Story Construction Recognizes Excellence
Story Construction held its annual Appreciation and Recognition Event on July 21, 2011 at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames. This event is held to express Story’s appreciation to its industry partners and to recognize the outstanding firms we have worked with during the past year. Each year Story personnel nominate firms to be recognized for Subcontractor… Read »
Green Hills Retirement Community Breaks Ground
Green Hills Retirement Community in Ames held a groundbreaking on June 7, 2011 for its Health and Wellness Expansion project. Story is the Design-Builder for this project.
AIB College of Business Begins Expansion
AIB College of Business in Des Moines broke ground on June 7, 2011 for its Activities Center expansion. Story Construction is the general contractor for this $1.5 million project.
Quakerdale Breaks Ground on Biggest Expansion in Recent Years
The New Providence Quakerdale campus broke ground on June 2, 2011 on its gymnasium expansion project. The addition is the biggest expansion in recent years for this non-profit, Christian agency that provides a wide range of healing and learning opportunities to youth and their families. Story Construction is the general contractor for this project.
Complex Problems
It seems like the problems we are tasked to solve in our projects or personal lives are increasingly complex. These problems have several variables. The direction any variable takes has an impact on another variable. In other words, if something moves upward, it means something else must move downward. It requires that we view the… Read »
Story Construction is Owner’s Representative for Mason City Schools
Story Construction has taken on the role as Owner’s Representative for Mason City Iowa School District’s $33 million, multi-phase project to renovate the existing John Adams Middle School and Mason City High School. Completion is scheduled for September 2013.
Construction Management Works for Iowa
By now you are wondering, who is Chad Alley? Let’s squash the rumors before they start – No, I am not taking over the Storyline’s President’s Perspective. I am the second string quarterback that stands around with the clip board and hat turned backwards. I volunteered to help out Mike Espeset and write this article.… Read »
Managing Me
I coach a baseball team for my 10 year old son, Nate. I learn a lot in coaching boys this age. I already know a lot about baseball skills, drills, game management, situations, rules, etc. I learn a lot, though, about trying to see the game through their eyes, trying to prepare them to see… Read »
A Team Sport
When we hear the term “economic development,” it can conjure up many images – industrial parks, tax increment financing, new jobs, tax credits, company recruitment, business retention, entrepreneurs, investment, growth, and yes, design and construction (music to my ears). Economic development is not any one of these things; it is all of them in some… Read »