Bldg. Partners

Leon K. Lauver & Associates www.leonlauver.com, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Norfolk, Nebraska is a full-service architecture and construction consulting firm that specializes in design and development. LKL is a small experienced team of professionals who have worked together for many years. Long-term, close relationships with owners, franchisors, and contractors allow LKL to provide cost-effective development. LKL, believes the scope of its services should match their clients' needs. As such, LKL provides an investor/owner client with a turnkey development and then for the seasoned builder/owner, LKL can contribute architectural services and consulting. Regardless of project scale, LKL has the professional expertise to complete the project successfully. LKL has a track-record and portfolio of building projects that feature over thirty years of experience with quality, profitable, attractive buildings that are located throughout the United States.

Concord General Contracting www.concordinc.com, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Mesa, Arizona is one of Arizona's premier commercial builders having completed over 110 projects with 50 different clients since 2000 alone. Concord has successfully completed a variety of work from educational, religious, medical, municipal, historic renovation, and green building projects. As a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Concord has several LEED^® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professionals on staff. Concord has built many education facilities in the state of Arizona, including Davidson Elementary School which was the first LEED^® Certified and CM@Risk Project for TUSD.

Green Ideas www.egreenideas.com, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona specializes in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Project Consulting and Management. Green Ideas has managed over 60 LEED and other sustainable developments. The Green Ideas Team is a diverse assembly of Engineers, Designers, Energy Experts, Architects and Academics. Decisions made at Green Ideas are based on the collaboration of many authoritative perspectives. This synergistic and comprehensive approach to project management results in buildings that have maximized their potential to perform in every aspect.

Community Power Corporation www.gocpc.com, headquartered in Littleton, Colorado is best known in the renewable energy industry for their pioneering work in village power in developing countries. In 1999 CPC applied its knowledge of the off-grid rural electrification market to develop a small modular biopower system that produces up to 100kW called the BioMax. A small modular distributed energy biomass power system based on downdraft gasifier technology that uses high bulk density fuels such as pecan shells to produce heat, power and fuel. The BioMax is designed to serve combined heat and power markets in both developing and developed countries.

Tucson Electric Power www.tucsonelectric.com is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. TEP is the principal subsidiary of UniSource Energy (publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol UNS), serves more than 375,000 customers in Southern Arizona.

Brite Ventures www.thebriteventures.com, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona was founded in 2007 as a non-traditional venture capital company. Brite collaborates with inventors and corporations, matching those holding intellectual property (IP) with those possessing market authority, and moves IP from concept to commercialization. Brite creates, builds, funds, manages, and grows to liquidity new Limited Liability Companies (LLC’s), targeting unmet but known market need.

Velocity Air www.velocityairinc.com, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona provides professional general aviation services at its Tucson International Airport Facility. Velocity's services include aircraft charter & management services, hangers & tie-downs, fuel 100LL/Jet A fixed wing & helicopter maintenance, annual inspections, in house FAA certified IA's, avionics sales & service, equipment installation, fixed wing instruction & rental, helicopter instruction & rental.

Lawyers Title Arizona www.ltaz-pima.com has provided title and escrow services in Arizona for over 50 years. Lawyers Title Arizona currently has 20 branch locations in Maricopa County. Lawyers Title Arizona is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LandAmerica Financial Group. LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc., headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is the holding company for Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company and Transnation Title Insurance Company. Representing the largest family of title underwriters in the country, LandAmerica provides title insurance and real estate-related products and services on commercial and residential transactions in the United States, Canada, Israel and the Caribbean.

V3 www.v3co.com with offices in Chicago, Denver and Phoenix is in the Top Ten ranking on Zweig’s Hot Firm List, and V3 has been an “Engineering News-Record” (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm since 2003. In 1983, V3's Founder and CEO, Rob Petroelje, a registered professional engineer, developed V3 with a clear foundation: values, purpose and competency. V3's name says it all. Born from three Latin words, V3 is Visio, Vertere, Virtute — The Vision to Transform with Excellence. V3 has 350 employees who diverse skills originate with a broad base of experts on staff such as: Archeologists, Biologists, Civil Engineers, Construction Engineers, Ecologists, Environmental Scientists & Engineers, Geologists, Geomorphologists, Hydrogeologists, Land Planners, Structural Engineers, Surveyors, Transportation Engineers and Water Resources Engineers.

Mathers Engineering & Architectural www.matherseng.com, headquartered in Stuart, Florida, is a professional structural, environmental & civil engineering and architectural consulting firm founded in 1980 by William J. Mathers, P. E. Mathers has an outstanding history of engineering design experience working for developers, corporations, contractors, architects, public and private entities. Mathers with over 75 years of combined experience has the knowledge of taking a project idea and working diligently with local, state and federal agencies to make sure the project is completed successfully as expeditiously as possible.

Pattison Evanoff Engineering www.pattisonevanoff.com, based in Tucson, Arizona provides soils engineering services that specialize in sampling and testing of soils, compaction (field density), moisture-density, soil laboratory testing for moisture content, organic content, particle distribution, rate of consolidation, compacted permeability rates, etc.

Task Engineering, based in Phoenix, Arizona provides traffic impact engineering services for various federal, state and Department of Transportation departments. Such engineering includes analysis of average annual daily traffic on project adjacent or nearby major roadways, traffic impact statements outlining the effects of a project that such project will not negatively impact traffic safety and operations or recommended improvements to mitigate such impacts.

Brazos Geotech www.brazosgeotech.com, based in Tucson, Arizona provides geotechnical and environmental engineering services. BGI is responsible for all of the processes involving perc testing, septic system design and permitting. BGI is a geotechnical specialist and through its services provides valuable analysis of the site conditions which adds value by providing concise efficiency recommendations to suit a particular site.

CEMEX www.cemex.com, founded in 1906 and headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, is a global building materials company with close to 67,000 employees worldwide in more than 50 countries. Their operations network produces, distributes, and markets cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and related building materials. In 2007, CEMEX gross sales topped $22 billion, with a net profit of approximately $2.4 billion. CEMEX is a global leader in regards to building with sustainability while reducing the impact on global natural resources and the environment.

Greenblock www.greenblock.com: The Greenblock design originated in Europe over 40 years ago and was introduced to North America in the late 1980's. Today, Greenblock has 14 manufacturing and distributions sites in the U.S., with a comprehensive ICF (LEED® insulated concrete form) product line that is designed to the needs of virtually any building situation from foundations to multi-story commercial structures. Greenblock is owned privately by Dr. Klaus Murman of Frankfurt, Germany. He is Chairman Emeritus of Sauer-Danfoss, a publicly traded firm on the New York stock exchange. Dr. Murman also serves on several other Boards and is Chairman of PSV AG, the national pension fund of German enterprises.

Insulated Concrete Walls www.icwalls.com, ICW, is a Delaware Corporation organized in October of 2003 who is engaged in providing installation services of insulated concrete walls and floors for residential and commercial construction projects. The company’s primary initiative is to become the market leader in the Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) contracting segment operating as a subcontractor to ICF manufacturers, dealers, distributors and builder/contractor customers. ICW operates as a subsidiary of its parent/holding company ICF Solutions, Inc. ICF Solutions is a California corporation organized to provide products and services to the ICF Industry. Dr. Klaus Murmann is the majority stock holder along with BHMb Holdings (an international holding company) in ICF Solutions and its subsidiaries. The parent company provides senior management, leadership, business development and capital funding.

Speedfloor USA www.speedfloorusa.com, headquartered in Batavia, Ohio is the U.S. franchise distributor for Speedfloor Holdings, with global headquarters and manufacturing operations based in New Zealand. Speedfloor was originally developed in the mid 1990s by Speedfloor Holdings Ltd which is part of the Sullivan and Haddon Group located in New Zealand. Speedfloor provides a galvanized steel truss product that is faster, lighter and easier than traditional flat plate construction and can achieve savings of us to 24% due to its speed of erection and installation. Speedfloor has additional franchise operations in New Zealand and Australia.

TERRASource www.geothermaldiy.com, headquartered in Batavia, Ohio offers a pre-engineered LEED® geothermal system package that provides year-round efficient heating and cooling. The TERRASource geothermal system includes design specifications custom for every individual project. TERRASource standard system includes copper manifolds, GrundfosTM pumps, solid brass mechanical components, ASTM certified plastic polymer pipe, and quality EPA-approved alcohol-based antifreeze. The TERRASource standard system can offer savings rates of up to 50% on a typical cooling conventional system.

Belden www.belden.com, was founded by Joseph C. Belden in Chicago, in 1902. Belden now has manufacturing capabilities throughout North America and Europe and a market presence in nearly every region of the world. Belden is one of the largest U.S.-based manufacturers of high-speed electronic cables and focuses on products for the specialty electronics and data networking markets, including connectivity. Belden also adds value through design, engineering, excellence in manufacturing, product quality and customer service. Belden will be providing the LEED® electrical plenum wiring, switches, plates and LEED® IT Cat 6 plenum wiring, switches and hubs. Belden had 2005 revenues of $1.35 billion and has about 5,200 employees worldwide.

Sun Mechanical Contracting www.sunmechanical.net, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona is a large Arizona mechanical contractor. Sun received the 2006 Cornerstone Award for the 2006 Subcontractor of the Year. Sun has done numerous projects including but not limited to airports, universities and other schools, casinos, office and manufacturing facilities, biosphere and hotels.

Border Construction Specialties www.bordercorp.com, recently was named the 2008 Supplier of the Year by American Subcontractors Association “ASA”. Border provides rebar, LEED® concrete floor polish, LEED® stucco and numerous other products for the commercial construction industry and has operations in Arizona, Nevada and California.

Graybar www.graybar.com established in 1869 has its world headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Graybar is a Fortune 500 company that procures, warehouses, and delivers just about any kind of electrical or communications and data product components as a leading North American distributor. With more than $5.25 billion in revenue (2007), Graybar employs approximately 8,400 men and women at more than 250 distribution centers throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico and is one of North America's largest employee-owned companies.

Ferguson www.ferguson.com founded in 1953 has its world headquarters in Newport News, Va. Ferguson is the largest U.S. wholesale distributor of plumbing supplies; pipes, valves and fittings; heating and cooling equipment; waterworks; mechanical and industrial; bathrooms and appliances; tools and safety equipment; and fire protection products. Ferguson has sales of $11.1 billion and around 22,000 associates in around 1,400 service centers located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Young Block www.youngblock.com is part of Oldcastle www.oldcastle.com the North American arm of CRH www.crh.com. CRH plc is headquartered in Ireland and has operations in 34 countries employing approximately 92,000 people at 3,500 locations. CRH and its companies focus on three closely related core businesses: primary materials, value-added building products, and specialist building materials.

Smyth's Steel Manufacturing www.smythsteel.com based in Tucson, Arizona was founded in 1980. Smyth is a fabricator of a wide variety of special purpose tanks, vessels as well as complete water storage and distribution systems for small or large development applications.

Flouresco Lighting & Signs www.fluoresco.com, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, since 1961, has provided its clients with industry-leading design, manufacturing, installation, and maintenance services. With 11 offices located in the West and more than 600 contractors coast to coast, Flouresco has well-tested national experience but still maintains that local expertise. Flouresco will be providing interior and exterior lighting as well as campus signage. An emphasis will be given to utilizing LEED® lighting products that qualify due to inclusion of recycled materials and/or the type of environmental energy-saving lighting.

Triple Pane Systems of AZ www.triplepanesystems.com, has manufacturing operations in Tucson and Phoenix. Triple Pane windows are manufactured with a PVC virgin vinyl clad aluminum frame manufactured with double fusion welded corners with super triple-e, with Alpha-10 and BR50 insulating glass panels. Triple Pane windows come with an unprecedented 50 year warranty.

Lowes www.lowes.com, with fiscal year 2007 sales of $48.3 billion, Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE® 50 company that serves approximately 14 million customers a week at more than 1,550 home improvement stores in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world and will be providing all sorts of miscellaneous construction items for the SCA building project.

Schindler Elevator Corporation www.us.schindler.com, the North American operation of the Swiss-based Schindler Group, has committed itself to conducting its business activities in harmony with society and the environment. Schindler is also proud of its membership in the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). As a member, Schindler works to promote sustainable buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to work and live. Schindler products are a prominent feature in the Hearst Tower in New York, New York’s first building to win USGBC’s Gold LEED® award, the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. The soon to be completed, Bank of America Tower in New York City, the first skyscraper to attain the Platnium LEED® award, will also feature Schindler elevators and escalators. Schindler is the largest supplier of escalators and the second largest manufacturer of elevators worldwide. Schindler designs, installs, services and modernizes elevators, escalators and moving walks for almost every building type worldwide. Globally, Schindler equipment moves more than 700 million people per day.

Babby-Henkel Construction Specialties www.babby-henkel.com, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona specializes in many different types of construction; such as education. Babby-Henkel provides many different construction products but is known for their acoustical ceilings, toilet partitions and accessories.

Road Sprinkler Fitters Local Union 669 www.sprinklerfitters669.org, U.A., AFL-CIO, is dedicated to the education and training of its members. Local 669 strives to stay abreast of the continual evolution of fire sprinkler systems. Road Sprinkler Fitters Local Union 669 furnishes contractors with journeymen and apprentices that have the aptitude, knowledge and skill to install a quality fire protection system. Local 669 members work safely, proudly and reliably to assure contractors and end-users that the fire protection system will operate correctly every time.

HD Supply Waterworks www.hdsupply.com, is the largest distributor of Waterworks products with 265 locations which are located in 41 states in the U.S. and Canada. HD distributes a complete line of water, sewer, fire protection, and storm drain products to serve the needs of both contractors and municipalities in all aspects of the water, wastewater, storm and fire protection industries. HD is owned by three of the world’s leading private equity firms: The Carlyle Group, Bain Capital and Clayton, Dubilier and Rice.

Protection One www.protectionone.com, headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas is one of the largest security, fire and smoke monitoring providers in the United States. Protection One and its subsidiaries provide installation, maintenance and monitoring of electronic security systems and fire systems to more than one million residential (single and multifamily residences) and commercial subscribers in the U.S. Protection One has over 40 years of security experience with more than 3,000 professionals serving home security and business security customers from more than 70 office locations and six state-of-the art monitoring facilities in Wichita, Kansas; Irving, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Manasquan, New Jersey, Irvine, California and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Innovative Formulations Company www.innovativeformulations.com, is a hi-tech international business based in Tucson, Arizona. Since 1981, IFC has developed innovative products which are both human and ecologically friendly. IFC's goal is to invent products that meet the highest performance standards. IFC has found that there is no need to sacrifice performance in order to make products safe for the environment as well as human friendly.. IFC products have the lowest levels of toxins, neurotoxins, and volatile organic compounds available on the market today.

Ecological Paint www.ecologicalpaint.com, an IFC company is based in Tucson, Arizona and is one of the first water based acrylic urethanes, which has been formulated especially for chemically sensitive people and professional painters. Ecological Paint products are odor free and do not contain any know hazardous toxic or carcinogenic materials such as benzene, ethylene glycol, volatile organic compounds, neurotoxins, lead, mercury, formaldehyde, heavy metals or phthalates which can burn eyes and nose, cause headaches or cause nausea.

MirrorSEAL www.innovativeformulations.com/mirror/index.html, an IFC company is based in Tucson, Arizona and is a state-of-the-art, continuous filament, single-ply, fluid-applied roofing system that is stronger, lighter and easier to apply. MirrorSEAL has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Bob Vila's This Old House, Popular Mechanics and the Home & Garden Television network. Unlike most roofing systems, MirrorSEAL is an adhesive sealant, not a plug and fill product, and more energy efficient then ordinary roofing systems. It was developed after 4 1/2 years of testing, and thousands of chemical formulations.

Jensen Precast www.jensenprecast.com, was founded in 1968 in Reno, Nevada. Today, Jensen Precast has hundreds of employees operating from twelve facilities serving the western United States. Jensen which originally manufactured wastewater products now has thousands of diversified products with a concrete construction division that provides a competitive blend of precast with cast in place concrete. Jensen has major manufacturing and distribution facilities located in Reno, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Chico, Stockton, San Francisco, Tucson, Phoenix and Honolulu.

Mobile Mini www.mobilemini.com, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona was founded in 1983, Mobile Mini is the world's leading provider of portable storage solutions through our lease fleet of over 165,000 portable storage and portable office units. Mobile Mini went public in 1994 and now trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol MINI. Mobile Mini is also part of the Russell 2000® and 3000® Indexes and the S&P Small Cap Index.

Steel Dor www.steeldor.com, headquarted in Tucson, Arizona has been serving Arizona since 1980. Steel Dor has a 13,000 square foot main manufacturing facility in Tucson, with a 5,000 square foot satellite stocking warehouse in Phoenix. Steel Dor provides hollow metal doors and frames, wood doors, builder's hardware, custom design and manufacturing, installation as well as Intertek's Warnock Hersey fire door and frame services.

The Sports Authority www.sportsauthority.com is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. Sports Authority operates over 400 stores in 45 U.S. states under The Sports Authority.

Arizona School Furnishings www.azschoolfurnishings.com headquartered in Glendale, Arizona with their 70,000 square foot warehouse is a leading provider of high quality classroom, office, cafeteria and library furniture. Specialists in design, layout and consulting services as well as in stock availability and school furnishing products that are green rated.

Gila Signs www.gilasigns.com located in Tucson, Arizona is Tucson’s #1 rated sign company providing professionally layout and design services for a wide array of products.

Custom Plus www.allaboutstiches.biz located in Green Valley, Arizona provides over 30,000 embroidery stock items including Port Authority www.portauthorityclothing.com school uniform shirts and other items that are personalized with a logo impression.

Grounds For Play www.groundsforplay.com is headquartered in Mansfield, Texas. Grounds For Play is a leading manufacturing of children's play environments covering early childhood on up. Grounds For Play covers all aspects of the play environment process from site planning, equipment design, manufacturing, landscaping, installation and ongoing safety/enjoyment assessment.

Hose USA www.hoseusainc.com established in 1991 is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnisota. Hose USA specializes in manufacturing flexible metal hose assemblies that handle the most adverse conditions relating to high pressure, temperature, and corrosives. Hose USA offers a complete solution from design to fabrication according to specific requirements.

Other partner specialists include Johnny Merchant of MG Builders - Contractor, Chuck Fields of Sun Construction - AutoCad Specialist, Gerry Hessler of Hessler Homes - Construction Field Specialist, Steve Kargel - Development Consultant, David Blackwell - Excavation Contractor, Tony Hasti - Concrete, Roy Lauger of LGS Framing - Light Gauge Steel, Lamb Rock, Lamb Excavation, Mike Robinson - MWR Construction, Jim Williams - Construction, Arizona Verde Fire Protection, Oscar Magallanes, Les Andres & Howard BlueCloud - Fire Sprinklers, Farmers Water Company, Jeff Turner - Septic System Installation, Mitts Pre-cast and Larry Young - Backhoe Services.

Additional manufacturers and sub-contractors are currently in conversations with SCA in regards to their possible participation. Other needed items (LEED preferred) are the HVAC systems, landscape installation, paving, stair towers, water pump, sheet rock, multi-media equipment, and sub-contracting finishing services, etc. If you are a manufacturer or contractor that would like your product or services featured in the new SCA "Green" school building project please contact David Lyon at (520) 481-6905 to discuss more specific details.

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