News & Updates

This spring, students at Drake University have a new option for space to study and gather as newly renovated Morehouse Hall re-opens its doors as...

This spring, faculty and staff at Iowa State University's Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering will move into a brand new...

While engineering firms Veenstra & Kimm and CB&A had been together as one company since 2008, they were staffed in several different offices...

After roughly 14 months of construction, Story Construction and its building partners completed the new Alliant Energy Ag Innovation Lab at the ISU...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AMES, IA, Dec. 4, 2024 - Story Construction, an employee-owned general contractor, construction manager and design-builder...

This October, Story Construction's Small Projects Group completed renovations for a new UNBanking Center location for Community Choice Credit Union...

This fall, Indian Hills Community College hosted a grand opening of its new Irma W. Winslow Education Center in Centerville, capping off two years...

This summer, crews are completing work at the new Cedar Falls High School in time for staff and faculty to prepare for the 2024-2025 school year....

This June the Story Construction team completed a full remodel of the facilities at Reach Church in Des Moines. The church hired Story as its...

Story Construction is excited to announce the hiring of Russ Lewton as the company’s operations manager, effective January 15, 2024. Russ brings 36...

In November 2023, Story Construction completed construction of a new 35,000 sq. ft. facility for Pivot Bio at the Iowa State University Research...

As the first semester of the 2023-2024 academic year wrapped up at Simpson College, Story Construction completed renovations to Dunn Library at the...

On Thursday, Oct. 12, Des Moines Public Schools kicked off the first competition in the district's new Mediacom Stadium. It featured a football...

Story Construction is excited to announce the addition of Kevin Kinzler and Guy Gast to the company's board of directors. In 2022, Story...

Throughout 2023, Story Construction's Small Projects Group completed a full renovation of Pet Medical Center in Ames while keeping the vet clinic...

This fall Story Construction and bid package contractors completed the final phases of the new Ames High School project, which included demolition...

In September 2023, Story Construction completed an expansion for ChildServe at its facility in Ames, doubling the footprint of the building that...

This summer the Story Construction team is wrapping up work at Meredith Hall on Drake University's campus, the fourth major renovation project over...

In May 2023, Story Construction completed a full design-build remodel of all 187 hotel rooms at the Gateway Hotel & Conference Center in Ames....

In June 2023, Story Construction completed a new airplane hangar at the Ames Airport for Summit Agricultural Group. The 17,150 SF building will...

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...

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....

I didn't know how isolated I was until I wasn't. One year ago I moved out of my office and into one of our open work stations. We had a new team member joining us as a staff...

In the spring edition of our StoryLine Newsletter, we took you back in time to look at past editions of the newsletter and featured a few projects and developments that are...

"This really isn't fun anymore." We began hearing this more and more frequently from our superintendents and project managers. These were guys with 20, 30, even 40 years of...

Earlier this month I attended the Ames Chamber of Commerce's Annual Luncheon, which featured Tommy Spaulding as the keynote speaker. Tommy is an author and a speaker with the...

"Ask better questions." I have used this phrase many times with my family members. While they are simply looking to make conversation, I challenge them to ask better questions in...

By now if you are a friend of Story, you likely know that we transitioned ownership last fall from 31 employee-owners to a complete Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). We did...

In 2020 we started a podcast at Story Construction called Exit Interview. The primary purpose is to capture some company history from Story retirees and pass down some knowledge...

I was sharing some Christmas cheer last week with a friend of mine prior to the holiday weekend. At this time of year, he is cleaning out old folders and files, including email...

We lost a good one on Sept. 14, 2022. Clint Jensen was a great work colleague. He had a big personality, he wore his emotions on his sleeve, and he was always quick with a joke....

This quarter's President's Perspective is a lot less me and a lot more Kara Lawson, coach of the Duke Women's Basketball team. I was at a family reunion recently and one of my...

Bid day is the moment of truth in the preconstruction process. Months and sometimes years of work go into balancing design and budget expectations and trying to predict costs in...

My daughter was married on Feb. 18, 2022. It was a wonderful day for her and our family. She has found the love of her life and a wedding day is an awesome way to celebrate the...

'Tis the season! Christmas, that is. I hope you've had the chance to view our Christmas message and the Fireside Chats with a few of our own folks at Story. My mental frame of...

I consider myself a student of leadership. Leadership in some form occupies my thinking during both my work time and my free time, and there’s always something I can learn. So...

The Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) conference held recently was terrific, as it usually is. A conference full of Iowa business leaders coming together to network...

The Master Builders of Iowa held a socially distant and attendance-limited Winter Conference in February, the first event of its kind that I've attended in a year. Parts of it...

Role: Project Engineer Years at Story: 6.5Dennis, a Davenport native and graduate of Davenport Central High School, began his career at Story Construction in 2014 after...