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South Dakota State University held a groundbreaking ceremony April 20, 2012  for the dining expansion at the Student Union and four new residence halls. Henry Carlson Company is the construction manager at risk for the Student Union expansion. The addition of 800 student housing beds prompted the need to construct an expanded kitchen and dining space as well as renovate some offices and public spaces in the South Dakota State University Student Union. The addition will feature three additional food venues and seating for an additional 300 students. The project is expected to complete by May 2013.

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Click here to see Healthcare Design Magazine’s article about the new Sanford Heart Hospital.

Raven Industries Applied Technology Division held its Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting on March 7 at 4:30 PM in Sioux Falls, SD. The new $6.7 million ATD facility is 80,000 square feet and was completed in November 2011.

Raven president and CEO Dan Rykhus said with this new building, the production area and offices are now located on one level, which increased production and productivity. Rykhus complemented Henry Carlson Company on their work on the project and looks forward to an expansion to the building in the near future.

Raven Industries’ Applied Technology Division builds tools for farmers to increase production, including Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and their line of Slingshot^® products.

Click here to see the Sioux Falls Business Journal’s article about the new Sanford Heart Hospital facility.

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Chip Carlson and Asphalt Surfacing Company were featured in the fall edition of the Caterpillar Butler Zone magazine for purchasing the first CT660 truck in North and South Dakota. Click here to see the article.

 The Sioux Falls Business Journal awarded the Readers Choice Award for Best General Contractor for 2011 to Henry Carlson Company. The Sioux Falls Business Journal’s Readers Choice Awards recognize readers’ favorite area companies and business professionals. A total of 577 online and print ballots were submitted.

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Raven Industries announces $15 million renovation to its coporate headquarters. Please see the links below.

Keloland TV Video.

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Heartland Newsletter features the grand opening of the Maroney Rural Learning Center in Howard, SD.

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ASCO truck drivers are helping build emergency levees in Ft. Pierre, SD.  Heavy rains and a deep melting snowpack have led to historic water levels in the Missouri River basin. Six reservoirs on the Upper Missouri River are straining at or near capacity, forcing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release water that will push the river several feet above already high levels. ASCO driver, Terry LaBore, was on KSFY’s June 2nd broadcast.

Raven Industires Applied Technology Center held its groundbreaking ceremony May 31 in Sioux Falls, SD. The new facility will be located at the corner of W. Algonquin St. and N. Industrial Ave. The $6.8 million, 80,000 square foot building will consist of a new office, warehouse, assembly and shipping facility.

This time-lapse video provided by Sanford Health shows the construction of the Sanford Heart Hospital.

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Joe Noe’s first indoor Crooks Christmas House at the Western Mall was a success. The attraction drew hundreds of people to see the synchronized lights display. $27,220 was donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the second highest fundraising year in the show’s five year history. This amount will grant five wishes to South Dakota children. Billy Pollema and the Henry Carlson Company crew helped build the display. For more information, visit the Christmas at Western Mall’s website: http://www.westernmallchristmas.com/.

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Henry Carlson Company helped transport a 70 foot, 7,000 pound Christmas tree from a Rhonda Smith’s home in Sioux Falls, SD, to Sanford Children’s Hospital. The tree was donated by the Sanford doctor because it was starting to hang on her house.

A 150 ton crane lifted the tree onto a semi trailer. Greg Mohr, Equipment Manager, said the tree looked like a house being moved down 22nd Street because of its 25 foot diameter. The children watched the tree being delivered from their hospital rooms.

“I was doing this for the kids, well you should have seen their faces in the window at the hospital. Priceless,” Mohr said.

Joe Noe, owner of the “Crooks Christmas House” recently moved from Crooks, SD, to Sioux Falls, SD, and needed a new home for his large Christmas light display. Noe has been lighting up his yard for five years. In that time, the Crooks Christmas House has donated thousands of dollars to the Make-A-Wish foundation and has been featured on the national news. Noe wanted to move the Christmas light display from his house to a more public location with a parking lot, allowing more people to access the light show. The Sioux Falls Western Mall became the new home for the light display.

Noe decided on a castle theme for this year’s display. Henry Carlson Company is building the display and Augustana theatre students are painting the castle. The display will be open everyday from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. starting Thanksgiving day and ending New Year’s Eve.

The exhibit will be free, but Noe will collect donations for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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Chad Nelson, a Senior Project Manager for Henry Carlson Company, is teaching a safety program at the South Dakota Safety and Health Conference at the Sioux Falls Arena and Conference Center. The October 12th conference showcases new safety and human resources products and services. Nelson, along with Tim Murray of Sanford Medical Center and Lee Doohen of Sanford Health will teach the class, Working With Contractors to Ensure Safety. The class will cover lessons learned from small and large projects at Sanford. Their experiences will demonstrate how the success of each project depends on establishing a culture of safety, developing joint safety standards, comprehensive training program for all workers and accountability.

Heartland Consumers Power District received their official LEED Platinum certification in August. The headquarters is the first newly constructed LEED Platinum building in South Dakota. Approximately 45 regional companies were involved in the construction of their green facility. Henry Carlson Company served as construction manager for this project. LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

On July 29, 2010, Henry Carlson Company signed a Statement of Support for the Guard and Reserve. Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve was established in 1972 to promote cooperation and understanding between Reserve component members and their civilian employers and to assist in the resolution of conflicts arising from an employee’s military commitment.

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Meredith Larson has been named chairman for the 2010 calendar of Planning Commission meetings for the city of Sioux Falls. He is in his second five-year term on the The City of Sioux Falls Planning Commission, which expires May 2013. The Planning Commission serves as an advisory board to the City Council. It is their responsibility to consider and make recommendations on land use and zoning matters for the city of Sioux Falls.

The Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA), Siouxland Chapter has elected Chris Peters to its board of directors. The CFMA is “The Source and Resource for Construction Financial Professionals” and the only nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the construction financial professional. CFMA has chapters in major cities from Maine to Hawaii and offers local workshops, seminars and programs that complement the extensive member services provided by CFMA Headquarters in Princeton, NJ. CFMA currently has more than 7,000 members in 89 chapters throughout the U.S.

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The Sioux Falls Business Journal awarded the Readers Choice Award for Best General Contractor for 2009-10 to Henry Carlson Company. The Sioux Falls Business Journal’s Readers Choice Awards recognize readers’ favorite area companies and business professionals. More than 425 readers voted and chose the winners.

The following employees of Children’s Care Hospital & School have been awarded Henry and Eleanor Carlson Family Scholarships: Teachers Robert Beringer and Erin Stabnow; Behavior Therapists April Groeneweg, Lonna Kreidler, and Jason Dybsetter; Psychologist Joel Sonnichsen. The Carlson Scholarship was established with a gift given by the Carlson family to support education and training for Children’s Care staff. To support the growing demand for behavioral services, the scholarship grant is specifically targeted to those earning degrees in Applied Behavior Analysis, the basis for behavioral programming at Children’s Care.

The Henry Carlson Company, in an effort to better serve our existing and new clients, announces the following: Chad Nelson, a Senior Project Manager for Henry Carlson Company, recently graduated from the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce’s 23rd Annual Leadership Sioux Falls program along with 31 other professionals in the business community. Chad was also recently elected the chairman of Future Leaders of the Building Chapter of the South Dakota Associated General Contractors. This national organization fulfills the need to cultivate the next generation of leaders in the construction industry.

For the benefit of our sustainable building clients, The Henry Carlson Company now has four LEED accredited professionals on staff. Recently, Jerry Fromm, Mike Ralston, and Meredith Larson earned their LEED ® accreditation from the US Green Building Council. Jerry is a Project Manager, Mike is a Project Engineer, and Meredith is the vice president of Pre-Construction Services for the Henry Carlson Company.