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V O L . X X I V N O. X V I I A U G U S T 6 , 2 0 1 8 14 BUILDING BUSINESS Congratulations to Kara Brochu and Evan Beaulieu on their recent promotions to Account Manager! www.HancockLumber.com/Culture Kara Brochu has been a member of Team Hancock for over 13 years, starting as a Counter Pro in Bridgton and advancing through the years to Inside Sales Support, Project Pro, and now an Account Manager handling outside sales in Windham. Kara will apply her exceptional building materials knowl- edge and customer relationships to service some of Western Maine's finest builders. Evan Beaulieu is a star at our Brunswick store, wearing every hat necessary to help operations and customer service run smoothly over the years. Evan's creativity, eagerness to learn, and attention to detail have helped him earn this important role on Brunswick's outside sales team as an Account Man- ager. He's built a career from the ground up and we look for- ward to his future at Hancock Lumber. Congratulations to these talented employees on earning Account Manager positions through their hard work, en- thusiasm and dedicated effort on their career journeys at Hancock Lumber! BY PETER VAN ALLEN HEALTH CARE, SHIPBUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN WORKS Maine Coast Construction of Camden will build the planned Building 6 at Front Street Shipyard in Belfast. John Hansen of South omaston is the architect. e 22,500-square-foot building will accom- modate large yacht refits and commercial vessel construction. Ouellet Construction of Brunswick is build- ing the multipurpose center at All Saints Parish in Brunswick. Other contractors include Nate Libby Masonry, Novel Iron Works, Ray Labbe & Sons and Al's Plumbing. The designer is Scott Simons Architects. Herbert Construction of Lewiston is man- aging construction of a 39,800-square- f o o t f ac i l i t y i n D a m a r i s c o t t a f o r LincolnHealth / MaineHealth. It will house provider practices and consulta- tion space for a dietician, pharmacist, social worker and other professionals. ere will be community room for both the public and staff use. e designer is E4H Environments for Health Architecture. AlliedCook Construction of Scarborough completed the Residences at Eliot Commons, an affordable senior hous- ing facility in Eliot. It was developed by David Bateman and is owned by Fred Forsley. e site was developed in a TIF district, aiding the financing aspect. INDUSTRY OUTREACH MaineWorks, which provides labor for construction companies, is a B Corp-certified employment agency. Recently it launched a nonprofit partner organization, the Maine Recovery Fund, to provide community support to people in recovery that are trying to re-enter the workforce. MaineWorks provides the job, while MRF provides the funding, knowledge, relationships and training that bridge the gap between hopelessness and resiliency. PEOPLE ON THE MOVE GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., an environmental and geotechnical consulting firm, promoted Gary R. McAllister to principal. e Wells resident is in GZA's Portland office. He has 28 years of geotechnical and civil engineering experience, from conceptual planning through construction and has been with GZA since 2006. He leads the company's power, oil and gas sector. GZA is based in Norwood, Mass., and has 650 employees. RECOGNITION Whitten Architects in Portland received the Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture from the American Institute of Architects. e citation was for its Family Farmhouse project in Brunswick. Jessie Carroll, an associate principal, was the project leader. "It's a tremendous honor for me to accept this award on behalf of my work at Whitten," says Carroll, who has been at Whitten since 2013. "e Family Farmhouse is just one great example of the meaningful projects we are lucky enough to be part of in Maine and beyond." Carroll is a licensed architect in Maine and an adjunct faculty member at University of Maine Augusta, and on the AIA Maine Board of Directors. P H O T O / W H I T T E N A R C H I T E C T S P H O T O / C O U R T E S Y G Z A Whitten Architects in Portland received the Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture from the American Institute of Architects. The citation was for its Family Farmhouse project in Brunswick. Gary R. McAllister

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