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UD-M architectural lectures
press the design envelope
January 15, 2003 - With sponsorship provided by the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association, the University of Detroit-Mercy will be hosting a series of lectures by world famous architects during the winter and spring of 2003. Addressing the common theme of "Shifting Ground," the lectures will focus on the architect's awareness of "ground" and its relationship to the practice of architectural design. [More»]

Changes in AISC Structural Steel Code
To Be Topic of GLFEA Breakfast Meeting
Detroit, Jan. 6, 2003 - The new 2000 Code of Standard Practice for Steel Buildings and Bridges from the American Institute of Steel Construction offers clear-cut document language for every structural steel project, according to Steven Ashton, P.E., senior engineer/continuing education with the Chicago, Ill.-based AISC. Changes made in the March 7, 2000, edition of the Code will be the topic of discussion at the next Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association Breakfast Meeting, Jan. 24, at the Westin Hotel at the Town Center, 1500 Northwestern Highway (Northwestern Service Drive at Evergreen), Southfield. [More»]

Gerry Mendek Steps Up
As GLFEA Safety Director
June 26, 2002, Detroit - Gerald T. Mendek, safety coordinator for MBM Fabricators & Erectors of Romulus, has been named the first safety director of the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association. [More»]

GLFEA / MSPE / SEAMi seek nominations
For Annual Steel Systems Awards
April 4, 2002 - April 19 is the deadline to submit nominations for the annual Steel Systems Excellence Awards, presented by the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association, the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers, and the Structural Engineers Association of Michigan. The awards are given to encourage and reward excellence in design, engineering, fabrication and erection of steel systems in Michigan projects. Winners will be announced at the annual evening dinner May 18, as part of the MSPE's 55th annual conference, May 16-19 at the Boyne Highlands Resort near Harbor Springs. [More»]

Vertex Steel Inc.
Joins GLFEA
January 2002 – Milford-based Vertex Steel Inc. joined the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association earlier this month.[More»]

Safe2Work
Members, directors, and officers of the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association gathered recently at the Detroit Athletic Club for the group's annual meeting. [More »]

GLFEA Breakfast Meeting
MIOSHA To Delay Implementing Portions
of New State Steel Erection Rule
Detroit, Sept. 27, 2002 - Sections of the MIOSHA Steel Erection Standard, Part 26, were updated effective Sept. 18, 2002, but the implementation of some of the standard's new provisions won't happen until the New Year. At a Sept. 27 breakfast meeting, the Great Lakes Fabricators and Erectors Association outlined the new rule's key design and fabrication issues. [More»]

GLFEA/UD Mercy School of Architecture
Lecture Series Kicks Off Nov.7th
The University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture 2001-02 lecture series, sponsored by the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association, kicks off Nov. 7 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit.[More»]

From J.S. Alberici Construction Co. –
Lemley Named Senior VP For Great Lakes Region Office;
McCoole honored as 'Construction Person of Year'
GLFEA member firm, the J.S. Alberici Construction Co., St. Louis, Mo., www.alberici.com/home.cfm has named Paul H. Lemley to be senior vice president and general manager of the company's Great Lakes Region office in Livonia. [More»]

GLFEA Donates Structural Steel for
Greening of Detroit Park Education Pavilion
Culminating five years of planning, countless volunteer hours (many from Detroit high school students), and generous monetary and in-kind donations from a variety of partners, the Elizabeth Gordon Sachs Education Pavilion at the Greening of Detroit Park on East Jefferson Avenue was formally opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug. 8. The park is located on Jefferson Avenue between St. Aubin and Rivard streets.[More»]

2001 GLFEA Awards
Significant steel construction projects recognized with very high honors.
A trio of highly interesting structural steel framed construction projects were showcased recently before the annual meeting of the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers (MSPE). The winners of the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association's 2001 Steel Systems Excellence Awards were presented to the engineers by James Walker, the GLFEA's executive director, as representative of the high degree of sophistication and technical ability practiced by his members. [More »]

GLFEA/UD-Mercy Architecture Lecture Series
Architect Mark Horton finds 'design in everything'
Detroit, Nov.7 – In the first of the 2001-2002 series of lectures organized by the University of Detroit-Mercy's School of Architecture, San Francisco, Calif., architect Mark Horton showcased his practice of "traditional architecture…without any pretense or judgment" as a means of "affecting peoples' lives, at some level or another." In his view, good architecture provides a positive "interference" with life if it both delivers creativity and inspires the future practice of it.[More»]

Steel Plays Integral Role in DIA Exhibit;
GLFEA Member MBM Fabricators Helps
From now through December 31 visitors strolling through the Detroit Institute of Arts will be struck by an impressive installation dominating a court near the building's Farnsworth Avenue entrance. Entitled, "Fast Forward, Play Back," it was created Ronit Eisenbach, a professor of architecture at the University of Detroit-Mercy, aided by Peter Sparling, director and choreographer of the Peter Sparling Dance Company of Ann Arbor. Support and assistance was provided by MBM Fabricators Inc., Romulus, a member of the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association. [More»]

2001 Annual Meeting
The 2001 annual meeting of the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association attracted a large crowd of members and related construction professionals to the Detroit Athletic Club. The dinner program was a celebration of spring, featuring a look back at the association's history, and a look into the future, with the assistance of guest speaker Larry Johnson. [More »]

DaimlerChrysler Honors
Walbridge Aldinger Co.
DaimlerChrysler has presented two awards to Walbridge Aldinger Co., Detroit. The firm was celebrated as the sole construction company among 161 construction suppliers to receive the automaker's Commodity Award and Gold Award for attaining preferred ratings in quality, price, delivery, and technology. Walbridge Aldinger also was recognized for its work at seven sites – – the DaimlerChrysler Technology Center, Indiana Transmission Plant, Kokomo Casting Plant, Kokomo Transmission Plant, Mack Avenue 3.7L Engine Plant, Mack Avenue 4.7L Engine Plant, and the Warren Truck Assembly Plant.

Native American-owned Ojibway Industrial
Opens for Business
Ojibway Industrial LLC www.ojibwayindustrial.com, a Native American-owned company, opened for business in April, doing erection of structural steel and miscellaneous iron. The new company, which recently joined the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association, has been certified as a Minority Business Enterprise by the Michigan Minority Business Development Council.[More»]

GLFEA Member Barton Malow Rigging
Installs Statue of Detroit's founder
At Tricentennial Celebration
A highpoint of the re-enactment on July 24th of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac's landing in 1701 at the shores of what would become Detroit was the unveiling of a 2,000 lb. cast bronze statue of Cadillac. A gift to the city of Detroit from the French-American Chamber of Commerce, the nearly 10-ft. tall statue was installed earlier in the month by GLFEA member firm Barton Malow Rigging Co. It is the creation of artists William T. Keiffer and Ann Feeley. M. Raymond Forni, president of the French National Assembly, presided at the unveiling, which capped a nearly two-hour birthday program at Hart Plaza[More »]

2001 Steel Systems Excellence Awards
The Great Lakes Fabricators and Erectors Association in collaboration with the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers and Structural Engineers Association of Michigan, announces a call for nominations for the 2001 Steel Systems Excellence Award [More »]

GLFEA Open House
The food was fabulous, the jazz trio terrific (and looking great, too, with a bass fiddle center court), and the ambience just right for catching up with old friends and making a few new ones as the GLFEA showed off its new headquarters in downtown Detroit. [More »]

News Media Seminar Offers Training In The Power of Positive Recognition
On April 24 the Great Lakes Fabricators will be providing its members with expert advice on news media relations, presented by professionals packing many solid years of experience. [More »]

GLFEA Annual Meeting 2000
Members, directors, and officers of the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association gathered recently at the Detroit Athletic Club for the group's annual meeting. [More »]