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News Briefs - February 2008 |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
• Grazzini Brothers & Co. of Eagan, Minn., is the first company to earn the Accredited Natural Stone Commercial B Contractor designation under the Marble Institute of America's accreditation program. Commercial B (light commercial) companies are firms that handle commercial stone installations such as hotel lobbies, bank lobbies, and low-rise interior/exterior cladding. Grazzini Brothers and its executive vice president, Guido Gliori, completed the first two phases earlier in 2007, and passed inspections of its facility and a completed commercial installation in Minneapolis in December.
• The New York Public Library will restore the façade of its Fifth Avenue building, according to the New York Sun. Restoration work will begin this spring, with a targeted completion in three years to meet the building's centennial in 2011. Now known as the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, the building’s exterior marble needs repair of cracks, chips, and erosion. WJE Engineers & Architects P.C. in New York designed the $55 million restoration, most of which is already funded from city, state, and federal sources.
• Stone 3000 relocated in November to 115-10th St. in the Cold Spring Business Park in Cold Spring, Minn. The quarry-consulting business now offers a showroom to display stone-cutting equipment; the company, headed by Aleksandar Tomovic, is the North American agent for OGYU Manufacturing Equipment.
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