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Trends in Architecture THE MAGAZINE OF THE MASTER BUILDERS’ ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016 Trends in Architecture BreakingGround Marks 10 Years! New Overtime Rules for A/E Firms Using Master Planning for Financial Success hospitality | sports | education pittsburgh | cleveland enriching lives through design For over 25 years, ThenDesign Architecture (TDA) has been recognized for our comprehensive services in planning, architecture and interior design. We are proud to create spaces that bring people together and make an impact in the community – including the recent Revel + Roost restaurant in downtown Pittsburgh. thendesign.com Locate Your Business in WESTPORT Pittsburgh’s New Industrial Edge City Ideally located just 3 minutes from Pittsburgh International Airport in Findlay Township, WESTPORT offers immediate availability of prime development sites and flex industrial, office and distribution space ranging from 6,000 - 300,000 SF. 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Wiegman Tall Timber Group Master Builders’ Association 07 REGIONAL MARKET 54 MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE of Western PA UPDATE Creating a Collaborative Dialogue/ Carpenters’ Design Build Competition and ADVERTISING DIRECTOR 11 NATIONAL MARKET James Kling Fellowship Award Karen Kukish UPDATE 412-837-6971 59 MBE/WBE SPOTLIGHT [email protected] 19 WHAT’S IT COST? Architectural Innovations Inc. MORE INFORMATION: BreakingGroundTM is published 20 FEATURE 61 BEST PRACTICE by Tall Timber Group for the Trends Affecting Architecture Using Master Planning for Financial Success Master Builders’ Association of Western Pennsylvania, 412-922- 34 PROJECT PROFILE 63 FACES & PLACES 3912 or www.mbawpa.org Revel + Roost at Tower Two-Sixty 64 INDUSTRY Archive copies of & COMMUNITY NEWS BreakingGroundTM can be viewed 44 FIRM PROFILE at www.mbawpa.org W. G. Tomko Inc. 67 AWARDS & CONTRACTS No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission 49 FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE by the Publisher. All rights reserved. New IRS Rules Define Overtime for 70 2016 NAIOP PITTSBURGH Architects and Engineers BUYER’S GUIDE This information is carefully gathered and compiled in such a manner as to ensure maximum accuracy. We cannot, and do 52 LEGAL PERSPECTIVE 84 CLOSING OUT not, guarantee either the correctness of Preventing Limitation of Michael P. McDonnell, AIA all information furnished nor the complete absence of errors and omissions. Hence, Liability End-Runs Principal, Chief Operating Officer, IKM Inc. responsibility for same neither can be, President, AIA Pittsburgh nor is, assumed. Keep up with regional construction and real estate events at www.buildingpittsburgh.com BreakingGround September/October 2016 3 SARGENT ELECTRIC COMPANY FERRY ELECTRIC COMPANY LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY T.P. ELECTRIC, INC. KIRBY ELECTRIC, INC. SCHULTHEIS ELECTRIC / T.S.B. INC. HANLON ELECTRIC COMPANY MARSULA ELECTRIC, INC. CASTEEL CORPORATION DAGOSTINO ELECTRONIC SERVICES, INC. LANCO ELECTRIC, INC. KEYSTONE ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION BRUCE & MERRILEES ELECTRIC COMPANY HATZEL & BUEHLER, INC. MILLER ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION, INC. CHURCH & MURDOCK ELECTRIC, INC. DAVID W. JONES COMPANY DONATELLI ELECTRICAL SERVICES, INC. MILLER INFORMATION SYSTEMS FUELLGRAF ELECTRIC COMPANY BLACKHAWK-NEFF, INC. STAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC. HOFFMAN ELECTRIC COMPANY TJR ENTERPRISES, INC. PRECISION ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS BECA ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOC. R.E. YATES ELECTRIC, INC. NEWCO ELECTRIC COMPANY TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES HIGH VOLTAGE MAINTENANCE WE POWER PENNSYLVANIA LABOR RELATIONS / EDUCATION / BRAND GROWTH / GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS / EVENTS & PROGRAMS •5 HOT METAL STREET, SUITE 301 • PITTSBURGH, PA 15203• •412.432.1155• •WWW.WPANECA.COM• Publisher’s Note eptember’s BreakingGround marks the tenth an- especially during the first few years. Anybody who tells you niversary of the publication and I’m keenly aware that’s not powerful stuff is lying. that it has taken much good luck and the incred- ible support of thousands of people in construc- What we attempted to do when we started publishing in tion and real estate to keep us going that long. the summer of 2006 was to tell the market things about the SNo matter what else I think or say about hanging around industry that it didn’t know. But we also intended to focus for a decade, I need to start with thank you. So if this note on the positive things going on in the region. Pittsburgh suf- sounds a little like an Academy Awards acceptance speech, fered from a regional inferiority complex at the time. (We’ve I apologize. overcome that by now.) And it’s no wonder. Every layoff made front page news. Local politicians were constantly moaning First and foremost, it has been enormously helpful to have about how nobody wanted to live here. Anyone doing even had the support of the Master Builders’ Association of West- five minutes media research on the region would conclude ern PA, for whom we publish this gem. Jack Ramage, the that Pittsburgh was a bad place to be. MBA’s executive director, has been at the helm throughout this journey and has been an invaluable sounding board, Yet during that same ten-year period, 45,000 new housing advisor and friend. I owe a big thank you to Jon O’Brien, who units were built, most of them single-family homes for sale. just started a new chapter of his career as the executive direc- That didn’t square with the negative public impression. tor of the MBA’s counterpart in Harrisburg. We’ve operated Something good had to be happening. We just didn’t know through parts of the tenures of five board presidents: Joe about it. It was more than just ignorance, too. Impressions in- Burchick, Cliff Rowe, Tom Landau, Dean Mosites and Steve fluence behavior and our collective negative self-image was Massaro – who was the one asked to approach me about influencing negative behavior when it came to investment. considering such a publication after the sale of Pittsburgh Construction News in 2005. It was the MBA’s goal, when Let me give you an example of how that happens. Because we started publishing, to have a magazine that reflected its of three shark attacks within a couple of weeks, the summer role as the “voice of the construction industry.” I hope we’ve of 2001 was dubbed “The Summer of the Shark” by the me- achieved that goal. dia. With a few years perspective, those that cared to check discovered that fewer shark attacks occurred in 2001 than We’ve had hundreds of advertisers, including dozens of average; and the five fatalities were half as many as occurred companies that continue to advertise in every edition. If you the previous year. After the media got hold of the story in check your subscription price you’ll quickly realize that it’s July, beach towns reported countless vacation cancellations the advertisers that literally pay the freight. It’s especially by fearful Americans. People made financial choices based gratifying that quite a few of the advertisers in this edition upon what they heard rather than what they knew. I believe were with us during that first year – and even the first edition that was true of choices made about Pittsburgh too. in September 2006. Here again, I hope we have provided the value that has justified their investment in BreakingGround. Look, we’ve certainly published negative stories. It was im- For that investment, I can’t thank them enough. possible to write about the economy in 2009 without being negative. But even in down times, good things still happen. Perhaps the most gratifying and surprising investment has We choose to find those things and present them to you. I come from our readers. My passion and my work have been don’t think we’ll ever apologize for that. about providing content. But succeeding at that line of work requires consumers of content, in this case magazine read- So we begin the second decade of BreakingGround unapol- ers. I can’t tell you that I was certain that the things I thought ogetically but gratefully. Thanks again to all of you who read were interesting were going to be interesting to the people the magazine and especially to those who have applauded, in the industry; or, that we could present content in a way criticized, corrected and supported BreakingGround.
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