CIANBRO CHATTER PUBLISHED BY CIANBRO CORPORATION
VOLUME 36 NUMBER 1 WINTER 2006
Wellness Works! Cianbro leads healthcare to next level... see pages 14 and 15
Students and Cianbro Donate to Red Cross A Community Effort:
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U.S. Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center Aerial view of the new Postal Service Facility
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By Marcia Johnson
ianbro entered into a strategic alliance with The Korte Company of Highland, Illinois, to build a 429,000 sf United States Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center in Scarborough, Maine, on February 9, 2005. The partnership between Cianbro and The Korte Company has been a perfect fit for the success of this project. The Korte Company specializes in design/build projects and is a major contactor building postal distribution centers. This new facility will serve as a mail and stamp distribution center for 400 facilities in four zip code areas throughout southern Maine. The building consists of 75 docks on two large mail platforms, approximately 53,000 sf of maintenance and support areas, approximately 6,500 sf of administrative office space, and a 242,000 sf workroom to house all of the processing equipment. The facility is constructed with cast-in-place, tilt-up panels. This process of tilt-up erection was a first for Cianbro. This process casts the wall sections of the building in the horizontal position on the concrete building slab. The wall sections ranged from 80,000 to 100,000 pounds. Once the panels cured to the required strength, Please see U.S. POSTAL SERVICE, page 2 E DED
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By Benjamin Hutchins
Cianbro’s effort to help with disaster relief in the storm-wracked Gulf Coast region got a boost from Pittsfield, Maine-area school children recently. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the coastal regions of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, in early September, Pete Vigue pledged that the company would match every dollar its team members donated to the American Red Cross in the aftermath. But Cianbro team members weren’t the only ones inspired to do something to help. At the same time, students and teachers at Pittsfield’s Vickery and Manson Park elementary schools were organizing their own fundraising efforts. When they learned of Pete’s pledge, they asked if Cianbro would match their own contributions as well—a challenge the company happily took up. The end result: more than $21,000 for the Mid-Maine Chapter of the American Red Cross, presented in a special ceremony at the Vickery School on November 3. According to Heather Wyman, who coordinates Cianbro’s relationship with the Red Cross, Cianbro team members donated $10,155 to the cause. The students’ fundraising efforts—a penny drive—yielded a hard-earned $682.42. Cianbro matched both donations dollar for dollar. Vickery and Manson Park School Principal Faye Anderson said her schools’ fundraising effort was the brainchild of a single student, Vickery third-grader Chad Jaynes. Upset by reports of the devastation in the Gulf Coast and inspired by the previous year’s efforts American following the Pacific Red Cross
Please see RED CROSS, page 2
WINTER 2006