Will Pearson (certificate above) and Russell Voss completed at OSHA 10-Hour Construction Industry Safety Training Class through Safety Management Group and Associated Builders and Contractors of Indiana. Will serves as the Safety Officer for Easterday Construction Co., Inc. We appreciate his dedication to the position. Russell stepped up with a desire to learn and promote safety in the company as well. His participation is also appreciated.
The Remnant Trust in partnership with OrthoWorx held an Open House for their Winona Lake facility on December 3rd, 2010. (See previous entries on this project here and here.) Unfortunately I was unable to attend, but Will and Kathy Pearson attended as representatives for Easterday Construction Co., Inc. The Open House was attended by various members of the Warsaw and Winona Lake Community. Brian Bex, one of the founding members of The Remnant Trust, was there signing copies of his book Summa Liberte’: The Unchaining of Ideas.
This project began with bidding in the early Spring of 2010 and culminated with this Open House the first week in December of 2010. Finalizing funding delayed construction until Summer. While mainly an interior remodel, the project also included some minor maintenance and upgrades to the exterior such as the repair of rotted wood and the addition of security lighting.
For this project, we took an existing building owned by Grace College and remodeled it into a storage vault and research facility for preserved documents. The interior of the building was tongue and groove wood siding that we had to match and blend with new. The existing open framework was maintained except in the vault room where walls were deepened to accommodate additional insulation and to allow us to make the room less permeable. All of our joints were either caulked or otherwise sealed. The new acoustical ceiling tile system was installed with clips to hold the tile in place. Pressure tests were completed at the end of the vault construction to verify that it was appropriately sealed. A specialized fire suppression system was installed, designed to extinguish a fire in the early stages without introducing water or other chemicals that could harm the documents stored within. UV protective film was installed on the windows and sensitive HVAC and alarm systems were installed. Additional security lighting was installed around the perimeter.
This ends another project that we are proud to have in our portfolio. Congratulations to The Remnant Trust and Kris Bex, Director of this new facility, for this new addition to their library system.
Friday was the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the LaPaz Garden Court. It’s always a great thing to go back and see how the facilities have been decorated, see the residents that have taken rooms and hear from all of those involved. Dr. Ronald Liechty served as Master of Ceremony and as always, made everyone feel good about the work that it took to bring the project to completion.
We completed work on LaPaz Garden Court in mid-October and it is already 2/3rds full. There was actually another resident signing up while the open house was in progress!
We were pleased that the H.U.D. representative for this job attended the ceremony. This is the first time this has happened. We were all pleased that she also had the opportunity to see the good that Garden Court has been able to do. This would not be possible with out the grants from H.U.D.
LaPaz Garden Court is the 6th Garden Court project that Easterday Construction Co., Inc. has partnered with Garden Court, Inc. to complete. While we have also worked on several of their other projects, we have completed six projects from start to finish in Argos, Bourbon, Knox, Plymouth, Mentone and now LaPaz. We hope to be starting out 7th project with them, Culver Garden Court, within the next few weeks.
All of us at Easterday Construction are proud of our association with Garden Court, Inc. and we hope to continue our partnership into the future.
I ran across the above graphic in an article from Multifamily Executive, a magazine I get at the office, titled Obtainable Target by Laura McKenzie. I’ve written here before about my concerns regarding the cost of “green” vs the claimed savings. From my experience I have my doubts about the above claims of costs vs returns as well as the exageration rate of concerned contractors. There is no doubt that in some cases there are legitimate savings to be obtained through green building. I just want the clients of Easterday Construction to pursue green with their eyes open. Greenwashing can be found in the form of shams from hucksters as well as exageration by wishfull-thinkng zealots. Beware of both. Do the math for yourself. Easterday Construction Co., Inc. would be happy to help you.
Phil Marshall and Bob Cooper cleaned up one of our forklifts on Friday at the Car Wash. Apparently no one wanted to ride it through the automatic side!
Thanks to Phil Marshall for the pictures.