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The homebuilding business lured 41-year-old Joseph Killinger from a good job with defense contractor Raytheon about 18 years ago, but he is painfully aware that it doesn’t hold quite the same appeal after the sharp, sudden and prolonged job losses during the Great Recession.

“In some ways, I think our industry is still pay-ing for the housing downturn,” said Killinger, the new board chair for the North State Build-ing Industry Association. “We lost credibility with potential people who wanted to join our indus-try, and we lost talented individuals through the downturn who were let go and went to different paths in life.”

In his day job, Killinger leads the Central Cali-fornia division of KB Home, an area that reaches from Sacramento down to Fresno. He’s looking to hire several salespeople, he said, but since the downturn, people are hesitant about choosing a career in the homebuilding industry.

He wants to get the word out that people can find jobs as salespeople, warranty representatives,

superintendents and trade apprentices. It’s still an industry, he said, where workers can earn good wages without a college degree.

Killinger started working in the industry when he was 14, tarring basements for his uncle’s cus-tom homebuilding business. Before his first day of work, he thought it might be an improvement over working on another uncle’s dairy farm.

“I remember I had been in this one house for like five hours,” he said. “In Wisconsin in the mid-dle of July, you have humidity, bugs and everything you can think of. I remember thinking, ‘I don’t know. Would I rather be in the haymow right now stacking hay, or would I rather be doing this?’ ”

He stuck with the work because it paid well, but after high school, he said, he followed the example of many of his relatives who had joined the mili-tary and subsequently built successful careers. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he said, he got a job as a quality assurance manager at Raytheon in Irvine and thought he might make a career of working with defense contractors.

Then the company decided to move its plant to Chula Vista, and Killinger knew he didn’t want to relocate there.

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“My wife and I had just bought a home from a builder called Forecast Homes, and we were living in Oceanside,” Killinger said, “and ... I remember walk-ing to the mailbox, and I flagged down the company’s superintendent to ask him some questions about our house.”

The two men got to talking about homebuilding, and the superintendent was impressed with Killinger’s knowledge. He suggested that he go talk to the divi-sion president about a job the next day. Killinger went on the interview and landed a job as the warranty rep-resentative for his housing community. He ended up having to make the repairs on his own house.

“With my background in homebuilding, I was ac-tually able to fix a lot of the stuff without calling the trades (people) back in,” Killinger said. “I could do drywall repairs. Painting’s easy. I could do electrical

Subcontract worker Nathan Charles of Loomis works on the property of new homes being developed at the Montauk properties by KB Homes on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Sacramento. Andrew Seng

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Items of work include but are not limited to: Traffic Control, Construction Staking, QC Testing & Inspection, Striping, Pavement Marking & Markers, Clear & Grub, Demo-lition, Storm Drain, Sanitary Sewer, Traffic Signals & Street Lighting, Adjust Utilities, Slurry Seal, Minor Concrete, Landscape, Irrigation, Roadside Signs, Precast Pavers, Storm Water Prevention, Street Sweeping, Arborist, Trucking, Tubular Handrail, Archi-tectural Fence, CCTV System, Ticket Vending Machine, Fare Collection System, Rebar, Ex-cavation & Grading, Asphalt Concrete, Cold Plane Pavement Grinding, Saw Cutting and Utility Potholing.

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Bid Date: March 17, 2016 @ 3:00 P.M.Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs)

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M/WBE BIDDING OPPORTUNITY M/WBE firms must be certified as follows: To constitute a MBE or WBE for the purpose of meeting the agency thresholds, an enterprise must be formally certified as such by at least one of the following entities: The Connecticut Department of Administrative Services, The Connecticut Department of Transportation, The Federal Environmental Protection Agency, The Federal Small Business Administration OR other states as evidenced by the appropriate state certificate which specifies the applicable WBE or MBE designation. In the event the certificate from a state other than Connecticut does not contain the applicable designation, the certificate should be presented to the Owner (The Metropolitan District) for review and consideration.Shea-Skanska Joint Venture invites qualified contractors, specifically M/WBEs certified by the agencies and requirements listed above, to contact Shea-Skanska JV (Prime Bidder/Contractor listed below) regard-ing subcontracting services and material supply opportunities in connection with the upcoming tunnel and shaft project.The Work under this contract is located in South Hartford, Connecticut. The participation rates are 3% for MBEs and 5% for WBEs of the total contract price. Additionally, the goals are 6% MBE and 5% WBE. The Work consists of the construction of a deep rock tunnel, drop shafts, and an odor control facility along with support equipment and accessories as shown and specified.

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Project Name: 1300 Fourth Street –Solar Hot Water Location: San Francisco, California Bid Date: March 1, 2016 @2:00 PM

Pre-Bid Conference: February 17, 2016 @ 10:30am Location: 1000 Brannan Street, Suite 102, SF, CANibbi Brothers has been selected as the General Contractor for the 1300 Fourth Street housing proj-ect in San Francisco’s Mission Bay District. We are in receipt of the 40% CD Set and are currently re-questing bids from qualified subcontractors includ-ing those certified with the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) for Solar Hot Water. OCII has established a subcontracting partic-ipation goal for this project at 50% SBE/LBE goal with first consideration for San Francisco-based MBEs, WBEs and SBEs. The project is located in San Francisco’s Mission Bay District and is ap-proximately 63,250sf of mixed-use residential/retail with 143 units of affordable housing. Construction will be five levels of Type III over one level of Type I concrete podium consisting of a parking garage, retail space and common areas

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Twin Peaks Tunnel Trackway Improvement Project REBID • Contract No. 1282R Bid Date: February 12, 2016 at 3:00PM

Fax all quotes to 510-777-5099

Requesting certified SBE Subcontractor and Supplier Quotes on: Concrete, Demolition, Electrical, Flatwork, Grinding, Instrumentation, Mechanical, Paving, Railroad, Rebar, Survey, Trackwork, Traffic Control, Trucking, Utility Work, Waterproof, Aggregate Supplier, Expansion Joints Supplier, Lumber Supplier, Me-chanical Equipment Supplier, Railroad Products, Ready Mix Supplier, Utility Pipe Supplier

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Bid documents are also available for viewing by appointment only at Shimmick Construction’s Office: 8201 Edgewater Drive, Suite 202, Oakland, CA 94621.

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100% Performance and Payment bonds with a surety company subject to approval of Shimmick/Con-Quest JV are required of subcontractors for this project. Shimmick/Con-Quest JV will pay bond premium up to 1.5%. Subcon-tractors will be required to abide by terms and conditions of the AGC Master Labor Agreements and to execute an agreement utilizing the latest SCCI Long Form Standard Subcontract incorporating prime contract terms and condi-tions, including payment provisions. Shimmick/Con-Quest JV’s listing of a Subcontractor is not to be construed as an acceptance of all of the Subcontractor’s conditions or exceptions included with the Subcontractor’s price quote. Shimmick/Con-Quest JV requires that Subcontractors and Suppliers price quotes be provided at a reasonable time prior to the bid deadline to enable a complete evaluation. For assistance with bonding, insurance or lines of credit contact Scott Fairgrieve at (510) 777-5000.

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Turner Construction and Union Bank are kicking off Turner’s annual construction management training program on March 1st in Oakland. Each class provides networking opportunities between other business owners and Turner industry experts that lead the class. The Estimating and Schedul-ing classes have an additional hands-on exercise that offer participants real life work experiences.

A special thanks to Union Bank for their generous support of our program!

WHO SHOULD ATTEND Local, minority-owned, women-owned, disabled veteran owned, dis-advantaged and small emerging businesses that are general contractors, specialty contractors, con-struction managers and construction consultants.

COST OF THE PROGRAM There is NO COST to program participants however, participation in the training program is a commitment to attend a minimum of 11 classes in order to receive a Certificate of Completion.

CLASS SCHEDULE Classes will be held twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM beginning March 1st ending April 14th. Classes consist of two-hour courses in: Ac-counting Basics for Contractors, Business Development/Sales, Estimating, Bidding & Procurement, Field Operations, Insurance & Bonding, Management, Project Delivery Systems & Contract Risk Management, Safety, and Scheduling.

SELECTION PROCESS • There are only 20 spots available. Space is limited, so only one participant per company will

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vantaged and small emerging businesses.• If your company is selected, you will be notified no later than Thursday, February 25th.

TO REGISTER Please contact Elena Anaya at 510-267-8241 or eanaya@tcco.com.

Registration deadline is February 23, 2016

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fixes. I could do a bunch of repairs, which caused our work orders in that community to drop so dra-matically that it was noticed.”

The division president pulled Killinger into his office one day and asked: “What are you doing? You’ve got the fastest repair time in the company.” The young veteran explained what he was doing and got a promotion to assistant superintendent. Eighteen months later, he stepped up another rung on the ladder, becoming the superintendent in charge of building a large community in Oceans-ide.

Once that project was complete, the division president asked him what he ultimately wanted to do for the company. Killinger told him that he’d like to have his job one day, but he knew he had more to learn before he could do it. The division president put him into a training program, and Killinger rotated through purchasing and project management.

Before he could become a division president, K. Hovnanian announced in December 2001 that it would acquire Forecast Homes. If Killinger want-ed to become a division president with the new company, he would have to get his real estate li-cense and serve as a community manager. He did both and ultimately became a division president in 2007, just as the first effects of the housing crisis began.

“At the beginning of the downturn, people had real doubt about whether it would last,” Killinger said. “No one wanted to believe it was happening. Then, it was six months to a year after it hit that management realized they really needed to make changes. ... Picture a homebuilder as a large ship at sea, and when it’s up to speed, it’s moving, and when you’ve got to stop it or make course correc-tions, it takes time to do that.”

Many homebuilders opted to scale down the size of the homes and yards they were offering because most buyers no longer could afford the 3,800-square-foot home. Even now in Sacramen-to, Killinger said, the best-selling neighborhoods are those where homes are priced below $400,000.

“The buyers are willing to compromise on the yard size to get the house. That’s what they want,” Killinger said. “Then you pair that with a 3 7/8 interest rate or a 4 1/8 , and they’re like, ‘You know what? I’m going to get into this house, even though I don’t have a 30-foot backyard and I can’t put a pool in it. I’ve got 10 feet or 12 feet, and my kids can play in it. I can get into a new home, and I can build equity. I’ll compromise today for five years from now.’ ”

Land prices haven’t yet reset to the point where builders can always offer homes in the most afford-able price ranges, he said. Land speculators, who bought up foreclosed properties at steep discounts, are holding onto parcels until they can get a higher premium.

Consequently, Killinger said, he looks for land in cities such as Roseville that lowered their fees amid the housing downturn. Often, he said, the biggest competitor for many new homebuilders are nearby existing homes, so KB Home has fo-

California building industry leader: Home construction making steady comeback

cused on improving energy efficiency. If an existing home has air-conditioning bills totaling $400 or $500, he said, and that bill is $150 for a new home, the consumer recognizes that a lower utility bill will help pay a slightly higher mortgage.

Killinger, a Placerville resident, has been with KB Home for a little more than a year, a post he sought because it brought a larger territory and fresh chal-lenges. He has served on the board of the North State BIA since January 2010.

He described builders as cautiously optimistic that the industry will continue to see small but steady growth for a while. Last year, he said, rough-

ly 3,300 new homes were sold in the Sacramento region, up from about 2,400 in 2014. Statewide, the number of construction industry jobs grew by 6 percent year over year in November, the most recent period for which figures are available.

After surviving the crucible from 2008-13, Kill-inger said, he and other builders are carefully study-ing the resale activity in every market before making decisions on which communities are ripe for new housing developments.

Source: http://www.sacbee.com

The housing industry collapse seasoned Joe Killinger, the new board chair of the North State Building Industry Association, and other building industry executives. Those difficult times continue to shape the way they are doing business amid the rebound. KB Homes offers built-to-order homes. Andrew Seng

A worker carries a potted tree to a new home being developed at the Montauk properties by KB Homes on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Sacramento. Andrew Seng