Will your insurance cover construction defects By Tom Frisby Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 BEST PRACTICES IN CONSTRUCTION Will your insurance cover construction defects? A columnist has all the answers. That’s why he or she is a columnist. And no columnist in his or her right mind would begin a column entitled “I don’t know!” And yet that is exactly the subject of this column, which relates to insurance coverage for construction defects.
TABLETALK09222003 By Aleigh Acerni Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 TABLE TALK It’s like, you know “It’s like, you know.” When, in what world, does that phrase actually constitute a coherent thought? During my lunch break a few weeks ago, I was shocked to hear the word “like” repeated continuously by a group of professional-looking women seated at the table next to mine. Since when has peppering your sentences with “you know” and “like” been acceptable in the business world?
SubFactorscom builds financial bridges to success Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 SubFactors.com builds financial bridges to success By Margaret Edwards Contributing Writer There’s a new source of financial help available for residential subcontractors who often feel the pinch and pressure of waiting to get paid. It’s called SubFactors.com and was recently launched by Ken and LaNell Earnhardt, owners of KLT&J Inc. in Mount Pleasant.
State wine industry taps into tourism market Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 State wine industry taps into tourism market By Dennis Quick Senior Staff Writer At Irvin-House Vineyards on Wadmalaw Island, pickers have their hands full as they pluck bunches of dark-purple muscadine grapes from leafy, sunlit vines. Sweet and plump, the grapes are perfect for the wine Ann and Jim Irvin plan to sell locally by the end of this year.
Second phase of TTC expansion underway By Sarah G. McC. Moïse Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Second phase of TTC expansion underway Staff Writer The face of Trident Technical College is already changing, compliments of the massive construction project for the new Industrial and Economic Development Complex on the school’s main campus. Housing a culinary and hospitality training center, electro-mechanical skills laboratory and information technology center, the project is rapidly transforming a 177,000-square-foot former storage warehouse into a campus focal point.
Sans Locus delivers web solutions Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Sans Locus delivers web solutions to small and mid-sized businesses By Patra Bucher Contributing Writer In the rapidly evolving world of e-business, today’s latest trends in web site development and design can often be relegated to the trash heap tomorrow. Determining exactly when, where and how to jump into the global marketplace, and with what combination of products and services, seems to be the challenge facing many e-commerce wannabes.
SALESMOVES09222003 By Jeffrey Gitomer Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 SALES MOVES You can’t get appointments without the right skills The guy won’t appoint me. I can’t get through to the decision maker. He won’t commit to an appointment. She won’t return my phone call. He has rescheduled me three times in two weeks. He didn’t show for his appointment.
REAL ESTATE CONVENTION AND SEMINAR CALENDAR Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Oct. 11-15: CoreNet Global Summit Atlanta The Atlanta Global Summit will convene the largest group of experts and industry talent in the world to help corporate real estate executives (CRE), service providers and economic developers understand how to make a real difference in corporate costs, revenue, innovation, speed, flexibility and other drivers of corporate success. Topics will include:
QUICKNOTES09222003 By Dennis Quick Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 QUICK NOTES ‘Neck’ upgrade part of revitalization movement – Dynamic development. There’s peninsular Charleston. Then there’s peninsular Charleston’s “Neck” area, about two miles north of Calhoun Street and extending to the North Charleston border. Those two parts of Charleston are two vastly different worlds. The historic peninsula is beautiful and prosperous, the stuff of glossy travel magazines and, a little farther north, the nucleus of a burgeoning artsy enclave of recently arrived restaurants
Putting it together for Palmetto business Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 S.C. MONTHLY OUTLOOK Putting it together for Palmetto business The following information is provided to the Charleston Regional Business Journal by the South Carolina Department of Commerce for publication once a month. It’s football season again, and the business solutions division at the South Carolina Department of Commerce is getting in the spirit, going on offense to promote businesses and moving proposed recycling legislation down the field toward passage. Here is a sampling of
PIN09222003 Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS TECHNOLOGY Tim Latsbaugh has joined Sans Locus as director of business development. Formerly an account executive and branch manager with ITC-Deltacom, Latsbaugh has more than 14 years experience in assisting organizations with marketing and communication technology solutions. John O. Peterson Jr. has joined Scientific Research Corp. as senior program manager. Peterson has more than 35 years of project engineering experience, most recently serving SPAWAR as division head.
Pet Projects Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 For our Architecture/Engineering/Construction Quarterly issue, the Business Journal asked regional engineering firms to show off their local “pet” projects, the ones they as a firm are most proud of. Our sampling of projects are either finished or currently in production, and on the following pages each firm describes the unique challenges presented by their project and explain why they chose that particular project as their “pet.”
New resource for Lowcountry entrepreneurs set to launch Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 New resource for Lowcountry entrepreneurs set to launch By Tiffany Jonas Contributing Writer Two plus two equals… more than four? With the launch of FastTrac NewVenture, Charleston’s reputation as a hot spot for entrepreneurship and the efforts of regional development organizations to increase the number of knowledge-based jobs in Charleston may finally be coming together.
MUSC puts planning at forefront of new hospital Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 MUSC puts planning at forefront of new hospital By Holly Fisher Contributing Writer As chief facilities officer at the Medical University of South Carolina, John Malmrose wants to have a plan in place before he starts building a new hospital on campus. Because a new medical building’s design can change, planning is key, so relying on the concept that allows contractors to design as they build just doesn’t make sense to him.
Luxury hotel hammering toward March completion Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Luxury hotel hammering toward March completion By Dennis Quick Senior Staff Writer Construction of the 255-room The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island moves on schedule toward the highly touted luxury hotel’s March 2004 opening. A June “topping out” ceremony heralded the completion of the $125 million, 350,000-square-foot oceanfront hotel’s steel-and-concrete skeleton. Since then the roofing phase has been completed and the 12-room spa’s design concepts unveiled. The spa’s interior, featuring Charleston brick, trickling water and
LISTMAKER Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. That’s why we at the Business Journal thought you might be interested in getting to know the CEOs of some of the most successful local companies. Each issue we’ll profile one of the Lowcountry’s “great” leaders and find out how he or she made it to the top.
LETTER09222003 Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 LETTER TO THE EDITOR S.C. ranks ‘middle of the pack’ for auto insurance I am writing in response to your September 8 article entitled “Auto insurance premiums continue to rise” (page 19). The article referenced a national study by J.D. Power and Associates, but failed to also mention a study the South Carolina Insurance News Service recently released about the positive news related to auto insurance in South Carolina.
LEADERSHIP09222003 Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP Why strive for perfection? Just be lopsided. Some day, thousands of years from now, archaeologists searching for traces of our civilization will undoubtedly come across countless Post-It notes among the rubble. Billions have been sold every year for more than two decades; how many are preserved in your file cabinet?
Interest in cogeneration grows Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Interest in cogeneration grows in wake of last month’s blackout By Renee Johnson Contributing Writer While the lights went out across much of the Northeast last month, institutions, industrial facilities and office buildings with combined heat and power systems (CHP) continued operating. Also known as cogeneration, CHP is a highly efficient form of electric generation, which recycles and utilizes heat that is normally lost under traditional power combustion methods.
INBRIEF09222003 Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 NEWS BRIEFS August CMI shows modest economic improvement The National Association of Credit Management has released its Credit Manager’s Index for August 2003. The CMI, a monthly survey of the business economy from the standpoint of credit and collections, was launched in January 2003 to provide financial analysts with another strong economic indicator.
Domestic automakers jump on the hybrid bandwagon Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Domestic automakers jump on the hybrid bandwagon By Holly Burns Staff Writer Until quite recently, hybrid vehicles—those that save gas by combining an electric motor with an internal combustible engine—had been something of an anomaly. Since their introduction at the end of the last decade, 150,000 hybrid vehicles have been sold worldwide—fewer than the number of cars produced by a single auto factory in a year, according to a recent article in The New
Disposable DVDs hit local market Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Disposable DVDs hit local market By Holly Burns Staff Writer Tired of hefty late fees, scratched discs and running out to the movie store at 11:56 p.m. to return a DVD you never even had time to watch? Then perhaps the newly launched ez-D, a disposable, no return DVD that expires after 48 hours, may be the solution you’re looking for.
Carolina Youth Center undergoes makeover By Dennis Quick Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Carolina Youth Center undergoes makeover By Dennis Quick Senior Staff Writer The walls of the Carolina Youth Development Center’s Rainbow House in North Charleston were termite-ridden. The roof sagged. In fact, the 50-year-old house—a refuge for troubled boys ages eight to 17—generally was in bad shape. About five months ago, Hightower Construction Co. began renovating the 4,500-square-foot house. The interior was gutted, all the doors were replaced and new windows were put in. Currently six
Building opportunities in and for Charleston Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Building opportunities in—and for—Charleston By Margaret Edwards Contributing Writer Since taking office in 1976, Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. has dealt with numerous public improvement projects. Based on his past experience with these city projects, what advice would he give to local construction companies? “Bid. We welcome competition and we seek to produce construction documents that make it easy to bid. Also, stay in touch with the city’s Capital Projects Division which administers the
BSEDITORIAL09222003 By Bill Settlemyer Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Log on to lower airfares at FlyCharleston.com—$300,000 in pledges and $1 million grant spur effort If you’re sick and tired of driving to Myrtle Beach or Savannah to find low cost air travel, now you have the opportunity to do something about it—just log on to FlyCharleston.com. No, you can’t buy cheap tickets at FlyCharleston.com, but you can “volunteer” to save thousands of dollars in future air travel costs.
Bridge impact mitigation may reap long term benefits By Patra Bucher Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Bridge impact mitigation may reap long-term benefits By Patra Bucher Contributing Writer When a major construction project moves into a residential neighborhood, how does it affect the lives of the people living in that community? That was a question the South Carolina Department of Transportation asked during the early planning phase of the Cooper River Bridge Replacement Project, currently the largest construction project in North America.
BRACK09222003 By Andy Brack Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 THE BRACK REPORT Globalization is hitting us where it counts—the pocketbook American manufacturers are living on borrowed time unless they make changes. That’s the lesson offered by huge Hartsville manufacturer Sonoco, which recently took steps to streamline $60 million in operating costs with layoffs of 130 professionals in its Pee Dee headquarters and 210 others in its 300 plants in 32 countries around the world.
BellSouth and DirecTV partner By Holly Fisher Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 BellSouth, DirecTV partner; service available early 2004 By Holly Fisher Contributing writer If only the early railroad industry had broadened its definition, it might have seen the kind of opportunities BellSouth Corp. is seeing today. BellSouth regional director Ted Creech says the railroad industry was well positioned to branch out into the automotive manufacturing business, but it didn’t define itself as a “transportation industry,” only a “railroad industry.” By limiting its scope, it missed a
Are you a digithead Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Are you a ‘digithead’? Look it up. Techies and others in business who get flustered and tongue-tied when describing themselves or their work environment, take heart. New lingo is here to help you. Below are samples of workplace slang found in The Ultimate Business Dictionary from Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, Mass.
Architect Thom Penney Charleston Regional Business Journal 9/22/2003 Architect Thom Penney: Design matters to the brain By Dennis Quick Senior Staff Writer At LS3P Associates Ltd., Thompson “Thom” Penney, the architecture firm’s president and CEO, discusses Atticus Finch, the fictional lawyer portrayed by screen legend Gregory Peck in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the character the American Film Institute named its No. 1 film hero.
