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On Saturday, SEI participated again in a really great charity event, Canstruction. This is a design build competition for design professionals and students using cans. All the building materials (canned goods) get donated to food kitchens at the end of the event.   Since 1992, Canstruction has donated over 10 million pounds of food.  In Rochester, the cans are donated to Foodlink after the event.

Our entry ~ GENESEE Fed is on display and the Award Gala is this Friday in the Bausch and Lomb Wintergarden.   (read more)

The SEI Design Group Build Team

SEI: Brad Moreland (Team Captain), Jimmi Van Shaffel, Ted Mountain, Steve Staveski, Kelly Wobser, Kiel Wobser, Brian Cieslinski, Kurt Vater

Rochester City School District: Charles Nash, Andrew Hylton, and their mentors, William Broome (RCSD) and Wayne Williams (Gilbane)

We want to thank our sponsors: Engineered Solutions, M/E Engineering, Watchdog, Campus Construction Management, Walmart, and Genesee Brewing Company for helping us to compete.

After the much planned and anticipated Canstruction Build Day, the results of the SEI team build are in below.  As always, you can click to enlarge the photos.  Judging is today, but results will not be announced until the award dinner on Friday.  Wonder how many calories in that piece of lemon meringue pie?

According to a BDC article, AGC is warning that material and labor increases will be much higher than the previous 12 months due to a banner year for commercial construction.

The EPA has an Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools program which includes grants which are awarded year round on a non-competitive basis.  The also have an IAQ Action Kit.

American School and University recently published their annual Education Construction Report.  Construction spending topped $36B , yet dropped from the previous year.  The drop was due to college construction decreasing from $14.5 B to $11.3B.