system satisfy the continuing education requirements of engineers in all 50 states! As an AIA provider, PCI is able to offer architects approved Learning Units to satisfy their continuing education requirements. Be sure to bookmark us and visit often as we populate this interface with more and more free, easy-to-access, always-available coursework.
http://elearning.pci.org/
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Skokie CTA Yellow Line Oakton Station Wins APWA Project of the Year Award
The Village of Skokie was recently awarded the 2013 Project of the Year Award by the Suburban Branch of the Chicago Metro Chapter of the American Public Works
Association (APWA) for the Skokie CTA Yellow Line Oakton Station in the Structures - $5 Million to $25 Million
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January 2013
Winter Edition
Wind Turbines Power SC Johnson Plant in Mount Pleasant, Wis.
Long-time Racine company looks to wind power for renewable energy source
Article courtesy of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MOUNT PLEASANT - S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. commissioned two wind turbines recently that are helping its largest factory rely almost entirely on its own power.
The company built two turbines in the town of Mount Pleasant, near its largest global factory, known as Waxdale.
The turbines are 415 feet tall, equivalent to those at utility-scale wind farms built in Wisconsin in recent years.
S.C. Johnson has been moving to rely more on renewable energy as part of its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions from all of its operations under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program.
The two turbines will generate enough power to supply about 700 homes, or about 15% of the energy used at the Waxdale factory. The company has already generated most of its own power through projects that burn landfill gas as well as natural gas.
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LakeView RecPlex in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin
No Two Alike
Recreation centers avoid the cookie-cutter approach to design and features
Article courtesy of athleticbusiness.com
When you enter a hotel, you expect to see Check-In before you see the fitness center. In this, your expectations are always met, because of the proven logic that rules the design of hotels. One assumes that, even in the earliest of early days, no hotel designer hid the Check-In on the third floor somewhere.
Recreation centers follow a similar logic that rules (to cite a mirror-image example) where the front desk sits in relation to the front door. Yet, one of the more interesting aspects of the recreation center building boom, now more than 20 years and many hundreds of buildings old, is that there appear to be unlimited permutations of the various components that make up these multipurpose facilities. Rec centers have simply resisted the sort of cookie-cutter architecture that afflicts many building types, from malls and hotels to banks and chain restaurants.
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