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SUMMER 2011 UPDATE

CONSTRUCTION SUMMER 2011

T his has been a great year for Hannah

Allen, daughter of James and Shauna Allen, pictured with the ribbons she won at the Jefferson County fair.

This year Hannah collected a purple ribbon in the Clothing Construction 7-9 yr old category for the sundress she’s wearing, blue ribbons for her Chocolate Pinwheel cookies and her Peanut Butter brownies, another purple ribbon for Leaf Print painting, a blue ribbon for her ceramic horse, another purple ribbon for her woven T-shirt chair mat and for her bucket calf she won a purple ribbon for Consultation and an incredible Grand Champion for her showmanship. Congratulations Hannah!! Very impressive!!!

She’ll have to watch out next year though, because her brother Heath will be old enough to be a 4-H member and plans to compete. He’s already collecting bugs for the Ento-mology project and by next year he’ll have thousands!!

B rent Lan-tis, son of

Brian and Carey Lantis, had a great year at the D o u g l a s County fair. He’s shown in front of his rocket project with the pur-ple ribbon he received for class champion. This year was different because of the dry weather and fire potential, they weren’t allowed to launch their rockets.

Brent also qualified to compete at the state level in 4H Archery. He scored high enough to qualify in two county shooting competitions and advanced to the State meet on October 1st, placing 15th overall in the Open Division. Con-gratualtions Brent!!

Gale Lantis, Mar Lan Construction; Michael Fields, Executive Director, William T. Kemper F o u n d a t i o n ; Reeves Wiedeman, Principal, Helix Architecture; and Tim Van Leer, Executive Director, Lied Center of Kansas attend the ribbon cutting ceremonies held in March 2011 for the new lobby expansion.

After months of planning and design, ground was broken and con-struction started in October 2010. The project consisted of three basic improvements:

Expansion of the existing lobby to reduce congestion and crowding during events,

Construction of a new education pavilion to serve as a learning and performance area that can also provide space for meet-ings, receptions, dinners, and pre- or post-performance activi-ties, and

Provide additional and renovated office space for the Lied Cen-ter staff.

The Lobby expansion portion of the project was completed in time to kickoff the spring 2011 semester.

The center attraction of this project was the education pavilion. From the unique design of the ceiling elements, to the sprung wood

dance floor, to the incredible acoustics, this space offers an inti-mate atmosphere for performance and social events. The new pavil-ion and office remodel were completed this summer.

Early development of a construction phasing plan, and close coor-dination with the Lied staff during the entire project allowed the facility to provide performances and events without any disruption. Mar Lan’s reputation for providing intricate space remodels and building additions to facilities that allow them to remain “open for business” during the construction process was a major factor in getting selected for this project. Our thanks to Lied Center Execu-tive Director Tim Van Leer and his staff for their patience, assis-tance, and tolerance during this period of construction.

These projects were made possible by gifts from The Lied Founda-tion Trust, and the William T. Kemper Foundation. The Lied Center of Kansas is a 2000 seat multi-purpose performing arts center. We encourage you to visit the Lied Center and see the dynamic changes that have taken place.

UPDATE

In December 2009 Mar Lan was selected as the Construction Manager for a $2.5 million expansion project to The Lied Center of Kansas located on KU’s West Campus. Known as one of Lawrence’s and KU’s iconic buildings, the Center

now has a new venue to offer it’s patrons.

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W ay back in 2006 Mar Lan Construction completed their second project with Frontier Farm Credit which was their Manhattan location. Due to their phe-

nomenal growth, they approached us once again to remodel the building by adding a 1,200 sf addition. This addition would include four new offices and a conference room on the north elevation.

Work began in April this year with Kelly Hockey from Mar Lan Construction as job superintendent and James Allen continuing his role as Project Manager for all the Frontier Farm Credit projects. Kelly finished the remodeling in late July, 2011. Throughout the project, Frontier Farm Credit remained open with no down days and are happily occupying the new space.

“Sustainable building is increasing, and will constitute the growing sector in the construc-tion industry in the years to come,” according

to the 2011 McGraw-Hill Construction Report.

Mar Lan Construction believes this trend to be real as well. It would seem that every project we have been involved in over the last few years, be it privately or publicly held, has had some desire to be sustainable.

But what actually constitutes a sustainable project? While sustainability practices and methods are con-stantly evolving and are regionally defined, certain areas of focus are widely accepted as being funda-mental to sustainable building:

Site selection and structural design

Energy efficiency

Efficiency and selection of materials

Indoor environmental quality

Operations and maintenance

Waste reduction

N umber SIX!! We are very proud to say that Frontier Farm Credit has again named Mar Lan Construction as their builder for their new lend-

ing office facility in Hiawatha, Kansas. The new building will closely resem-ble the other four new lending offices we have done for them, although this plan is slightly smaller – 6,941 sf – and there is a change to the roof pro-file.

The current update on the project is that its “dried in” which means it is relatively impervious to water. We can begin working on the interior with sheetrock, rough-in electrical and plumbing, etc. Fernando Velilla, the job superintendent, is getting geared up to experience “Hiway 36 winter” which basically means bad, frigid winds, and freezing temperatures. This will be unlike the balmy temps he experienced when building the Parsons Frontier Farm Credit back in the Van Horn “drought” of 2007-08 where the worst he had to deal with was daily monsoons.

E mployees of McFarlane Aviation are shown in the picture above literally jumping for joy at the

groundbreaking ceremony for their new 24,480 sq ft building project. Mar Lan Construction was chosen in March 2011 to be the construction manager. McFarlane contracted with Hernley Associates as the architect and Landplan Engineering as the civil engi-neers. Mar Lan chose PKMR Engineers for the MEP design.

The building envelope is our first pre-engineered pro-ject with the IPS (insulated panel system) wall panels. This 2-1/2” foam core panel along with the Simple Saver roof insulation system provides a superior R-value to the building closure. Providing an extra layer of comfort as well as natural daylight is the placement of window units and a clerestory window system of translucent polycarbonate panels on the south eleva-tion. Sunshades will be provided on the window units as a heat gain/loss strategy as well.

M ar Lan is in the final stages of the project installing finishing touches on this incredible addition to the City of Ottawa.

Shown in this picture is the main focus of the project—the multi-purpose gymnasium. Designed to provide playing courts for a full-size basketball court of two youth courts, it can also provide a one or two court volleyball configuration. The gymnasium is equipped with a sound system for announcements and enter-tainment and is flanked on either end with scoreboards.

Also a great feature is the running track which provides three lanes and is an oval design. It runs suspended above the play-ing courts overflow areas and optimizes the space very well. The flooring system creates an almost padded feel and pro-vides a great running or walking surface for all ages.

The scope includes offices, a break room, and exercise and shower facility that doubles as a storm shelter, warehousing, shipping, production areas and support rooms. The project also required that the new building be tied into the existing facility by way of connec-tor buildings. The expansive Sitework in-cluded a new entrance off 1700 Road, new storm water plan, and expanded sanitary lat-eral field, detention pond, concrete drives and parking lots, extension of the grass runway and landscaping to accent this already fabu-lous project.

The McFarlane Aviation project is one of the first large scale in the private sector that Mar Lan Construction has constructed in awhile. We are hopeful that this is a sign that the economy is starting to truly come around.