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Construction of an office building, renovation of another and addition of a parking garage comprise the latest expansion project at the Edward Jones campus in Maryland Heights.

The projects by the financial services firm represent the next major growth at the campus since the opening in 2009 of an office building that includes space to train new brokers.

The Maryland Heights Planning Commission considered the latest expansion plan this week. Michael Zeek, the city planner, said commissioners agreed with the plan in concept but requested more information. The plan requires a zoning change that could gain city approval in May.

Also in May, Edward Jones plans an event to mark completion of the $40 million renovation of what had been its headquarters from 1972 to 1994, at 201 Progress Parkway.

The renovation is part of the growth program, which includes a $19 million parking garage connected to the office building by a walkway over Progress Parkway. The garage, like the rest of the new construction, requires city authorization because Edward Jones has acquired property outside the boundary of its earlier corporate footprint.

The restoration of our original West County headquarters facility will preserve a piece of our firms history and support our growth as we expand in order to serve more individual investors, Jim Weddle, the companys managing partner, said in a statement Thursday. 201 Progress Parkway is rich in firm history. Both Mr. Jones Sr. and Ted Jones worked in this building, and this is where I began my Edward Jones career.

The building at 201 Progress Parkway became the companys headquarters in 1972 when Edward Jones moved its offices from downtown St. Louis.

At the time, the firm had 152 financial advisers, revenue of $9.6 million and occupied only one floor of the three-story Progress Parkway building. The firm now has more than 13,000 advisers. Revenue in 2013 topped $5.6 billion. Edward Jones also has campuses at its current headquarters on Manchester Road in Des Peres and in Tempe, Ariz.

Edward Jones hopes to complete the Maryland Heights parking garage next year. A cost estimate has yet to be released for the office building the company plans to build at the northeast corner of Progress Parkway and Kimler Drive.

At first, the building was to have gone up west of Progress Parkway. Edward Jones shifted the building site to allow for more green space west of Progress Parkway. In 2012, the firm completed what it calls Founders Footpath, a walking path along that street.

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Salesforce.com announced Friday that it will be the main tenant in a 61-story building under construction in San Francisco.

When completed in 2017, "Salesforce Tower" will be the tallest office building west of the Mississippi River. However, the building will eventually be eclipsed in height by the 73-story Wilshire Grand in Los Angeles, which will be a mix of hotel, office and retail space.

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"It will fundamentally transform the skyline of San Francisco," said Burke Norton, chief legal officer for Salesforce. "It will dramatically increase the size of our company here in San Francisco."

The tower is already under construction by owners Boston Properties, which decided to build it on spec, betting it could eventually find tenants in a region experiencing a major tech boom.

"Salesforce Tower is a reflection of our mutual confidence in the city of San Francisco and the South Financial submarket as a home to successful companies that seek to employ todays highly educated and highly motivated worker," said Mortimer B. Zuckerman, executive chairman of Boston Properties, in a statement. "Salesforce.coms commitment further demonstrates the desirability of high-quality, well-designed, first-class office space to todays premier technology companies."

The announcement that Salesforce had signed a lease was made at a ceremony Friday that featured such luminaries as Mayor Ed Lee and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco).

"It's not just about an expanding company," Lee said. "It's about a company that has faith in our city and is demonstrating that. And has faith in the kind of values we try to teach our kids about giving back."

The ceremony came just a couple of days after Salesforce.com co-founder Marc Benioff announced a $100-million gift to the region's Children's Hospitals. With more than $250 million in donations to the city's social causes and healthcare organizations, Benioff has emerged as a dominant philanthropic force in San Francisco.

Part of that commitment has also been to keep and grow his company in the city, even as other major companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple build large, sprawling campuses to the south in Silicon Valley. The new Salesforce Tower is adjacent to the Transbay Transit Center, which will be a future hub for the region's public transportation, including a possible high-speed rail train.

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When Spring has come you start to dream about a sunroom. It might be still too cold outside but in such room you can enjoy some sunlight without catching a flu. A sunroom is perfect place to relax while enjoying a view, read a book, meet with friends, or even to sleep during the day. This room is usually adjacent to the rest of the house and connected to it through a door. Although sometimes you can turn some of your rooms into a sunroom by making some of its walls entirely of windows. When this room is a house extension its room is often also made of glass. Weve gathered for you a bunch of examples how a sunroom can be designed. You can get a lot of ideas from them.

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Commercial building energy efficiency retrofits will surpass US$127 billion in annual market value by 2023, says firm

Press release, April 7; Alex Wolfgram, DIGITIMES[Tuesday 8 April 2014]

Residential and commercial buildings account for 35-40% of total energy consumption worldwide. Commercial buildings, in particular, consume large amounts of energy related to heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, water heating, and other building systems. Efforts to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have led to increasing deployments of energy efficiency retrofits for commercial and public buildings. According to a new report from Navigant Research, the worldwide market for energy efficiency retrofits in commercial and public buildings will grow from US$68.2 billion in 2014 to US$127.5 billion by 2023.

"Because the existing building stock dwarfs the amount of new building space being added on an annual basis, energy efficiency retrofits are a critical pathway to greening the world's commercial buildings," said Eric Bloom, principal research analyst with Navigant Research. "Enrollment in voluntary green building certification programs has been on the rise around the world, even as regulatory and policy measures in a growing number of regions provide strong support for energy efficiency retrofits."

One key question within the building retrofit industry is the initial reason or motivator for pursuing energy efficiency retrofits. The vast majority of building owners and managers who decide to complete an energy efficiency retrofit are motivated primarily by system replacements rather than the motivation to improve efficiency, the report said. Navigant Research added that it estimates approximately 15% of all energy efficiency retrofits are initiated with increasing energy efficiency as the primary motivator, while the remaining 85% of energy efficiency retrofits are initiated for other reasons.

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Taking on the tax is a series that will break down the penny sales tax issues specific to East Seminole County, schools and to those opposed. The county takes a vote on the issue in a special election on May 20. Voters will decide whether the county will raise sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent, generating about $63.1 million annually for the next 10 years.

An SCPS history lesson

Seminole County Public Schools are no stranger to promoting a sales tax.

A look back into 2001 and 2010 shows that this isn't the first time the school system has toiled with the tax at hand, and neither have voters. Needing the funds for integral projects, school officials say they have desperately needed the sales tax funding as budgets continually are cut at the state level.

But before one delves into those tax issues, its important to note that the School Board wasn't always involved. In 1991, voters passed a sales tax referendum generating about $360 million in sales tax revenue. The school system wasn't yet on board with a portion of the revenue.

But in 2001, the tide changed as the School Board jumped on board with the idea of a sales tax referendum. Voters again passed the sales tax with a 72 percent majority. According to county documents, the tax generated $590 million, with 25 percent of that going to SCPS.

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Bryce Theriot, 17, wires an outlet box Monday in the electrical program at Terrebonne Career and Technical High School in Houma.

A year of hard work paid off for eight Terrebonne Career and Technical High School students who competed at this years Skills USA competition in New Orleans last week.

Skills USA is a student career and technical organization that allows competitors to show off a variety of occupational skills in hopes of winning gold medals in their category.

The local schools Skills USA chapter had 31 students competing at the state level, however, only eight will advance to nationals in June to Kansas City, Mo.

Were going to nationals to represent the state of Louisiana, and those divisions are action skills, diesel equipment technology, carpentry, cabinet-making, air-conditioning, electrical constructional wiring and industrial motor controls, and mobile electronics installation, said electrical instructor Charlie Positerry.

Bryce Theriot, 17, is a junior at South Terrebonne High who won gold in electrical construction wiring. In this division, competitors must build two walls of electrical construction by reading a blueprint and a set of electrical specifications. Theriot had only seven hours to build the walls and install electrical boxes and wiring.

What challenged me was hooking up the devices themselves, not running the wire, so Im going to practice that and more grounding safety for nationals, he said.

Tyler Valure, 16, is also a South Terrebonne junior who won gold in his category, HVAC. Here, competitors must be able to braze and solder copper pipe, recover vacuum and recharge a refrigerant circuit along with calculating sub cooling and troubleshooting compressor electrical circuits.

I had to cut pieces of copper and braze them together, then sledge it so it would fit different sizes to wire up a circuit for a gas valve on a thermostat, Valure said. During the summer Id work with my dad on residential units. Ive never gotten to do it myself until now, but I use to observe a lot, he said.

Action skills was another division the Career and Technical High School Skills USA chapter won gold in. In this competition, the student must demonstrate a learned skill in which contestants use examples, experiments, displays or practical operations to clearly explain their skills along with using visual aids. H.L. Bourgeois student Sarah Henry, 15, performed her skill in just under seven minutes.

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