by Lynn Lofton Published: February 27,2011
Tags: Delta State University, Dr. Frances Lucas, Educational Building Corporation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Greg Redlin, Ian Banner, Mississippi State University, Tim Muzzi, University of Mississippi, University of Southern Mississippi
Construction projects at Mississippi’s public universities have not fallen victim to the state’s slumping tax revenues of the past few years. Major building projects and maintenance projects such as roofing repairs continue at campuses around the Magnolia State. Mississippi State University architect Tim Muzzi points out that funding sources for construction projects include state funds, [...] [...]
At 34, architect Leigh Jaunsen is already an accomplished woman. The Ocean Springs resident opened the Biloxi office of Dale Partners Architects, managed some of Biloxi’s high-profile hurricane recovery projects, is LEED accredited and won $125,000 on the television game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” She was project manager for renovation of the [...] [...]
The Salvation Army’s state-of-the-art facility opens in Biloxi in September The Salvation Army has been a viable social force on the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 1907, continually serving Harrison, Jackson, Hancock, Stone and Pearl River counties. Its mission will take a giant step forward this fall with the opening of the $16.9-million Ray and Joan [...] [...]
Training and education for construction jobs continues in the state even though the economy hasn’t recovered and construction projects have slowed down. Training isn’t as intense as it was in the time immediately following Hurricane Katrina, but industry educators feel the boom will return and a trained workforce must be ready. “Things are pretty tight, [...] [...]
Biloxi’s Tracie Normand heads construction company and organization for women in industry Memphis native Tracie Normand became interested in construction while working for a Memphis insurance agency that specialized in construction. That’s where she met her husband, Daniel, a contractor who was at that time building a restaurant in Memphis. They moved to Biloxi in 2003 [...] [...]
Drought making Yazoo clay an issue Years ago, Dr. Larry Oldham used to frequently make the drive from Jackson to Vicksburg on Interstate 20. Like all travelers on that stretch of I-20, he had to negotiate the uneven, undulating roadbed. “One day I realized that the humps were moving; they were in different places,” Oldham said. [...] [...]
E-Verify program is far from perfect By NASH NUNNERY I contributor pnash22@aol.com The official mandate to require all federal contractors to check the legal status of their employees to confirm their eligibility to work in the U.S. is now a year old. But one Mississippi construction official says that although E-Verify helps in filtering illegal [...] [...]
Many architects just trying to stay afloat in tough times By NASH NUNNERY I CONTRIBUTOR pnash22@aol.com George Morrison earned his degree in architecture from the University of Maryland two years ago. A month later, he moved back to his hometown of Atlanta to ply his trade with a Marietta architectural firm. Today, Morrison finds himself [...] [...]
How will construction firms absorb the financial impact of healthcare reform? The answer is complicated, multi-faceted and must be understood in order to properly plan for the effects the legislation will have on construction businesses. The alternative is a financial strain that, if not planned for properly, can shut down a small business. While not [...] [...]
A year after announcing that it would build an cellulosic ethanol production facility in Mississippi, BlueFire Renewables Inc. (formerly BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc.) has let the contract on the project that carries a price tag of nearly $300 million. Now, California-based BlueFire, which has been working on the Mississippi project since 2007, awaits the federal [...] [...]
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