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Working with General Steel is a collaborative process that ensures that your final product reflects your specific needs. The process starts with a two-way conversation between you and our experienced team. We want to know exactly how you will be using your metal office building, how it will fit on your property, and your ideas for interior and exterior design, among other factors. We then research the location of the office building to ensure that its equipped to withstand the wind and snow loads of your area as well as any insulation requirements.

Once we get an idea of what building kit best suits your project, we work with you to add customization options, including a wide variety of doors, windows, and exterior color schemes. The ease of steel construction allows us to modify layouts and add further customizations without breaking your budget. From design to construction, we provide the materials and expertise to transform a building kit into an attractive and highly functional office facility.

Steel is renowned for its strength, but one of the primary benefits of purchasing a steel building for your office building is its versatility. Our building kits are designed according to use, which means we are able to modify floor layouts as well as include customization options that reflect precisely how your building will be used.

Another major advantage in selecting steel for your office building is the quick and easy construction. Steel building kits come ready to be erected with simple, DIY-friendly bolt-together construction. This not only allows you to save up to 50% on time and material costs over traditional building materials like wood and stone, it also allows you to get your business up and running as soon as possible.

Can we expand if needed in the future?

Steel building kits can easily be modified and are designed with future expansion in mind.

How do I avoid the big-box aesthetic of a steel building?

We provide customization options, including several choices for windows, doors, and color schemes to make your building your own.

How is a steel building priced?

There are three factors that affect the cost of your building: building design, the price of steel, and economies of scale.

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What is a Building Department?

A Building Department ensures the construction of safe buildings, primarily through the development and enforcement of building codes. Building codes establish standards for the construction of buildings and address virtually all aspects of construction, including design requirements, building materials, parking, resistance to natural disasters, and trades such as electric and plumbing. State and local governments share the responsibility of ensuring safe building construction, and both run Building Departments.

Building Departments at the state level are primarily involved in establishing the state's building code. A review board is usually responsible for adopting the building code, though in some cases separate boards are established for each trade. The state Building Department provides training and certification of building inspectors who implement the code at the county and local level. In many states, the Building Department is responsible for inspecting and issuing licenses for all elevators and escalators. A state Building Department may also conduct inspections of state owned buildings and facilities.

Building Departments at the county and local levels are responsible for implementing and enforcing the building code, as well as any locally adopted standards and regulations related to building construction. Building Departments enforce the building code by reviewing design plans in advance of construction and inspecting buildings during and after construction to verify code compliance. Before a building may be occupied, it must be issued a permit by the department's building inspector. For small scale building projects, the building inspector may only inspect the building after the project has been completed.

The Building Department may also inspect buildings following a fire or other damage in order to determine whether the structure is safe to occupy. In cases where severe damage or neglect has made a building unsafe for occupancy, the Building Department has the power to condemn the building.

In many locations, the local Building Department is fully or partially responsible for enforcing other local rules and regulations, such as property maintenance codes or zoning regulations.

County and local Building Departments and their staff are typically certified or licensed by the state.

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The Office of theConstruction Code Official is empowered by theJersey City Municipal Codeto:

Administer and enforce the State Uniform Construction Code and conduct the centralized issuance of permits and inspection services.

The condemnation of properties in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.3et seq.

Issue permits for alterations, additions, new buildings, and inspections both before and after occupancy is permitted.

Conduct ongoing inspections of elevators, swimming pools, backflow preventers.

Register non-state licensed contractors.

Great news for the Department of Construction - We now offer an online citizen portal. What does this mean? Construction Permits:

All appointments for Inspections must be made through the SDL Portal.Click on the SDL Portal Icon. Choose from 3 different dates and the first available date will be given to you. Please keep in mind that your first choice may not be available. First time users will need to create a username and password.

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The 970,747 square foot DCT Jurupa Logistics Center was completed in Fontana, CA on a nearly 40 acre site. Located near the 15, 10 and 210 freeways, the build-to-suit cross dock distribution facility offers vast warehouse space, as well as a 16,667 square foot tenant improvement. Built for DCT Industrial, the building was constructed specifically for tenant Stanley Black & Decker, one of the worlds largest providers of tools, storage and commercial electronic security. The project is LEED Silver certified.

The tenant improvement which created the new office space for Black & Decker is located on the Southwest corner of the building. Sliding glass doors lead into a stunning lobby, which is protected by a guard and features stacked stone, numerous windows along with a flat screen television. Another set of sliding doors lead into the large employee break room, featuring numerous flat screen TVs and offering an additional entrance directly from the warehouse. The office space includes a large open area with numerous cubicles, customer service area, two conference rooms, 11 privates offices, mens and womens restrooms, smaller office break room, IT room, and multiple storage areas with the capability of conversion into future private offices.

The immense warehouse features a 7 slab, 36 clear height ceiling, ESFR sprinklers, 56 x 60 column spacing, 3% skylights, 121 dock doors, 4 grade level doors and 214 trailer parking stalls. Fully secured 185 and 245 truck courts on both sides of the building, with gated entry at all access points, offer vast space for ample truck traffic.

Site improvements include 174,175 square feet of beautiful landscaping on all sides of the building, greatly enhancing the look and feel of this area of Fontana. Ample parking is offered, including 208 standard spaces and 8 handicap spaces. Fullmer also installed two trash enclosures, 2,663 linear feet of concrete screen walls, a 450 square foot fire pump house, new transformer, generator, and 23 light poles.

One of Fullmers larger projects, we couldnt be happier with the finished product. We are pleased to report that Black & Decker has expressed their immense satisfaction with their new home, as well. Situated in a premier Inland Empire West location with convenient access to major IE freeways, this is truly an added gem to Southern Californias commercial real estate inventory.

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Who We Are

McClone Construction Company specializes in structural concrete and concrete formwork. Since 1975, we have completed more than 1,000 structures throughout the United States.

From the beginning the company has enjoyed an outstanding reputation for safety, quality, integrity, and performance. We continue to expand our operations to meet the needs of our clientele and provide opportunities for our Team Members.

McClone Construction Company provides a number of different construction services which include: Structural Concrete Formwork, Structural Concrete Packages, Design-build Parking Structures and Multi-story Structural Concrete Frames.

We take pride in knowing that our Clients expectations will be met or exceeded, and our dedication to quality can be seen in all aspects of our work.

We are committed to building strong and lasting relationships with our Clients and our Team Members.

As a company, we strive for continuous improvement, and we know that our Team Members fuel that improvement. Thats why we are building an organization that not only provides a safe work environment, but also gives our team members the opportunity to achieve their personal goals.

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Developers provided additional details at a community meeting Wednesday on a massive proposal that envisions a hotel, housing, office and retail space at the Hill Farms property on Madison's West Side.

Smith Gilbane is looking to turn a 14-acre property adjacent to the under-construction state office building at the Hills Farms location into a collection of mixed-used buildings. The proposal, called "Madison Yards," would have four roads built to divide the land into five blocks.

The project could likely total hundreds of millions of dollars.

The developer intends to submit an application in October to turn the land currently zoned "suburban employment" into a "planned development" zone and hopes to begin construction in late 2018.

The area is bounded by University Avenue to the north, North Segoe Road to the east and Sheboygan Avenue to the south, and it would largely replace a surface parking lot.

The conceptual layout of the Madison Yards development.

Smith Gilbane, a joint venture of Milwaukee-based Summit Smith Development and Providence, Rhode Island-based Gilbane Development Co., is constructing a $150 million, nine-story, 600,000-square-foot office building and a $36 million parking structure for the state.

Once the new building is complete, a roughly 60-year-old state office building at Hill Farms will be demolished, and its land used for the private development.

More than 100 people turned up at Covenant Presbyterian Church to hear about and weigh in on the proposal.

A major concern for attendees was the density and any parking spillover into the surrounding neighborhoods. On the University Avenue side, buildings could reach up to 15 floors.

Sean Roberts, vice president of development for Summit Smith, said the height would be comparable to two nearby 12-story condo buildings off North Segoe Road. Residential buildings on the Sheboygan Avenue side of the development would stand three stories.

"The massing we're going to show is based on the concept now," Roberts said. "None of those projects are fully cooked."

Smith Gilbane also plans to create a 1-acre green space in the center of the Madison Yards project, but several residents criticized the amount of area dedicated to open and green space compared to the overall size of the property.

Others pressed the development team to make strong commitments to sustainable architecture and renewable energy components, such as solar panels.

Roberts said those ideas would be explored, but he noted any finalized designs would go through a separate city approval process if the rezoning is allowed.

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As the beginning of the new school year approaches, the first phase of construction work at Waseca Junior Senior High School is wrapping up

Superintendent Tom Lee says the project is right on schedule, and construction work at Hartley Elementary School, the Central Building and Waseca Intermediate School is done.

Work at district buildings has included replacement of old boilers at Hartley along with other renovation work and security upgrades at all buildings. At WIS, for example, the main office has been reconfigured so that there is a clear sightline to the vestibule between the exterior doors and the doors leading into the school.

Phase one of construction at the high school is wrapping up, with just shy of 38,000 square feet renovated.

The new main entrance of the east side of the building will be ready but construction on the new office will continue. It is on schedule to be completein time for the Minnesota Educator Academy in October.

Phase two of construction begins next week. That's constructing classrooms on the west side of the building in old C wing and the northern part of B wing.

Construction on the new performing arts center will also continue into the school year. Lee says the structure should go up rather quickly because it's precast concrete. The goal is to seal it up by Nov. 1 so workers can continue construction on the inside over the course of the winter.

Phase two will be turned over around the holidays, around which time phase three all of A wing and the southern part of B wing will see construction until May.

The rest of the building the girls' locker rooms, the industrial tech and ag areas and the central part of building, including the music rooms all the way down to the new parts of phase one will be renovated next summer.

Students returning at the start of the year will see some new rooms, including seven science classrooms with finished case work, chemically resistant floors, windows to catch natural light and shared prep rooms.

"It's a 2017 science lab instead of a 1972 science lab," Lee said.

Outside the new rooms are breakout spaces, areas included to allow students to conduct classwork in open seating areas.

Among the objectives for the district were to bring in as much natural light as possible and install a balanced HVAC system.

"One of the issues that we had in the building was that you'd go from one room that was very hot to another room that was really cold," Lee said.

The pipe and duct work for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system has been completed to address that.

Outside of school construction, the district this year is rolling out one-to-one Chromebook devices for all 7-12 grade students.

Waseca School Board earlier this year decided to provide Chromebooks to high school students for free. The district has since developed a responsible use document that says anyone who breaks a device must pay for it.The district will also have device covers for sale.

Over at the Central Building, a new playground for the preschool will be installed by September. The junior high will this year occupy all of the second floor and most of the third floor of the Central Building. They will come back to the high school next year.

The district has added new access sidewalks to the home and visitors stadium bleachers and made the home bleachers handicapped-accessible.

Waseca welcomes over 21 new staff members. A permanent dean of students position was added to the high school, and Waseca High School Assistant Principal Jason Miller will be the full-time junior high principal at the Central Building this school year.

The district has received an Alternative Delivery for Specialized Instructional Services (ADSIS) grant, which is part of a program that provides aid to school districts in an effort to reduce inappropriate referrals to special education. This grant allowed the district to add six new staff positions, three of which the state paid for and the other three paid by the district. Four of the six are behavior intervention specialists.

Reporter Jacob Stark can be reached at 837-5451 or follow him on Twitter @WCNjacob.

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Rather than renovate the 60-year-old state office building that sits on the site Madison Area Technical College has identified as the future home of an expanded South Side campus, officials plan to demolish the facility and build one in its place.

Materials submitted to the colleges district board, which were made public on Wednesday, lay out MATCs plans for the building at Park Street and Badger Road that now houses the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds.

The department is vacating the building next spring and moving into the new Hill Farms state government offices.

The college wants to construct a 45,000-square-foot facility with classrooms, offices for student services and specialized lab spaces to teach students in nursing, early childhood instruction and a range of science programs, among others.

It would open in fall 2019 at a cost of no more than $13 million, officials said. MATC hopes to expand the building early in the next decade to 75,000 square feet.

One lingering question after MATC leaders announced the South Campus Initiative to cheers from local business and community leaders at a press conference Monday afternoon was whether the college would look to renovate the building or tear it down.

College officials wrote to the district board that, Given the age and condition of the facility and the need for extensive rehabilitation or demolition, the $2.8 million that MATC will pay a developer for the site is essentially the value of the land.

Building a facility will be more cost-effective and better meet MATCs needs, according to the college.

The project has been a years-long effort for MATC President Jack E. Daniels, who says opening an expanded campus to serve South Side residents will help reduce racial disparities by making the colleges services more accessible in a diverse but historically underserved part of Madison.

Donations from the Irwin A. and Robert D. Goodman Foundation, which contributed $10 million, and the American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation, which gave $1.3 million, will cover most of the cost of buying and building the facility.

The college is also looking to raise $3 million in additional funding for the project, and borrow $1.5 million for new construction, according to the board materials.

The district board will vote both on the chosen site for the South Side campus and the plan to demolish the building during a meeting at 5:30 p.m Sept. 6 at MATCs Truax campus.

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By Adam Sennott Cambridge@wickedlocal.com

The demolition phase for a large office, lab and retail space at 399 Binney St. is complete, and construction workers are currently laying concrete foundation, according to Alexandria Real Estate Equities.

The real estate company plans to build a 165,000-square-foot office and lab building, as well as 1,500 square feet of retail space, according to the projects CoUrbanize page. Steel erection is expected to begin in the fall.

The Binney Street development is in the middle of the One Kendall Square buildings. Several business will remain open throughout both projects, including Kendall Square Cinema, Friendly Toast, Flat Top Johnnys, and Cambridge Brewing Company, according to previous reports.

The Binney Street project will include a new plaza with ample outdoor seating and informal gathering spaces leading to the cinema.

Alexandria also plans to rebuild the sidewalks and install trees along Binney Street and Cardinal Medeiros Avenue.

The work will lead to improved visibility at the intersection of Binney Street and Cardinal Medeiros Avenue, Alexandria said.

Binney Street is currently a one-way share road for cars and bicycles, according to the projects website. There is currently two police details Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Binney and Cardinal Medeiros Avenue who are tasked with assisting pedestrians cross the streets safely.

Construction is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2018.

The real estate company also bought the seven-building collaborative science and technology complex at One Kendall Square for $725 million in June 2016, according to previous reports.

According to the Boston Business Journal, it was one of the biggest real estate sales of 2016.

The seven buildings currently at One Kendall Square includes 644,771 rentable square feet (RSF), consisting of 48 percent office, 36 percent office/laboratory, and 16 percent retail space.

Currently, the campus is 98 percent occupied, but 55 percent of the leases will expire by 2019.

The campus also includes a seven-level, 1,507 parking space garage.

For updates on this project, visit courbanize.com/projects/399binney/updates.

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Greystar takes out $88M construction loan for downtown Fort Lauderdale project

The city of Fort Lauderdale approved the site for a 25-story, 329-unit apartment tower with ground-floor retail space

ByAmanda Rabines | August 30, 2017 04:30PM

Rendering of 790 East Broward Boulevard Inset:Ashley Heggie

Greystar just scored an $88.1 million construction loan for a high-rise rental tower in downtown Fort Lauderdale, property records show.

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company provided the financing for the project at790 East Broward Boulevard. Greystar paid $19.5 millionfor the site in May. It encompassesthree separate parcels, including a nearly 26,000-square-foot office building, parking lot and five-lane drive-through teller.

Records show Greystar entity GUGV 790 Broward Property Owning LLC secured the loan.Greystars managing director of finance Ashley Heggie was not immediately available for comment.

The city of Fort Lauderdale recently approved the site for a 25-story, 329-unit apartment tower with 6,871 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Records show the property spans about 1.92 acres.

In a previous interview, Todd Wigfield, senior managing director of Greystar Development and Construction Services said the buildings main tenant, Chase Bank, will move back into the building once its complete. He added that construction was set to begin as soon as Greystar relocates Chase to a new, temporary location.

Apartment and condo buildings have been popping up around the downtown Fort Lauderdale area. Nearby, Related Group is buildingIcon Las Olas, a 455-foot tall condo tower. The Kolter Group is also planning100 Las Olas, a 45-story mixed-use condo tower.

Greystar is a national owner and builder of apartments. It currently operates four luxury apartment communities in Fort Lauderdale, including Blue on Marina Boulevard, The Queue, Solmar on Sixth and Elan 16Forty. The company is the largestoperator of apartments in the United States, managing over 400,000 units in over 150 markets globally, according to its website.

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