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Cedar Falls High School completed for 2024-2025 school year
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....
Reach Church Reinvests in Des Moines Location With Renovation
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 hires Russ Lewton for Operations Manager Role
Story Construction is excited to announce the hiring of Russ Lewton as the company’s operations manager, effective January 15, 2024. Russ brings 36...
New home for Pivot Bio completed in ISU Research Park
In November 2023, Story Construction completed construction of a new 35,000 sq. ft. facility for Pivot Bio at the Iowa State University Research...
Renovations complete at historic Dunn Library for Simpson College
As the first semester of the 2023-2024 academic year wrapped up at Simpson College, Story Construction completed renovations to Dunn Library at the...
Mediacom Stadium opens in time for 2023 debut
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 Welcomes Kevin Kinzler and Guy Gast to Board of Directors
Story Construction is excited to announce the addition of Kevin Kinzler and Guy Gast to the company's board of directors. In 2022, Story...
Pet Medical Center in Ames overhauled by Small Projects Group
Throughout 2023, Story Construction's Small Projects Group completed a full renovation of Pet Medical Center in Ames while keeping the vet clinic...
Last phase of Ames High School project complete
This fall Story Construction and bid package contractors completed the final phases of the new Ames High School project, which included demolition...
Doubling the Space to Double the Impact at ChildServe’s Ames Campus
In September 2023, Story Construction completed an expansion for ChildServe at its facility in Ames, doubling the footprint of the building that...
Historic Meredith Hall at Drake University receives new technology, HVAC systems
This summer the Story Construction team is wrapping up work at Meredith Hall on Drake University's campus, the fourth major renovation project over...
187-Room Remodel Completed for Gateway Hotel
In May 2023, Story Construction completed a full design-build remodel of all 187 hotel rooms at the Gateway Hotel & Conference Center in Ames....
New Hangar Completed at Ames Airport for Summit Agricultural Group
In June 2023, Story Construction completed a new airplane hangar at the Ames Airport for Summit Agricultural Group. The 17,150 SF building will...
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...
Shop Talk
President’s Perspective: Story Construction, 90 years in.
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...
10 years of Construction Production 2.0
"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...
President’s Perspective: What will your stadium sound like?
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...
President’s Perspective: Ask Better Questions
"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...
President’s Perspective: Ownership Transition
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...
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...
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