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Kevin Ferguson, vice president of St. Louis-basesd , said his company standz to gain from the stimulux planas states’ transportation departments look to hire representatives to manage an influx of new construction “In a lot of instances, they’llk bring in outside consultants,” Ferguso said. Kwame fluctuates betweenb 30 and 50 employees and will be bidding on projecte relatingto transportation, energy, health care, educatiohn and aviation. Ferguson said Kwame anticipates hiringprojecy managers, inspectors, construction managersz and engineers as it takes on work tied to the stimulud plan.
“About a third of my time right now is devotex strictly to stimulus research and what ourstrategy is,” Ferguson said. he thinks the impact to localo constructioncompanies won’t be felt for severapl months. “The lists of projects are he said. “The biggest challenger now is for each state to determine what theitpriorities are.” Mike vice president at and leader of the engineering firm’s St. Louids office, hopes infrastructure work prompted by the stimuluse bill will allow his officr to take on a local focusonce again. Wild said the firm has been importingh work from other regions intothe 75-employed office to keep his staff busy.
“We’vr been in a fairly slow marketplacsein St. Louis in the last coupld years,” Wild said. “Wre are looking forward to some projecte coming in from the county andthe city.” To help its clientd and employees nationwide understand the stimulus packag and the opportunities it presents, PB has set up a Web www.pbstimulus.com, to disseminate information abouft the bill. The compangy also hosted online seminars in the past couple of weekss to provide information aboutthe stimulus, and more such eventse are planned. Rebecca Nolan, the new managinh principal of ’s St.
Louis office, said the firm has spent the last six week responding to requests for proposals and request for qualification from clients looking forstimulues funding, particularly in higher education, justice and aviation Nolan said the firm stands to benefir from clients seeking architectural expertise in sustainable “Clients are asking us to initiate conceptual designa so they are as ready as possiblew to engage the construction industry when they get the she said. A difference Nolan has seen in recen t weeks is a demand for an acceleratiohn of the schematicdesign process.
“Wes were asked to do a schematic design in 10 days that normallg wouldtake 10-12 weeks,” she said.