The School District of Manatee County is accepting statements of qualifications from firms for Construction Management at Risk Services for Manatee High School-Davis Building-Remodeling and Renovation. The Davis Building was constructed circa 1926 and had renovation work performed in the 1980's and 1990's. Scope of work will include structural issues as well as systems, cosmetic, and functional remodeling and renovation. The total project budget is $10,000,000.00.
The applicant must be certified to perform the work in the State of Florida at the time of application. Further, if a corporation, the applicant must be registered by the Department of State, Division of Corporations, to operate in the State of Florida at the time of the application.
The selection will be made in accordance with State Requirements for Educational Facilities (SREF), as may be amended, Florida Statute 287.055, and the School Board of Manatee County's procedures and criteria.

Don't miss the Braveheart Charge

Hundreds of people, including volunteers wearing blue "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" T-shirts, will join star Ty Pennington and the entire "extreme team," as they charge toward the Koepke family home at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 1.

The symbolic gesture, and one of the highlights of the weekly, one-hour show, is a symbolic gesture of power and unity that has become the show's trademark.

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" has won back-to-back Emmy Awards as Best Reality Program (non-competitive). It is entering its fourth season on ABC.

Log on to www.extrememakeoverwisconsin.com and find out to volunteer.

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Construction Bank will re-engineer the economy -Ajanlekoko

THE dearth of funds has been variously fingered as the major problem besetting the construction industry. The plethora of uncompleted and abandoned projects that dot the nation's landscape has often been traced to this factor. Indigenous construction companies have been worst hit, hence, many of them have folded up, giving way to multinational construction companies who are often backed financially by their home governments.

Both the Federal and state governments have often hinged their preference for expatriate construction companies on the fact that their indigenous counterparts lack the equipment to execute complex jobs. But how can they effectively compete with these offshore funded companies when borrowing from commercial banks is usually at cut-throat interest rates. Built environment professionals who have been badly affected by this scenario have not rested on their oars in a bid to float a specialized bank that would be sympathetic to the cause of construction industry operators.

School could be under way in June

Construction could start as early as June on the Sunnyside Middle School project if there is no opposition.

Superintendent Ed Eiler of the Lafayette School Corp. made that assessment Saturday at the final public workshop on the project. The workshop at Sunnyside reviewed the previous six workshops.

He said construction and/or renovation at the 50-year-old school was inevitable.

"The challenge here is that you want to do a project the community wants to support," he said. "At some point in time we had to do something.

"The thing I like about this project is that it will serve all the children in the community."

Eiler urged Lafayette taxpayers to attend the Oct. 23 board meeting. The session will focus on the Sunnyside Middle School project, the Jefferson High School arts center and new security features at all LSC schools.

Public budget to drive construction market in Romania

BUCHAREST, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A large part of Romania's budget next year will go to construction, the local Ziarul Financiar daily reported on Monday.

The Romanian government has set infrastructure, education and healthcare as priorities of the 2007 budget, the daily said.

The government has scheduled to spend some 6.6 percent of GDP, or 7.1 billion euros (8,9 billion U.S. dollars) next year, the daily said.

A large part of the budget, or 2.5 billion euros (3.1 billion U.S. dollars), will be poured into the construction market, through infrastructure projects related to road, railroad, school and healthcare.

The money is fuelling the already strong demand on the construction market, boosting its growth at a pace of about 15 percent in 2007.