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Jetco adds office and testing space with new Altoona facility
Jetco, Inc. - a supplier of controls and electrical systems for water and wastewater treatment plants based out of Altoona, IA - hired Story...

Iowa Spring Manufacturing adds more office and production space in Adel
After completing a warehouse addition for Iowa Spring Manufacturing in 2020, Story Construction designed and built an entirely new facility for Iowa...

Algae: it’s what’s treating wastewater for the City of Slater
In March 2023, pumps fired up inside a greenhouse at the City of Slater's wastewater treatment plant. Each of the six concrete cells inside the...

Iowa Realty Renovates Flagship Office in Des Moines
In November 2022, Story Construction and the Story Design team completed renovations at Iowa Realty's original office location in Des Moines. The...

Norwalk PE & Competition Center Addition Completed
On Oct. 4 2022, Norwalk's new PE & Competition Center saw its first competition: a Norwalk high school volleyball match featuring the Warriors...

Class in session at the new Ames High School
After three years of construction and several years of planning and design prior to that, the new Ames High School opened for students for the Fall...

Summit Ag adds office and storage space for pork production team
In September 2022, Story Construction and the Story Design team completed a new office and storage facility for Summit Agricultural Group at its...

Small Projects Group completes spa renovation at Green Hills Community
In October, Story Construction's Small Projects Group completed spa room renovations at Green Hills Community in Ames. Green Hills, a long time...

Bondurant-Farrar Opens New Junior High School For Grades 7-8
In September, the rapidly growing Bondurant-Farrar Community School District opened up a new junior high school for students in grades 7 and 8....

Cedar Falls High School Progress Update
It's been 15 months since the new Cedar Falls High School project broke ground, and with roughly 15 months to go until the the project is scheduled...

Small Projects Group completes finishes upgrades for MGMC Facilities Management Department
In April 2022, Story's Small Projects Group completed flooring and paint upgrades for the Facilities Management Department at Mary Greeley Medical...

Osceola Wastewater Treatment Plant
Story Construction crews are wrapping up their work at the new Osceola Wastewater Treatment Plant, which will be completed in 2023. In August 2020,...

Story Completes New Facility for Kemin Application Solutions Team
This spring, Story Construction is wrapping up construction of a new building at Kemin in Des Moines dedicated to the company’s Application...

Story’s Former Office Renovated for Renewable Energy Group
This spring, Story Construction’s Small Projects Group completed renovations at Renewable Energy Group's 300 South Bell Ave location in Ames, which...

Iowa Realty Continues Office Upgrades With Waukee Location
This spring, Story Construction is wrapping up another design-build project for Iowa Realty, this time at its office location in Waukee. The project...

Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrades completed for City of Massena
In August 2021, Story Construction completed upgrades to the City of Massena's wastewater treatment plant The project consisted of improvements to...

Laughlin Level remodel completed for the Ames Chamber of Commerce
On Wednesday, Sept. 22, the Ames Chamber of Commerce unveiled its newly named and renovated Laughlin Level to the Ames business community during its...

Story Design and Community Choice Credit Union complete Iowa’s first food truck park
On Saturday, Nov. 13, Community Choice Credit Union held the grand opening of its Food Truck Parc in Ames. The design-build project was led by Story...

St. Luke the Evangelist Expands for Classroom & Meeting Space
Story Construction recently wrapped up work at St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church & School in Ankeny, IA. The building received a 13,000...

Iowa Realty Consolidates Space in West Des Moines
Story Construction and its in-house design team, Story Design, recently completed a 25,000 sq. ft. multipurpose build-out for Iowa Realty at its new...
Shop Talk

President’s Perspective: Exit Interview
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...

President’s Perspective: Go to the Light
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...

Don’t Cry Because It’s Over, Smile Because It Happened
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....

Handle Hard Better
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...

Will you get the attention that matters?
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...

President’s Perspective: What’s the Goal?
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...

President’s Perspective: BELIEVE
'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...

President’s Perspective: Leadership & Management
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...

President’s Perspective: There, but not *there*
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...

President’s Perspective: Fly Into The Wind
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...

Employee Profile: Dennis Platt
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...

Employee Profile: Cory Shepard
Role: Superintendent Years at Story: 24Cory started with Story Construction as a laborer in 1996, the year he graduated from Aplington-Parkersburg High School. In 2001 he gained...

President’s Perspective: What Race Are We Running?
"This is a marathon, not a sprint!" We've all heard the phrase used. It applies at work, coaching youth sports, relationships - and, of course, running a marathon. I've heard it...

President’s Perspective: Efficient & Effective
We have all heard it said by now. "Remote work is working really well. I am getting a lot done with fewer interruptions!" We hear stories of companies and organizations that may...

Employee Profile: Deb Thurmond
Role: Project Engineer Years at Story: 8Deb joined Story Construction in 2012 after spending most of her career in residential construction in Oregon, Colorado and then...

President’s Perspective: Confidence vs. Certainty
These day's it's impossible to watch the news or scroll through social media without seeing so many people who are certain of their position on a topic. I am specifically...

President’s Perspective: Willing & Capable
We have amazing capacity as individuals, as a company and as a society. That capacity is being tested in this current public health crisis caused by COVID-19, and we're truly...

Employee Profile: Kris Pruismann
Kris Pruismann, Employee Development Manager at Story Construction, is a native of Kamrar, IA, where she grew up on a farm north of town. She graduated from Northeast Hamilton...

President’s Perspective: Why?
If you’re a subscriber to this newsletter, you may remember last issue I teed up an important topic. I asked you, like we at Story ask ourselves, what is your purpose? Why are we...
Podcasts
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