After working alongside company founder David Kalb for almost a decade, Shauna Karuse is now the president and CEO of Capitol Services, a Sacramento, Calif.-based contractor’s consulting corporation. Previously acting as primary assistant for licensing at the firm, Krause’s expertise is often brought to bear on RFP’s involving special districts like school construction projects.
After working alongside company founder David Kalb for almost a decade, Shauna Karuse is now the president and CEO of Capitol Services, a Sacramento, Calif.-based contractor’s consulting corporation. Previously acting as primary assistant for licensing at the firm, Krause’s expertise is often brought to bear on RFP’s involving special districts like school construction projects.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Class is now in session at Indiana State University’s Scott College of Business. The building opened for the 2012 fall semester after crews completed a renovation of Federal Hall, a 77-year-old federal courthouse and post office building.
LIDO BEACH, N.Y. — Long Beach High School in Lido Beach, N.Y. is currently in the middle of a $16.5 million expansion and renovation project.
The Insulated Fire Resistant Panel consists of metal facings bonded to a structural mineral wool core to create a composite wall panel that achieves fire resistance and thermal performance and protection under demanding conditions. With an R-value of 3.61 per inch of insulation, the wall panel is made to resist high temperatures and burning, according to the company. It can be disassembled, moved, and reinstalled for user convenience. The water repellent and stretch resistant panel features acoustical properties, reducing noise and overall sound consumption, according to the company.
DULUTH, Minn. — Hurricane Sandy damaged sixty-five schools in New York City alone, along with dozens more across the affected region. Catastrophe risk modeling firm EQECAT said total damage from the storm could be up to $50 billion, second only to Hurricane Katrina. But the millions of dollars of government money that will flow to contractors for rebuilding schools come with strings attached. The Davis-Bacon act requires contractors receiving government money to fill out forms proving they paid prevailing wages.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Megan Smith, vice president of new business development at Google, has announced the creation of a fund to advocate for girls education and empowerment. The funding effort is called the MalalaFund, in honor of Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old student and education activist in Pakistan who survived an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman who shot her in the head and neck while she was riding home in a school bus in early October.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and state superintendent of public instruction Tom Torlakson, recently announced they are co-sponsoring a new Civic Learning Award for public high schools in the state. The award will recognize schools that develop successful models for engaging students in civic learning that can be replicated in other schools.
Schools are no longer educational establishments where teachers lecture and pupils sit still and listen in silence. Instead, they are increasingly turning into institutions that “move people” and that adhere to principles of holistic learning and living.
