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 A Ribbon Cutting was held October 16, 2009 to celebrate the addition of the new house at 724 2nd Street SW in Rochester, Minnesota. This addition makes the Gift of Life the largest transplant house in the country. Yaggy Colby Associates provided all architectural, engineering, and civil services for the new 36-room guest home in Rochester, Minnesota. The mission of the Gift of Life Transplant House is to provide a high quality, affordable, and inviting homelike facility for transplant patients. In recent years, the facility has been filled to capacity, leaving some patients to find alternative accommodations. To remedy this, Yaggy Colby Associates was chosen to design the facility, which also includes common areas with communal dining, kitchen spaces, activity room, library, and living spaces. Special care and attention was paid in designing spaces that reflect a homelike atmosphere and a sense of family living, which helps to facilitate the organ transplant rehabilitation process. |
Carol L. Johnson has recently joined Yaggy Colby Associates as a Senior Real Estate Specialist for the Transportation Department based in our Eagan, Minnesota office. She has over 20 years of experience in the real estate field including appraising, acquisition services, title abstracting, and wind energy land and title activities. Her wide range of experience has been for both public and private projects.
Ms. Johnson owned and operated CLJ Right-of-Way, Inc., for approximately 8 years and served as a Ramsey County Condemnation Commissioner. Carol has a masters degree in Human Services (psychology) from Capella University, and a BS Degree in Psychology from Metropolitan State University.
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Robert Gelle, PE has joined Yaggy Colby Associates as the Director of Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Services in the Rochester office. Robb has over 18 years of experience in mechanical system design and construction for healthcare, higher education, laboratory, data center, commercial, cleanroom, industrial, institutional, power and manufacturing projects and markets. Robb has acted as a lead mechanical engineer, designing HVAC, piping, plumbing, cryogenics, controls, and fire suppression systems for new construction, remodels and infrastructure/utility upgrades. Robb’s experience with and knowledge of mechanical systems and building management (controls) systems has proven to be extremely beneficial for the evaluation of existing building systems, selection of cost effective/energy efficient systems, schematic “big-picture” system design/budgeting and trouble shooting new/existing systems. |
Andrew Masterpole of the Rochester, Minnesota office recently passed his LEED certification and is now a LEED Accredited Professional. LEED, the "Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design" Green Building Rating System, is the nationally accepted standard for green buildings developed by the USGBC membership.
Andy serves as a Senior Landscape Architect and Urban Designer for the Land Development Department in the Rochester office. |
Craig Ruhland of the Rochester, Minnesota office recently passed his LEED certification and is now a LEED Accredited Professional. LEED, the "Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design" Green Building Rating System, is the nationally accepted standard for green buildings developed by the USGBC membership.
Craig is a Design Landscape Architect serving both the Landscape Architecture and Land Development Departments within the Rochester office |
Sarah Binkowski of the Delafield, Wisconsin office recently passed her LEED certification and is now a LEED Accredited Professional. LEED, the "Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design" Green Building Rating System, is the nationally accepted standard for green buildings developed by the USGBC membership.
Sarah serves as a Project Planner and Landscape Architect for the Delafield Office. |
Yaggy Colby Associates and the City of Rochester have received a prestigious 2009 Engineering Excellence Honor Award from the Consulting Engineers Council of Minnesota (ACEC). This honor was awarded to the firm for the design of the Peace Plaza in Rochester, Minnesota. The Municipal Team of Yaggy Colby Associates provided lead design and civil engineering services for this project as well as project management and construction inspection.
The Peace Plaza has created a pedestrian friendly urban area which carries visitors from the heart of the Mayo clinic to a variety of retail and entertainment venues within the downtown. The Peace Plaza has been increased in length a full block, giving local organizers much needed room for festivals, programming and future growth.
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James Theobald of the Rochester, Minnesota office recently passed his LEED certification and is now a LEED Accredited Professional. LEED, the "Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design" Green Building Rating System, is the nationally accepted standard for green buildings developed by the USGBC membership. James serves as a Project Manager, Specification Writer and Architectural Drafter and his experience in the architecture field extends over the past 11 years. |
Alyssa Fordham of the Rochester, Minnesota office recently passed her LEED certification and is now a LEED Accredited Professional. LEED, the "Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design" Green Building Rating System, is the nationally accepted standard for green buildings developed by the USGBC membership. Alyssa is an Intern Architect and her background experience in the design field includes experience in both residential and commercial backgrounds. |
Wade Goss of the Rochester, Minnesota office recently passed his LEED certification and is now a LEED Accredited Professional. LEED, the "Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design" Green Building Rating System, is the nationally accepted standard for green buildings developed by the USGBC membership. Wade serves as an Architectural / Structural Drafter and his experience in the architecture field extends over the past 10 years. |
John (Jack) Funck, AIA has joined Yaggy Colby Associates as a Senior Project Architect in the Delafield, Wisconsin Office. He has over 40 years of experience in architectural practice including research, planning and design, as well as administering building projects, design construction procedures, zoning and building codes and construction materials. Jack will also assist the other YCA offices in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa with business development services. Jack served as a studio head and manager of the architectural divisions of other local architecture / engineering firms, and also owned his own firm, providing healthcare design planning on a national scale. A distinctive position of his career was serving as the construction administration architect on the Miller Park Baseball Stadium in Milwaukee.
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The Delafield office is joining WasteCap Wisconsin, a state-wide nonprofit organization that provides waste reduction and recycling assistance to businesses. WasteCap Wisconsin offers a variety of services that target solid waste issues and help organizations find workable, cost-effective solutions. WasteCap can aid organization with setting up and facilitating on-site recycling programs on construction projects of any scale.
More specifically the organization provides:
Training
Accreditation
Media exposure
Networking opportunities
Resources for running a construction site recycling program, including contact information for "reuse, recycling, and compost markets.
Joining WasteCap is a natural fit with Yaggy Colby Associates' corporate LEED/green initiative. We hope to gain knowledge, exposure, and credibility. We will also have access to current information and trends, such as the fact that in 2009 WisDOT will allow 10% use of recycled shingles in hot mix asphalt. We are currently helping incorporate construction site recycling methods into two City of Delafield projects. By coordinating with the general contractor for both projects, M.A. Mortenson, we will gain first hand experience with the construction site recycling process, save the City in waste hauling costs, and create positive PR and "green" exposure for the City and the project teams. For more information visit http://www.wastecapwi.org/ |
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