HGA Architects and Engineers, one of the states largest design firms, has a new chief executive. On Feb. 1, Tim Carl succeeded Dan Avchen, who had been the companys CEO since 1996 and will now focus on strategic planning.

Throughout HGAs growth from a regional to a national firm, design excellence has always been at the heart of our philosophy and practice, and no one understands how to usher that legacy into the future better than Tim, Avchen said. Tim is a consummate designer and leader, and he recognizes the many opportunities for growth and innovation both within our firm and for our clients.

Carl, 51, has been at HGA for 17 years, most recently as a design principal working with designers in various offices on a number of projects. Hes won several design awards, and led design efforts on several high-profile projects, including the University of Minnesotas Northrop Auditorium renovation, the expansion and renovation of General Mills headquarters and the Nelson Cultural Center addition to the American Swedish Institute.

Carl also led the teams design and planning for the new St. Paul Chamber Orchestra concert hall, and is leading the design on a new Conservatory of Music and Dance for the University of Missouri Kansas City.

Dan and the senior leadership at HGA have built an extraordinary architectural firm, and I am honored to have this opportunity, Carl said. Our legacy is built on a culture of collaboration across a tremendous diversity of talent bringing the best ideas forward for clients in nine industries ranging from health care and corporate environments to higher education and energy infrastructure. This is an exciting time for HGA, and I am looking forward to the future and working with our teams and clients throughout the country.

HGA recently acquired a firm in San Jose, Calif., and has more than 650 employees. Building Design + Construction recently said HGA was one of the top 10 architecture and engineering firms in the United States.

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These artists impressions show plans for a retail park in Speke which could create around 1,000 jobs.

Shoppers at The New Mersey Shopping Park were today asked for their views on proposals for a new cinema and six restaurants at the site.

The public exhibition continues tomorrow and allows residents to see the scheme and give feedback before a planning application is submitted.

Alun Hayes, a spokesman for development company British Land, told the ECHO the cinema and restaurants will be on the existing Currys site.

Currys will move to the vacant Comet unit. A map showing the plans for new development at New Mersey Retail Park

The existing retail space at the shopping park will be altered to provide smaller units for more shops.

Mr Hayes said: It will be more flexible space.

It is in response to what existing retailers and new retailers want. Theyve told us they want smaller units.

Mr Hayes said Cineworld had agreed to run the cinema but the occupants for the restaurant units and new shops would be agreed if and when planning approval is given.

If Liverpool council gives the proposals the go ahead British Land says up to 600 full and part time jobs in retail and another 390 construction jobs would be created.

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Washington D.C. (PRWEB) March 09, 2015

PCB International, LLC (Gaithersburg, MD) has been a Verified Vendor with US Federal Contractor Registration since March 2014. In April of 2014, PCB International, LLC decided to enroll into the Simplified Acquisition Program. PCB International, LLC managed to land a government contract five months into the program for $83,118 with the Department of State. PCB International, LLC had the principal North American Industry Classification (NAICS) code of 238990 - All Other Speciality Trade Contractors, in which the Department of t State required to award the solicitation. Businesses like PCB International, LLC in Maryland accounted for over $27 billion in government contracts and 119,126 contract transactions in 2014, according to USASpending.gov.

US Federal Contractor Registration assigns an Acquisition Specialist to every business looking to become registered and begin a government marketing program. Each Acquisition Specialist acts as a federal liaison to that business and conducts a qualification process. The qualification process was conducted to discover available contracting opportunities and assessed the overall spending devoted to their trade in government contracting. This process helped PCB International, LLC determine which areas to development solutions and plan accordingly.

Below is a copy of PCB International, LLCs government contract as posted to the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS):

Vendor Name:PCB INTERNATIONAL, LLC Contracting Agency: STATE, DEPARTMENT OF September 26, 2014 Action Obligation: $83,118 Contracting Office: AMERICAN EMBASSY- HARARE NAICS (Code): ALL OTHER SPECIALTY TRADE CONTRACTORS ( 238990 ) PSC (Code): ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING- CONSTRUCTION: MAINTENANCE BUILDINGS ( C1EB ) Vendor City: GAITHERSBURG Vendor DUNS: 157117743 Vendor State: MD Vendor ZIP: 208791471

About PCB International, LLC

PCB International LLC (PCBi) offers structural engineering design and construction services for commercial, industrial, institutional and Federal Government clients. Their firm offers specialist design services for Diplomatic Mission buildings including physical security systems. PCBi also specializes in seismic bracing of non-structural systems in high seismic zones.

PCBi is driven by its core values of integrity, knowledge, innovation and service, and they consider these to be the foundation for a lasting mutual relationship between the company and its Clients. They are best known for taking their Clients out of very difficult situations and this is demonstrated by the number of returning Clients and new referrals that come to their business on the recommendation of the existing Clients.

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DUNS: 157117743 CAGE: 3Y7E5 Active in SAM; Registration valid until 03/14/2016 Small Business Minority Owned Business NAICS Codes Selected: 236115 - New Single-Family Housing Construction (Expect For-Sale Builders) 236116 - New Multifamily Housing Construction (Expect For-Sale Builders) 236210 - Industrial Building Construction 236220 - Commercial and Institutional Building Construction 238120 - Structural Steel and Precast Concrete Contractors 541310 - Architectural Services 541330 - Engineering Services 541350 - Building Inspection Services 541690 - Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services

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Sir George Gilbert Scott was commissioned to build Fitzroy House in 1862 Asked to create memorial library for Lewes MP Henry Fitzroy by his widow Scott was the most eminent and fashionable architect of the time Also created the Albert Memorial, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London Fitzroy House is now on the market for offers in excess of 1 million

By Gary Edwards For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 17:13 EST, 28 February 2015 | Updated: 17:15 EST, 28 February 2015

When people move house they often refer to entering a new chapter of their lives or turning a new leaf. For Jim and Maureen Franks, either expression couldnt be more apt, as the couple are now leaving a former library they have lived in for almost 40 years.

And its not just any old library. Fitzroy House, their Victorian Gothic revival home, was built by the most eminent and fashionable architect of the time, Sir George Gilbert Scott, the man who also created the Albert Memorial, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, all in London.

He was commissioned to build the memorial library for Lewes MP Henry Fitzroy by his widow Hannah in 1862, and it was used by the town until 1958 and later turned into offices.

Striking: The Victorial Gothic revival property's clock tower, right, and left, the large octagonal atrium

It then faced demolition in the 1970s before locals moved to preserve the building, and quantity surveyor Jim Franks saw an opportunity to save the structure while turning it into his family home.

But now, in their mid to late 80s, the pair are finding the huge, 2,800 sq ft two-storey home right in the centre of the historic town of Lewes, East Sussex, just a little too much to cope with, and are looking to downsize while staying in the town. Fitzroy House is on the market for offers in excess of 1 million.

It was extraordinarily run-down and had been empty for six or seven years, says the Frankses daughter, Eleanor Austin.

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FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2014 file photo, Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam gives a news conference in Mexico City. Mexicos embattled attorney general is leaving his post to take a new cabinet-level job as head of urban and rural development, announced on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 by President Enrique Pena Nietos office. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)(The Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY Mexico's embattled attorney general is leaving the post to take a new cabinet-level job as head of urban and rural development.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam had weathered scathing criticism over his handling of the Sept. 26 disappearance of 43 students in southern Guerrero state.

Murillo Karam had also been criticized for being slow to investigate evidence that soldiers killed between 12 and 15 criminal suspects after they surrendered in June.

President Enrique Pena Nieto's office announced Friday that Murrillo Karam will be sworn in later today as head of the Department of Rural and Urban Development.

An official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said his replacement as attorney general will be a former senator and electoral-law prosecutor, Arely Gomez.

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Patna/New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS): Aiming to put pressure on Bihar Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi for inviting him to form the next government in the state, former chief minister Nitish Kumar reached New Delhi Tuesday to parade the legislators supporting him at Rashtrapati Bhavan Wednesday.

Embattled Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Tuesday sought to play the "reservation card" as his cabinet approved reservation for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in all government contracts of road construction up to Rs.50 lakh and reservation for poor upper castes in government jobs.

Earlier, Nitish Kumar and 130 legislators supporting him left for New Delhi in two batches, Janata Dal-United chief whip Shrawan Kumar said.

"In the first batch, 60 legislators, and in second batch, 70 legislators along with Nitish Kumar left for Delhi," he said in Patna.

Party MP K.C. Tyagi told IANS that Nitish Kumar had reached the national capital, and was likely to meet President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday.

He said the party would urge the president to ask the governor to invite Nitish Kumar to form the government as he has the majority.

"Since we have not heard a decision from the governor, we have come to the president," Tyagi told IANS.

Meanwhile, Manjhi, who insisted that he remained chief minister till he fails to prove his majority in the state assembly, had called a cabinet meeting Tuesday where it was speculated that he may recommend dissolution of the state assembly. It was in the meeting that the decision on the quotas was taken.

A JD-U leader close to Manjhi, however, said he "may or may not recommend dissolution of the state assembly, but by holding a cabinet meeting, he wanted to send a strong message that he is still the chief minister".

Principal Secretary in the Cabinet Coordination Department B. Pradhan said the cabinet meeting approved reservation for SC/STs in all government contracts of Rs.50 lakh, as well as the proposal for reservation of poorest of the poor upper castes in government jobs.

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Lorri Kreuschers extreme makeover started with an extreme personal loss.

Her husband of more than three decades died in 2010, just as they were beginning the process of building a house a couple of miles from their longtime home in Bloomington.

I was devastated, she said.

Theyd started clearing the lot and developing plans, but she put the project on hiatus. My heart wasnt in that anymore to go through all that by myself. I was left trying to figure out what in the world to do.

She found herself reluctant to leave the home where they had raised their family. I had dreams of selling the house and terribly regretting it, she said. So instead of building a new home, she stayed in her old one, grieving and adjusting to life on her own. Im very independent, she said. But I had never lived alone before.

After about a year, Kreuscher decided it was time to make a few home improvements.

I started tearing down trees, she recalled. Views were important to me. I love gardens and pretty things outside.

Then she went to see a neighbors remodeling and got inspired to redo her brick fireplace. One thing led to another, and soon Kreuscher was redoing her entire house.

I got the bug, she said. The massive makeover project kept her busy, and she started to get excited about the possibilities of a home that reflected her taste and personality. Kreuscher and her late husband had done some piecemeal remodeling over the years, but their homes original 1963 floor plan and facade were largely intact.

It was a typical rambler a lot of separate rooms, she said, including a formal living room that was rarely used. I had people in there probably 10 times during all the years she lived in her home.

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