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Awe-inspiring, expansive and packed with modern amenities, the KICC promises to elevate the city’s convention and tourism game to a whole new level – delivering over a $50 million annual economic impact for the commonwealth. kyconvention.org KICC-02097-Adrenaline2(8.125X10.875).indd 1 9/13/18 11:39 AM OCTOBER LaneThe Report 2018 Kentucky’s Business News Source For 33 Years Volume 33 Number 10 22 GENOMICS IMPROVES KENTUCKY CANCER CARE Informatics tools making treatment of nation’s worst concentration of malignancy personal 26 TARIFFS TILTING PROJECT FINANCES Steel, aluminum price hikes complicate construction bidding for designers and builders 30 COVER STORY BEING AN ARCHITECT IS ‘A FUN JOB’ AGAIN Busy Kentucky design firms are growing with the rebounding state and national construction market 33 GETTING COZY WITH THE CLOUD Kentucky businesses shift more services and IT operations away from legacy systems Departments 4 Perspective 36 Emerging Lane 6 Fast Lane 38 The Lane List 14 Interstate Lane 39 Spotlight on the Arts 15 Kentucky Intelligencer 40 Exploring Kentucky 16 Corporate Moves 42 Passing Lane 17 On the Boards 44 Kentucky People 18 Lane One-on-One: William “Bill” Butler Chairman/CEO, Corporex Companies LLC On the Cover lanereport.com Pent up construction demand that Kentucky Business News Online accumulated during and after the Great Read up-to-the-minute Kentucky business news stories, Recession now has Kentucky architects current and archived copies of The Lane Report, in the midst of what for many is the Market Reviews, Health Kentucky, Research Kentucky busiest times they’ve ever had. special reports and community profiles. 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Learn more about how a business-friendly state ArkansasEDC.com/probusiness can work for you at ArkansasEDC.com/probusiness. 1-800-ARKANSAS LaneThe Report Kentucky’s Business News Source for 33 Years PERSPECTIVE EXECUTIVE EDITOR Mark Green ASSOCIATE EDITOR Karen Baird NEW CARS, declined by 65 percent since 1980, DIGITAL EDITOR emissions by Russia and China during Jonathan Miller CLEANER AIR the same period have risen by nearly twice as much as ours have dropped. CREATIVE DIRECTOR Changes in EPA, Transportation Market forces, not burdensome and Jessica Merriman tactics will make travel safer, too DIGITAL REPORTER expensive federal regulations, are Matt Wickstrom credited with producing much of CREATIVE SERVICES BY PAT FREIBERT America’s decreased emissions of Stone Advisory greenhouse gases. Fracking has lowered Paul Blodgett the price of natural gas so that it is CORRESPONDENTS cheaper than coal, dramatically cutting Michael Agin; Katherine Tandy Brown; HAT do the president’s carbon emissions. The private sector’s Russ Brown; Chris Clair; Clary Estes; proposed changes in federal “can do” approach along with certain Kevin Gibson; Susan Gosselin; Robert Hadley; WCAFE (Corporate Average Fuel federal requirements are both necessary Lorie Hailey; Debra Gibson Isaacs; Abby Laub; Economy) standards have to do with the to continue the effort to lower carbon Esther Marr; Greg Paeth; Robin Roenker; Josh average American? And how has the U.S. Shepherd; Sean Slone; Katheran Wasson; emissions into the atmosphere. Gary Wollenhaupt; Dawn Yankeelov been able to reduce its carbon emissions Former Vice President Al Gore, a by 65 percent since the year 2000. PUBLISHERS Nobel Peace Prize winner, and other Brett Lane In an effort to reduce such emissions left-wing spokesmen and women have Meredith Lane Ferguson into the atmosphere, CAFE standards continued to preach sermons in an SENIOR ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER were dramatically increased by the effort to force Americans out of their Donna Hodsdon Obama administration. Some of those cars. Remember Gore’s refrain, “the ASSOCIATE PUBLISHERS CAFE standards produced a significant combustible engine is one of the worst Hal Moss hidden tax on American drivers and a inventions of all time.” Stephen Moore, Kristina Dahl drag on the economy. If left economist and adviser to presidents, CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER unchanged, these standards can result reminds us what the combustible Nicole Conyers White in CAFE requirements mandating a rise engine replaced: the horse, “one of the CONSULTANT in fuel efficiency from its present 35 most prodigious polluters of all time. Dick Kelly miles per gallon to 54 mpg in 2025. The average 1,000-pound horse dumps MARKETING CONSULTANT That would raise the cost of many new 30 pounds of feces and 2 gallons of Curtiss Smith cars by $3,000. urine a day. Can anyone imagine what CIRCULATION/IT To address these and other negative Washington, D.C., or Pittsburgh or New Josiah White results from the draconian Orleans smelled like on a hot, requirements scheduled in existing FOUNDER sweltering summer day or what all that Ed Lane regulations, the U.S. Secretary of feces did to our water supply. Oh, and 1985-2015 Transportation Elaine Chao and watch where you step!” Environmental Protection Agency Horses need to be on beautiful Blue SYNDICATED COLUMNS Administrator Andrew Wheeler have Grass farms or race tracks, not Creators Syndicate developed a new rule “that can save transporting goods and people across PRINTING & CIRCULATION SERVICES lives, reduce pollution, grow the the country. Henry Ford’s mass Publishers Printing Co. economy and let people buy the cars production of automobiles gave our WEB MARKETING & PUBLISHING they want.” horses a rest. eLink Design The Department of Transportation By the way, Secretary Chao tells us IT SERVICES finds that the best way to achieve cleaner that the Department of Transportation NetGain Technologies air is when families