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Apr 13 2018

Cracking the New Energy Code in North Dakota

North Dakota's extreme climate swings provide distinctive design and building challenges. Understanding the new Energy Code can help. Construction at NDSU, Fargo, April 5, 2018.

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With a weather smorgasbord that offers heavy snow, Red River floods, tornado alley, powerful straight line winds and temperature ranges from -60 below to 100+ above, North Dakota presents impressive challenges to architects, engineers, designers and contractors tasked with creating buildings to stand up to … Read More

Sep 01 2017

Is KA the Right Partner for You? Perspective from an Owner Turned General Contractor

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By Mike Stark, HCC, LEED Green Associate Mike Stark is a project manager at Kraus-Anderson Construction Company Hi! My name is Mike Stark and I, too, was an owner just like you! The first 6 years of my professional career I spent in the facilities … Read More

Jul 07 2017

Construction Shifts into High-Tech: KA at the ENR FutureTech Conference

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Bot-driven drones roll through jobsites and record percentage of work completed. Augmented reality devices in hardhats allow the wearer to see through walls and determine the location of pipes, equipment and access points. Smart crane hooks warn crane operators of unseen dangers. Apps and sensors … Read More

Feb 03 2017

Time for Coffee? Inside KA’s Lean Coffee Movement

A Lean Coffee session at the KA Minneapolis office

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Rachel Yoder is an assistant project manager at Kraus-Anderson. She recently facilitated her first Lean Coffee meeting at KA and talks about the group, and how Lean thinking is shaping her life and KA’s culture. Q: Talk a little about your own journey into Lean. … Read More

Nov 04 2016

Testing for Quality: The Performance Mock Up

The PMU included testing for air infiltration and water penetration at wind speeds of 69 mph.

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Looks aren’t everything, in life and certainly not in construction. Performance counts, and construction management teams work closely with owners, designers, engineers, subcontractors and testing resources to determine that buildings meet expectations for a range of considerations, such as energy use, safety and security, mechanical … Read More

Oct 21 2016

Kraus-Anderson Strategic Planning Update: Our USP

KA Block, August 2016

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by Tom Emison, Vice President Strategy and Innovation, Kraus-Anderson Construction Company “Always remember you’re unique.” Just like everybody else. I heard Garrison Keillor say that one night during his broadcast of The Prairie Home Companion. You have to hear it twice (or read it twice) … Read More

Oct 07 2016

Yard Works: Inside the KA Yard

KAers at the Yard BBQ, 2016

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One of the social highlights of the summer for KA employees is the KA Yard BBQ in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Circle Pines. With a pig roast feast, games, prizes, product demos and open house tours, it’s a relaxing, popular event that also … Read More

Sep 07 2016

Decoding the New Minnesota Energy Code: Part I

Matt Stringfellow leads an Energy Code training at Mohagen Hansen.

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KA construction professionals and many of the architects and engineering firms they work with are learning about the new 2015 Minnesota State Building Code with the help of energy code training designed and provided by Kraus-Anderson’s MEP Systems Coordinator Matt Stringfellow. He will present the … Read More

May 20 2016

Learning Lean, Building Lean at Laketown Elementary School

Pull planning session for Waconia's Laketown Elementary School project.

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Some things can’t be learned in a classroom- Take Lean Construction. After revolutionizing the manufacturing industry with its tenets of maximizing value and minimizing waste, Lean principles are now making their way slowly and steadily into the construction industry, reframing the jobsite with its production … Read More

Apr 10 2015

Planning for Success: Preconstruction

The preconstruction effort helps deliver the design vision to successful outcomes. Above: Watford City High School, ND

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Want to build a building? First hire an architect to design it. Then send the plans out for bids. Then hire the low bid contractor to build it. That’s the traditional design-bid-build methodology, and while you can still find adherents to that tradition, it doesn’t … Read More

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