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by Dr. John Gaal Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum carries the Worker Wellness & Well-Being Blog as a regular feature. The […]

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Much needed improvements to the wastewater treatment plant servicing the growing St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon, Mo. have been completed. Contegra Construction completed the modernization of the facility serving 93,000 city residents. The 14-month project includes a new two-story headworks building and discharge conveyer. At the front end of the process, the 2,000-square-foot concrete headworks […]

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Chris Hawn has joined S. M. Wilson & Co. as Vice President of Retail Construction. Hawn is responsible for leading the strategic national expansion of the firm’s retail division. He will focus on developing multi-site programs and building long-term partnerships with retailers across the country, spanning ground-up construction, closed-store and open-store remodels, tenant build-outs and […]

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HDA is proud to announce the completion of the new headquarters for Gulf Distributing in downtown Mobile, Alabama—a transformative project that demonstrates the power of adaptive reuse and innovative industrial design. HDA led the effort to reimagine the historic Press-Register building, a 1950s-era printing press facility, into a near 325,000 square-foot state-of-the-art beverage distribution center. […]

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Schaub Projects has acquired Metheny Architects, the companies confirmed November 1. As part of the transaction, Metheny Architects founder Jon Metheny has joined Schaub Projects as Junior Partner and Director of Design. He will work at the firm’s headquarters at 6651 Dale Avenue in St. Louis alongside founder and managing partner David Schaub and CEO/partner […]

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by Joseph Goley, Vice President, The Goley Companies From Metal Construction News: Metal buildings have become a mainstay in industrial and commercial construction. Their structural efficiency, long service life, and relatively low maintenance requirements make them cost-effective for various uses. Their most valuable quality, however, is adaptability. Over time, a single structure can serve multiple […]

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From The St. Louis American: In an area of BELIEVE Academy equipped like a hospital room, high school students use real stethoscopes and other medical tools to examine “patients,” often a classmate or a lifesize simulation doll. These north St. Louis teens aren’t just learning about health care; they’re training for careers while earning college […]

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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Chasity Dent’s home off Halls Ferry Road in north St. Louis County was spacious, in a good location and affordable at $960 a month when she signed her lease in 2020. Five years later, with landlord VineBrook Homes now charging $1,265 a month, it has become increasingly unaffordable for the 35-year-old […]

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The renovation of The Victor in St. Louis’ Downtown West neighborhood by local architecture, planning, urban design and interiors firm Trivers earned first place in the Adaptive Reuse category of the Retrofit Magazine 2025 Metamorphosis Awards. Global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm HOK claimed third place for its transformation of Brown & Crouppen’s new […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: The Cortex innovation district in Midtown has one big project underway with the $100 million redevelopment of the Goodwill Building, at 4140 Forest Park Ave., but it’s likely not the last. Sam Fiorello, Cortex’s president and CEO, said the nonprofit master developer of the 200-acre district has identified a pair […]

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From Multifamily Dive: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott signed a package of four bills aimed at reducing red tape for housing development in the city. The package “will help make housing more affordable and abundant in Baltimore,” Scott said at a Nov. 3 press conference. The legislation updates the city’s building code requirements to allow a […]

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by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum The City of St. Louis is making significant changes in several core operational departments, with Mayor Cara Spencer announcing a new director for the Streets Department, the appointment of a deputy chief operating officer, and the upcoming departure of the City’s Community Development Administration (CDA) director. The administration […]

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by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum Mary Lamie, executive vice president of Multi-Modal Enterprises at Bi-State Development, recently took the TEDxStLouis stage to outline how the St. Louis region is positioned to play a major role in global commerce. In the talk, she focuses on the stretch of the Mississippi River near St. Louis […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: After Emily Howard graduated from the architecture program at Washington University and had taken her first architecture job, she got a call from a former classmate who worked at PGAV, the planning and design firm based in downtown St. Louis, telling her she should come interview because “we do fun […]

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A new $3.6 million custom home is under construction on Hereford Street in The Hill, continuing a pattern of high-end residential investment in one of St. Louis’ most historically tight-knit neighborhoods. The project is being built by Markway Construction Co., a Maplewood-based luxury homebuilder known for one-of-a-kind residences throughout the region. City property records show […]

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by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum The St. Louis County Library will host a public screening of Antagonist, the debut documentary by investigative journalist Ben Westhoff. Westoff is author of the best-selling book Fentanyl, Inc., which traced the global supply chain behind synthetic opioids. At the center of the narrative is Percy Menzies, president […]

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From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: A new type of development is making its way to Missouri streets. Humming quietly, these buildings, called data centers, house rows of servers that store the data behind everything from social media to hospitals, from 911 calls to information that powers artificial intelligence (AI). While these facilities have been divisive, Missouri […]

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From ASA Midwest Council Newsletter: Employers must develop and document procedures to control hazardous energy whenever employees perform activities covered by the lockout/tagout (LOTO) standard at 29 CFR 1910.147. These procedures give the authorized employee written instructions on how to eliminate the potential for unexpected activation, start up, or the release of stored energy. At […]

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From RiverBender: Community leaders came together in Alton to celebrate the grand opening of a new affordable housing development. On Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, elected officials and community members gathered at the Alton Sunnybrook Affordable Housing Development at 767 Washington Avenue in Alton for speeches and a ribbon-cutting. Spearheaded by Dr. Ed Hightower, the development […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: The Missouri Botanical Garden has reopened the historic Linnean House after a renovation to restore the greenhouse to its original purpose. The renovation is part of MoBot’s $100 million Gateway to Garden campaign, which funded its Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center and the Oertli Family Hardy Plant Nursery. Renovation of […]

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