by Mitch Anderson | Apr 16, 2025 | Free Edit, News
This spring, faculty and staff at Iowa State University’s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering will move into a brand new facility designed and built specifically for the department. The building is complete after two years of...
by Mitch Anderson | Apr 16, 2025 | Free Edit, News
While engineering firms Veenstra & Kimm and CB&A had been together as one company since 2008, they were staffed in several different offices in West Des Moines. This spring, the firms finally share a roof as they moved into a new space in West Des Moines with...
by Mitch Anderson | Apr 10, 2025 | Free Edit, Shop Talk
I recently had the pleasure of hearing my friend Chick Herbert speak. I’ve known Chick since college and back then I suspected he’d amount to something. He did. Chick is an executive leader, speaker, coach, and has authored the book It Begs the Question....
by Mitch Anderson | Dec 19, 2024 | Free Edit, News
After roughly 14 months of construction, Story Construction and its building partners completed the new Alliant Energy Ag Innovation Lab at the ISU Research Park as industry, university, government and Research Park leadership celebrated with a ribbon cutting on Dec....
by Mitch Anderson | Dec 16, 2024 | Free Edit, Shop Talk
This past August I had the opportunity to attend a Men of Faith Retreat produced by Tommy Spaulding, someone I referenced in my President’s Perspective from this time last year. It was unforgettable in many ways. The attendees, speakers, learning, reflection...
by Mitch Anderson | Dec 4, 2024 | Free Edit, News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AMES, IA, Dec. 4, 2024 – Story Construction, an employee-owned general contractor, construction manager and design-builder headquartered in Ames, IA, announces a purchase agreement to acquire the assets of L & L Builders Co., a general...
