Lead Story: $2000 to your Favorite College Kid:
Building Future Builders Offers Academic Prize for Creative Minds

Building Future Builders Steps into the Breach

The Kimmel Scholarship in Construction Application Deadline Nears:
Offers $1000 to Students in Construction Nationwide

$2000 to your Favorite College Kid:
Building Future Builders Offers Academic Prize for Creative Minds

When you remember your college days, what comes to mind? Leafy quads, brainy professors, pretty co-eds, goofy mascots, football games … and, of course, that old college favorite … creative, eye-catching and prize-winning Logo designs for construction-related non-profit organizations.

“Well, if you have never associated college life with creative, eye-catching and prize-winning Logo designs for construction-related non-profit organizations before, now’s the time to make that connection.”

Well, if you have never associated college life with creative, eye-catching and prize-winning Logo designs for construction-related non-profit organizations before, now’s the time to make that connection.

Building Future Builders, a non-profit organization designed to encourage students to pursue careers in construction, is asking America’s construction students to design their Logo. The student who submits the winning entry will be awarded a $2,000 scholarship prize. This contest is open to students currently in construction management, engineering, and architecture programs.

Further, the department whose student submits the winning entry will receive a $1000 grant for its program.

Building Future Builders has announced its RFL (Request for Logos) in order to introduce itself to construction, engineering, and architecture programs around the country. Also, by making an immediate contribution of $2,000 to the winning student, Building Future Builders wants to show precisely what their foundation is all about: providing opportunities for students and encouraging them to pursue a career.

The Director of Building Future Builders, Chuck Andrews, remarked “We are eager to get started and believe this contest is an exciting way to make an immediate contribution to the students we want to serve. The need is looming and our future as an industry demands action now. This is just a start, but (pun intended) ... all buildings start with a foundation!”

Students are encouraged to get a feel for Building Future Builders, their mission and goals by visiting the website at www.BuildingFutureBuilders.org, where they can also get more information on the design competition.

If you remember your college days, you probably know that most students can use $2000. We encourage you to spread the word through your organization and contact students you may know through current employment, past internships and family relationships and let them know that a prize is out there to be won.

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Building Future Builders Steps into the Breach

Some newspapers come up woefully short in trying to adequately announce compelling news: headlines such as Iraqi Head Seeks Arms, Farmer Bill Dies in House, and Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers had important information to pass along but bungled the job.

So, when The Construction Industry Newsletter learned that a new not-for-profit foundation called BUILDING FUTURE BUILDERS had formed, we decided to run a special edition to announce – carefully and accurately – its inspiration and objectives.

Building Future Builders was created in 2006 to help encourage young people to pursue construction as a profession. The Director of Building Future Builders, Chuck Andrews, notes, “This is an exciting time in construction. Start-ups on new projects are growing and markets are burgeoning, and the professionals in place are great at what they do. But, the numbers of kids in school who are preparing to enter construction is alarmingly low. We’re concerned enough, in fact, to start this foundation. But we also have great faith in an industry that has helped build this country – literally – into what it is today.”

Those ideals echo the philosophy espoused at Kimmel & Associates, the nation’s largest construction executive search firm, whose seed money was the catalyst behind the formation of Building Future Builders.

Andrews continues: “Building Future Builders may be a newcomer to the world of educational foundations, but our plans are ambitious, and we’re going to move fast. Our initiatives include a high school Construction Academy Program, elementary and junior high school Construction Awareness Programs, an Internship Program, a Learning Center, and a university-level Construction Studies Scholarship Program. A lot of work needs to be done … and we intend to do it. We’re looking to affect change quickly, but also permanently.”

Those are high-minded words, but those involved at BFB believe them. Indeed, their Mission Statement reads “Our purpose is to provide and enhance opportunities for future generations of construction professionals in a manner that honors God.” If Building Future Builders can attain this high ideal, then the future generation of builders will be as numerous and accomplished as the current.

Anyone interested in learning more can visit the website at www.BuildingFutureBuilders.org.

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The Kimmel Scholarship in Construction Application Deadline Nears:
Offers $1000 to Students in Construction Nationwide

In 2004, the leadership at Kimmel & Associates instituted the Kimmel Scholarship for Students in Construction as a means to encourage college students to consider construction as a career. Since the Fall 2004 semester, Kimmel & Associates, the leading executive search firm in the construction industry, has given 138 scholarships to students at 64 different colleges and universities located in 31 states, from Washington to Florida and from Massachusetts to California.

Says Charlie Kimmel, the Chief Operating Officer at Kimmel & Associates, “we want to serve our clients every way we can, and helping attract young people to construction, and supporting their efforts once they’re preparing for construction while in college, seemed like a great way to commit to a healthy future for the industry.”

Kimmel & Associates endows Building Future Builders (see previous articles for more on Building Future Builders) to administer the Kimmel Scholarship in Construction, cementing another link between the executive search firm and its efforts to aid students in construction.

Building Future Builders is currently accepting applications for the Spring 2007 semester award and will take them until November 15, 2006. The application is accessible via either the construction homepage of www.kimmel.com or www.BuildingFutureBuilders.org and can be completed online or printed and mailed back in.

As the number of applicants has increased each semester, the requirements have become slightly more stringent. An applicant now must have a construction professional call in a reference for the applicant, providing a very brief testimonial to the applicant’s talent and commitment to the construction industry.

Those who receive this round of the $1000 award will have the money put directly into their college account in time to defray costs for the Spring 2007 semester. Please visit the construction pages of kimmel.com and read further about the Scholarship for Students in Construction.

We strongly encourage the readers of this Special Edition of the Kimmel Construction Industry Newsletter to tell college students they know in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture and other construction-related majors to visit kimmel.com and apply.

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