Fostering Top-Notch Craftsmanship
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Fostering Top-Notch Craftsmanship
NOV/DEC 2013 EXPERTISE | EDUCATION | VISION A Publication of Building Congress & Exchange Fostering Top-Notch Craftsmanship They have clad pavilions, parapets and spiral towers in roofing materials that perfectly match colonial style but perform to high, modern standards. They have completed meticulous renovations of iconic buildings; installed modern curtain walls on a building with parabolic curves; and engineered stairways stretching up through a soaring, 12-story atrium. They are the winners of the Building Congress & Exchange 2013 Craftsmanship Awards. Their project work exemplifies some of the finest skills exercised in this region’s construction industry. It also demonstrates the results of many companies’ efforts to develop highquality craftsmanship among their employees. Hancock & Albanese’s Thomas Pohuski was among the high-quality craftsmen honored at the annual awards ceremony on Nov. 1. Pohuski won a Craftsmanship Award for his wood floor treads and wood railings at the University of Baltimore’s John & Frances Angelos Law Center. The firm was tasked with erecting stairs up through the building’s open,12-story atrium. Employees — including Pohuski — spent four months refining designs, creating mock-ups, building jigs, planning installation and assembling a mobile, millwork shop onsite. “He would go to sleep at night trying to figure out how to make some detail work,” said Cherelle Reno, operations manager at Hancock & Albanese.“He would wake up in the middle of the night and I would get these text messages saying, ‘I got it!’ or ‘I can’t sleep. I’m trying to figure out how to make the radius handrail connection to the steel handrail.’” Like many firms, Hancock & Albanese has embraced several practices to support that commitment to quality. Actively involved with several technical high schools, the company has hired promising graduates and put its junior employees through an internal training and mentoring program. Initially, new staff spend half their time in the office learning the language of the construction industry, how to read drawings and project planning, and half their time in the field learning from experienced staff members. A mentoring process guides employees through progressively more challenging work for 10 years or more. Lewis Contractors, the general contractor on five projects where craftsmen won BC&E Craftsmanship Awards, operates a similar mentoring program for its carpenters, junior superintendents and others. The process both fosters growth among junior staff and triggers “a feedback loop” that helps veteran staff learn about new technologies and new perspectives on construction, said President Tyler Tate. Continued on page 3 Craftsmanship Award Winner Vern Quesenberry of Ruff Roofers, Inc. Photo by Gary Aten. INSIDE THIS EDITION 07 Upcoming Events 10 Member Profile 08 Foundation 11 What You Missed 12 Member News of Metropolitan Baltimore Inc. Siemens makes buildings comfortable, safe, secure and less costly to operate. Visit us on the web at: usa.siemens.com/buildingtechnologies Baltimore, Maryland 2520 Lord Baltimore Dr. Baltimore, MD 21244 Tel. (410)-645-1600 Fax (410)-645-1616 s Answers for infrastructure. 2 the exchange – november/december 2013 COVER STORY “Every successful general contractor and construction manager knows that you are only as good as the people who work here and the subcontractors you work with,”Tate said.“So we build people here.” At Ruff Roofers, President Timothy Caldwell knows that fostering an expert workforce is one challenge. Keeping those workers motivated and committed to the company is another. Consequently, Ruff Roofers has focused on building a challenging specialty — historic renovations. The company doesn’t handle the basic warehouse jobs.“If we did that, they would be bored to tears,” Caldwell said.“Instead we go after historic projects with very difficult details, difficult access, goofy stuff that wasn’t built with ideal roofing applications in the first place.” Ruff Roofers’ Vern Quesenberry won two 2013 Craftsmanship Awards for his roofing work at Towson University’s Newell and Richmond Hall and the Terne Metal Roof Replacement at the Union Square Park. Peter Cornellier, vice president of TSI Exterior Wall Systems, has embraced a ‘love the challenge’ approach to the work of installing curtain walls and other modern exteriors in part by expanding into design-assist services. The process of helping architects and general contractors work out design details requires TSI staff to “analyze the system’s quality and materials, waterproofing, detailing, pricing, construct-ability and other aspects,” Cornellier said.“Seven or eight years ago, our estimators would have looked YO R PR B L M S L V D at you like you had three heads if you asked those questions. But now, the field guys enjoy having some input before the project gets going.” TSI’s James Eshelman won a 2013 Craftsmanship Award for the curtain wall at Johns Hopkins University’s Teaching Labs at the Homewood Campus. Seeking out professional challenges and supporting a culture of constant learning fosters top-quality employees, but it also generates other benefits, Cornellier and others said. Such companies, they note, often quickly adapt to market trends and new technologies, cultivate valuable specialities, gain loyal clients and discover that talented staff stay with them for decades. For a complete list of the winners of the 2013 Craftsmanship Awards, please turn to page 4. University of Baltimore John & Frances Angelos Law Center’s wood floor treads and wood railings. Work by Craftsmanship Award Winner Thomas Pohuski of Hancock & Albanese. Photo by Gary Aten. 120 Room Datasheets 5 Project Stakeholders 2 “current models” IMAGINiT Clarity Workshare Your Problem. Solved. Using IMAGINiT Clarity Workshare with Autodesk® Revit®, you can provide valuable information to key project stakeholders, even those who don’t know Revit. Your team can also save time and headaches by automating the generation of deliverables, tasks like printing PDFs, DWFs, exporting to IFC or backing up your projects. Share the design, automate the work. All while you keep designing. “IMAGINiT has created an intuitive system to tap into the power of Revit’s database and share information.” —Christopher Meehan, Applications and Technology Administrator, Populous SOLUTIONS BEYOND SOFTWARE See a free demonstration or request more information at imaginit.com/clarityws or call us at 800-356-9050 Gold Partner Architecture, Engineering & Construction Engineering, Natural Resources & Infrastructure Manufacturing Education Specialized Government Specialized Consulting Specialized Product Support Specialized CONSULTING | PROFESSIONAL SERVICES | TRAINING | SUPPORT | SOFTWARE www.bcebaltimore.org 3 COVER STORY 2013 Annual Craftsmanship Award Winners GLEN MINCHILLO Kone, Inc. Elevators University of Baltimore John & Frances Angelos Law Center CLIFF PATTERSON Baltimore Steel Erectors, LLC Radial Structural Steel Johns Hopkins University Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory Mudd Levi Hall MARTIN HENRY Watts Restoration, Inc. Cast Stone Towson University Newell and Richmond Hall Renovation and Historic Restoration GEORGE HOFFERT J. F. Fischer, Inc. Mechanical - Rigging and Life Support System National Aquarium in Baltimore Blacktip Reef ANTONY WEST Gutierrez Studios Ornamental Steel The Maryland Institute College of Art - Graduate Studio Center Renovation JEFF MUELLER Henry J. Knott Masonry, Inc. Masonry Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus - Undergraduate Teaching Labs JARED LINDER Linder Enterprises Spiral Staircase University of Baltimore John & Frances Angelos Law Center JIM LONG Miller, Long & Arnold Company, Inc. Concrete Johns Hopkins University Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory TIMOTHY SEXTON National Enclosure, LLC Unitized Curtainwall, Stick-Built Façade, Operable Windows, Exterior Doors, Exterior Blinds University of Baltimore John & Frances Angelos Law Center VERN QUESENBERRY Ruff Roofers, Inc. Terne Metal Roof Replacement Union Square Park Renovations PRESCOTT MITCHELL Accent Architectural Glass Railings Howard Community College Health Sciences Building DOUGLAS SEELING, JR. Timothy R. Pearce Mason Contractor, Inc. Masonry Towson University Newell and Richmond Hall Renovation and Historic Restoration ERIC ZARANSKI Rommel Cranston Construction, LLC Mechanical UMBC Performing Arts & Humanity Facility THOMAS POHUSKI Hancock & Albanese Wood Floor Treads & Wood Railings University of Baltimore John & Frances Angelos Law Center GORDON BLIZZARD Southern Mechanical, Inc. Mechanical Piping Johns Hopkins University Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory MARTIN HENRY Watts Restoration, Inc. Terracotta Towson University Newell and Richmond Hall Renovation and Historic Restoration ROBERT LANCASTER J. F. Fischer, Inc. Mechanical Pipe Installation University of Baltimore John & Frances Angelos Law Center JAMES ESHELMAN TSI Exterior Wall Systems, Inc. Curtain Wall Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus - Undergraduate Teaching Labs VERN QUESENBERRY Ruff Roofers, Inc. Roofing Towson University Newell and Richmond Hall Renovation and Historic Restoration ALLAN SUTHERLAND Allan Sutherland Studios, LLC Habitat - Coral Colonies and Reefs National Aquarium in Baltimore Blacktip Reef Annual Craftsmanship Award Sponsors MASTER HMS Insurance Associates Lewis Contractors NECA Maryland SIEMENS GOLD J.F. Fischer, Inc. Johns Hopkins University GOLD CONT. Oak Contracting Company, LLC Southern Mechanical Incorporated The Whiting-Turner Construction Co. SILVER SPONSORS EBL Engineers, LLC Gutierrez Studios GWWO, Inc./Architects Henry J. Knott Masonry, Inc. 4 the exchange – november/december 2013 SILVER CONT. J. Vinton Schafer & Sons, Inc. Johnson Controls, Inc. Miller, Long & Arnold Company, Inc. Power Solutions, LLC Professional Mechanical Contractors, Inc. United Rentals North America, Inc. WBCM Windsor Electric Company, Inc. BRONZE SPONSORS Atlantic Industrial, Mechanical and Electrical, Inc. G.E. Tignall & Company, Inc. Hord Coplan Macht Premier Concrete, Inc. Rommel Cranston Construction, LLC Site Resources, Inc. Watts Restoration LANGE ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. M O T O R S P U M P S C O N T R O L S Lange Electric has been providing sales, installation, repair and reconditioning service for electric motors, pumps, fans and controls since 1927. We provide a wide range of products and services to accommodate commercial, industrial and manufacturing facilities as well as pools and water treatment facilities. Phone: 410-644-3500 Fax: 410-644-5360 2626 W. Patapsco Avenue | Baltimore | Maryland | 21230 www.bcebaltimore.org 5 Complete Mechanical / HVAC / Plumbing Solutions 6 the exchange – november/december 2013 Upcoming Events To register for BC&E events, go to www.bcebaltimore.org or call the BC&E offi ce at 410-823-7200. Shrimp & Bull Roast FRIDAY JAN. 31, 2014 +++ Wednesday, December 4 5pm to 7pm 6:30pm to 10:30pm Maryland Masonic Homes 304 International Circle, Cockeysville, MD 21030 Timonium Fairgrounds, Exhibition Hall 2200 York Road, Lutherville-Timonium, MD 21093 Officers Directors BC&E Staff Doug Eder........................................................ President Oak Contracting Company, LLC 2014 Donna De Marco Tim O’Ferrall ................................Co-Executive Directors John Knauff ............................................President-Elect Johns Hopkins University APL Gary L. Berger, HMS Insurance Associates, Inc. Fred Judd, Judd Fire Protection, LLC Wayne F. Matheu, Enterprise Electric Company Paul L. Hume ............................................Vice President GWWO, Inc./Architects 2015 Henry J. Knott III .............................................. Treasurer Henry J. Knott Masonry, Inc. Laurie M. McLain ............................................. Secretary Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. David R. Erdman, United Rentals North America, Inc. John D. Prusak, Johnson Controls, Inc. Steve Workmeister, Premier Concrete, Inc. 2016 Elisabeth Wainwright .........................Associate Director Kristy Kormann ........................ Communications Liaison Valerie Pinder ....................................Operations Liaison Editorial written by The O’Ferrall Group. Published by Today Media Custom Communications. © Copyright 2013, Building Congress & Exchange of Metropolitan Baltimore Inc. Ronnie Brouillard, Oak Contracting Company, LLC Marty Copsey, MacKenzie Contracting Company, LLC Tom Gnau, J. Vinton Schafer & Sons, Inc. The Building Congress & Exchange would like to welcome Laurie McLain to the Executive Committee and Ronnie Brouillard, Marty Copsey and Tom Gnau to the Board. Thank you to the retiring board members for their years of service and dedication: Former BC&E President Brian Ott of the Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. and former Directors Ed Joffe of the Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Joe Logue of G.E. Tignall & Company, Inc. and Rick Romagnoli of M. Nelson Barnes & Sons, Inc. www.bcebaltimore.org 7 Inspiring Students For a would-be mason, carpenter, plumber or engineer, the Future Craftsmanship and Design Awards can provide the confidence boost that convinces teenagers to take that daunting step past the classroom and tackle professional training and a construction industry job. “This is inspiration at its finest,” said Michael Svezzese, Jr., construction/ carpentry instructor at Harford Technical High School. Svezzese was sitting with Zachary Burnham, a Harford senior and 2013 Future Craftsmanship and Design winner, at the awards ceremony “when a gentleman came up and gave Zach his business card,” Svezzese said. “Zach was on cloud nine. He had never Winner Mitchell Sweatt from Carroll County Career experienced anything & Technology Center. Photo by Gary Aten. like that before.” The excitement continued the following Monday morning when the school announcements included news of the award and numerous students congratulated Burnham. Instructors at the region’s technical high schools say the BC&E Foundation’s Future Craftsmanship and Design Awards do more than provide a financial boost to students. They provide teens with motivation to pursue careers in the construction industry, and that motivation spreads well beyond the winners to their classmates and younger students. At Eastern Technical High School in Baltimore County, teacher Peter Glaudemans said the awards “provide that additional boost of confidence that is so critical for kids who are trying to make the almost impossible decision of what to do when they get out of high school. It’s so daunting and kids tend to second-guess themselves. The Future 8 the exchange – november/december 2013 Craftsman Awards are a great way to recognize kids for having some exceptional talents and it helps them realize they are capable of very high levels of educational growth down the road.” At Carroll County Career and Technology Center, Principal Bill Eckles said the fact that construction professionals selected the winners has a special impact on students. “For students, it’s one thing to get an honor from the school. It’s another thing entirely to get an honor from somebody who is in the real world, in the industry and recognizes your accomplishments,” Eckles said. Those honors and the message that students can earn a good living in construction are especially important in the current economy, Eckles said. “The economic downturn and the subsequent fall off in construction work really hurt the numbers of students in our construction programs,” he said.“I think a lot of parents were fearful that there wouldn’t be jobs so they didn’t encourage their kids to go into the construction programs.” The passion and accomplishments of the finalists and winners of this The winners of the year’s awards impressed 2013 Future the members of the Future Craftsmanship and Craftsman Committee made Design Awards are: up of Chair John Stahl, John Kathleen Au Knauff, Warren Hamilton and Eastern Technical High School John Lawrence. The committee Award sponsored by PeoplesBank is also eager to expand the Zachary Burnham reach of the awards program Harford Technical High School Award sponsored by Milwaukee to attract and honor more Electric Tool Corporation students. Ryan Rinker “Through these awards, we Eastern Technical High School hope to inspire more students Award sponsored by BC&E to pursue careers in our Past Presidents industry and show them that Mitchell Sweatt they can make a good living in Carroll County Career & construction trades,” Stahl said. Technology Center Award sponsored by Kimball Previous Future Craftsman Construction Company winners and finalists are already building successful careers. Adam Hucke, a 2012 winner from Harford Technical High School, is currently employed with American Infrastructure and working on bridge projects. Another Harford Tech winner landed a job at Ripken Stadium while pursuing training as a construction project manager. Winners and finalists from Eastern Tech have gained admission to engineering schools at University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Tech and Drexel University. www.bcebaltimore.org 9 MEMBER PROFILE Mechanical contractors blend new technologies with old business practices to thrive in tough economy The most sophisticated planning processes and 3D modeling technologies simply couldn’t divine a master plan to install a new aquatic life support system amid the warren of piping and narrow passages at Baltimore’s National Aquarium. Creating that vital system for the aquarium’s new blacktip reef would require staff at J.F. Fischer, Inc. to exercise different skills. To complete the installation, a J.F. Fischer foreman would have to plan, sketch, design, cut and custom fabricate each piece of piping in the field. That level of skill earned J.F. Fischer Foreman George Hoffert a 2013 Craftsmanship Award and further solidified J.F. Fischer’s reputation as a mechanical contractor capable of mastering uniquely complex jobs. Thriving as a mechanical contractor in the current, tough market requires that kind of skill. Mechanical contractors also must master new technologies quickly, adapt to shrinking construction schedules and sustain robust marketing efforts, according to several BC&E members. “The market has been more competitive with more bidders in the past few years, so you have to get more aggressive, adapt to market changes and find more efficient ways to perform the work,” said Daniel Fischer, Vice President of J.F. Fischer. J.F. Fischer, which remained sucessful throughout the recession and slow recovery, succeeded in part by enabling skilled employees to master new technologies and construction challenges, Fischer said. Fischer points to the company’s work on the University of Baltimore John & Frances Angelos Law Center which also earned employee Robert Lancaster a Craftsmanship Award. As a LEED Platinum project, the center was a rare construction project and combined multiple, high-efficiency technologies in a single building. At Rommel Cranston Construction, LLC, Vice President Chip Horn decided the company needed to master a new technology, namely Building Information Modeling (BIM), in order to grow in a challenging market. By investing in hardware, software and two full-time BIM professionals, Rommel Cranston developed a valuable in-house capability that it could market to clients, Horn said. It also developed the ability to “create fabrication drawings, prefabricate a lot of pieces in our own shop and send them out to the job site as an erector set,” Horn said. Rommel Cranston, for example, can prefabricate complete mechanical systems for multi-stall washrooms while also achieving tighter quality controls. Working with the prefab units, crews can completely install large washrooms in institutional buildings within four hours as opposed to the four days required previously for such installations. However, the company, which was created through the asset purchase of L.H. Cranston in September 2011, has also greatly benefited from some old-school business techniques including increased marketing and networking efforts. Determined to quickly create a good reputation for the company, Horn directed Rommel Cranston executives, project managers and estimators to actively participate in key industry associations, including BC&E. Horn and other Rommel Cranston officials made presentations to executives at general contractors and held open houses to show that Rommel Cranston “wasn’t some mom and pop shop, but a company with ample infrastructure to support great work in the field,” he said. And that great work earned Rommel Cranston’s Eric Zaranski a 2013 Craftsmanship Award for his mechanical work at the UMBC Performing Arts & Humanity Facility. Horn said Rommel Cranston has posted business volume growth of 10 to 15 percent annually since 2011, has gradually rebuilt its staff and even hired 25 new apprentices in the last six months. Left: The work of J.F. Fischer’s George Hoffert at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Right: Mechanical work by Rommel Cranston’s Eric Zaranski at the UMBC Performing Arts & Humanity Facility. Photos by Gary Aten. 10 the exchange – november/december 2013 WHAT YOU MISSED October 24 // Members Only October Networking Event and Stadium Tour Premier Event Sponsor: Oak Contracting, LLC Event Sponsors: Advance – The Document Specialists, CBIZ Insurance Services, Inc., Critical Systems by Schneider Electric, G. E. Tignall & Company, Inc., Mechanical Engineering & Construction Corporation, Wright, Constable & Skeen, LLP 2 3 1: Members took a behind the scenes tour of the stadium; 2: John Reid, Samantha Miller and Jessica Smith of Judd Fire Protection, LLC; 3: Dennis Wiseman and Del Hawkins of Johnson Controls, Inc. with Nicole Kennedy of Critical Systems by Schneider Electric, an event sponsor. 1 AGGREGATE SALES ƒ TRANSPORTATION SERVICES ƒ EQUIPMENT RENTALS FHOHEUDWLQJRYHU\HDUVLQEXVLQHVV ƒ Washed Sand & Gravel Recycled Concrete, Asphalt & Slag ƒ Common & Structural Fill Core Trench Clay ƒ Hi-Cal Quick Lime Screened Topsoil & Mulch ƒ Custom Soil Mixes ƒ Soil Amendments Decorative & Specialty Aggregates ƒ Dump Truck Rentals ƒ Disposal Sites Crushed Stone Products 1-888-766-4242 5DLOURDG$YHQXHƒ+DQRYHU0DU\ODQG www.bcebaltimore.org 11 MEMBER NEWS YOU NEED THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT, AT THE RIGHT PLACE, AT THE RIGHT TIME. WE’RE HERE TO HELP. With our team of equipment experts, the largest equipment fleet in the industry and locations throughout North America, you can rely on us to help you get the job done on time and on budget. 305 Arundel Corp Rd. Glen Burnie, MD 21060 410-242-7780 UnitedRentals.com Lewis Contractors lands new Baltimore projects Lewis Contractors, a construction management and general contracting firm based in Owings Mills, will restore the Washington Monument at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore. Work is set to begin on the nearly 200-year-old structure in January 2014 and is scheduled for completion by July 4, 2015. The firm also broke ground on the new 10,000-square-foot Parks & People Foundation headquarters in Druid Hill Park. The building will include an ecology center, lab space for scientific research, environmental education, job training and career development. Construction of the facility is slated to take 12 months. Lewis is completing final touches to the project’s first phase, which included the 4,400-square-foot restoration and rehabilitation of the historic Superintendent’s house at Druid Hill Park. Lewis Contractors has touched over a dozen Baltimore landmarks on the National Registry of Historic Places. Some of its most notable restoration projects include landmarks such as the Baltimore Basilica of the Assumption, Everyman Theatre, Davidge Hall and the Sheppard Pratt gatehouse. Send your company news or personnel announcements to Kristy Kormann at kkormann@bcebaltimore.org. 12 the exchange – november/december 2013 MEMBER NEWS KCI Technologies Acquires KCE Engineering KCI Technologies Inc., an engineering, consulting and construction firm in Sparks, Md., has acquired KCE Engineering Inc., an Ellicott City-based consulting firm which specializes in civil and environmental engineering, with a particular emphasis on solid waste projects. The two companies have worked together on contracts for more than a decade. PLAN & DESIGN BUILD COMMISSION OPTIMIZE Designing or Constructing a Building? Start early with Johnson Controls to leverage the technology systems in your facility. We can help reduce your costs, streamline the construction process and deliver a more efficient facility for your operations staff. Welcome New Members! BC&E would like to welcome several new members: Atlantech Distribution (www.atlantech1.com) Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers (www.baclocal1.org) Hillis-Carnes Engineering Associates (www.hcea.com) Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (www.jmt.com) Kim Engineering (www.kimengineering.com) Taylor Northeast, Inc. 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Continued on page 14 www.bcebaltimore.org 13 MEMBER NEWS Financial Reporting Consulting Services Tax Planning Tax Return Preparation Litigation Support Construction Industry Specialitsts Experienced Professionals Offering Exceptional Service KCI Communications Infrastructure, a contractorengineering firm in the wire line and wireless industries, welcomed Brian Lesnak, as practice leader in the firm’s Hanover office. Lesnak has over 12 years of account management and sales experience focused on the federal market, including working with both defense and civilian agencies, integrators, contractors and distribution channels. Baltimore-based Plano-Coudon, which provides construction management, general contracting and design/build construction services, hired Shan-té Johnson as its Business Development Manager. Johnson has more than 16 years of experience in engineering, marketing and business development within the Architect/Engineer/Contractor industry. 2205 York Road Ste. 102 Timonium MD 21093 410-308-8778 www.raminacpas.com Elisabeth Wainwright of the O’Ferrall Group has been named Associate Director of the Building Congress & Exchange. Wainwright is experienced in business and event management and most recently managed the banquet staff at the 305-room BWI Airport Marriott. ,+?71+<>8/<38- -YWWS^^ON^YObMOVVOXMO| >O]^SXQ,KVKXMSXQ-YWWS]]SYXSXQ 6KUOP\YX^.\S`O 2_X^@KVVOc7K\cVKXN :RYXO!"! 0Kb!"! -O\^SPSON7OWLO\ 14 the exchange – november/december 2013 Accolades Bob Stratemeyer of EBL Engineers was awarded the Building Congress & Exchange’s Life Membership Award for his dedication and service to the organization including his three Paul Hume Bob Stratemeyer terms as president. Paul Hume of GWWO, Inc./Architects was awarded the President’s Award, for his exemplary service to BC&E and the BC&E Foundation. The awards were given during the 75th Annual Craftsmanship Awards on Nov. 1. Donna Venerable-Davis of D&L Cleanup, a commercial cleaning contractor based in Baltimore, has been selected as a 2013 Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award Winner. 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