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Rick Station, Ken Mussato and all staff working on the Denver Museum project for Zimmerman can see the end of this very successful project only weeks away. It has been a great pleasure working with Mr. Brian Pope from Zimmerman and we look forward to working together again soon on another project.

Doug McGillivray, Allen Gliege and their team are finally through The Rogue Valley Medical Center for Fought & Company, with the possible exception of some late fieldwork drawings.

The Panama Museum project has been delayed a little due to difficulties with the selection of a fabricator in Panama. However progress to date has been excellent, as has the co-operation and assistance provided to us by the architectural team at Frank O. Gehry Associates and the engineers, Magnusson, Klemencic Associates.

Allen Gliege and Joe McDonald are working with Hirschfeld Steel on two projects, the FDIC Virginia Square project and the Park Cities Baptist Church project. Neither project is required urgently, which is a pleasant change, but are nevertheless moving along comfortably.

Brian Spiess and his team have almost wrapped up the Wailea Beach Villas for a new customer, Brooklyn Iron Works and Wojciech Jablkowski is in the middle of the Pilgrims Pride Corporate Complex project for yet another new customer, North Texas Steel Co.

Doug McGillivary and his crew are in the midst of the Hummingbird Lodge project for Afco Steel. It has been some time since we last worked with Afco and we are delighted to be involved with them once again.

Brian Spiess and his group have recently started a new project, the University of Michigan School of Public Health, for CBN Steel Construction Inc., who is a new customer to us, and Sanjay Prasad and his group have recently started a fairly large project, the University of Cincinnati Varsity Village, for Steel Services Corporation, another new customer. We look forward to a successful relationship with both of them.

Project Report, Toronto Office
Mark Staples, VP Operations, Ontario

The first quarter for 2004 has the Toronto office off to a good start for the year. Projects ongoing are listed below.

For Canam Manac we are detailing the renovation and expansion to The Pier at Caesars in Atlantic City. The project consists of adding to the existing structure as well as reworking portions of the existing building to allow for some new architectural features

Zimkor LLC has us detailing their Grand Aspen project. A hotel and ski lodge in Aspen Colorado with all of the usual hip and valley roofs and dormers that come with this type of project.

In other news in the Toronto office we have had all of our staff become members of The Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists. As a company we believe that belonging to such professional organizations will provide us with the recognition that is deserved by steel detailers as professionals. Along the same lines I would like to congratulate Eva Pohoiljakova a member of our staff for five years in obtaining her status as a Professional Engineer.

Whonnock

Simon Durkin and his group are nearing the end of the University of Virginia Sports Arena, for Hirschfeld Steel. However, as you might expect, there have been revisions, the latest of which arrived last week and runs into hundreds of hours. This is complicating delivery of finished and approved drawings being issued to the shop, which Hirschfeld need quickly. And while Mr. Scott Lange and Mr. Zeb Baird from Hirschfeld are sympathetic to the fact that we only have a finite number of people to draw on, they still need the work and the crew in Whonnock are doing their utmost to provide it quickly.

The Penn. State University School of Architecture is being taken care of by Alan Herd and his team. This is for a first time customer, Ohio Steel Industries, and has been a typical project insofar as we have had the usual number problems with location of members and connection design etc.

Mr. Bob Eaton and Mr. Richard Brown from Ohio have been patient and helpful as we try to establish a good working relationship between our two companies.

Mike Mantil and his group have just started working on a new project, The WA.MU Seattle Art Museum. We are once again working with Canron and look forward to another successful collaboration with Mr. Harold Roberts and Mr. Al Harrison from the Annacis Island office.

The engineers for this project are Magnusson, Klemencic Associates in Seattle and we are delighted to be involved once more with this exceptional team.