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FALL 2016

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Above: Dean Snyder Construction crews started in May on a new pre-engineered building addition for Stellar Industries in Garner, Iowa.

D ean Snyder Construction crews started construction on a

new design-build 40,000 SF Ceco Building Systems

pre-engineered building in May for Stellar Industries, Inc., in

Garner, Iowa. This new building is replacing two existing

buildings and will hold additional manufacturing capacity and

support for the company.

One building has already been demolished while the other is

2/3 torn down. Crews built around and over the remaining 1/3

of the building so Stellar can continue operations in it. Once

the addition is complete, crews will demolish the rest of the

old building.

The project is design-build with DSC Design Group. Crews

are expected to be substantially completed by January 2017.

Stellar Industries, founded in 1990, builds hydraulic truck-

mounted equipment like hooklift hoists, container carriers,

and work truck accessories.

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Replace The Lace Campaign

This September, DSC employees worked together to

spread awareness for Childhood Cancer Awareness

Month by replacing their normal shoe laces with

custom gold ones from an organization called

Compass to Care. DSC purchased 50 pairs of

shoelaces and handed them out on jobsites and in

the office, encouraging employees to send a photo

in and use #replacethelace on social media.

Every two minutes a child is diagnosed with

cancer. Proceeds from the sale of the laces goes

towards covering the costs families face when

traveling to and from their child’s cancer treatment.

Custom to Care, a 501(c)(3) charitable

organization, ensures all families can access

life-saving cancer treatment for their children by

helping to schedule and pay for travel arrangements

to the hospital where their child is being treated for

cancer.

Learn more information at http://compasstocare.org

and http://replacethelace.org/.

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DSC Crews Return to Valent

Earlier this year, DSC crews returned to Valent

BioSciences Corporation in Osage, Iowa, to install a

new 130,800 liter (34,553 gallon) Harvest Tank into

their facility to help expand their operations. Crews had to open the 2nd floor area, remove

existing steel and a roof-supported monorail bridge

crane, pour a new equipment pad on the 1st floor, and

set the 47’ tall tank into a 75’ tall building using a

275-ton crane. DSC’s Randy Rinnels was onsite with

the 50-ton crane to help tail the tank.

Crews then had to reframe the 2nd floor and

reinstall the roof, the monorail crane, and sprinkler

system.

Valent BioSciences held their grand

opening in Osage in June 2014. The

130,000 SF plant is the manufacturing and

quality control center for their fermentation

products and is the largest purpose-built

biorational product facility in the world.

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VeroBlue Farms in Webster City will soon be producing 7 million

pounds of fish annually and will be the largest onshore, indoor fish

farm facility in North America. The company supplies live and fresh

barramundi fish throughout the United States, primarily to Asian

restaurants.

DSC is onsite working on two design-build projects simultaneously.

Crews started this summer on converting a 270,000 SF manufactur-

ing building once owned by Electrolux into VeroBlue’s Urban Farm

project in Webster City. Once complete, the building will hold

240 fiberglass tanks, each holding 10,000 gallons of water. (In

comparison, their current production has only 36 tanks and produces

about one million fish annually.) The water in the tanks will stay at

80 degrees with the air temperature at 82 degrees. The freshwater

tanks keep the fish active and swimming upstream, and each tank

will raise about 20,000 lbs. of fish annually.

The other project includes expanding their existing operation at their

Nursery outside of Webster City. Here the fish grow to the size of a

finger and then are loaded over to the Urban Farm to finish growing

to 2.5 lbs. This 20,000 SF building will have a truck loading area

addition and will start growing fish on January 1.

Barramundi fish have a six month growing time in this aquaculture

environment. They are imported from Australia and are flaky, white

fish high in Omega 3, low in Omega 6, and have a very high health

content. If they were grown outdoors, it would take them more than

two years to reach 2.5 lbs.

DSC Helping Expand Iowa Aquaculture Project

On Monday, September 19, DSC along with North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) administration, instructors, and students gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new 1,500 sq. ft. house to be built on the NIACC campus by the Building Trades Program. It will later be sold and moved to its permanent location by its new owner. Funding and design for the project came from a $100,000 donation from Dean Snyder Construction.

“This is an excellent opportunity for our students to be a part of a home built from the ground up. Beyond the obvious construction skills they will develop and refine, they will also learn important decision making and problem solving skills that are critical on a job site,” said Gregg Helmich, NIACC Building Trades Instructor.

Welcome to the company, Alece Hall!

New to Dean Snyder Construction as our Corporate Lawyer is Alece Hall. Alece has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Creighton University and a Juris Doctor degree from John Marshall Law School.

Alece’s duties include reviewing contracts, legal analysis, disputes, etc.

Alece lives in Chicago, IL, with her husband Tim, a 9-year-old bichon named Griffen, and a 1-year-old bernedoodle named Hans. They are expecting their first child on December 3. In her free time, she enjoys trying new restaurants in Chicago, baking, reading, and taking “the boys” to the dog park.

Iowa Celebrates Construction Week

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad designated the

first week of October as “Construction

Week.” Construction companies used the

week to promote community awareness of

the construction industry as a safe, exciting,

and rewarding career option. DSC posted

several jobsite progress photos and highlighted

employees throughout our social media pages.

WWA’s Reed Wessman: Licensed Architect

WWA is pleased to announce Reed Wessman has passed his final Architectural Registration Exam to become a

licensed architect in Iowa. He has served as an Architect Intern for 9 years with WWA. Reed says he got into architecture because as a kid he loved drawing floor plans or creating structures with Legos. Now when he is not in the office designing state-of-the-art churches or 21st century learning facilities, he spends his time making epic Lego creations with his boys. One of Reed’s latest projects was just completed in Mason City - an expansion for Grace Church.

Grace Church Expansion

With a growing congregation, Grace Church in Mason City had outgrown its space. Working with WWA, a groundbreaking ceremony was hosted last summer to commence a 13,700 SF addition. Construction was just completed last month. The addition includes classrooms for children in preschool through 5th grade, a full-service kitchen, and a multipurpose room for worship and children’s activities. WWA knew flexibility was key to the project, so they included movable partitions as part of the design. These will be utilized to divide classroom spaces into either seven or eleven individual classrooms.

Waggoner & Wineinger Architects is a subsidiary of DSC.

High School Trades Students Tour Two DSC Jobsites with Lunch & Learn

In our most recent Onsite Lunch & Learn,

industrial tech students from Garner-

Hayfield-Ventura High School were given

the opportunity to step out of the

classroom and onto two of our jobsites in

Garner, Iowa.

GHV Instructor Jeff Short & the students

were led by DSC Project Superintendents Chris Culler and Mike Dorenkamp

around the Stellar Industries addition and the Garner Public Library. Each

Superintendent explained the project, its current progress, and answered

questions.

DSC provided lunch to the students while they learned about the hiring process

at DSC and various positions within the company. NIACC’s Building Trades

Instructor Gregg Helmich was also there to inform the students about their trades

program and scholarship opportunities.