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Senator Aquilino Koko Pimentel III. INQUIRER.net file photo

MANILA, Philippines While it has turned its attention to the Makati Science High School, the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee plans to return later to the topic of the Makati City Hall II parking and office building to tackle allegations of over-design, as found by technical experts, according to its chairman Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III.

Members of the subcommittee, at its hearing on the Makati City transactions when Vice President Jejomar Binay was still its mayor on Thursday, indicated that the alleged over-design of the P2.28 billion Makati City Hall II building could be one reason behind its suspicions of overpricing.

Pimentel said on Sunday in a phone interview that he wanted to discuss the matter further because without proper guidelines on defining and discovering over-design, this could be a loophole that might be exploited to hide overpricing.

Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano earlier said over-design could either result in waste because of unnecessary features, even if there was no corruption, or it could be a way of making money because of under-delivery, or not constructing the building according to the specifications and then pocketing the excess funds.

A team of quantity surveyors tapped by the Senate found indications that the parking building was extremely over-designed, according to appraiser Federico Cuervo, who was asked to put together the team.

Makati City officials, as well Binay, who was the mayor when the Makati City Hall II building contract was signed and implemented, have insisted that the construction of the parking and office building was aboveboard. Binay and his son, the incumbent Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin Junjun Binay, are facing a plunder complaint over the buildings construction.

Pimentel has directed the issuance of a subpoena, requested by Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, for the signed, as-built and Autocad plans for the Makati City Hall II Building from its contractor Hilmarcs Construction Corporation.

This was after Cuervo told the subcommittee on Thursday that the team of quantity surveyors he was asked to put together to estimate the quantified value of the Makati City Hall II parking building faced a lot of challenges because of incomplete information.

Still, the quantity surveyors, working with what they had, found that the building was extremely over-designed, especially the foundation, said Cuervo.

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BUILDING PERMITS

PMT2013-02461 2079 Hardscrabble Drive; $1,317,744; DK Trust; Grant Place Builders Inc.; New three-story single-family dwelling home: to include 6,448 square feet of finished area, two-car attached garage of 759 square feet, 373-square-foot roof deck, and 1,499-square-foot porch. Home to include seven bedrooms, seven baths. Includes associated MEP. See ADR2013-00055 and TEC 2013-00022 for further information. See PMT2013-02462 for detached garage on same planset.

PMT2013-02462 2069 Hardscrabble Drive; $54,456; DK Trust; New detached two-car garage of 640 square feet. To include associated electrical. See PMT2013-02461 for house. See ADR2013-00055 and TEC2013-00022 for further info.

PMT2014-00468 1048 Pearl St.; $23,041,742.13; Ten Eleven; JE Dunn Construction Co.; New core and shell construction for Eleventh and Pearl development, of a four story, mixed use commercial/office building with new three level below grade parking garage.

PMT2014-02616 1301 Walnut St.; $12,300,000; Aplaza LLC; Wyatt Construction Co Inc.; Wencel Building New core and shell office building four stories above grade with one basement level. LUR2013-00053, TEC2014-00029 and TEC2014-00032.

PMT2014-03434 1020 Maxwell Ave.; $400,000; West Point; Coburn Development Inc.; Demolition of and the rebuilding of exterior stairways and landings; remove/replace exterior cladding, soffit and fascia. Interior remodel of kitchens and new bathroom fixtures. (Less than 500 square feet remodel per unit.) Window and door replacement. Includes associated MEPs. Includes some landscaping and grading, as well as installation of an irrigation system. Retaining walls under separate permit.

PMT2014-04552 3100 23rd St.; $123,043.44; Christophe Hansen; Melton Construction Inc.; Interior home remodel/renovation to include kitchen, two baths on the main floor. Mechanical, and laundry relocates, add basement bath, egress window to basement bedroom, new sliding glass door at dining room, and new skylights.

PMT2014-04578 1401 Walnut St.; $105,000; 1401 Walnut; Duggan Construction LLC; Interior tenant remodel to expand existing commercial/retail space into adjacent unit (also existing commercial/retail space). Scope also includes remodel of current unit and all associated MEPs.

PMT2014-04636 5303 Denver St.; $30,000; James Williams; E. Goodman Construction; Addition of patio roof over existing concrete patio located on the southeast corner of residence. Scope includes associated electrical for lighting and relocation of venting for an existing interior gas fireplace.

PMT2014-04830 5336 E. Aurora Ave.; $51,000; Jeffrey and Kendra Kohlhaas; Blue Stone Woodworks LLC; Remodel two existing baths, remove wood paneling and replace with drywall. Repair cracks in ceiling of dining room, living room, entry, and hall, and infill two sections of wall at dining room. Scope of work also includes new 200 AMP service.

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Also Major Corporate Moves from: Dexcom, Ergobaby, HealthSmart, Knewton, Komatsu, L-3 Comm, Molina Healthcare, RingCentral, ThinkFactory and more

The state-of-the-art development will consist of 485,000 square feet of Class A office space in three-and four-story office buildings in a campus environment on 21 acres. The first phase-which is already under construction to be delivered in May 2015-will consist of 242,000 square feet in two office buildings preleased to Netflix Inc.

The interest rate was a variable, LIBOR-based rate. The financing was provided by a syndicate of lenders led by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey with SunTrust Bank as Administrative Agent.

John Nelson of CBRE's San Francisco office arranged the financing on behalf of the borrower/developer, a joint venture between Sand Hill Property Co. and The Carlyle Group.

Komatsu will occupy a contiguous block from floors one to five at Tower I, a 280,448-square-foot, 12-story building positioned along the Northwest Tollway at 1701 Golf Rd. in Chicago's Schaumburg Area.

Michael Hull of MB Real Estate brokered the transaction on behalf of Komatsu, while David Trumpy of GlenStar Properties represented ownership in-house.

St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare completed a 191,556-square-foot long-term lease for the entire eight story Class A office building at 200 Center St. in Anaheim, Calif.

The deal is the largest office lease signed in Orange County in 2014. St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare will occupy the building for its administration services with move-in planned for Summer 2015.

The lease was signed with PRES Cos., a full-service owner and operator of office, retail, industrial, and hotel properties. The lease comes 10 months after PRES acquired the building. Since its acquisition, PRES has repositioned the property, which includes improvements to the lobby and common areas.

JLL Orange County senior vice presidents George Thomson and James Estrada represented PRES in this lease.

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The gig: David Wilstein, 86, is founder and president of Realtech Construction Co., one of Los Angeles' oldest and largest commercial real estate development firms. Since its founding in 1976, he has overseen more than 100 projects, including high-rise office towers, medical buildings, apartments, hotels and shopping centers.

Formative years: Wilstein grew up in Pittsburgh, where he started feeling the urge to build things as a young boy. That led to a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Then, a trip to California changed his life.

"I came out to L.A. and decided I liked it," he said. "I met my wife two weeks later."

Building a foundation: Wilstein soon landed a job as a civil engineer for the state of California, earning $212 a month to help design freeways. Even in the 1950s, that was not a big paycheck. He joined his father and his brother to make some extra money building a fence. That led to fixing the roof of a house and then the first of several remodeling jobs.

Scaling up: Wilstein built a duplex and then a six-unit apartment building as a contractor. When a customer of one of his home-remodeling jobs revealed that he had recently returned from Cuba with money to invest, Wilstein offered to build the man a six-unit apartment that could be sold for a 6% or 7% return. Wilstein then became a developer, building properties for investors.

"The first building I sold I made about $30,000 profit," he said. "I said, this is excellent compared to working my butt off as a civil engineer for the state."

Building an empire: Wilstein found other investors and went on building increasingly large apartment buildings: 20 units, 40 units, 200 units. His loan broker suggested he try the office market, so Wilstein built a three-story building in Beverly Hills. Taller towers followed.

"I kept raising the ante," he said.

Creating a legacy: Wilstein went on to build prominent office towers that are unofficial landmarks today, such as the 12-story Roar building on Wilshire Boulevard at Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills and the 25-story Wells Fargo Center at Wilshire and San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood.

Far-flung empire: Wilstein built projects around the United States and overseas with partners DMJM and Celanese Corp. He erected buildings in Japan, Thailand and China. He converted a sultan's palace into a hotel in Turkey and consulted on the early stages of the massive Canary Wharf mixed-use complex in London.

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VNS of Connecticut is a Top Agency

Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut has been named a Top Agency of the 2014 HomeCare Elite, a recognition of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States. Now in its ninth year, the HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified agencies and highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall.

Winners are ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures in quality outcomes, best practice (process measure) implementation, patient experience, quality improvement and consistency, and financial performance. In order to be considered, an agency must be Medicare-certified and have data for at least one outcome in Home Health Compare.

Out of 9,994 agencies considered, 2,501 are elite.

This is the fifth consecutive year that VNS of Connecticut, which serves patients in Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield counties, has been named a HomeCare Elite agency. VNS is one of only two Connecticut home health agencies that has been named to the elite list six times over the programs history.

The agency has a clinical practice branch at 65 Commercial Drive in Torrington.

There is no doubt that the willingness of our employees to embrace changes required by our evolving health care delivery system, while all the while ensuring the finest in patient care services, is the number one reason that our agency continues to recognized as an elite provider, said VNS Administrator Jeanne Bodyk. We are extremely proud of the work our staff do each day in service to our patients.

The entire list of 2014 HomeCare Elite agencies can be downloaded by visiting the National Research Corporation website at http://www.nationalresearch.com/homecareelite.

STEM Expo is Nov. 18 in Waterbury

The Waterbury Regional Chambers Manufacturing Council will host its annual STEM/Advanced Manufacturing & Technology Expo on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Coco-Key Water Resort, Hotel and Convention Center, 3580 East Main St., Waterbury. With support from the Waterbury Board of Education and Granville Academy, more than 1,200 middle and high school students from throughout the greater Waterbury region are scheduled to meet and network with local area manufacturing and technology firms. Admission is free and open to the public. To learn more, visit http://www.waterburychamber.com, call 203-757-0701, or email to info@waterburychamber.com. Continued...

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Northwest school board to discuss St. Libory roof replacement Nov. 10 By Harold Reutter harold.reutter@theindependent.com theindependent.com

The Northwest school board will be updated on the St. Libory roof replacement project when it meets on Monday at Northwest High School.

Information printed on the board agenda indicates roofing materials will be delivered on Nov. 17, with work site setup to follow. The existing roof will be torn off on Nov. 24 if weather allows, with a plan that would provide 15 working days after the schools roof is torn off.

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After years of city planning and public forums, another year of designing, sculpting and painting and a month-and-a-half of installation, Daydreamer, Ashevilles newest piece of public art, is finished. Asheville muralists Alex Irvine and Ian Wilkinson took down their scaffolding on Wednesday, Nov. 5, revealing the first unobstructed view of the new work.

WHAT: Unveiling of Daydreamer mural by Asheville artists Alex Irvine and Ian Wilkinson WHERE: 51 Biltmore Ave., north side of Aloft Hotel WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 8, at noon. Free to attend

Daydreamer, formerly known as the 51 Biltmore Public Art Project, is located at the north entrance of the Aloft Hotel parking garage. To celebrate its completion, the City of Asheville and the Public Art and Cultural Commission will host an unveiling ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 8 at noon. An artists reception will follow in the hotel lobby.

The work features a daydreaming woman known as Mary gazing out from an arch-topped windowsill. Stylistically, it combines Ashevilles legacy of Art Deco architecture with modern design and Alofts color scheme. Asheville has a rich terracotta history, and thats inspiring to me, Irvine says.

Irvine, a ceramicist, and Wilkinson, a painter, blended design elements they found in facades like Douglas Ellingtons S&W Building and Asheville City Hall. If you live somewhere and youre going to make a piece of public art there, you need to look into the local history to make it relate to its surroundings, said Irvine.

The central figure, for instance, is backdropped by a deco horseshoe pattern in homage to a farrier who once operated on the site. The artists also temporarily included a nod to the Hot Dog King, a fast-food restaurant that was torn down in 2011 to make way for the hotel. That latter inspiration came from a public discussion forum. Somebody wrote that in to make the mural a monument to the Hot Dog King,says Wilkinson. He and Irvine opted for something smaller and made the restaurants logo a hot dog mid-stride, with crown in hand the keystone at the top of the illustrated archway. The logo has since been covered up by a decorative and more traditional keystone.

The installation process went smoothly for the most part. However, there were a series of unforeseen set-up issues, including the need for pedestrian-friendly scaffolding and structural reinforcement, that set the project nearly $5,000 over its original $25,000 budget. We had to structurally reinforce the wall, Wilkinson says. Anyone taking on this project would have been in the same position.

Irvine and Wilkinson enlisted Robert Steffen, a professor of engineering at Western Carolina University, to help with reinforcing the walls. The task required threading rebar anchors and stainless steel wiring into the existing wall. This was in addition to an industrial strength epoxy used to adhere the tiles to the wall. The epoxy was strong enough by itself, but the wall required the additional reinforcement for safety compliance.

Even when we tested the work with no metal fastener at all just the tile, epoxy and the cinder block we never found the shear strength, Wilkinson says. The cinder block would always break first. The bond, meanwhile surpassed 7,000 pounds of pressure.

Its used on bridges and skyscrapers, Irvine says. Its also incredibly toxic. And, like household epoxies, it has to be mixed and applied by hand. Irvine and Wilkinson joke that the extra work, though frustrating, ultimately improved the strength and safety of both the artwork and the building.

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IT'S a bittersweet time for North Lismore's Serpentine Community Gallery, as they approach an exhibition celebrating their eighth year in action, while having to fork out funds for a window that was smashed by local youths.

President at the Serpentine Community Gallery, Helen Creed, said the coming exhibition was "very exciting".

"Its eight years since the Serpentine Gallery opened so we thought it was worth celebrating," she said.

The exhibition will also have a competitive side, as the pieces will be judged and the Serpentine Arts Prize winner will be awarded $500 to go towards their artistic career.

The going for artists is really quite tough at the moment, so they wanted to be able to help a local artist out, Ms Creed said.

The exhibition, Walking in Tall Grass, will be judged by Brett Adlington, from Lismore Regional Gallery, and Corinne Batt-Rawden, founder of Serpentine Arts Gallery, Ms Creed explained.

However, the high that the community gallery was on in the lead up to their eighth anniversary has been dampened when last weekend one of the windows of the gallery was smashed.

"It's devastating to us to have to dig up the money for the window at a time when we're already struggling," Ms Creed said.

"We're all volunteers, we're not making a profit, we're just trying to provide a space for anyone in the town who would like to show their works.

"We're going to do a bit of fundraising for it.

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